Technology Tip: How to reduce Email clutter in Gmail

Technology Tip: 

How to reduce Email clutter in Gmail

Want to have no emails in your mailbox?  Want to spend less time checking emails?   Want to Reduce email clutter in Gmail?  Then the best thing would be to follow these steps listed below:

Unsubscribe from unimportant Newsletters Manually

These days, almost ever brand has a Facebook and Twitter.  You can follow either of them and  then unsubscribe from their email newsletters (which typically adds to the email clutter). Once you are subsribed to them via facebook and twitter all the things you'd read in their newsletter you can read on their Facebook or Twitter!

Using Filter to Filter out unwanted emails.

It is not possible to unsubscribe to all the email newsletters manually, you can use the filter option to archive them so that these emails can be skipped from the Inbox and can be read later from a label created specifically for them.

Create Filters for Important Emails

Though Gmail does it is best to keep the most important messages in front of you, you can take extra measures to create a filter and label for emails that require your attention the most.

Use Dropbox to Share Files

Sending same attachments to multiple emails, then following up each and every person individually is a tough task, use Dropbox to share files in emails by sharing public link of the file in email.

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Technology Tip: Have an apple TV? Check out the four new features!

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Have an apple TV? Check out the four new features!

Listed below are are four new features for your Apple TV

 

Rearranging icons
Finally! Up until now, Apple TV owners weren't able to move the icons around on the home screen. With the update, you can now arrange the icons however you'd like -- with one exception.

Share Apple IDs
Families can now use more than one Apple ID on an Apple TV at a time. With a few clicks, you can change between Apple IDs and access each respective purchase history, or charge an order to a different account.

Showtimes
Watching movie trailers on the Apple TV is a convenient way to get a better idea of what you want to go see in the theater. With the latest update, you can also view showtimes in local movie theaters for directly on your TV.

Shared Photo Streams
One thing I love using the Apple TV for is showing photos to friends and family members. Accessing your Photo Stream isn't new, but the option to get to your Shared Photo Streams has been added, giving you access to the same shared albums you can view on an iOS or OS X device. If you'd rather not have the photos present on your TV, you'll need to know how to disable this handy feature. 

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Technology Tip: Updates for Windows 8!!

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Updates for Windows 8!!

I am sure some of you were wondering what built-in apps you will find in Windows 8.  They have finally announced what they are and the list is below.

SkyDrive

• Search within SkyDrive
• Rename and move folders and files
• New first-run experience
• Custom sort order

Mail, Calendar, People, and Messaging

• Conversation view of your inbox
• Complete IMAP account support
• Accepting and declining invitations in email
• Capturing and updating your account picture
• Improved search
• Search for a contact within the Messaging app

Photos

• Crop and rotate photos
• New auto-curated collage slideshows
• View photos and videos on network locations in your Pictures Library such as Windows Home Server, network shares, and HomeGroups
• Move through photos in your Pictures Library even when you open them from the desktop

Maps

• Bird's eye view
• 3,000+ indoor venue maps
• Driving directions hints
• Improved navigation and layout
• Improved customization, including custom pushpins and roaming options
• Integration with Bing and Travel apps

Bing

• Richer search results for local content and images
• Bing rewards integration
• Use zoom on your search results to see related queries
• Use the file picker to select an image from Bing to use on your lock screen or in your other apps

Finance

• Additional news and magazine content
• More market exchanges enabled
• Finance videos

News

• Additional news content from partners such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
• Enhanced article reader, including font customization, zoom, pagination, and more
• Improved offline reading experience
• News videos
• Slideshows

Sports

• Additional news and magazine content
• Sports videos
• Slideshows
• New soccer leagues, including MLS, J. League, and Brazilian League

Travel

• Additional news and magazine content
• Improved flight search and new flight progress indicator
• Improved hotel listing page
• Interactive 360-degree panoramas (gyroscope supported)

Weather

• Improved default location usability
• Hourly weather forecasts, up to 10 days
• Day & evening high/low temperatures

Video

• Purchasing in local currencies
• Closed captioning
• Search by actor or director

Music

• Expanded music services
• Rich "Now Playing" experience
• Discover more music with SmartDJ

Games

• Exciting new games
• In-game purchasing
• Invites and turn notifications
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Technology Tip: 

Download YouTube videos in their original format

Reprinted for this Cnet article

 Uploading a YouTube video causes it to be converted to the format used for streaming by the service. If you ever lose your videos, you could always grab the converted versions from the YouTube site, but what if you want the originals?

Google Takeout is now offering the ability to download the original versions of your videos, as mentioned by the Google Data Liberation blog. Takeout allows you to export data like settings, groups, or photos from Google's other Web sites and services. 

Unfortunately, you can only download all videos together at this time. There's no option to select individual ones that you need to replace on your hard drive or external storage. But if you're desperate to get an original copy of one or more of them, at least you can.

Here's how to grab the original versions of your videos:

Step 1: Open the Google Takeout Web site in your browser.

 

Step 2: Select the Choose Services tab at the top area of the page.

Step 3: Click the button labeled YouTube and then a card will pop up in the area above the buttons showing the size of your YouTube collection for download.

Step 4: Now click on Create Archive and then head to the Downloads tab.

Step 5: Once Takeout has finished building the archive, just click Download to grab your videos.

Note: You may be asked to log in to Google services again after clicking Download for security reasons.

Hopefully Google Takeout will evolve to let you select specific videos to download. When you have many uploads, say 40 or 50, the download size can become a little crazy when forced to download all of them at once.

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Technology Tip: Unique Gadgets you have never seen before

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Unique Gadgets you have never seen before
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These unique gadgets are very much real and are ready to be used in day to day life.  Some of them might not make any sense, but it proves that technology has gone so far that we can now think beyond almost anything which was impossible just a decade ago.

JawboneUP Wristband

It is not just any other wristband it helps you track your activities.   How many steps you take, how much distance you cover, calories burned, heartbeat rate, intensity and how well you sleep during the night.  Something that every fitness freak would love to own.

T-shirt OS

T-Shirt OS is quite a cool T-shirt that is made up of tiny LED lights and you can use it to display personal messages, photos, even your tweets by connected it to your phone with an App. It is great to show your message to someone on your chest instead to simply speaking to them.

Pebble Watch

You can wear the same watch every day and yet customize its look, the way it shows your time. This watch gets connected to your iPhone or Android via Bluetooth and you can view your mobile content on the watch

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Technology Tip: You can NOW reserve movies with Redbox for android

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You can NOW Reserve movies with Redbox for android

In the past, it was easier to load the Redbox Web site and reserve copies of movies or games there.  The reserve feature is especially useful in heavily populated cities, where something might be gone by the time you make your way to the physical Redbox.  With access to this same functionality on your mobile device, you can easily reserve a rental during or before your commute home from work or school. 

Grab a copy of the new Redbox app for your mobile Android device.  You will need Internet connectivity to use the app, since it browses inventory of the physical Redboxes and requires your log-in details to put rentals on reserve. 

Opening the app brings you to a list of recent movie releases, which can also be sorted from A to Z by pressing the menu button.  A quick search can also help you find out if Redbox carries a movie you want to see.  The same sorting and searching features are available on the Games tab. 

When you find the rental you are looking for, just tap on it and then tap the Reserve button. Once you're done with all of your selections, the titles you reserved will be in the Cart tab ready for check out.

Press on the check out button in the Cart tab to finish reserving your selected titles. If you haven't logged in, you'll need to do so now with your Redbox account. You may also need to fill in your credit card information if you haven't already and that is all

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Technology Tip: Track expenses in Google Docs using Gmail

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Track expenses in Google Docs using Gmail

Are you the type of person who uses Gmail or Google Docs frequently? 

If so this trick may be of interest.  It allows you to add data to a spreadsheet in Google Docs from a form you can quickly access from your Gmail inbox.  This form can even be accessed on your phone (at least in my case, using an iPhone 4S and both the native Mail app and the Gmail app).

Here are the steps needed to set it up:

1. Create a spreadsheet in Google Docs. 

2. From the Tools menu, select Create a form.

3. Fill out the form by adding items and question titles and choosing the question type.  The question titles will show up in the top row of your spreadsheet. 

 4. After you have your form squared away, hit Save and then the button for Email this form. Be sure to check the box for "Include form in the email" before hitting Send.

 

4. The form gets e-mailed to your inbox.  You can simply open the e-mail and fill out the form right there.  Hit submit and the data you entered gets sent to your spreadsheet. 

You could star this e-mail to be able to find it quickly when it becomes buried in your inbox. An even quicker solution is to enable Quick Links, which places a link to the form in Gmail's left-hand column.  To enable Quick Links, go to Settings > Labs. Scroll down the alphabetical list until you find Quick Links.  Click the radio dial for Enable and hit the Save Changes button.

 

Now, when you return to your inbox, a Quick Links box will be in the left-hand column.  Open the e-mail with your form and click the Add Quick Link link in the left-hand column.  Give it a name and click OK.  Now, you can access your form with one click when viewing Gmail on a computer. 

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