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Mention people with ‘@’ in gmail just like twitter
Being revamped a few days ago (Google I/O 2018), Gmail has been loaded with many tricks up its sleeves. One of another feature called ‘confidential mode’, check this article on how to use it. Now, here’s the point of this post. Mentioning people using ‘@’ while composing a mail in gmail is now as easy as you do on Twitter. Just…
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Forget mouse, use only keys to browse like a Hacker
Mice is old school. Grabbing them in one and aiming the cursors have become too heavy, ergonomically bad too. Want to save the every few seconds missed in moving hands between the keyboards and mouse? If you nod ‘yes’, then you’ll like to read further. If you’re a programmer or with an experience of that kind,…
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How to do the Mail merge in Gmail?
Have you ever witnessed a situation where you have to send an email to many people before the deadline? I know it’s really irritating and time-consuming but what can we do, the job demands its completion. Once in a while, we have thought of having a feature of merging all these persons and sending the…
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Improve browser’s speed and your focus by snoozing tabs
Multi-tab browsing has become the most basic requirement of modern browsers. Open a web page, see something on it or clicking a link that will lead you to a different web page in another tab and that leads to another and goes on. Soon it becomes too many to handle. At this stage, you can’t…
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Never run out of storage space on your phone again. Files Go by Google is here, a ShareIt Killer too.
Often running out of storage space due to a large number of files accumulating every day? Most of the time it is because of WhatsApp images, videos and media data from other apps like Facebook taking over phone’s storage gradually. The factor adding up to the irritation is duplicate files. Google has come up with…
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Google’s Feeling Lucky Search from Chrome Omnibar
Have you ever wonder why there is a button “I’m Feeling Lucky” on Google’s search page? Pressing it will take you directly to the site which comes first in search, instead of showing to ‘search result’. And you probably know that you can search from Chrome’s Omni bar. Google Chrome browser’s URL bar is called…
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Type Tamil in English keyboard on Android (Transliteration)
Transliteration [NOT “Translation”] is typing with phonetic characters. That is, typing Tamil words using English alphabets based on their phonetic sound. See the below picture, “vanakkam” is turned into a Tamil word ??????? . Now you can transliterate easily in Android phones. SwiftKey and Gboard (Google’s Keyboard for Android) now supports this transliteration.…
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Why I don’t need an antivirus anymore?
15 years before when I bought my first PC, the first software I installed was an antivirus program. It was an unwritten law in the computer world, first to secure it with an antivirus. Of Course, it should be. If you had computers that time, then you must have witnessed how computer viruses, malwares, worms…
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Get A Glimpse of What Facebook Knows About You
We all know that Internet giants like Facebook collects data about us when we use their services. We know that too, those data are used to serve targeted ads and also for other activities. Yeah, they are collecting data, but, what kind of data? What they can learn about us from those data? How these…
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Annotating Screenshots and Images on Android – (Alternative to Skitch)
Skitch is wonderful app to annotate images like screenshots and photos. It was standalone app until Evernote decided to discontinue the support for Skitch. After Evernote acquired Skitch, it incorporated most of its features to Evernote’s core functionality. Though I use Evernote, I like Skitch to continue as a standalone app, at least for Android.…
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SMS Merge Using Google Spreadsheet and Way2Sms
I hope you all know what ‘mail merge’ is. Think of the same with SMS or (text message) instead of mail. I just made a ‘hack’ to do SMS merge using “way2sms.com” and Google Spreadsheet. Way2sms won’t allow you to send SMS from outside their site. So you need a hack to get access to their…
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Better inbox management – using ‘+’ sign in your gmail address
Apparantly gmail does the great job of filtering/segregating your emails for you. From filtering spam to prioritizing the mails received, gmail is doing its good job. Still, it’s definitely a painful process to manage the inbox. Gmail has a special feature to collect and group the mails using filters. These filters can be created by…