This tutorial will show you how to add the "Send Link with Gmail" to your Chrome browser so you can quickly send a website link to someone via email fast and easily.
For this and more tech tips go to: http://www.jeanthecomputertutor.com If you need some techie help online or in person, please get in touch!
I recently helped a friend who somehow lost all the email addresses in an email contact group. He had spend a fair amount of time typing in 50+ email addresses and creating a group with all those email addresses in it. This made it easy to send out an email to the whole group. Until he noticed that somehow all the email addresses disappeared from that group when he tried to use it recently. We never figured out how they disappeared but fortunately Gmail makes it easy to find them in this situation.
To restore email addresses to an email contact group in Gmail: Go to Contacts Click on a group you want to restore users into Click the More box Click Restore contacts Select the time to restore back to Click restore
What I love about having my own blog is that it is such a
window into life.Sometimes you feel
like putting yourself out to the world and sometimes you need to hole up and
hide.Since it has been a month and ½ since
my last post, you can tell that stuff (aka life!) has kept me away.How you do anything is how you do everything.Sometimes I just need a break from
things.It has taken me a seriously long
time to come to the realization that it is perfectly ok to do this.It is ok to slow it down.Take a little time to just feel and observe.
Our expectation in the workplace (and pretty much everywhere!)
is that results are fast.You send a
text, and you expect an answer PDQ.You
write an email, and if you don’t get a response in a day, you can feel
annoyed.You post something on your
Facebook wall and if you don’t have a comment or a like the next time you
check, your mind starts to race wondering why.Alright, already,I am here to
tell you that it is ok to turn off, check out, stop talking and reflect for a
while.Sometimes, when you create the
space for realizations come to you it brings you much bigger gains and lessons
than all the technology in the world can provide.So here is my suggestion to you:When you are feeling stressed or overwhelmed,
try taking an afternoon, a day, or a week, whatever feels good to you
completely off from all things technology.Turn off the computer, put the phone away and go out in nature and just
give yourself the gift of slowing down a bit.You might be surprised at what juicy bits of insight come your way.
With that being said, I am now ready to rock with some more
Google tips and trick coming down the blogging path.Here is a cool one.Did you know that Google has a built in
calculator?Go to a browser and open
Google and type in 40 * 1020 and check out what happens!Next time you need to make a quick or complex
calculation, just Google it!
Wishing you Peace in this season of change and color,Jean
If you need some techie help online or in person, please get in touch!
Summer Greetings! In this blog I am going to give you some helpful Chrome Browser shortcuts. Chrome is the best browser to use if you are using Gmail or Google Docs or most any other Google tool. These handy dandy shortcuts will get you around your web browser a little quicker and save you some time! Enjoy!
8 Really Useful Chrome Shortcuts
CTRL + T = Opens a new tab
CTRL+ W = Closes the current tab.
CTRL + SHIFT + T = Reopens the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
CTRL + H = Opens your browsing history
CTRL + SHIFT + DEL = Takes you directly to the page to clear browsing history, cache and cookies.
CTRL + J = Opens the downloads page
CTRL + D = Saves your current webpage as a bookmark.
CTRL + SHIFT +V = Paste content from the clipboard without formatting (ie, pastes plain text)
Here is a short fun Chrome vid you will like!
If you would like to work with me on a 1 on 1 basis to get some tech relief, I have three 1/2 day spots available and would love to help you get your technology organized, help you answer some questions that have you stumped with your computer, or do some training in an area that would make you feel so much better to get it handles and figured out.
Tech-Tip-o-the-Day! How to organize your usernames and passwords! Save yourself a lot of headaches later!
I visit with clients
and am always fascinated at the methods that people have for saving their
important usernames and passwords. Some
people have sticky notes under their keyboard, or a book next to
their computer with all their important login information. One friend, has a little notebook
that he keeps in his shirt pocket. He
doesn’t go anywhere without it! One
method that I see all too often is that people use the same username and password
for all their logins which is not secure.
This week I want you
to start a spreadsheet to keep track of all of your website and other userid/logins
and passwords. As you probably know with all the online resources and programs
that you use on your computer, there are more and more logins and passwords to
keep track of. These can add up FAST and
keeping track of where you have accounts can get cumbersome quickly.
First, create a
spreadsheet with the software of your choice that contains columns for site
name, URL, username, password, and any notes you want to add. Here is a short
video on how I created a spreadsheet in Google Docs to store this information.
Now start going
through your existing password-keeping system and entering your info for sites
onto your spreadsheet. Remember sites such
as Facebook and Twitter, any forums or private groups that you're a member of, any
online class logins, any websites you do business on, and any other sites that
you may use. If you've lost your username or password on
any of these sites, take a moment to use the "lost password" feature
and grab it. Better to take the time now than be frustrated when you need it!
Whenever you sign up
for a new site, make sure to add it to your spreadsheet. When you want to
update your profiles you now have one central document to go to - no more
outdated info living all over the web.
Drinking the Google Juice!
I am off next week to
sunny California to Google Apps for Education Summit California! This event is sold out so I am sure there
will be lots of fantastic new information that I will be acquiring there. If you have any questions you would like me
to find out about, please leave me a comment or send me a message and I will do
my best to help.
Talk with you when I
get back!
Peace, Jean
If you need some techie help online or in person, please get in touch!
In this video I will show you 4 Gmail Tips and Tricks that you will find useful.
1. How to turn off ads at the top of your inbox
2. How to move your chat box over to the right side of your screen
3. How to turn conversation view off so your emails are not in a threaded format
4. How to create a signature file for your emails correspondence.
This video is about 7 1/2 minutes long. If you found it useful leave me a comment below.
Thanks! Jean
