Gmail Tips – How to avoid sending mail without attachment

You are about to send an important mail. In the body of email you describe to view the attachment to the recipient and accidently you send the mail without attaching required files. This embarrassing moment I have experienced numerous times. Thank god I use Gmail!!

Gmail has come up with excellent feature. Say for example you are drafting a mail in which you will be attaching a file or document in it. So as soon as you start writing mail; keep any of the following wordings typed in advanced – “see attached” or “see attachment”.

In such case even if you accidently click send without file attachment, based on these 2 wording Gmail automatically searches the mail for attachment files and if it does not find any, it will show a pop up message as shown below –

 

This way you get saved from embarrassment!! Cool feature. I really love these Gmail features which are making the life of users so easy and error free.

Cheers…

Happy Gmailing!!!

Geo Tagging – What is geo tagging and risks involved in geotag photos

Internet, facebbok and twitter kind of social sites from smartphones is very common today. Photos clicked on smartphones are immediately shared on social media like facebook. The potential of sending the information to any corner of world is unbeatable and impressive. However, one needs to understand the risks involved in such spontaneous sharing of photos and information from smart phones. The feature is “Geo Tagging”. This is very useful feature of smartphone but at the same time equally dangerous. 

What is Geo Tagging?

It is the process by which geographical location information is added to various media. Location of earth at which smartphone photo is clicked is attached with photo because of geo tagging feature. So when these photos are published on internet, this location of earth information is also gets published. This information includes latitude, longitude, height, distance, name of place and many things related to location at which photo is taken. Hence people on earth now automatically know where do you stay, where are you right now and may be they can know if you are alone or not in home. So it becomes very easy for a person who wants to track or follow you. Especially Criminals may track information using geo tagging to identify next target for robbery. Action news in America few years back had conducted a program to improve overall literacy in people about geo tagging risks. Video is here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY

Avoiding the risks of geotagging is a thing to keep in mind in this day and age of decreasing privacy.

So what exactly you need to do?

Facebook Tips & Facebook Help – How to get back up of your facebook data

Benefits of Facebook can be the topic of debate, because facebook is mainly being used for gaming, chatting and time passing. So facebook is for time pass and that can be proved without any survey and this is period. However if you have a look at facebook timeline; one can easily get the information of things you had done since you have joined facebook, places you had visited, how had you reacted to certain incidents, new friends and many incidents can be viewed from timeline. This information can be valuable to live the moments you spent. What If you facebook account gets deleted? Or you clicked on some virus based link and your facebook wall has some weird posts and now you only have option to delete the current account and get new? In such scenarios if you have the back up of facebook data then life will be easyJ.

Login to the facebook. Click on Settings icon present in right hand upper corner of your browser. The icon is of “Gear” sign. You will see numerous options on click on Gear sing. Out of these options choose “Account Settings”. You will see the screen as shown below –

 

As shown above choose the option “Download a copy of your facebook data”. Further you will be presented an option to selected for starting archive of your data on facebook as shown below –

Google Tips - Create Nominee for Google Account using Inactive Account Manager

Today, Email account is inseparable part of everyone’s life. Email account is major tool of communication for all of your business and office work and up to some extent personal work. So down the line your email account becomes a repository of very important information containing important posts, links, photos and other personal data. It may be possible that for a period of time for example say few months, you could not access your email account due to your busy schedule or you are out for some work where internet connectivity is not available. In such cases it may happen that your email account may get closed. Sorry to write this but situation where in you may encounter an accident or sick or passed away. What will happen to your important personal information? It becomes very much necessary that this personal valuable information should fall in safe hands. 

Recently an incident happened with my friend. He is renowned social worker in India. He went to some remote place for the work and stayed for more than 6 months. After returning back, he found that his email account is closed and all data vanished. Hence letting the email account information to be handed over to known person during your absence is of vital importance.

To let the information fall in hands of the person who is known to you and to send you the notification well before the closure of your email account, Google has provided “Inactive Account Manager”. In short you create a nominee for your bank account; exactly in same way you create a nominee for your Google account.

Facebook Management – Facebook tips and tricks to manage facebook account

Tips and tricks for facebook maintenance –

Social networking sites have invented a new virtual world where everyone has their own account identity. In this virtual world of social networking sites, you meet more people than in actual world every day. Among all networking sites, the one which has won the hearts of all people over the globe is FACEBOOK. We have got attached very much with this famous social networking site.

Few days back I figured out some cool tricks and tips for maintaining facebook account. Adding new friends, Deleting, status update, these are normal day today activity which everyone knows. However, following are some smart tips and tricks which will make you more smart facebook user.

So here we go!!!

Facebook launches Facebook Mobile Messaging App

Facebook Mobile Messaging App

Facebook has launched a “mobile messaging application” for smart phones like apple iPhone and Android operating system.

Currently Smartphone’s have ample applications through which users can contact their friends. Facebook mobile messaging app will enable users to message friends which are present in phone’s contact list. Facebook mobile messaging app will also enable users to share locations and photos. Ofcourse choice of sharing location will be user dependent.

However, if users share location then th