> When you move, do you expect to be able to keep using your previous postal addresses? (Perhaps there could be some benefits...)
In some countries you can tell the postal service that you're moving and, for set period of time, they'll forward the mail addressed to you from your old postal address to your new one. It's very useful for catching all those places you didn't remember to update your address for when moving.
You can do the same with email by setting up an forwarding rule on your old email address so that it forwards on any emails it recieves to your new email address.
That's an interesting juxtaposition. I think the core difference here is still that home address is somewhat bound to a physical location; you could have a central registry which maps the old address to the new and carry them that way but that seems awfully impractical. On the other hand, with digital services such as email a comparatively simple regulation could solve it.
Of course, this might be the wrong thing to think about an email as a form of identification. Perhaps we should move to a better system altogether at least what is related to addressing.
Another way to look at is: email domains are like international country codes.
For example, you can't port a US number to a Korean number.
I'm sure it's technically feasible to port international phone numbers, but I don't think it will happen. Perhaps email portability is similar in this respect.
I realize there isn't much portability even within an email domain, but it does exist in some forms (maybe like how phone number portability may not be available in all countries):
- Very unique case, but I know a certain Google employee whose email suddenly changed from OLD@gmail.com to NEW@gmail.com in my chat history. A search for NEW@gmail.com results in emails from both addresses (both highlighted), so they are linked somehow. And emails to OLD@gmail.com are still received.
Delta shower heads work well at both 2.5 and 1.85 gpm. After installing in a shower that barely trickled straight down, the shower hits the far side of the tub.
Any model with Delta's H2Okinetic system should work. The flow is amplified without increasing the pressure of individual water droplets. It feels like a "rain shower."
Your standards are tragically low if hitting the far side of the tub is impressive. I’m pretty sure if I stuck the wand out the shower door, my shower could hit the next room. (So I don’t do that.)
Directory Opus can also calculate & display the sizes of folders including all child content. (The calculation is nearly instant if Everything integration is enabled.)
I came up with the concept of the "double-keypress" (a la mouse double-click) to solve the problem of selecting the search engine without any clicking: https://zz.leftium.com/
- First of all, search bangs actually already removed the need to click the "search" button.
- However, I wanted to support multiline input (on a mobile virtual keyboard.)
- I also wanted the search box to filter the list of 10,000+ available search bangs.
- So Q,Q selects the first entry; W,W the next; and so on... (The first Q must be uppercase, but the following Q may be lowercase to support how mobile virtual keyboards work)
- (Notice Q is right under the key for 1; W under 2; and so on )
I have to tune the double-keypress UX (often I initiate a search when I just want a newline.) Perhaps I will also add triple-keypress.
So a simple return makes a newline, and two quick returns have a different meaning. I like that.
The way I support multiline is via the little triangle in the search bar. I think I'll keep it, because it is easier to discover. The double-return would need some kind of textual hint. Like when you press enter once, a little hint could pop up below the search area telling you that to leave the text entry, you can hit enter twice.
And on mobile I rarely use multiline searches I think. On the Desktop I use shift-return to create a newline.
The different flavors of simultaneous invention shared in the thread makes me think there's some kind of underlying shared need/value in this sort of thing!
1. Upgrade to pro for a single month (Dropbox often offers free trials)
2. Add all your devices
3. Downgrade back to free
Dropbox will continue to work on all your devices. You just can't add new devices.
Source: I currently have five devices on the Dropbox free plan.