Filter/Block Recruitment Agency Ads on Seek.com.au

Seek.com.au is Australia’s largest job portal but it’s filled with job ads posted by recruiters/recruitment agencies. Now I’m sure the whole recruitment service industry serves its purpose and some people might find them useful. But personally I would rather view job ads advertised by the companies themselves who are offering the jobs for obvious reasons (and there are many).

Since there’s nothing that I can find online that can help me filter ads put up by recruitment agencies, I decided to do something about it and created this chrome extension called “Block Recruiters Ads

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Gmail: How To Filter For Unread Email

gmail logoIt’s easy, just type is:unread and press search. This will search for EVERY email that is unread.

Search For Unread Labeled Email

I suggest that you setup filters and manage your incoming emails categorized by labels. For example, this will allow you to search for unread email labeled Business.

label:Business is:unread

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Windows 7 Black Screen, Login Successful But Won’t Show Desktop (Solution)

software utilities toolsJust a quick tip on how I solved this problem.

1. Login to Window using safe mode

2. Do a system restore. Go to control panel > Recovery and choose a restore point > Choose the drive to restore windows to (usually C:\) > Done

If a message pop ups saying that it can’t restore because there are issues with C:\ such as data corruption, it will tell you that it needs to do a chkdsk (short for check disk).
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