Useful Gmail Tools

Operate Gmail Using shortcuts:

 
Shortcuts are often the easiest way to use your computer or anything.They save you a lot of time.There is a way you can operate your Gmail account using shortcuts.
  Open your Gmail and type ? you can see a window showing shortcuts that you can use in Gmail as below.It says that the following shortcuts are currently disabled.Click Enable to enable them.It has easy ways to goto compose box,inbox and many others.

Users can also customize the existing shortcuts by going to SETTINGS and then Keyboard Shortcuts
Choose what shortcut you want to edit and click on Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

Know If your friend is Online through Desktop or through Android Mobile:

Go to Settings Page and go to LABS tab

Go to Green Robot Lab and Enable it and you can see in your chat box,a Green Android Robot symbol if anyone is online through mobile.

Enable Right Side Chat:

Improve your chat experience by bringing traditional left side chat box to the right side similar to Facebook and you need not scroll much to find out your favorite chat contact.


Go to Settings Page and go to LABS tab

 Go to Right-Side Chat and Enable it.

There are a lot of Tools that are available in Gmail Settings which you can explore further. :)

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Google's Project Loon : Ballon Powered Internet for Everyone

Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. But two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters. 

WHAT IS LOON :

Project Loon balloons float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and the weather. They are carried around the Earth by winds and they can be steered by rising or descending to an altitude with winds moving in the desired direction. People connect to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building. The signal bounces from balloon to balloon, then to the global Internet back on Earth.

Project Loon began in June 2013 with an experimental pilot in New Zealand. A small group of Project Loon pioneers tested the technology in Christchurch and Canterbury.

Each balloon can provide connectivity to a ground area about 40 km in diameter at speeds comparable to 3G. For balloon-to-balloon and balloon-to-ground communications, the balloons use antennas equipped with specialized radio frequency technology. Project Loon currently uses ISM bands (specifically 2.4 and 5.8 GHz bands) that are available for anyone to use. 


Follow Project Loon on Google+

Checkout the Stanford University's Balloon Project

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Adding Multiple profiles or users in Firefox

We had previously seen adding Guest account in Chrome browser now,we shall see a hidden feature in Firefox that lets users add a different profile and users sync their data.

There is no need to Install extension for getting profiles in your Firefox.

Setting up profile:

All Firefox Windows must be closed before performing this.

1. Go to Run(win + R)
2. type firefox.exe -p
3. You can see a window looking like the one below
   
   Click on create profile and and proceed with steps giving profile name and choose folder where to store the data associated with that profile and click on finish to create the profile.
   
   
   
   

   

   
   Every time you start Firefox,Choose which profile you want and click on start Firefox,otherwise last selected profile will be opened by default.
   
   Setting Up Firefox Sync :
   
   Click on Firefox menu at the top left corner and Click on Options and goto sync tab.Create a Firefox sync account and you can save your Bookmarks,History,Passwords,Addons to your Firefox account.You can choose what data to be synced.
   
   Next time you re-install Firefox,all your data will be synced.
   
   

   

   
   

Hiding DRIVES or LocalDisks in your computer without softwares

Due to some reasons we dont want our content to be seen by others and we want to hide the content.Every one of us will have a drive in our computer for our personal stuff.We can hide that drives from other people using our computer without any software.There is a default tool in Windows Operating System that lets you complete the task.The tool is DISKMANAGEMENT.

There will be no loss to data in this procedure.

Procedure to hide the drive:

Follow the simple steps below

1. Go to Start
2. Type Disk Management
3. Right click on any drive and click on  Change Drive Letter and Paths
4.  Click on Remove button,then a pop-up will rise click yes.

Now you can open MyComputer and see that your drive have been hidden.

Demo:

Hope you enjoy this tutorial ;)

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Blocking a website on your computer without software

We all want to block some websites on our computer that may be distracting us during our exams or that we are spending a lot of time on that or you dont want your friends to use that site on your computer.It's pretty simple and we can do that without softwares.We just need to edit the hosts file located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Procedure to Block website:

1. Open Command Prompt in administrator mode
   (Click on start,type cmd,right click and Run as Administrator)
    
2. Type the following instructions
   cd \
   cd Windows\System32\drivers\etc
   edit hosts
   
3. Go to last line of the file and add the following
   127.0.0.1  www.yourwebsitename.com
   127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
   (you can add multiple websites in different lines)
4. Go to File and click Save.
    
5. Go to File and click Exit.
    
6. Now,open the browser and try going to that website and u can see that the browser cannot connect to that website.

Demo:

Note: Editing hosts file should be done in administrator mode only.Otherwise file cannot be saved.It  says that the file is read-only.

If you want to block website using softwares,which support content filtering also,go to following link.
WEBSITE Blocking software

Hope you enjoy the tutorial :)

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IRCTC official app for WINDOWS8

Microsoft and IRCTC have jointly launched exclusive Windows 8 App that will run on Windows smartphones, Tablets as well as Windows 8 based PCs.Press release said that “The app has been made available exclusively for Windows devices”.There is no info whether the app will be released for Android & IOS.

The app is built on Windows Azure platform for all the services between the app and IRCTC servers.
The app is fast unlike the WEB platform.Ticket booking is very fast using this app.Hope people will feel free booking tickets through this app.

IRCTC App features

• Make train enquiries
• Plan your travel
• Make railway reservations
• Check PNR status
• Check booking/cancellation history
• Check ticket availability
• Quick Booking
• Cancellation
• Preferences
• Favourites
• Store and retrieve frequent traveler info
• Live Notifications
• Check recent history of your travels 

Download IRCTC App for Windows8 PC

Download IRCTC App for Windwos8 SmartPhone and Tablets

User Guide for Desktop

User Guide for Windows Phone

Creating Guest account in GoogleChrome

Usually a lot of people like family members,friends will be using our computers and they will also be using the browsers.Usually people choose a Google account to sync their Data,Bookmarks and we don't want our family members or friends data to be synced to our accounts.

So,we can add guest accounts in Google Chrome and can create a separate user and have their data and bookmarks synced with their accounts.Doing so,we eliminate omnibox suggestions and history to the users of computer.Also there is no need to logoff and go to guest account in our computer.

Creating Guest account/adding new users:

1. Goto settings.
    
2. Locate Users.
   
   
3. click on the Add new user button.
   
   
4. Choose a name and picture to the guest account and click on create and a desktop shortcut to new user will be added automatically.
   
   
   
   ThankYou :)