Gmail Tips and Tricks – time settings and time zones

1. Open your Google Profile page.

2. Click the edit button next to Personal Information
(edit your personal info without creating a public profile.)

3. You will get a page where you can edit your Gmail name address and Time zone etc.

4.  Click  on Display all timezones

5. Click the Time zone drop down and choose the Time zone you want in your Gmail messages

6. Save the changes

You can also add or add other information if you want to change.

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Unfiltered Google blocked in China

Google refusal to censor search content has led it to leave china and redirect Chinese search to servers in Hong Kong. But the latest report suggest that China has started blocking the Google site in mainland China.

China has always opted to censor information. Being a huge country and huge economics nobody specially businesses could challenge the official stand on freedom of information. The government doesn’t want search results that gives Chinese community the anti-China results.

In recent years china has been censoring contents in almost every websites – specially the ones favoring Free Tibet campaign and other activities that is not in interests of Chinese government.

In almost every major Chinese cities, users reported that trying to access Google searches returned an error page. It began at around 5pm on Tuesday. Although it was still possible to access Google’s websites, searches on any topic delivered an error message.

Google was unable to immediately confirm the cause of the problem, but said it was investigating. Chinese internet users blamed the "Great Firewall" for blocking Google searches. Google’s email services were unaffected.

In addition, Google said its mobile search has been partially blocked in China, leaving mobile phone users unable to use the Google search function.

The developments suggest that the Chinese government is preparing to make its move against Google, after the company moved the servers of its search engine to Hong Kong last week to avoid censorship.

The Chinese government has instructed to “… remove text, images, sound and video that supports Google.”

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Free Facebook Photo Album Downloader

If you have some friends whose Facebook albums you want to download or you want to download your own photos at a click of the mouse; this might be one more reason for you to go for Firefox.

FacePAD, also known as the Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ Facebook albums on a click of the mouse.

Requirements:

1. Firefox browser on any OS platforms (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)

2. A Facebook account with at least a friend with photo album … Actually, there is no no. 2 requirement.

All you need to do is download FacePAD Addon and install on the Firefox browser. Restart the browser and you are good to go photo hunting.

Navigate to your friend’s album and right-click on the album you are interested on. You will get a menu with “Download Album with FacePAD” on it. Click on it and everything is done automatically. The screenshot below is self-explanatory.

The photos will be saved on the default Firefox download folder.

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Shortcut keys and Tips and Tricks in Internet explorer (IE)

List of short-cut keys for Internet explorer:

CTRL+A: Select all
CTRL+C: Copy
CTRL+X: Cut
CTRL+V: Paste
CTRL+F: Find
CTRL+E: Search
CTRL+W: Close window
CTRL+N: New browser window
CTRL+R: Refresh web page
CTRL+O: new location – esc to close
CTRL+D: quickly save a Web page to your Favorites list
CTRL+I: Favorites
CTRL+P: Print the page
CTRL+H: History
CTRL+tab: goto URL Address field
Alt+Spacebar+X: Window Maximize
Alt+Spacebar+R: Window Restore
Alt+Spacebar+N: Window Minimize
Home key: beginning of page
End key: bottom of page
Backspace: move back a page.
CTRL + LEFT ARROW : quickly move the cursor back between parts of the address.

Some Tips and Tricks while surfing in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE):

To go to the previous pages quickly – click the small down arrow to the right of the Back button and select the page you want to go to.

Quick jump to Web Site IE : Type just the Internet domain name in the URL Address field and hold down ctrl enter keys.This will fill in www as the machine name and TLD .com

Quick jump to Web Site Part II IE : Type go ebay in the URL address field.This will go to MSN search page site and select the best match.

Presentation Mode IE : Select the F11 function key to enter Presentation mode.Select the F11 function key to toggle back.

Resize Text Size IE : Hold down ctrl key and move the wheel on the mouse.The page text will enlarge or shrink.

Page forward and back IE : Hold down shift key and move the wheel on the mouse.This will page forward or backward through the pages selected.

Quick jump to the addresses IE : Select the alt and D keys together.This will select the URL address field.

Page scroll using mouse wheel button IE : Push down on the mouse wheel button and slide the whole mouse up and down. This will page up and down the screen.

Select visited web site addresses IE : Select the F4 function key.This will show a listing of sites you have visited for selection.

Refresh the page IE and Netscape 6 : Select the F5 function key.This will refresh the current page.

Quick Search IE : In the address field type find or ? then your topic or keywordThis will go to MSN search engine and search on your topic.

Quick Search part II IE : Select the F3 function key.This will display the left side search column box.

Open a New IE Window : Enter Control NA new IE browser window will appear.

Open a New IE Window with One Click : Hold down shift and click on the link.A new IE browser window will appear.

Page forward and back using arrow keys IE : Hold Alt button and use the arrow keys to page foward and back.

Stop flashing images IE : Find a site that has flashing images About.comAfter the page loads select the Esc button.

Get to Your Favorites with Keyboard Shortcut IE : Enter Control-I will bring up your left pane favorites. Enter Control-I will make it disappearEnter Control-B to organize your favorites

Print Part of a Web Page IE : Select the area you want to print with your mouse.Select the print option from the menu bar – not the print icon. Change the print range area to selection.

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Tricking Right-Click Disabled Web Pages

When a web site uses javascript to disable your right-click in an attempt to block you to access the context menu, you can work around to acces the right-click menu by re-enabling the right-click context menu.

A javascript can be used to re-enable the right-click menu by typing into the URL bar of your browser:
javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)

Google Search Hidden Calculator

Most of us have used Google to search pages but have you used it as a calculator?

If you haven’t here is how you can use it as a calculator.

That’s simple, how about square root :

Here are other operators that you can use in Google Search Calculator
sqrt - square root
sin, cos, etc. - trigonometric functions (numbers are assumed to be radians) for example – sin(pi/3), tan(45 degrees)
ln logarithm base e
log logarithm base 10

others
+ addition
- subtraction
* multiplication
/ division
^ exponentiation (raise to a power of)
% modulo (finds the remainder after division)
% of X % of Y computes X percent of Y
More details can be found in Google’s help on calculator.

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Want to use Yahoo Mail with keyboard ?

Using internet emails with keyboard is fun. You can try these keys to do different functions in Yahoo Mail.

Note: To use these shortcuts you have to upgrade the Yahoo Mail to new version.

m – check mail
Shift+m – check all mail
Ctrl+\ – close current tab
n – new message
Shift+n – new message in its own window
r – reply
Shift+r – reply in a new window
a – reply all
Shift+a – reply all in a new window
f – forward message
Shift+f – forward in a new window
k – mark as read
Shift+k – mark as unread
l – flag
Shift+l – clear flag
del – delete item
p/Ctrl+p – print
Ctrl+s – save draft
Ctrl+Enter – send message
v – turn reading pane on/off
Ctrl+[ - navigate through tabs
Ctrl+] – navigate through tabs
Enter – open message in its own tab (when message is selected)
Enter – edit contact info (when contact is selected)
Ctrl+f – find a word or phrase in message
F11 – expand window to max height
Ctrl+. – next message (in message tab)
Ctrl+, – previous message (in message tab)
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+up arrow/down arrow – next/previous message
Ctrl+Shift+End – skip to oldest unread message
d – move message to folder
Esc – close read – message tab
Ctrl+Shift+End – start a new chat

Keyboard shortcuts for Gmail

Want to use Gmail with keyboard ?

Do you want to use Gmail with keyboard ? Yahoo also has started offering this functionality.

Please comment if I have missed some key strokes!

Here is a list of shortcuts while using gmail.

c – compose a new mail
/ – puts your cursor in the search box
k – move to newer conversation
j – Move to older conversation
n – next message
p – previous message
o or Enter – open a conversation
u – return to conversation list
y – archive a conversation
m – mute (archive and make all future messages from this conversation skip the inbox)
x – select conversation
s – star a message or conversation
! – report spam
r – reply to a mail
a – reply to all recepients
f – forward message
Esc – escape from input field
ctrl+s – save draft

key combos

tab then Enter – send message
y then o – archive your conversation and move to the next one.
g then a – go to all mail
g then s – go to starred conversations
g then c – go to contacts list.
g then d – go to drafts
g then i – go to inbox