How to increase space in Gmail ?

Gmail Out of space

Did you go out of space in Gmail ?

Are you getting the warning message saying “You are almost out of space for your Gmail account. Once you run out of space, you will not be able to send or receive any emails until you delete some items” delete some items or purchase additional storage.

Before you buy additional space, you must consider this.

Most of the times our inbox is full of unwanted mails with huge attachments. There is no easy way to find out those huge mails. Fortunately Google Gmail has Advanced Search operator language.

In case you are in hurry and just wish to delete those huge unwanted mails you can follow these steps. Go to search bar of your Google Gmail and type “has:attachment larger:10m” and press enter.

Google Gmail Out of Space

You’ll be presented with all the emails having attachment larger than 10 MB. With this technique you can find heavy e-mails and delete them or trash them. That is the fastest way to target and clean your mail box space. Once you have cleared this, you can even try with mails larger than 5 MB like this  “has:attachment larger:5m”. Just delete the unwanted huge e-mails and clear the trash folder.

Now you can live with few more days/months without buying additional space.

If you wish to be PRO in Gmail Advanced Search Operator language you can visit this link: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en.

Apple TV launched in India for Rs. 7900

This is really exciting. Now all the gray market selling of Apple TV at costlier price will stop. Indians can officially buy Apple TV and also get warranty and support from the store.

Apple TV India Store

Apple officially announced the availability of Apple TV in Indian stores. You can also browse about details on Apple website under iPod section. Apple TV is launched in India at the price of Rs. 7900. Though this is priced higher compared to US, it is still really worth if you have invested in LCD/LED TV or also have 5.1 Home Theater speakers. Unfortunately there is no way to connect internet to your powerful infrastructure (TV and home theater). Spending Rs. 7900 to integrate everything together with Internet is really worth.

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Apple TV Features in Detail

If you haven’t read my earlier post on How to Use Apple TV in India, you must first read that & later proceed to this post.

In this post I’ll try to cover Apple TV features in details with screenshot images.

As given in my earlier post, Apple TV works only on Internet through wireless or ethernet cable, you need to sign in to your iTunes account to start using. If you wish you can sign into different account later on. Depending on bandwidth availability you need to set the video resolution, if you have 2 Mbps above line, you must set it to 1080p. In case if you don’t have good bandwidth you can reduce this resolution to start the videos with faster performance. You can also change the location anytime you wish to see content from other countries.

Apple TV iTunes Signin

Following is the list of applications you see when you connect Apple TV to USA store. So far there is no such restriction on changing the stores.

1. How to watch YouTube Video on AppleTV?

When you select the YouTube Application from menu, you are presented with box to type the search term. Words can be typed by taking the cursor on each box and pressing the center button. As you are typing the YouTube suggestions start appearing.

Apple TV YouTube Search Hindi movies

When you press the right arrow in search results, left side keyboard converts into the video info panel where you can see the video poster, description, duration & number of people viewed that video.

Apple TV YouTube Search Results

Selecting the video immediately starts the video from YouTube Service.

Apple TV YouTube Video Hindi Movie - Jodi Breakers

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Apple iTunes Store arrives in India

After long wait, finally Apple iTunes Store arrives in India. This week Apple launched iTunes Music store in 56 new Countries, Movies in four countries. iTunes Music store is now available in 119 countries.

Originally iTunes was just like another music player when this was launched in 2001. In 2003 iTunes sofware and iPod created new eco-system where Music can be distributed by Artists in exchange of money. This was the time when Music industry was in mess of copyrights and piracy because of Napster. Apple came forward and sorted out many of these piracy issues. iTunes later became way to also sell Movies, TV shows. Few years back Apple also started selling Mobile apps using iTunes store software.

Apple iTunes brings similar kind of hope to India, where there is not much business being made out of Music. Gone are the days when T-Series funds the movie budget from sales of superhit music cassettes. Apple iTunes for India also brings the capability to sell the High Definition movies to Indian audience.

Apple iTunes Store has arrived to India

Single Music tracks are available starting from Rs. 7 to latest music tracks in range of Rs. 12 or Rs. 15. For example Dabbang 2 audio tracks are available for Rs. 12. Entire album of 8 songs is available for Rs. 96.

Advantage here is that once you buy any Song or Album it gets associated with your Apple id. Later you can play that from any of the devices you wish. Apple devices like iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad or Apple TV automatically syncs and adds music to your personal library. All the music sold by Apple is DRM free which means you can easily move these songs across non Apple devices like Android Phone or tablet without any hassle.

iTunes Match is available for Rs. 1200 per annum. with iTunes match Apple updates your local music with 256 Kbps quality audio without buying these tracks. Apple believes you have extracted this music from your audio CD collection or Audio Cassettes.

Hindi Bollywood Movies are also available on Apple iTunes Indian store for renting or purchase.

For example New movie “Ek tha Tiger” in High Definition (HD) is available for renting for Rs. 120 and Rs. 490 for purchase. Same movie in Standard Definition (SD) is available for renting for Rs. 80 and Rs. 290 for purchase.

Apple iTunes Store for India creates very tough competition to Flipkart music store which took advantage of non-availability of Apple store in India so far.

Ek Tha Tiger HD Movie

How to use Apple TV in India

Officially Apple is still not selling Apple TV in India through online store or authorised resellers. It is very confusing if somebody gets the Apple TV from outside, will that work or not. What features will work and what will not work ? Will there be any issues in Installing because of different power outlets, Network & TV connectors. I’ll try to answer all these doubts with this write up.

Apple TV in India What is Apple TV ?

Television is believed to be an Idiot Box which has one way transmission, what ever is channel transmitting, you are consuming. There are hardly any ways to interact with TV. Computers with Internet connection are believed to be very Intelligent Boxes. It is easy to search video content on Internet through YouTube, but unfortunately computers don’t come with larger displays or HiFi sound system. Many people don’t even use desktop computer, instead they have Laptop  or iPad to do most of the work. People spend lot of money on LCD/LED HD Televisions with 5.1 Home Theater Audio Systems, but without Internet, TVs are actually Idiot Boxes. Apple TV bridges this gap. So you can send audio visual content from iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or Mac or PC to Television using wired network connection or WiFi network. Apart from this Apple TV brings many indispensable features that changes your perspective to Idiot box in your drawing room.

Latest Apple TV (3rd Generation) is upgraded with new interface, a new A5 processor, 1080p movie can be purchased through iTunes or as rented through Netflix. Airplay performance is amazing in new 3rd generation Apple TV.

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Why is MTNL Triband or your ISP slow?

Most of the ISPs commit the bandwidth pipe from your home to their end. Unfortunately many don’t know how they are cheated. I use MTNL Mumbai Triband connection which is 1.25 Mbps committed Internet speed line. In last 3 years the internet speed has deteriorated. If you ask them they recommend the speed test between your home and their server. This speed test shows what is committed is delivered but actually that is not what you get.

If you visit SpeedTest.net and try connecting to different server locations, you’ll realize the Internet speed is not consistent across the different parts of the world. Most of the websites are hosted in USA Datacenter Servers so if your Internet speed to USA is slow, you’ll feel your Internet connection is very slow.

Slow Indian ISP MTNL Triband

In my Internet speed test report Indian server locations give good ping response, download and acceptable upload speeds. But when I test the same with American servers, speed is pathetic. This impacts me seriuosly specially when I am uploading some file like uploading a video to YouTube account. Continue reading →