How to transfer emails between two Gmail accounts
Posted on May 11, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 19 Comments
Recently, a friend of mine created a new Gmail account that included her full name instead of a generic screen name she had been using for the last several months. She called me up and ask me how she could move emails from one Gmail account to another.
After fiddling around with it a bit, I figured it out and it’s not very hard. Of course, it would be cool if Gmail just had a button called Import that let you connect to your old Gmail account and import all the emails, but it’s not that simple.
Search patents online using Google Patents
Posted on May 1, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 2 Comments
Do you think you have a noble idea worth patenting? Whether it is a new recipe for cooking stew or a new banking scheme that will save the world economy – before publishing it with claims of ownership, it is a a good idea to check if that idea is already owned or patented by someone else.
To search for patents using Google’s patent search engine which is now on its beta stage, go to the following site: http://www.google.com/patents
How to setup GMail with Windows Mail in Windows Vista
Posted on March 22, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 6 Comments
Are you tired of using the web browser to read your Gmail emails? Configuring Windows Mail with your GMAIL account enables you to download your emails from your GMAIL account without logging in every time. To do this you have to enable the FORWARDING POP/IMAP option in your Gmail account. Log in to your Gmail account then click the Settings link located on the upper right corner.
In the settings window click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP
Permanently delete Google search history
Posted on March 2, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 2 Comments
Previously, I wrote a post on how to clear your Google search history in Internet Explorer. This was useful, but it didn’t quite tell the whole story. Depending on what software you have installed on your computer, your web history may be stored in several different places on your computer.
If you want to permanently delete your Google search history, check out the following video I created a while back and posted to YouTube. I’m going to be experimenting with creating how-to videos and posting them on the site once a week.
Offline Gmail using Google Gears
Posted on February 3, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 2 Comments
Last December 2007 we have wrote about websites that work offline thanks to Google Gears. Now we will explore a very significant development from Google Gears for GMail. You read it right, now you can use GMail offline like how you use MS Outlook for offline use.
So what steps do we need to do to be able to make this work? Below are some of the steps I went through for my Gmail account:
How to remove a web page from Google index and other search engines
Posted on January 1, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 12 Comments
So you have created a web site or a web page and you don’t want anyone else to be able to access it right? That’s a bit of a problem once Google, Yahoo, MSN, or some other search engine indexes it!
Once a web page or website is indexed, it can be found by anyone on the planet with an Internet connection. If you want to hide a page or website from search engines, you can do it in several ways.
