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Labels in gMail Most email applications let you set up folders for storing messages you want to save. You have to decide what category your message fits into, if you want to keep it (but not in the Inbox), make sure you have a folder with that name, and store the message there. Then, when you want [...] I firmly believe that re-inventing the wheel (often done on the web) is superfluous, so when I find useful material, I don’t re-create it, I give credit and link to it. Richard Byrne at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ has great, easy-to-understand information on what’s free on the web, aimed especially at teachers but useful for others too. One of his recent [...] Google is a good first place to search, but Wolfram Alpha goes places Google doesn’t, and you should add it to your searching strategy, especially if you’re a student, or engage in business transactions, or if you are just a curious person. Actually, Wolfram Alfa calls itself an “Answer Engine” and that is accurate. You can ask [...] Sending the Same Message with Small Changes When you want to send messages that are almost exactly the same to many people, but you want to make small changes, you could copy & paste and alter and send to individuals. Or you could use the Google Labs feature, Canned Responses. Google Labs is found by clicking the icon of [...] The web has radically changed how we research and plan and draft our writing. It’s happened over 20 years so we haven’t always noticed just how immense the change has been. From a time when libraries and pads of rough yellow newsprint paper were what was needed to start writing till now, where Google, a computer [...]
Google Calendar is a very handy free tool, and very easy to set up and use. As I mentioned in my previous post, it’s easy to find information on how to use web tools. Here is a link on setting up your own Google Calendar: http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/about.html Once you get used to it, you’ll find [...] One of the most significant aspects of the web is as a learning tool. Once you hear of or find a tool you want to use, you can almost always find information on how to use it, usually by googling – and then you can learn how to use it by reading the instructions available on [...] My parents are in their late eighties, and yesterday, in an email he copied me on, my father told friends how much he enjoyed Skyping with them the previous day. I have heard of people getting computers simply to have e-mail and the family photos that can be attached to email messages. Almost everyone is now on [...] |
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