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I had no idea that Gmail had a feature that enabled you to send an auto response to people to let them know you were out of the office or on vacation.
1. Login to your Gmail account and click Settings in the upper right corner.
2. Under the General tab, scroll down and find the area labeled Vacation responder.
3. Check Vacation responder on.
4. Type your auto response message.
Gmail vacation response
5. Be sure to click Save Changes at the bottom of the page when you’re done.
I like to keep my friends involved in what’s going on in my life. The ability to share my calendar with them on Google Gmail is priceless. Here’s how you can do it.
1. Sign into Gmail.
2. Click the Calendar link at the top of the screen.
3. Click Settings in the upper right part of the screen.
4. Click Share this Calendar.
5. Keeping the settings as is will share your calendar with everybody that wants to view it. If you only want certain people to be able to view it, you can type their name in the Person field, set their permissions on what they can see, then click Add Person.
Now other Gmail users will be able to search for your name on the Calendar screen on the left side using the Other Calendar field. They will then be able to view the items on your calendar.
If you use StumbleUpon, but you want to delete a friend so that you don’t receive suggestions from them anymore, here’s how.
1. Click the Friends button on your StumbleUpon toolbar.
2. Click on the friend you wish to remove.
3. Click the Remove Friend button in the upper right corner.
Today we were trying to get into the Gtalk chat application in Gmail from our work. It seems that the administrators at our company have blocked it on the firewall. Nobody on the entire company network could get into it. All of us received an error:
Your network administrator or ISP has chosen to block chat in Gmail
We tried clearing the cookies from our browser, but of course that didn’t help. So we decided to try the secure Gmail site at https://www.gmail.com. Would you believe it worked? It looks like the administrators didn’t think of blocking the secure address. So we can chat in Gtalk until the administrators get wise again.
Like many people, my Inbox gets saturated with phishing requests daily. Each one claiming to need access to my MySpace, eBay or CitiBank account. They keep on coming and most people just delete them. The thing is that I don’t feel these types of email should be taken lightly. Somebody made an attempt on your account! And it was illegal! So what do you do to try to fight back? Well these are good email addresses to know whenever you get a request. Just forward the email to the proper place if it involves any of the following entities.
Sites:
Amazon - stop-spoofing@amazon.com
America Online (AOL)- abuse@aol.com
eBay - spoof@ebay.com
Facebook - abuse@facebook.com
MySpace - abuse@myspace.com
PayPal - spoof@paypal.com
Yahoo - mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com
Banks:
Bank of America - abuse@bankofamerica.com
Citibank - emailspoof@citigroup.com
Charter One - abuse@citizensbank.com
Citizens Bank- fraud_prevention@citizensbank.com
Household Bank - bib@us.hsbc.com
Key Bank - emailfraud@keybank.com
Regions Bank - phishing@regions.com
South Trust - callcenterwebmail@southtrust.com
SunTrust - abuse@suntrust.com
TCF Bank - emailfraud@tcfbank.com
Washington Mutual - spoof@wamu.com
Bank One - fraudreport@bankone.com
Chase Bank - abuse@chase.com.
U.S. Bank - faud_help@usbank.com
Visa - phishing@visa.com
Washington Mutual - spoof@wamu.com
Bookmark this page for future reference.
Social Ads on Facebook is a feature that tailors ads to your friends. For example it might tell your friends when you have rated a movie 4 stars. Here’s how to disable this feature that some may find intrusive.
1. Login to your account.
2. Click privacy in the upper-right corner.
3. Click News Feed and Mini-Feed.
4. Click the Social Ads tab.
5. Set the drop-down menu for Apearance in Social Ads to No one.
6. Click Save Changes.
How to delete a friend from Facebook.
1. Login to your profile.
2. Click Friends at the top of the screen.
3. Find the friend you wish to delete and click the X in the upper right corner of the box for that friend.
4. Click Remove Friend.
iLike is a great little application for Facebook that allows you to add your favorite music and dates for your favorite concerts to your profile. You can also use it to get free MP3 files. It’s probably the most popular Facebook application. Here’s how to add it to your profile.
1. Login to your Facebook account and click Privacy in the upper-right corner.
2. Click Applications.
3. Click the Edit applications page link.
4. Click the Browse More Applications button.
5. iLike may be listed there already, if not you can search for it and then click the iLike link.
6. Read this page if you need to learn more about how to use iLike to add music to your page. When you are ready, you can click the Add Application button toward the upper right corner of the pages.
7. Set the items you wish to allow or disallow the application to have access to. Click Add iLike when you are ready, and you’re done.
Spammers are able to send spam calendar entries to your Google Calendar if you have it set to automatically add them. Here’s how to disable this feature.
1. While you are in Google Calendar, click Settings in the upper-right corner.
2. Select the General tab.
3. In the Automatically add invitations to my calendar section.
4. Select No, only show invitations to which I have responded.
5. Click on Save.
Did you know that you can add your AOL Instant Messenger buddies in your Gmail Chat? You can, and here’s how.
1. In Gmail, click the Settings option in the upper right corner.
2. Click the Chat tab, and you will see the AIM options toward the bottom.
3. If this is your first time using this feature, click Sign into AIM link. You may also have an option to Change AIM settings.
4. Provide your AIM username and password and click Sign in.
5. Now you will have AIM buddies added to your Chat list. AIM buddies are displayed by the little AOL icon man.
Currently I cannot figure out a way to add AOL Instant Messenger to the separate GoogleTalk application. This should be planned in the future. If you know of a way, please share your solution in the Comments section below.
Firefox has been locking up on me lately. I get to a point in my day where I have more than 8 tabs open and it just freezes. I can’t switch to another window or another tab in Firefox.
One of my tabs is usually Yahoo Mail since I like to check my email throughout the day. I noticed Yahoo pages serve a lot of animated Flash ads and they were animating very slowly. I found these ads have been the culprit in slowing Firefox as well as my machine down quite a bit.
So what do I do? Uninstall Flash and suffer when I need it to play games or whatever? Well I found a workaround, albeit it’s not practical. Everytime one of these ads load and start locking up things, I can right-click on the Flash ad and select Quality > Low.
Doing this has made makes problem with Firefox go away immediately. However, I have to do this each time the problematic ad loads. Annoying, but a workaround for now.
People constantly ask me about ways they can get to the Facebook web site if it’s been blocked by their work or college. Here are three that I know about.
1. Use a proxy server. Here are a few that I know about:
Proxify
Hidemyass
Satanproxy
Guardster
Anonymizer
Dontfilter
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I chat with people regularly on Google Talk. I don’t like that my chat messages get stored automatically forever. Here’s how to disable the storing of chats in Gmail.
For users of the Google Talk client application in Windows
1. In Google Talk click the Settings link in the upper right part of the screen.
2. Click Chat on the left column.
3. Check the option for Don’t save chat history in my Gmail account.
The tools available in Gmail by far trump the tools in any other web based email system. My problem is that I have been using Yahoo Mail for years. Friends and family will forever send to my Yahoo account as they have for the past 10 years. I recently decided though that Yahoo no longer has a place in my heart. I would officially migrate to Gmail. I was relieved to find that I could manage my Yahoo Mail through Gmail. Here’s how it’s done.
1. Login to Gmail and click on the Settings link in the upper right corner.
2. Click on the Accounts tab under the Settings area.
3. Here you can click to Add another mail account.
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How to import Google Calendar into Windows Calendar in Windows Vista.
1. Go to Google Calendar
2. Click Settings at the top right corner.
3. Click Calendars right under where it says Calendar Settings.
4. Click the calendar you wish to import into Windows Calendar.
5. Under Calendar Details, where it says Calendar Address, right-click on the ICAL button and select Copy as Shortcut.
6. Launch Windows Calendar.
7. Click the Subscribe button on the toolbar:
8. Right-click on the text box and select Paste the URL into the text box, then click Next.
9. The Calendar Subscription Settings screen will appear. Select the options you desire and then click Finish.
You’re done! Your Google Calendar entries will now be imported into your Windows Calendar. They will also sync if you chose an Update Interval.
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