Posts Tagged ‘Gmail’

Watch live streaming of lunar eclipse from anywhere

June 16, 2011 |  by  |  Google, News  |  No Comments

A rare 100-minute long total lunar eclipse starting at 11:20am PDT today. Slooh will host a live mission interface using Google App Engine that lets anyone not lucky enough to live in certain areas (South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia) take part in this rare astronomical event. It’s equipped with audio narrations from real-life astronomers so you can hear a firsthand, expert account of the event. You can also watch the live stream on the Google YouTube Channel or from the Sky layer in Google Earth, while exploring the fascinating world that exists in our galaxy. Finally, those of

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WriteThat.Name – keep your Gmail address book up-to-date

June 14, 2011 |  by  |  Apps, Google, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Developed by Paris-based developers, Phillipe Laval and Joshua Eckblad of Kwaga, WriteThat.Name is a web based app which will help you keep your Gmail contacts up to date. Each time you receive a new email, WriteThat.Name compares the senders signature to the current contact listing in your address book. If there’s been a change, WriteThat.Name spots it and, depending on your chosen settings, either automatically changes it or notifies you of the conflict. Either way you’ll receive a daily email report with any changes to your contact list. No hassles of settings all you have to do is make sure to

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Canary in your inbox keeps your email safe

June 12, 2011 |  by  |  Hacks, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

A simple, clever tip from John Graham-Cumming to keep your inbox safe. John has planted a ‘Canary’ in his inbox :). It is activated and gives you information when somebody is peeking at your inbox. How it works John leaves a starred email showing in his Gmail account’s Priority Inbox. Purporting to be from ‘Barclays Private Banking’, it should be enough to tempt an intruder to open it. In reality, John sent this to himself from a dummy email account. Idea behind is to leave a tempting looking email that's sitting in inbox which is entirely fake and designed to tempt an

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Avoid online embarrassment with Internet Shame Insurance

June 11, 2011 |  by  |  Apps, Downloads, Facebook, Twitter  |  No Comments

The web is filled with opportunities to humiliate yourself. You reply all with a scathing takedown of your boss; you post pictures on Facebook of a drunken night out and your mom starts to worry; you accidentally tweet a picture of your downstairs business to the internet at large. This simple tool helps you protect the privacy of your Weiner whenever possible. Internet Shame Insurance is a very simple Google Chrome extension (Windows, Mac, Linux, Google Chrome, free) that adds privacy reminders to Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail to help you avoid the most common online communication faux pas. The extension sits

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How to delete your account from any WebSite – AccountKiller

June 11, 2011 |  by  |  Concepts, Sites, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Have you ever made an account with an online service, then decided not to use it anymore? If you left any information in the account and someone managed to compromise it, they could then not only impersonate you, but also access any information you left behind. Not all web sites make it easy for users to delete their accounts, and some make nearly impossible without diving deep into help documentation or emailing support. AccountKiller is one stop to help you kill an account on any site type the name of the service you want to vanish from, and follow their

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Use Scrubly to removes duplicate contacts from Gmail, Outlook, Mac and Google Apps

June 6, 2011 |  by  |  Downloads, Softwares, Tips n Tweaks, Video  |  No Comments

If your address book or contacts list is virtually unusable because of the number of duplicates and unwanted entries, Scrubly can help tidy them up. It'll search your contacts, and when it finds dupes, it'll show them to you to merge, manage, or automatically clean.Scrubly supports the Mac OS Address Book, Gmail, Microsoft Outlook for Windows, and Google Apps for your domain. Scrubly processes all of your contact data inside the Scrubly cloud. This approach delivers you the very best duplicate, merging, and conflict resolution operations possible, all within one location. Rather than spreading power across a multitude of varied platforms,

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Use these G+ shortcuts to navigate through Gmail

June 4, 2011 |  by  |  Google, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Google's created plenty of keyboard shortcuts that start with G. Use these shortcuts to navigate smoothly and easily. If you can't get this to work, make sure you have shortcuts enabled in Gmail. If you enable them, click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the Gmail page and choose Mail settings. This will load a page with options, and the second option will be keyboard shortcuts with an on and off option. Choose on, save your changes, and everything should work beautifully. #1 g+ i = Go to Inbox #2 g+ s = Go to Starred conversations #3 g+ t =

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Google introducing Gmail widget for relevant information “People Widget”

June 2, 2011 |  by  |  Google, News  |  No Comments

Google over the next two weeks will be rolling out a new 'People Widget' located on the right hand side of your messages. The people widget surfaces content from friends, family and colleagues that is already available to you but may be hard to find and makes it easier to connect with them. Next to all your emails you’ll see the widget which houses relevant information about the contact including things like recent email threads you’ve engaged in with them, shared calendar information, shared documents, Buzz posts, contact information (including quick access buttons for calling or chatting them), shared documents

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