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.
I am very much looking forward to the possibility of Microsoft taking over Yahoo. Maybe it will bring some well needed competition to Google. Microsoft can replace the Yahoo Search with their own Live Search technology, which I have to say, is pretty darn good. It still has a while to go before it can find things like Google can.
Perhaps Microsoft will take away the ridiculous charges that are rampant with Yahoo such as the charges to upgrade email, or view certain articles. I love nothing more than seeing a link on my My Yahoo page with a little $ next to it indicating that I cannot view the entire article unless I wish to pay for it. This is just one of the many examples of Yahoo trying to charge for stuff consumers know they can get free. What I often end up doing is searching for the article on Google and reading it for free.
I never thought I would welcome Microsoft to a new arena, but Yahoo needs to be saved. The services they offer have so much potential, it’s just the people running the company are clueless.
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.
Enable Internet Explorer to run a search from the address bar.
1. Click START (then RUN in Windows XP) and type REGEDIT.
2. Click on the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Software
then Microsoft
then Internet Explorer
then SearchUrl
3. Double-click (Default) and type in the value:
http://home.microsoft.com/access/autosearch.asp?p=%s
Click OK
4. Double-click provider and type in the value:
gogl
Click OK
5. Back on the left side, click once on Main.
6. Double-click on AutoSearch and type in a value of 4.
Close Regedit, and the next time you start Internet Explorer, searches will be run from the Address Bar.
Additionally you can make a file using notepad and cut and paste the following into the file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
“provider”=”gogl”
@=”http://home.microsoft.com/access/autosearch.asp?p=%s”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
“AutoSearch”=dword:00000004
Save the file as google.reg. Then just double click on it and click YES to enter the information into the registry.
How to import your Outlook Contacts into your Google Gmail account
1. Open Outlook and click File > Import and Export.
2. Click Export to a file, and click Next.
3. Click Comma Separated Value (DOS), and click Next.
4. Select the contacts folder you want to export, and click Next.
5. Save the file to a location on your computer such as the Desktop and click Next.
6. Click Map Custom Fields.
7. In the From box, drag the field that you want to convert onto the Outlook field that is listed in the To box.
8. Click Finish.
9. Open your Gmail account.
10. Click Contacts.
11. On the right side of your screen, above the message count, click Import.
12. Under Import Contacts, click Browse.
13. Select the file you saved and click Open.
Hack for finding movies using Google.
Type the following into Google Search. Replace Movie Name with the name of the movie you would like to search for.
-inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:php intitle:”index of” (mpg|mov|avi|wmv) “Movie Name“
A quick and easy way to find MP3’s (or any other type of file on the interweb)
intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”songname” -htm -html -php -asp “last modified”
replace the songname with the name of the artist/song you are looking for.
To search for other file types, change the mp3 to xls, or doc, or mdb or whatever.
There is an issue with the Google Toolbar and Internet Explorer that causes only the first letter of the title of the web page to be displayed in the title bar.
Solving this issue is simple. Just uninstall the Google Toolbar and reinstall it.
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