GMail top tips – Undo undo undo…

We have all hit send a bit too quick sometimes, and all we need is a few seconds to realise and click UNDO SEND!  Well with Gmail you can …

Go to ‘Mail Settings’ in the tip right hand corner drop bar:

Click on ‘Labs’ along the tab bar.

Then find the ‘Undo Send’ feature, click ‘Enable’ and then ‘Save Changes’!

Now every time you send an email, once it has been sent you get a sign like the one below which will stay there for a short period of time.  So if needs be you can click ‘Undo’ to prevent the email to go any further… Nifty!

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GMail top tips – Download other email accounts into your Gmail account

It is always nice to have things in one place.  With Gmail you can do that, you can download your POP emails right into Gmail, for example if you have a john.smith@btinternet.com type address you can download that into Google, niiiice!  And what’s more, label those accounts with some brightly colored labels so they really stand out!

As you can see here, I have downloaded my personal home email account to my work emails – so now I have one big mail box for all of my email accounts without having to log in and out of each one!

Here are the steps to do this:

1) Go to the cog symbol in the top right-hand corner and click on ‘Mail Settings’

2) Next, click on the ‘Accounts’ tab at the top

3) Then simply click on ‘Add POP mail account you own’ in the middle section

4) Write in your POP email address, follow the instructions and there you go!

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GMail top tips – Send and Archive

One of our first posts in this series was about archiving.  Well there is a cool feature that will allow you to archive an email as you send it, brilliant!  Saves a mouse click with each message you send using this feature but to borrow a well known phrase and amend it slightly – “Every little click helps!”  :-)

Go to ‘Mail Settings’ in the tip right hand corner drop bar:

Click on ‘Labs’ along the tab bar.

Then find the ‘Send & Archive’  feature, select ‘Enable’ and then ‘Save Changes’!

You will then get a ‘Send and Archive’ button next to the Send button when composing or replying to an email.

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GMail top tips – Labelling

Organise with labels not folders! Colours galore and multiple labels for improved filing.

This is effective… and fun!  So when an email comes through, you can clearly see what category of emails they belong to – for example, your emails specifically work based, hobbies, other email accounts coming through etc can can be filed together and labelled.

You can place new emails into categories.  Simply select the email you want by ticking the box on the left hand side

Then click on the labels symbol along the top 

This will present a drop down which will allow you to select which label you want to place your chosen email into, or create a new label by clicking on ‘create new’.

To create colours for your labels, select the arrow next to your labels along the left-hand side of your emails where this drop-down will appear -

From here you can customize labels with colours! Like I said – fun and effective

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GMail top tips – Archive

Sometimes your inbox can get a little jam packed, but you don’t want to necessarily delete emails in case for future reference.

By archiving emails (click on the archive symbol shown above)  they are removed from your inbox HOWEVER you can still fully access them by putting in the key details of the email into the search box, as shown below…

So you won’t loose your emails by archiving, they’ll simply be stored safely and out of sight. Tidy

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Computer Software on a USB Key

Last month Graham wrote about it being the end of the line for Optical Drives (and Hard Disk Drives, but we’re not talking about that today!). Browsing the Apple store this week for software I came across Apple’s latest version of their operating system OS X Lion on a USB Thumb Drive!! This is the way forwards and Apple are setting it by the looks of it … come on Microsoft! I am looking forwards to the day I don’t have to worry about CD’s or DVD’s…using a USB Key is much easier, smaller and I don’t have to lug around a laptop with a DVD drive or in my current case an external one!

With more and more people relying on the internet we will soon be downloading software to install rather than using DVD’s, it is becoming more and more common already but just like Floppy Disks are a thing of the past I think CD’s and DVD’s will be soon too. Actually, there is no think about it, they will be a thing of the past … question is how soon, will Windows 8 be on Thumb Drive?

A thought for 2012 for sure!

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GMail Top Tips

We have decided throughout this month to do a short series of posts briefly discussing our favourite features of GMail and how to use them.  Such features including the purpose of archiving emails and downloading other email accounts into your GMail account.  All very practical!

Look out for our GMail top tip posts!

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Amy says Goodbye Brandstar!

So I am sad to say that I will be leaving Brandstar coming into the new year!  I am going away to do project work in Zambia for 6 months with an organisation called African Quest – very exciting

Here’s my team blog, which has only just got going! – africanquest12.wordpress.com – so check out what we’re getting up to from the 6th January!

However – I will be handing over my role to a new and very capable employee called Eliza.  So look out for when she joins in January!

It’s been great working at Brandstar!  It’s certainly taught me some life skills…

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How to view site stats using AWstats

This blogs demonstrates how to view your website stats using AWstats of cPanel.

1) The first step you need to take is to open up your web browser and type into your address bar ‘www.yourwebsite.domainsuffix/cpanel’ e.g. ‘www.grae.co.uk/cpanel’ or ‘www.pctoolbox.co.uk/cpanel’.

2) You now need to log in to your cPanel.  Enter your user name and password in the designated boxes.  Then click OK.  If you have forgotten your password please ask your hosting provider, e.g. WildHosting.  WARNING- You are now entering the main control area of your site. Do not make any changes unless you know what you’re doing. If incorrect changes are made, your website may not function correctly.

3)  Once you have logged into your cPanel, click on ‘AWstats’ under the section ‘Logs’.

4)  This will bring you to a page with your domain website listed, click on ‘view’ to bring you to your website stats!

Easy as pie…

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How to set up a forwarder

This is a blog post about how to forward your emails to a number of addresses in cPanel.

So, if you had a website www.pctoolbox.co.uk you could set up an address contactme@pctoolbox.co.uk but rather than downloading from it you could just forward it to ben@brandstar.co.uk.

Or … You could have an address team@pctoolbox.co.uk and then send it to ben@brandstar.co.uk and amy@brandstar.co.uk.  They would be two different forwarders but that way people could email a whole company just by emailing one address.  Here’s how you set it up…

1) The first step you need to take is to open up your web browser and type into your address bar ‘www.yourwebsite.domainsuffix/cpanel’ e.g. ‘www.grae.co.uk/cpanel’ or ‘www.pctoolbox.co.uk/cpanel’.

2) You now need to log in to your cPanel.  Enter your user name and password in the designated boxes.  Then click OK.  If you have forgotten your password please ask your hosting provider, e.g. WildHosting.  WARNING- You are now entering the main control area of your site. Do not make any changes unless you know what you’re doing. If incorrect changes are made, your website may not function correctly.

3)  Click on the ‘Forwarders’ icon in the Mail section.

4)  This will bring you here – click on ‘Add Forwarder’.

5)  Next fill in the address you want to forward (e.g. team@pctoolbox.co.uk), and then in the Destination section fill in the email address you want it to be forwarded to (e.g. amy@pctoolbox.co.uk).

6) Then click ‘Add Forwarder’. Done!

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