Everyone will lose their password at one time or another; and it’ll be made of suck. Come on, who here among you people hasn’t experienced the pain of sitting in front of your computer, trying to think up of whatever password you used up for that particular account? After the 10th try, I can imagine you guys giving out a huge scream of frustration, which may or may not involve a couple of flying objects, which may or may not land on the computer monitor/keyboard/mouse, which may result in broken computer peripherals and injury. In conclusion: losing your email password sucks, and trying to remember and failing can be more frustrating than the realization that you lost your password in the first place.

Fortunately for everyone, our favorite web mail client, Gmail, has ways of making sure that you don’t lose your password. Apparently, Gmail support is also deluged with support requests regarding lost passwords (I can pretty see this happening all of the time) and they even have a page for password assistance.

Heh. Now I don’t recommend you writing down your passwords, because everyone knows that writing your passwords down is a surefire way to get a security breach. I mean, anyone can check out the notebook or whatever you wrote your passwords on, and voila, instant hacking into your accounts.

If only there was a way for you to recover your passwords without having to go through loops.

And you know what’s even better? Password recovery via SMS. To turn this on for your account, just sign in, select ‘Change Password Recovery Options,’ enter your cell phone number and click ‘Save.’

Next time you forget your password, enter your username on the password-assistance page, and Google will text you a recovery code. No need to check another email account or even leave the page.

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I personally use Google Chrome a lot on a daily basis and so far I’ve found it to be very useful. Like in case of every tool, there are many cool tricks associated with this browser too which make working with the browser a breeze. Here are six such tricks.

1. Detach a Tab To a New Window

Firefox 3.5 now has it but it was Google Chrome which introduced it. You can easily click and drag a tab outside of the main browser window to a new window.

2. Drag Downloads To Desktop / Folder

Another cool feature similar to the tab detach feature. You can drag and drop downloads to any folder or the desktop directly from the browser.

3. Learn The Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts help in increasing your efficiency while working on the computer. Google Chrome has its own set of useful keyboard shortcuts which you can find here.

4. Use Resources Page To Check Website Load Time

Right click on a web page and click on ‘ Inspect element ‘ . Then click on ‘ Resources ‘ tab to check what parts of a web page are taking time to load. Useful for developers and webmasters.

5. Make the Most Out Of Address Bar

Google Chrome’s address bar works as Google search bar too. Hence you could do things like conversions, calculations and dictionary lookups directly from the address bar.

6. Drag & Resize Text Box On a Web Page

Another cool feature. You can drag any text box at the corner and increase its size. Like in the screenshot below, I can resize the comment box of this blog easily by dragging it downwards.

Hope you like the tricks.

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How to filter different senders at once

Say for example you want to filter your work related email, and attach a label to each work related message you receive. The problem is, you may be receiving work email from an endless number of people. Would you really create a separate, but identical, filter for each sender you receive email from in your Gmail account? Let’s hope not! You certainly do not have to.

Setting up a filter is easy:

• First, go to your Gmail Settings.
• Click on “Filters”.
• Click “Create a new Filter”.
• Now we’re ready to create a filter:

• Start with a parenthesis “(”, start with the first email address you want to filter from.
• Add an “OR” after the first email address, and add the second. Repeat this until you are done.
• Close with another parenthesis “)”:
• Set any other parameters that apply to your filter
• Click on “Next Step”
• Select “Apply the Label”, and select your label of choice:
• Or click on “New Label” to create a new label
• Add a new label name:
• Click OK.
• Click on “Create Filter”
• And you’re done!

Keep in mind that you need to add “OR” between the different email addresses for the filter to be applied whenever you receive a message from ANY of the senders. If you do not add in “OR”, and for instance only separate the email addresses with a comma, then your filter will not work.

What is your favorite way of using filters in Gmail?

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Why build a whitelist

If you’ve ever been anxiously waiting to receive an email from a potential new flame, or potential job offer, you want to make very sure the important message is not going to be banished as spam.

To avoid messages you do want to receive from being send straight to spam is the one and most important reason to have a so-called ‘whitelist’.

2 ways to whitelist in Gmail:

1. Adding senders to your contact list

When you receive an email, and you want to make sure you keep receiving messages from the same person in the future, you can do this by adding the sender to your contact list:

• Open a received email message
• Click on the little down-pointing arrow next to “reply”:
• Click on “Add “yousafesender@senderyoulike.com” to Contacts list”
• Now Gmail will tell you the sender has successfully been added to your contacts list, which automatically means you will be receiving all future emails from this sender:

2. Creating a filter

This method can be used to add one individual sender (for example, John@peopleyoulike.com), or all senders from a particular server (for example, everyone sending mail from @peopleyoulike.com).

• Click on “Settings”
• Go to “Filters”
• Click “Create a new filter”:
• Type the email address you want to whitelist in the “from” field. You can type a full address, such as “John@peopleyoulike.com”, or just “@peopleyoulike.com” if you expect to receive emails from different people with email addresses ending in “@peopleyoulike.com”:
• Click “next step”
• Check “never send to spam”:
• Click “create filter”

And you’re done! There are two ways of whitelisting a sender in Gmail, and now you should be able to use both methods.

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Understandably, this has people out in a panic. Heck, when I saw it, I freaked out too. I, for one, was worried about my current free Standard Edition accounts. I immediately logged in because I thought my accounts were gone. But yeah, they were still there. Google will get a ton of legal headaches! I’d be on the frontlines too. I mean, I’ve had my Standard Account for ages (I got Google Apps back when it was beta; that’s how much of a Google fan I am, kiddos) and I wouldn’t know what to do if Google pulled the plug on my free account!

I know you were looking for the old sign up link where you can com pare the two Google Apps editions. You might even be looking for this old chart comparing them:

But lo and behold, with a little digging, I was able to find where we can sign up for the free Google Apps Standard Edition. It wasn’t easy, believe me.

When you check the site, you won’t find a direct link to the Standard Edition. Instead, you should click here. The link is missing from the apps homepage, but until Google makes an announcement on their Apps Blog, let’s not worry too much about it.

Admittedly, the direct link disappearing is a bit suspicious, and if the aforementioned sign up link stops working, that’s when we should worry. For now, let’s just bookmark the link and sign up for Apps whenever we need it.

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Why Gmail ‘hides’ images

To protect you from spam and other malicious emails. Apparently, spammers and scammers use images in emails to see whether your address is real or not. By not showing the images, Gmail is actually protecting you to some degree from these threats. However, when you know a message is from a reputable sending, like for example if you signed up to the Google Tutor RSS feed, you can set up your Gmail to display images from the same sender each time.

Displaying images in Gmail

There are some easy steps to assure you can see the images you want to.

1. If you want to display images only once: At the top of your email message, you will see a blue bar with two links. The first one says “Display images below”. By clicking on this, images for this one email message only will be displayed, and not for any other emails you will receive from the same sender in the future.
2. If you always want to display images from a particular sender, simply click on the second link that says “always display images from sender@senderyoutrust.com”.

Here are two screen shots showing before and after clicking either of the links:

In the first screenshot, the images in my Gmail email are still disabled.

After clicking either link at the top of the Gmail message, the following happened:

You can also stop Gmail from displaying images after you initially allowed them. You can do this by clicking on show details at the top of the message, and selecting “don’t display from now on”.

Google has a step by step guide to displaying images here as well. Now, you will never need to miss a Google Tutor image again!

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Interesting huh? I, for one, loved the fact that the Gmail team moved up the labels above the chat window. It makes more sense, really. And here is the rundown of the changes:

1) New location for labels
You’ll notice your labels in a new location on the left of your inbox (or on the right, for those of you using the Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu versions of Gmail). Instead of having their own section, your labels are now above your chat list, grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system labels.

2) Label hiding and showing
You now have control over which of your labels show. We’ve done our best to get you started by automatically showing the labels you use most and hiding the rest. Label hiding is my favorite new feature, since it saves me from having to look through labels I rarely use. If I ever need to reach any of my old labels, I just click the “more” link.

For those of you who created label names like _stuff or ++todo++ to force your most-used labels to the top of the list (come on, you know who you are, I did it too…), you don’t have to come up with clever tricks like that anymore.

3) Drag and drop
Now this is the new feature I’m really crazy about. I mean, if Google Reader has drag-and-drop, why shouldn’t Gmail have similar features? Well, now you can now drag messages into labels, just like you can with folders. This does the exact same thing as “Move to” — it labels and archives in one step.

You can drag labels onto messages too. It’s the same thing as using the “Label” button. To label or move many messages at once, first select the messages and then drag and drop the label.

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Today I noticed a LOT of those people are looking for Michael Jackson info are looking for photos of Neverland Ranch so I’ve put together a few of the best images in this post.

Neverland Ranch Photos

Neverland Ranch Gate

Neverland Ranch House

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Neverland Ranch Back Yard

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Gmail’s Flash-based attachments grabs your files as you select them, including any .exe program files or other items that will eventually trip Gmail’s security filters. When sending fails, the draft, and the server-stored attachment, are still there. So you can just attach your files via gmail, save your files via draft and when you go home you’d see your files in the draft folder, which could be right-clicked and downloaded with ease.

And great news as well, Gmail has increased its file storage size to 25mb! So you can send and receive messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size, but you may not be able to send larger attachments to contacts who use other email services with smaller attachment limits. If your attachment bounces, you should invite them to Gmail.

However, Gmail’s Flash uploader, at times, doesn’t allow people to upload files that are larger than 10 MB. The error message is “attachment failed” and Google’s suggestions aren’t very helpful. Switching to the basic uploader in the settings solves the problem, but it’s more tedious to upload multiple files.

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