You can update your Twitter account with your mobile phone. Follow these steps to set it up:
1. Login to your Twitter account.
2. Click the Settings link in the upper-right corner.
3. Click the Devices tab.
4. Enter your phone number, then click Save.
5. Text message the code that appears after you enter your number to the number 40404.
You will now be able to update your status by texting to 40404.
Q: Can I disable the chat feature on Facebook?
A: Yes you can, just perform the following steps:
1. Sign into facebook and click the Chat option at the bottom of the screen.
2. Click Options.
3. Click Go Offline.
Facebook Chat will then be permanently disabled until you click Chat (offline) at the bottom of your screen.
So you just have to see the profile of that hot blonde on Facebook, but her profile is set as Private. How do you see it? Here’s a method that usually works.
1. From the page were your search results appear, click Send a Message for to send that person a message.
2. Send something that they wouldn’t be able to resist replying to. Perhaps something like “I think I found your ID. Is it missing?”.
3. Sit and wait for a response. If they respond you will be able to see their profile for a period of 24 hours. Most people don’t know this and will reply.
This is probably the easiest method. There are other ways to view private profiles though.
Some people believe that the size of the font is too small when you print out an email in Gmail. You can increase it in Internet Explorer and Firefox with these steps:
1. Open the email and click the Print All link on the right side.
2. Cancel the print job when it starts automatically.
3. Click File > Print Preview.
4. At the top of the screen, you can switch the Zoom to a percentage higher than 100%. The higher the percentage, the larger it will print.
5. Click the Print icon.
Your printout should print with larger words.
Note: Internet Explorer and Firefox both have this feature, however I have been unable to perform these steps in Google Chrome.
There is no way to delete your Facebook status from the Home screen. This throws a lot of people off. However, you can do the following:
1. Click Profile at the top of the page.
2. Toward the top of the screen, next to your name you can click Clear to delete your current status.
I recently encountered a problem on one of my PC’s where I couldn’t download any attachments in Yahoo Mail. Instead, I would get an error:
The requested URL was not found on this Server
The type of attachment didn’t matter. Every one did this. Luckily, I found that my Trend Micro anti-virus application was causing the problem. In Trend Micro, I had to go to:
Virus Controls > Protection Against Viruses > Settings
and uncheck the box that said Threats in Web mail attachments.
Now I can download attachments in Yahoo Mail with no problem.
If you are using a different anti-virus program and you have this issue, there might be a similar setting. Yahoo has built in anti-virus scanning, so two anti-virus software packages trying to scan your email attachments is probably not needed.
Are you aware that if your privacy settings on Facebook is set to My Networks and Friends, that it’s possible for almost anybody to see your Facebook page? I wasn’t aware that certain people could see my info. When a co-worker of mine became a part of my network, it was a shock. Ensure your settings are set properly if you don’t want your Facebook info to get into the wrong hands.
1. Mouse over Settings in the upper-right corner and select Privacy Settings.
2. Click Profile.
3. Set your privacy settings as desired. As you can see, I’m very private. I set mine to Friends Only.
Today I was trying to suggest a friend on Facebook to another one of my friends. I opened the friends’ profile and the link to Suggest friends for… wasn’t there. It’s normally located under the main profile photo.
This link only appears like the above caption if the friend is new to Facebook. If a friend has been on Facebook for a while, the link appears way to the bottom left of the profile.
It sounds dumb, but it took me forever to find this option.
If you access your Google Gmail over an open wireless network like those at a coffee shop, hotel or even your own workpalce, you leave your account open for hijacking. In these situations, you need to ensure that you are connected to Gmail using a secure or HTTPS connection.
To enable this feature, peform the following steps:
1. Login to your Gmail account.
2. Click Setttings in the upper-right corner.
3. Under the General tab, scroll down to the bottom of the page to the area labeled Browser Connection. You can set this setting to Always use https to enable the secure connection.
4. Be sure to click Save Changes at the bottom when you’re done.
I get paranoid at times. My email account is valuable to me as it includes all kinds of information. It is also a gateway to many passwords. I fear that somebody may get my password somehow and try logging into my Gmail account. Luckily Google has included a feature that lets you see the last 5 IP addresses that have logged into your system.
Just login to your Gmail and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. You will see a link for Details.
This will bring up a list of the last 5 connections made to your Gmail account.
You can look at the IP Addresses to see if they match ones that your computer would use. You can also see the times the account was logged into.
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.
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