Black Friday and holiday shopping deals are a week away, if you are still ONLY looking at Windows or Apple computers when you are shopping for a new computing device or upgrade, you are limiting your choices and increasing the complexity. Take this short quiz (click yes or no) and then keep reading: If you chose the ‘perfect…’ answer more… Read More »Shopping for a computer? Choose a Chromebook or iPad instead
This is a quick tip on using an extra feature of tabbed browsing. What’s tabbed browsing? If you aren’t using tabbed browsing yet, you need to start…today! Click here to get started and learn how to put this powerful feature of all modern browsers to work for you. Today’s intermediate tabbed browsing tip only works in Firefox, Google Chrome, and… Read More »How to use tearable tabs in your browser – Video Tip
Our favorite photo organizer program is Picasa…and has been for a long time! We wrote our first article about Picasa in 2005 and then went on to write many more articles, created still relevant video tips, help Picasa classes, and even published a how-to CD at one point. In fact, today (May 2019), Picasa still graces my desktop computer and… Read More »Picasa no longer supported by Google, but…
This question has come up rather frequently lately so decided to construct a tip from it. The problem arises when a Gmail user wants to forward a message from earlier in a Gmail conversation (group of emails about the same subject…see illustration and video). When you click a conversation, Google only displays the most recent message. If you click forward,… Read More »How to forward a specific email from a Gmail conversation – Video Tip
We had a great class today and talked about many aspects of searching the web safely and efficiently. The videos below cover the material we discussed in class including some answers to questions we talked about during the class as well relating to changing your home page, working with title bar, the new Gmail compose screen and more. How to… Read More »Getting the most of searching the web and using Browser tabs – Video Tip
Recently, Google started rolling out a new version of their address book (contact list) for Gmail. If you are a Gmail user and use the service via your browser, you need to know about these changes. I believe Google has streamlined and made the address book more attractive and easier to utilize. This short tutorial highlights the changes and shows you… Read More »New Gmail Contacts Application – Video Tip
Over the past month or so, you may have noticed an email from Google similar to the one pictured below. Many people have wondered whether or not this meant the end of Google or the end of their Gmail account. Neither are true. Google+ was Google’s attempt to compete with Facebook and have their own social media platform. Not many… Read More »Google+ Account is Going Away in April 2019 – Don’t Panic!
Have you ever wondered where a photo was taken? Or maybe who took it? If you use the Google Chrome browser, you have quick access to the useful Google Image Search that can answer these questions in a flash! Here’s how to use it: When you come across an image on a web site (again using Google Chrome ONLY) and… Read More »How to use Google Image Search in Google Chrome – Video Tip
I’m sure I’ve included this tip in my past browser related tips, but I decided to pull it out and make it its own tip today. Bookmarking favorite or often used sites is important and recommended. However, with Firefox or Chrome, you no longer need to remember the entire name or folder where you stored it. Instead, use the browser’s… Read More »Use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to browse your bookmarks…FAST – Video Tip
Google recently rolled out a system wide update to all Gmail users that offers the ability to complete your sentences for you or even add full options for replies to other emails. Smart Reply and Smart Compose are the names of these features. I find them to be helpful and am getting used to using them on some of my… Read More »How to disable Gmail Smart Reply or Compose – Video Tip