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  • Save Your Digital Life!

    August 3, 2011 // davisde // Safety & Security Tags: avatar, backup, cloud, digital, download, facebook, flickr, friends, gmail, google, hotmail, life, live, microsoft, photos, picture, restore, rss, save, twitter 8 Responses

    Don’t wait for disaster to strike your web accounts. Be prepared and back them all up using these simple tools.

    Photo Grabber:
    http://code.google.com/p/photograbber/

    Google Takeout:
    https://www.google.com/takeout

    Backup Pop3 e-mail accounts:
    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/44791/how-to-backup-your-web-based-email-account-using-thunderbird

    Twitter RSS:
    http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=Your_Twitter_Name

    Backupify:
    https://www.backupify.com

    View/Add more suggestions:
    http://www.tinkernut.com/groups/videotutorial-extras/forum/topic/backup-your-online-accounts

  • HELP!! GOOGLE IS SPYING ON ME!!!

    December 6, 2010 // davisde // Safety & Security Tags: ads, anonymous, engine, gmail, google, privacy, private, search, secret, spy, youtube 5 Responses

    Google wants to know everything about you, but there are some ways you can fight back and keep your privacy private.

    Links:
    http://www.google.com/dashboard
    http://www.google.com/privacy.html

  • How To Use Mozilla Thunderbird

    March 17, 2009 // davisde // Software Tips, Web Tips Tags: desktop, download, email, gmail, google, hotmail, tips, webmail 1 Response

    This video will show you how to use Mozilla Thunderbird to download your e-mail so that you can back it up and organize it from your desktop.

  • Check Gmail By Phone

    June 16, 2008 // davisde // Video, Web Tips Tags: cell, diy, email, gmail, phone, read, rss, tips, tricks, tutorial, voice 7 Responses

    This video takes it’s base from a Lifehacker project that shows you how to check your Gmail over the phone. For this project, you will need a Gmail account and a Jott account.

  • Gmail Add-Ons

    June 13, 2008 // davisde // Video, Web Tips Tags: diy, email, games, gmail, google, how, tips, to, tricks 1 Response

    This video goes through how to enable “Labs” in Gmail so that you can enjoy extra features.

  • Hacking Tip: Forge E-mail Addresses

    May 5, 2008 // davisde // Hacks, Video Tags: email, gmail, hack, hacking, hotmail, how, spoof, to, webmail 7 Responses

    The purpose of this video is to show an e-mail security flaw using telnet that allows hackers to send e-mails using anyone’s e-mail address. Thankfully, many major e-mail providers have software that blocks this. My intention is to make people aware of this flaw so that other e-mail providers can protect themselves as well. An example program for protection can be found at http://www.zsty.com/email.

  • Gmail Tip: Unlimited E-mail Addresses

    April 10, 2008 // davisde // Video, Web Tips Tags: diy, email, fake, gmail, google, how, tip, to, tricks, tutorial 3 Responses

    This tip shows you how you can create unlimited e-mail addresses with your Gmail address for the purposes of organizing your incoming e-mail.

  • Gmail Tip: Greasemonkey

    March 27, 2008 // davisde // Video, Web Tips Tags: email, gmail, google, script, tip 21 Responses

    Greasemonkey is a scripting tool that allows for cool add-ons to enhance your web experience. Once such Greasemonkey script is the  Modified Gmail Macro that allows you to add cool shortcuts to your Gmail.

  • Gmail Tip: Labels and Filters

    March 19, 2008 // davisde // Video, Web Tips Tags: computer, diy, email, gmail, google, how, internet, tip, to 1 Response

    Organize your E-mail inbox by labeling e-mail by filtering out e-mail with common subjects, e-mail address or content and them categorize them with color-coded labels.

  • Gmail Tip – Group Your Contacts

    March 18, 2008 // davisde // Video, Web Tips Tags: diy, email, gmail, google, how, tip, to 1 Response

    This tip will show you how to organize your Gmail contacts into groups so that you can send an e-mail to several people at once just by typing a few letters.

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