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!

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!

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.

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

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

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!

Look out for our GMail top tip posts!

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…

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…

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!