I use labels extensively, and about 100 of these messages are labeled as either “security” or “cisco.” The emails in these labels need to be reviewed closely, so I’m going to go ahead and exclude them from this search. Therefore, the search below will find all unread messages in my inbox, unless they are labeled as “security” or “cisco.”

is:unread in:inbox -{label:security label:cisco}

This should be entered in the Gmail search box. The only really tricky things here are the curly braces ({}) and minus sign (-). The curly braces treat everything inside as if it was separated by a logical OR. In this case, it matches any message that is labeled “security” or “cisco.” WIthout the curly braces, a message would have to be in both labels to match. The minus sign lets Gmail know that I don’t want to see the results of that match in the final search results.

The first step is to bring up the Custom View Organizer pop-up box. This can be reached by clicking on the View menu at the top of Outlook and selecting Current View and then Define Views. When Define Views is clicked, you should see the following pop-up box:

Select the Messages view and click the Modify button. This will bring up another pop-box box with several buttons on the left-hand side. Find the button called Automatic Formatting and click it. Another pop-up box will appear. First make sure Unread Messages is highlight in the selection box at the top. In the bottom section labeled “Properties of selected rule,” click the Font button. This produces a fairly standard Windows font selection pop-up box as seen below. The font color is changed using the Color drop down box indicated by the arrow in the image below.

Once the color has been changed to red, click OK. In the Automatic Formatting pop-up box, click OK to accept the changes. In the Customize View: Messages pop-up box, click OK to accept the changes.

Once you are done, repeat these steps for the Messages with AutoPreview view. When complete, click the Close button on the Custom View Organizer pop-up box.

On a related note, if you are big fan of the Missing Manual series, you can now pre-order* the Snow Leopard Missing Manual on Amazon. I know that the Missing Manual was practically a requirement for me when I started using Mac OS X during the Jaguar to Panther change over. New users to Mac OS X can really benefit from the Missing Manual series and old users might learn a few new tricks, too.

* I’ve never noticed that Amazon offered price protection on pre-order items. That’s useful.

A list of security fixes is available after the jump.

Rather than updating to this release, I recommend updating to the latest version of Firefox 3.5. Firefox 3.5 includes several performance updates that make it much faster than Firefox 3. Additionally, Firefox 3.5 includes useful features such as Private Browsing and the improved location bar.

ISC has made patches available for BIND versions 9.4, 9.5, and 9.6.

If you haven’t already, try out VirtualBox and let us know what you think.

Take the time to update now.