Gmail's new compose and reply experience

Gmail's new compose and reply experience

You can now write messages in a cleaner, simpler experience that puts the focus on your message itself, not all the features around it. Here are some of the highlights:

• Fast: Compose messages right from your inbox.
• Simple: Redesigned with a clean, streamlined look.
• Powerful: Check emails as you're typing, minimize drafts for later, and even compose two messages at once.

Try it out!

Once you click the Compose button, click the "new compose experience" link right next to the Labels button at the top of the message. Until the change is fully launched, you'll be able to choose whether you use the new or current experience. If you change your mind or if you need to use a feature that isn't available yet, you can switch back to the old experience at any time. Here's how:

1. Click Compose
2. At the bottom corner of the message pane, click the More menu icon  next to the Discard button.
3. Select "Switch back to old compose."

Details of the compose window

Instead of taking up your entire Gmail window, clicking Compose now opens a smaller window at the bottom of your screen. Here are some of the features that you'll see:

• Recipients: Click this text field to type email addresses. You can also click the Cc or Bcc links to add a new set of recipients. Drag and drop recipients from one field to another, or click the "x" to remove them from your message. Hover over the recipient to see details about them, or double-click on them to edit their address.
• Text formatting: Click this icon to add formatting like font size, bold, underline, and bullets. Or, use our new formatting keyboard shortcuts. Hover over each button to learn the keyboard shortcut you can use for that option. Alignment and indentation options are now collapsed under the alignment icon.
• Attachments: Click the Attachment icon to attach files to your message. Hovering over the Attachment icon will also open the insert options menu.
• Insert options: Hover over the plus icon to embed photos, links, emoticons, and Google Calendar events. This menu will also open when hovering over the Attachment icon.
• Discard: Click the trash can icon to delete your draft.
• More options: Click this menu to see other tools such as spell check, plain text format, print, adding labels, and including original attachments. Some options may not yet be ready; you’ll see them in grey until they become available to use.
• Window size: The writing pane grows as your message gets longer. If you want the window to be bigger, click the middle icon at the top right of the pane to open the message in a new window. Use the other icons to minimize or close the window (which will also save your draft).
• Saving: Gmail automatically saves your drafts while you’re writing, so we've removed the "Save now" button (but you can verify that it’s saved if you see the word, "Saved" next to the Discard button). Your draft will also be automatically saved when you close the compose window.
• Send mail as: If you use Gmail to send mail from another address (like your work address), click into the "To" field, then click the "From" link to select which address you’d like to send mail from.

Changes when replying or forwarding

You’ll also see some differences when replying to or forwarding messages. Most of the changes are similar to those that you'll see when composing a brand new message. Here are a few additional changes:

• Recipients: To change who your message should be sent to, click into the recipient field when you’re replying.
• Type of response: Click the arrow next to the recipient’s name to choose whether your message is a reply, reply all, or forward.
• Subject: To change the subject of your message, click the arrow next to the recipient’s name and click "Start separate conversation."
• Respond inline: If you want to see the previous message within your reply, scroll down until you see the "Show trimmed content" icon  and click it.

Coming soon

A few familiar features aren’t yet available yet, but we're working hard to make them available to you soon.

• Insert emoticons and event invitations
• Add labels to outgoing messages from the More menu
• Send read receipts (Google Apps users only)

artikel ketoprak dwi haryanto

iambil dari Harian KOMPAS, Jawa Tengah, Senin, 22 Juli 2002

Yogyakarta, Kompas - Ketoprak sebagai seni tradisi rakyat Yogyakarta menanti lonceng kematian karena terpinggirkan oleh penontonnya sendiri. Seiring munculnya stasiun-stasiun televisi (TV) swasta yang berorientasi industri dan kapitalisme, minat publik lebih tersedot untuk menyaksikan tayangan dangdut ketimbang ketoprak.Dalam sebuah diskusi di Pusat Studi Kebudayaan Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta, Sabtu (20/7), penggiat seni tradisi, Bondan Nusantara menilai, nasib ketoprak tak ada bedanya dengan seni tradisi lainnya, seperti jathilan, angguk, ndolalak, badui.

"Semuanya gagal bertarung di tengah dahsyatnya gempuran tayangan TV swasta, termasuk berbagai seni tradisi di wilayah Tanah Air," kata Bondan. Misalnya, wayang kulit di Surakarta dan Yogya, ludruk di daerah Jawa Timur, kentrung di Banyuwagi, jemblung di Purworejo dan Banyumas, serta sinrilik di Sulawesi Selatan.

Dipandu dosen Fakultas Ilmu Budaya UGM, Dr C Bakdi Soemanto, Bondan, yang aktif sebagai sutradara kelompok ketoprak "DMB" (Dekonstruksi Makna Beku) 2002, menilai kesenian rakyat yang tumbuh dari masyarakat komunal agraris, terpinggirkan ke habitat semula. Parahnya, masyarakat pinggiran yang tadinya guyub dengan seni tradisi berciri sederhana, akrab, dan egaliter, tersihir pula untuk menyukai estetika "baru" produk TV swasta.

"Lebih celaka lagi, TVRI (Televisi Republik Indonesia-Red) yang dulu menyediakan ruang bagi kesenian rakyat, mulai berkemas pula mengikuti langkah stasiun TV swasta. Dengan alasan menyandang status perusahaan umum, TVRI ikut berbisnis dan takluk pada kekuatan modal dari luar," ujar Bondan.

Bondan tidak menafikkan beberapa jenis kesenian rakyat yang dimodifikasi stasiun TV swasta seperti ketoprak humor, ludruk glamor, ludruk kirun, dan wayang humor. Namun dia menilai, tayangan semacam itu bukan buah kecerdasan para pelaku kesenian rakyat. Itu hanya produk para pemodal untuk meraup keuntungan.

Peminat ketoprak

Tentang menyusutnya minat penggemar ketoprak di TV, Bondan mengutip sebuah riset dari kelompok studi Realino mengenai tanggapan pemirsa terhadap tayangan "ketoprak sayembara" di TVRI Yogyakarta. Sekitar tahun 1994-1995, acara yang berdurasi sekitar 50 menit itu masih mampu menerima 800 ribu kartu pos dari pemirsa. Taruhlah rata-rata pengirim kartu pos mengirim empat kartu, berarti ada sekitar 200 ribu penonton acara itu.

Dua tahun terakhir, kartu pos yang masuk menyusut tajam menjadi 26 ribu. Jika rata-rata penonton mengirim empat kartu, berarti tinggal 6.500 orang penggemarnya.

"Kenyataan itu bertolak belakang dengan kondisi tahun 1970-an," kata Bondan. Menurutnya, tahun 1970-an, sekitar 50 kelompok ketoprak tumbuh subur di Yogyakarta. Karena diminati publik, mereka pentas tobong (berkeliling) dari kampung ke kampung. Situasi itu didukung oleh TVRI yang memberi ruang lumayan bagi kesenian rakyat. Tayangan ketoprak di TVRI Yogyakarta bersinergi dengan maraknya pertunjukan ketoprak di panggung-panggung rakyat.

Namun, Bondan dan Bakdi tak sepenuhnya melihat TV swasta sebagai biang utama kepunahan seni tradisi. Kesalahan utama terletak pada kegagapan pekerja seni. Mereka gagap dan tidak kreatif menarik kembali hasrat publik yang hilang. Fenomena itu bermula tahun 1990-an ketika terjadi loncatan teknologi informasi dan industrilisasi. Pekerja seni tradisi tidak siap menghadapi tantangan zaman, di mana minat publik beralih ke tayangan yang estetikanya lebih menarik.

Apalagi, kata Bakdi, TV sedemikian mudahnya ditonton oleh publik. Tayangannya bisa dinikmati anak-anak sampai orangtua tanpa harus keluar dari rumah. "Bila perlu, sambil telanjang pun kita bisa nonton televisi. Bandingkan, kalau nonton acara panggung atau nonton bioskop. Kita harus berpakaian, keluar rumah, dan harus ada ongkos transportasi," papar Bakdi.

Dr Mark Hobart, warga Inggris yang 10 tahun terakhir meneliti TV dan kesenian di Bali, sependapat dengan Bondan dan Bakdi, bahwa dalam situasi sekarang, pekerja seni tradisi harus lebih kreatif. "Di tengah perubahan minat publik, pekerja seni tradisi harus lebih kreatif menyuguhkan pertunjukan yang komunikatif," kata Hobart yang menjabat Direktur The Balinese and Javanese Research Archive (BAJRA).

Bakdi menyarankan, lembaga-lembaga kesenian semacam Dewan Kesenian, dan organisasi nonpemerintah yang peduli pada seni tradisi memprioritaskan pembinaan pada kesenian rakyat yang terancam punah. "Yang difestivalkan sebaiknya kesenian yang terancam punah. Tidak usah terlalu memikirkan kesenian yang sudah relatif aman dan hidup," tandas Bakdi. (NAR)

Kata kunci: kliping

supercomputer TOKYO - A Japanese

TOKYO - A Japanese supercomputer has won the world's fastest machine. Supercomputers K, Fujitsu made the company, was able to make 1 million desktop computers connected simultaneously. The work is at once shifted Tianhe-1A from China who was perched in the past six months.
Supercomputers K has three times better strength than seblumnya holder and capable of performing eight quadrilliun calculations every second. quadrilliun is a number followed by 15 zeros, and in computer jargon is known as the speed of 8.2 petaflops.
As reported by MailOnline, (Thursday, 6/23/2011), the previous fastest machine was the Chinese computer named 'Tianhe-1A', with 2.507 petaflops and highlighted the emergence of Chinese rule in technology and economics. Tianhe-1A machine also drove China topped the list the first time the speed of the computer and wrestle for the title in the United States (U.S.), which has four of the world's top ten supercomputers.
Experts say, the development of machine K, which is faster than five competitors, marking a major advance Japan's leap in the world of technology. "This machine is very impressive and far more powerful than the other computers," said Professor Jack Dongarra, who announced the list of the six-month world's top supercomputers.
Speed ​​ratings are based by running a standard mathematical equation. This shows the superiority of Japan to make computers K. With the cost USD1, 2 billion as evidence of the return of Japan at the top of the computer technology for the first time in seven years.
Developed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan, computer giant structures placed in a climate-controlled, indoor such as warehouses. Consists of 672 cabinets filled with circuit boards containing nearly 70,000 processors. K supercomputer uses enough energy to power 10,000 homes. Creator claims the machine is still energy efficient.
"K Computer use is expected to have an innovative impact in various fields, ranging from global climate research, meteorology, disaster prevention, and medicine. Contribute so that the creation of a prosperous and secure society," said a spokesman for the institute RIKEN.
There are five U.S. made supercomputer was ranked the top 10, including third-ranked Jaguar system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Of the 10 ratings Among the two machines from China, two from Japan and one from France. (FMH)