Your subject is very important when you are creating a marketing email. Most of your email recipients will open your email if they are intrigued by your subject. It should intrigue them. Make sure your subject doesn’t seem spammy and cliched — this way even if they know you and are used to getting mails from you they won’t open it. Read more on how to write a creative marketing email.

In case you’ve accidentally deactivated this feature, you can easily activate it.

• Press ALT+F2
• type “gconf-editor” (without quotes) and press Enter
• Go to /apps/metacity/global_keybindings
• Find Cycle Windows
• Change the key value to (you’ll need to press Enter)

With Ajax you can update content of various sections of your web page without having to manually refresh the web page using your browser button. You can even submit forms and show the result without going to the next page. In most cases, an Ajax call requires:

• An event that triggers the Ajax call
• A JavaScript function (in this case a jQuery function) that makes the Ajax call
• An external file that responds to the call
• A web page element that shows the result of the Ajax call

Let’s first create the initial web page that makes a simple Ajax call to print a string.

As you can see, you need to include the jQuery file in order to use it. Then we’ve simply created a button that you need to click in order to print “Hello!” on the screen. For the onclick function we’ve defined a click_function. The onclick function appears like this:

jQuery uses the $ sign to represent the various functions it allows you to execute. This function simply puts the output of “file-with-action.php” in the “show_stuff” div.

file-with-action.php doesn’t have to be this simple. It can execute the most complicated algorithm and print the result accordingly.

The real fun of making Ajax calls begins with sending variables. Let’s add a name field to our initial form:

This time along with making an Ajax call we’re also sending a variable. file-with-action.php now looks like this:

You can similarly send your variables using POST instead of GET.

After you’ve chosen a smart password you should make sure that you connect using an HTTPS connection and not the regular connection. When using a computer that is accessed by multiple individuals remember to log out after checking your email. You should also refrain from sending confidential and sensitive information through your Gmail account. Read more on how to increase the security of your Gmail account on official Gmail account.

On the Internet it’s quite easy to become an expert authority; you need some focus, dedication, and right direction. Right direction is very important because if you spend all your time and resources digging out rocks where you expect gems you gain nothing. So you should not only know what you want to learn, you must also know how to obtain that knowledge. Some good sources you can use to become an expert authority can be:

• Blogs
• Social networking websites
• Online forums and publications
• Conferences and seminars
• Podcasts and videocasts
• Ebooks

Read more in this Mashable blog post on how to become an expert in your field.

For many PC power users shifting from Windows to Ubuntu can be a difficult transition when they’ve got used to the numerous Windows-based software applications, and GoogleTalk is one of them. In GoogleTalk it’s extremely easy to set up both Gmail accounts and Google apps account. Fortunately, GoogleTalk works only under Windows. And if you want to use something like GoogleTalk, you need to use Pidgin or Empathy. Pidgin is installed by default when you are installing Ubuntu. A good thing about Pidgin is that you can use multiple instant messenger IDs with it, including GoogleTalk, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ and Jabber.

Anyway, in order to add your Google apps account or ID to Pidgin, you enter the login information in the following manner:

• Start Pidgin, or bring it forward if it’s already running.
• Click Accounts -> Manage Accounts
• Click Add…
• In the Basic tab
  • For Protocol enter XMPP
  • For username enter the text before @ of your email
  • For Domain enter the name of your domain (yourdomain.com)
  • For Resource enter Home
• In the Advanced tab
  • Select Require SSL/TLS
  • For Connect port enter 5222
  • For connect server enter talk.google.com
  • For File transfer proxies enter proxy.eu.jabber.ord
• Click Add

Adding Google Apps account to Pidgin - Basic tab details

Adding your Google Apps ID to Pidgin - Advanced tab details

You have added your Google Apps account to Pidgin.

Go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager

It gives you this window (it asks for your user password before the window):

Search for mysql-admin. Mark it, and then click Apply. After it has been installed, you’ll need to run MySQL Query Browser in order to view databases. It’s not as elaborate as the Windows versions of many GUIs, but it does the job better than the command prompt.

Upgrading Ubuntu from Desktop

From the drop-down select “update-manager -d” (without quotes) like this:

Upgrade Ubuntu from Desktop

If a new version of Ubuntu is available it will let you know and you can easily upgrade from there