Archive for the ‘General’ Category

GMail top tips – Undo undo undo…

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

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 ...

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

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

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 ...

GMail top tips – Send and Archive

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

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 ...

GMail top tips – Labelling

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

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 ...

GMail top tips – Archive

Friday, January 13th, 2012

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 ...

Computer Software on a USB Key

Saturday, January 7th, 2012

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 ...

GMail Top Tips

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

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 ...

Amy says Goodbye Brandstar!

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

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! - ...

How to view site stats using AWstats

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

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 ...

How to set up a forwarder

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

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 ...