Internet_Computer_Tools_Tips_and_Tricks_for_Productivity

List of Tips and tricks that you can find in this website Log in/Sign in Tips Choosing the Gmail skin Layout Overview Default Folders Contacts - Overview Import and export contacts Add delete Contacts Chat Side window (Bar)

How to Sign Up for Gmail? (Google Mail) How to get an email ID from Gmail? * Go to the website gmail.com * You will get a screen like below, and click on the "Sign Up for Gmail" button

How to download Music, MP3 ? How to download Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada or any other Indian music MP3? Mp3 are available online for download. Only few of the music lover buy the CD or cassettes. If you want to download the MP3 you can do the following. (Most of these are illegal, I am not encouraging you to do this, but this is how it happens today) Another best way is to go to Guruji.com This is a search engine and now a days they allow mp3 songs from all the languages like Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu

Start Menu and Classic Start Menu Windows XP offers 2 types of start menu 1. Regular Start Menu 2. Classic Start Menu The difference between both Classic start menu will not have the My computer / My documents /My Music links inside the start menu But the regular or the new Start Menu will have all these and it will not display the My computer and My documents Icon in the desktop. I used to work with classic menu, recently I have changed it because I do not store anything in my Desktop. Regular Start Menu

Organizing Windows Start Menu Start Menu appears on the left bottom corner of any windows system by default. and this can be adjusted to any direction like right left and top. When you click on the start menu you will get a list of menu like below

Turn Off / On Chat feature in Gmail How to Turn on or Turn off the chat feature in Gmail? By default when you open the Gmail you will have the chat feature enabled. So when you check your email, actually your friends or contacts can see you "online and open for chat". You may not want to chat with them, but if they send a message, Gmail pops with their message and most of the time you can not avoid answering them. So If you do not want Gmail feature, you can disable it by doing the following. Sign in to Gmail account Go to the bottom of the page (See the screen shot for example) You will see "Turn on chat" or "Turn Off chat" link just press that and you can disable or enable the chat feature.

Google is testing the SMS channel in India. Google guys are smart and they know there are millions of people love sms in india. I will be posting more about it later

Google Advanced Search Tips 2 (Google Hacks) Search with out a specific word If you are searching for something and if you get unwanted results, you can remove that and search for the specific words. Here is an example I want to search for Camera so I search for camera in google and results are below. But It shows lots of Digital camera which I do not want. I want only the results that doesnot contain the word Digital.

Google Funny Errors (Spelling) Google talk link to "Google talk home" While I was browsing google talk page for updates I found the below. Such a big company, still they are not able to stop these things Good :) This was taken on 10/17/2008 5:11Pm EST

Gtalk (Google Talk) * Home * Google chrome Crashed * How to use this Site? * Must Have Utilities for any PC « All IMs in one place using Digsby Google Funny Errors (Spelling) » Gtalk October 17, 2008, 6:53 pm Gtalk (Google Talk) Gtalk is a chat software introduced by Google. Instant Messaging, PC to PC voice calls, Gmail Notifications, File Transfers Gtalk is a lightweight software for Instant Messaging, it has all the feature of other popular IM software Like Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL (AIM) And there are no annoying ads in Gtalk. Gtalk may be different for new users but when they start using it they will feel great to work with Gtalk. There are features like adding smileys and all the IM windows in one window.

All IMs in one place using Digsby Digsby This software is used for having the Yahoo IM, MSN messenger, Gtalk and AIM in one place. You do not need to download each application, just download digsby and start using all. You can have all your contacts (buddy list) in one IM window. You can rename the contacts to however you like. You can also access your email from Digsby. Digsby allows user to configure POP email in the option menu. All the POP Emails headers will be fetched periodically. I am using Digsby and it is very helpful. I have asked most of my office staff to try it out. It is free. The negative points will be voice chat, I have not used digsby for voice chat yet. And Also I have not tried using the Video (IM)

Google Advanced Search Tips (Google hacks) Searching for exact Phrases Google has many features that are not known to the common public or the major searcher. When I say Hacks it does not mean anything illegal. Simple tricks that will get you what you want. If you want to find the exact phrase like Cat and dog live together, add the quotation mark at both end like this "Cat and dog live together" Now Google will only bring the results that are exactly matches the 2 words. But What happens when you search without the quotation. Let me show you the picture how it looks like.

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