I am not really into showing people job opportunities, but this is too good to miss! Gmail is hiring people for four different positions in seven locations including Europe, so all you European computer wizzes take a look!

Although I’m perfectly happy doing what I do, I would love to work with Google, I’m really sorry I don’t live in the US, or have the programming skills it takes, it seems the only position for me is CEO.

If you’d like to be a rapid prototyper, an analytics engineer, a software engineer or a user interface software engineer head on over to the hiring page for more info. If you get the job from my referral, you could implement an idea I have maybe, perhaps put an ad fir Hack Your Day into every simgle piece of email that goes through Google. Best of luck to all the applicants!

I recently formatted my whole hard drive and reinstalled Ubuntu to dual boot with Vista and when I started to work I noticed that I needed to open an Excel file urgently. I wasn’t at home, so I didn’t have my Office CD, nor did I have time to download Open Office (at that time Ubuntu was not yet installed). I needed to find a quick way to take a peek at that Excel file, and here’s what I did.

All you really need is your Gmail account, just create a draft and attach the file in question. Once you save the draft you can download the attachment or choose to view it online. It won’t give you the beauty of Excel 2007, but it will let you see all the data you need quickly and without the need to install anything.

I don’t know how many people use keyboard shortcuts in Gmail, but I think it’s definitely worth the effort to learn a few. One of my favorite shortcuts is the letter “y”. The reason I love it so, is that it’s actually four shortcuts in one and will allow you to productively manage your emails.

Officially it is the shortcut for “remove from current view”, but since there are many available views, it does different things. If you are in your inbox, pressing “y” will archive your message. If you are in the trash, “y” will move your message to the inbox. If you are browsing your starred items, you can unstar them with “y”, and best of all, if you are in a label view, the shortcut will remove that specific label.

I would find it marginally more useful if this shortcut unarchived email, but alas, it does not aid me in this. Nevertheless it is a useful one to know, since you can do so many things with it. Enjoy!

I just noticed this cool video on the Gmail Blog, it’s a review of Gmail in Russian. Why is it cool? Because the review is not shown with a screencast, instead, they built the interface out of duct tape, paint, and so on. Although I couldn’t understand what was being said, it is pretty self explanatory and looks so awesome.

I’m sorry, this has absolutely nothing to do with productivity or organization, but the way they executed this is worth seeing. I just couldn’t get the video to not break my design, so for now here’s a link to building Gmail, but I am not happy at all.