I've slowly made the move back to using an email client full-time ever since Gmail started offering IMAP support. By using IMAP both my online Gmail account and all of my email client are kept in sync with each other, which is nice since I read my mail on multiple devices throughout the day.
If you've bought anything from Amazon before, you know that many of the products they sell are eligible for "Free Super Saver Shipping." With the offer, if you spend at least $25 dollars on eligible products, you'll get free shipping. It's as simple as that.
So you're browsing the web and come across an image that you want to save to your computer. There are various ways that you can go about doing this. For example, in Opera you can hold down the Control key and click on the image. You'll then be prompted with the Save-As dialog just as you would have if you right-clicked on the image to save it.
One thing that you may not realize is how many different actions can be performed simply by dragging and dropping text or URL's in Firefox. Most browsers actually support similar actions, but we thought it would be useful to provide an overview of the different ways you can put it to work.
One of the nice features built-in to the Windows Photo Gallery in Vista is a "fix" option where you can edit your photos. Among the editing features are options to auto adjust, adjust exposure, adjust color, crop the picture, or fix red eyes in an image.
If you're one of those people who like to save a buck here or there, here's a helpful tip that will save you some money when you're eating out at a restaurant. Most restaurants these days have websites that you can visit to check business hours, or view the menu. Additionally, many of those restaurant sites have an email list or newsletter that you can sign up for.
Every day when I go out to get the mail, there's one thing I know for sure will be there... credit card offers. Often times the envelopes read "Pre-approved" or "0% APR" or "Get Cash Back with This Offer." Whoopty Do. Another credit card offer that I have to shred. It gets old after a while, and I'm sure most of you can relate.
I've never been a big fan of the search box located in almost all of the browsers these days, and I'm not quite sure why.
Gmail has offered an extremely handy feature for quite awhile that lets you subscribe to an RSS feed for your Inbox. The feed URL that you would need to use is http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom, but your feed reader will need to support authentication for it to work.
There may be times when you're trying to find a page on a specific website but can't find it for one reason or another. Thankfully there's Google to help you search within a website so that you can easily find the page you're looking for. Google has three different options available and each one is very simple to use but will help you find exactly what you're looking for.
A couple of weeks ago, one of our CyerNotes articles discussed how to use the filters in Gmail. One of the tips we gave talked about using "plus addressing" in which sending an email to username+blah@gmail.com is the same as sending an email to username@gmail.com.
It may not have happened to you yet, but chances are that sometime in your life, you may end up dropping your cell phone in water whether it be the kitchen sink, a puddle, or maybe even... the toilet! So what are you supposed to do when something happens to your precious phone? Today's helpful tip explains two things that you can do should your phone get wet.
Something you may not realize is that Firefox has a setting that will prefetch websites and images to improve the user's browsing experience, and it's actually enabled by default. It will utilize your browser's idle time to prefetch images and websites as determined by the webmasters.
From time to time I receive an error message stating that Firefox is having issues starting up after I close it or after it crashes. There are two different error messages that I receive the most, and today we're going to cover a few different ways that will hopefully bring your Firefox back to life.
Ever since Facebook apps launched, one of my biggest pet-peeves has been all of the darn app requests I receive. It's annoying to say the least, and the worst part about it all is that there is no easy way to ignore them all with one click. For each individual request, I must click "ignore" over and over again.
When using your web browser there are a lot of things that you can do to speed up your efficiency and productivity, particularly when it comes to keyboard shortcuts.
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing something or working on a project in Microsoft Word and it would have been helpful to be able to select text vertically. It never occurred to me that it was even possible to do such a thing! To my surprise, I learned that in fact you can select text vertically in Microsoft Word, thanks to an article over at the How-To Geek site.
Microsoft has obviously observed the request from users to bypass the User Account Control (UAC) prompts for specific applications. Just a few days ago they posted instructions on how to get around UAC prompts and a per application basis.
I'm sure many of you use Wikipedia on a regular basis for information, but did you know that Wikipedia also has RSS feeds available for keeping up with changes to your favorite articles? To get an RSS feed for a particular article just go to the Wikipedia page for it, and click on the History tab located along the top.
One of the most frustrating things I experience because I have my laptop connected to a second monitor is that when I disconnect it, my windows don't always come back to the laptop monitor. I can see all of my applications in the taskbar, but when I click on some of them, they won't appear.
