Disable Ads Appearing in Your Tabbed Gmail Inbox

Google’s New Tabbed Gmail Inbox organizes your emails automatically by dividing them into category such as Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums. The “Promotions” tab is designated for advertisements and marketing newsletters.

Two Ways to Move From Hotmail to Outlook.com

Recently Microsoft has re-branded its Hotmail service as Outlook.com with an intention to provide users a more “user friendly” and “enriched” web mail experience. Microsoft encourage all Hotmail users to shift to the new outlook mail, however, most Hotmail users yet to accept this change, it is probably because many are still unaware of the change or lack of information about it.

Save Gmail Messages Into PDF File (how to)

Not all email messages are important for you; however, there are few that need to be archived for feature references. Here is a very simple method to save your Gmail messages as PDF file or Word document using Gmail’s built-in experimental feature. Here's how to configure your Gmail to save messages as PDF or other file format.

Email Checker Lets You Quickly Verify Fake or Invalid Email Addresses

Email Checker is a simple tool for checking and verifying whether the email address you received on your mailbox is valid (format or syntax) and really existing on the corresponding email server. Verifying fake email address can save you lot of troubles that usually coming from spammers and its associated risks such as personal data theft, etc.

How to Schedule Emails in Gmail With RightInbox Extension (Chrome and Firefox)

Sometimes you may want to delay sending emails for a few hours or a day. For example, if you want to send an email overseas and want to make sure the recipient receive your emails at an appropriate time; that is, not delivered in the middle of night. Here is how to schedule emails in Gmail with RightInbox browser extension.

Easily Unsubscribe From Unnecessary Mailing List (Gmail and Yahoo Mail)

Has your inbox flooded with daily deals, special offers, bulk mail and junk email messages and find it difficult to sort out urgent emails from other unimportant messages? The only solution is to unsubscribe from such mailing list and delete all such unnecessary messages from your inbox. Here is a quick and easy way to unsubscribe from all unnecessary mailing list and bulk senders.

How to Undo a Sent Email in Gmail [Gmail Labs Feature]

Gmail lets you do much more than simply send and receive messages. It offers a wealth of powerful features and its Labs section is home to a range of experimental add-ons that lets you introduce new features to your favorite mail service. Here is how to undo a sent mail in Gmail using a Labs feature called Undo Send.

Preview Messages in Gmail: How to Enable it

One feature that is long been missing from Gmail is the ability to preview messages without opening them. It is already available in other email services like Hotmail and this feature makes mail reading faster. Though currently not available by default, you can now add this preview pane option in Gmail. Here is how you can do that.

Hotmail Offers Secure Sign in on Public Computer with Random Password

Sign in your email account (or any account) from a public computer is always risky. Anyone can steal your login details if you forgot to erase the details before leaving the computer. Moreover, if you are accessing the Internet on an unsecured public Wi-Fi hotspot, anyone who is interested can see what you are doing on the network. Microsoft has introduced a new feature to Hotmail that enable users sign in from a public computer using a one-time temporary password.

Has Your Email Account Compromised? Check it With HackNotifier

Has your friend recently received an email from you that you are sure you haven’t sent? Or has your bank recently sent a mail asking you to revert back with your credentials and password. If the answer is yes, then it means your email has been compromised. You should immediately change your passwords to your online accounts. Here is a web service to check whether your email has spoofed or not.

Hotmail Supports Outlook, Gmail, and Yahoo Keyboard Shortcuts

Microsoft goes on with new advancements in their popular Windows Live Hotmail service. This time Microsoft added a number of keyboard shortcuts from Outlook, Gmail, and Yahoo mail to Hotmail, which help users who are more familiar with Gmail or Yahoo mail shortcuts.

Copy and Paste Images into Gmail Message Body (Quick Tip)

Previously we had posted a tutorial on how to insert images in your Gmail message body by uploading image from your computer or from an image URL. Here is another very simple way to insert image in Gmail message body from a web page.

MailStore Home Portable Lets Compress and Archive Your Emails to Save Space

The simplest way to avoid cluttering your hard disk with old email messages is switching to a web mail services like Gmail, yahoo mail or Hotmail. However, if you prefer to have desktop access your emails, then the best option is to use free archiving software Mailstore home portable, which can create a compressed backup of your email messages.

Add Hotmail as Default Mailto Service in Firefox

Firefox has an in-built capability to set Gmail or Yahoo! Mail as the default mailto service. When you click on a mailto: link, it will open Gmail or Yahoo mail, but if you’re a Hotmail user and want to make it as your default mailto service in Firefox, here is how to.

Forgotten Attachment Detector For Outlook 2007

A forgotten email attachment sometimes brings troubles in your professional life. As it is a common problem, Microsoft Office Labs developed a plug-in called Forgotten Attachment Detector for Outlook 2007 that will notify you about the missing outlook email attachments when you send an email.

How to Import Emails and Contacts From Outlook to Thunderbird

Sometimes it may be necessary for you to import all email messages and contacts from your Outlook to your new Thunderbird email client. If you’re new to Thunderbird and find this job is difficult, here is how you can do that quickly.

To import contacts from Outlook:

1. Run Thunderbird, from the main window click on Tools and then Import.
2. Then click on the Address Books radio button, and then click on Next. Choose Outlook and then click on Next.
3. If you get any error messages, launch Outlook and set it as the default mail client. Go back and repeat the procedure once again.
4. It’ll import all the contacts successfully. Click on Finish to return to Thunderbird main window. To view the imported contact information, click on Address Book tab.

To import email messages from Outlook:

1. Click on Tools and then Import.
2. Click on the Mail radio button and then click on Next. Choose Outlook and then click on Next.
3. It’ll show a summary of all the messages that were imported. Click on Finish to go back to the main Thunderbird window.
4. It’ll create a new Outlook Mail folder in the folder list of Thunderbird (left hand side). In this folder you will find your imported messages.

Create Your Email Account in Outlook and Outlook Express Automatically

With the free tool CodeTwo Outlook AutoConfig, anyone can setup an email account in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail without any knowledge of those IMAP, POP3, SSL or TLS. The only requirement is your email address; the application will do all other settings for you in seconds.

1. Outlook AutoConfig is very easy to use. Just run the tool and provide your email address (if the mail client has not been used before, launch it and close it before using this tool), your display name will be suggested automatically.
2. Pick the mail client you want to create, and then click ‘Create account’ button.

3. Run your mail client (example - Outlook), you will be asked to enter your password. Enter your password and click OK. That’s all.

CodeTwo Outlook AutoConfig is a portable, free tool, you can download it at this link.

Enable Auto-Reply Option in Gmail

Want to send reply to received email messages automatically? It may be useful, for instance, when you are away from your work and want to send replies to particular email messages automatically. If you’re using Gmail, here is how you can do that.

1. Log into you Gmail account, select Settings and then Labs. Scroll down and select Canned Responses. Enable this feature and save settings.

2. Now return back to the Compose Mail section and you will see a new dropdown menu named Canned Response. Click on that, select ‘New canned response’ and enter a suitable name for it and then click Ok to save.

3. Next type what you want in the message field (your auto-reply message) and click Save button to save the message. This is your auto-reply message, which is now ready to send. It can be accessed from the Canned response dropdown menu. (you can create any number of canned response to send),

4. Just choose the canned response you just created from the dropdown list and the message will be pasted in the email body automatically. No need to type the whole message.

Now how to auto-reply to email messages? You can automatically reply to selected messages by creating a filter and selecting a canned response.

1. From your Gmail account select the create filter option. Then specify the criteria you'd like to use for determining what to do with a message as it arrives. Type “From email address”, specify any subject or specific some words in the email body and click ‘Next Step’.

2. From here, you can choose any action you want to perform. Select “Send canned response” and select the previously created canned response (auto-reply message) from the dropdown list and click Create Filter button.

3. Now whenever you receive an email message with the subject or words you mentioned, your canned response (your auto-reply message) will be automatically sent to the sender.

Hope this tutorial will be helpful to you.

Outlook Security Configurator: Simple way to enable or disable attachments in Outlook

Microsoft Outlook has a built-in system to block unsafe attachments to protect users from viruses and other dangerous codes. Generally it blocks files that have an extension like EXE, COM, BAT, REG, VB Script, etc.

But, in certain situations you may need to download such files. For example, if one of your friends has sent such a file that both of you’re working on, how you can download it.

Few months back I have posted an article about Outlook attachment enabler, here is a utility called Outlook Security Configurator that lets you setting up how Microsoft Outlook block (or not) e-mail attachments.

The application is quite simple to use. Just run Outlook Security Configurator , then choose a file extension you wish to allow and add them to the allow filter. Then click on Apply to done.

Interested users can download Outlook Security Configurator free at developer’s page.

Read Microsoft word documents right from Gmail with Google Docs Viewer

If you are a Gmail user, this might be a good news for you. Now you can read Microsoft Office documents (doc, docx), received as attachment, right from your Gmail just with a click.

That means, to read office documents received via your Gmail, no need to download, save and open it with Microsoft Word. Just click the ‘view’ button shown near the attachment, it will open in Google Docs Viewer.

You can also edit the document by clicking edit online button. Your document will be opened in Google Docs for editing. [via]