This is a powerful guide to Zero-Inbox technique using Gmail shortcuts.

e: archive
#: delete
se: star & archive
gi: goto inbox
gs: goto stared mails (do more often than gi)
j: next mail
k: previous mail

While reading the discussion about it, also came across some useful Gmail tips:

1. Use followup.cc.
2. Enable auto-advance in labs.
3. Enable undo sent if you already haven't.

Link: http://xph.us/2013/01/22/inbox-zero-for-life.html

Have been playing around with D3 recently. This was the most easy to understand guide/tutorial to understand scales, domains and ranges in D3. It is powerful and I am loving it!

The values in any data set are unlikely to correspond exactly to pixel measurements for use in your visualization. Scales provide a convenient way to map those data values to new values useful for visualization purposes.

Link: http://alignedleft.com/tutorials/d3/scales/

This week's HN Newsletter shared 2 useful websites for playing with images.

phrase.it

Add cartoon style speech bubbles to photos within seconds

Fake Images Please?

Fakeimg.pl is a little tool that generates images with an URL. Choose the size, the colors, even the text.

Usage Example:

http://fakeimg.pl/439x230/282828/eae0d0/?text=Problem?

Bookmarked both!

Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, Einstein and Benjamin Franklin shares his favourite virtues common in all three:

My notes from the video

Don't Be Afraid, You Can Do It! - by Steve Jobs
- Circuit Board
- Boot time
- Gorilla Glass

Simplicity!
- iPod: 3 Clicks, any song
- Focus: Made list of everything, then took-up top 3

Passion for curiosity!
- Einstein's Compass

Be Tolerant, Humility/Pretence of humility (by listening to others)
- We tend to be wrong. So listen to others to came to a common ground.

Thinking Different / Imagination …

Came across this wonderful discussion on StackOverflow, for dumping all the MySQL databases from command line.

For dumping:

mysqldump -u username -p --all-databases > alldbs.sql

For restoring:

mysql -u username -p < alldbs.sql

The advantage is that it is very quick, and you do not lose the user privileges.

I had earlier mentioned about the correct way of mounting NTFS partition using ntfs-config. However, recently I experienced a few crash errors and thus found this method easier to use.

Open Unity (using windows key) and type "Startup Applications"

Then click on the Add button, Write a name for this operation such as "Mount ntfs drives", then in command input box, write udisks --mount /dev/sda2, to automount the ntfs partition.

Note: You need to replace the /dev/sda2 with your actual NTFS partition number.

You can get this number by sudo blkid

Below …

Nathan discusses why it is important to have multiple price points.

If I tell you the book is $39, you need to compare the value to something else, something which I don’t have control over. But if I tell you the book is $39, but for $79 you can buy the book plus all these great videos and code samples, then you are comparing the two packages to each other. All of a sudden $39 sounds reasonable, and you are trying to decide if the extra value in the $79 package justifies the price increase.

By adding …