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Even though messages and photos are deleted in the Inbox of an email page (got in a computer or a cell phone), they can still exist in the Web as they are passed on by the Web mail services. Anybody can retrieve them and misuse against you. Now a research system, called Vanish gives its users a control over the lifetime of their messages, photos or other personal data that is stored in the Web. With this Vanish these all become unreadable permanently by themselves at a specified timeout. As they are already encrypted by the Vanish and the encryption key for it is lost at the timeout, they self - destruct themselves. So, after this it becomes impossible to decrypt and read the data once for all! Hence, Vanish will be a valuable and useful system tool for all of us soon.
At times of busy work, after signing in the mail account one has to wait patiently for the emails to load in the inbox. To avoid such a boring and inactive time, and to relieve the tension of the impatient person Gmail has added a new feature, Inbox Preview in its Google Labs. With this the person can view the presence or absence of emails before all the messages are loaded in the inbox! The person can view the presence of his/her first ten recent messages. When there is a slowing down of internet, this feature will be very helpful to relieve the anxiety.
To procure this feature to your Gmail inbox, click on the Settings tab of the Gmail page and check the Enable radio button in the 'Inbox Preview' that appears in the list found on clicking the Labs tab. It will be a convenience at times of inconveniences!
I was signing in a website: I clicked on the Sign in button; but I could not enter the web page. The home page of the website kept on returning back as I repeated on and on this signing in business! I was shocked and wondered whether someone has hacked. I went on to check and confirm it in an another website; but that too returned the signing-in page - but with a note to check the browser's settings in the computer:
Your browser's cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on.
Yes, it is the Gmail that helped me to solve this perplexing problem: I had disabled by mistake the Accept cookies from sites check box instead of the Accept third-party cookies in Privacy tab of Option (Tools menu of Mozilla Firefox)! I felt greatly relieved then. You can go through this as a mock exercise and find out how Google helps you in it with its Account Help page.
In blogging (publishing) in Blogger.com, sometimes you find that there is much empty space left out between the currently published blog post and the previous one. It impairs the neatness of the post presented for viewing. To remove this space, go again to Blogger's Dashboard --> click on Edit Post --> Post Editor. Now make a left click on the Mouse so that the blinking Cursor occupies in the lowest possible part of the empty space below the text of the blog post that is to be published again. Now press once or more the Backspace key of the keyboard so that the Cursor moves up on each line space step by step till it lands up next to the last text of the post. And then click on the Publish tab: now you see in your blog that there is no empty space in the published post, and it is neat!
In preparation of a blog post in Blogger Post Editor, the blogger must be careful in typing the post’s title. Once you have made a mistake in the spelling of the title words and publish the post, you will get both the title and the URL of the post with the misspelled words only. Later, even if you correct the spelling mistake and publish it again, the mistake in the URL will not be corrected though that of the title is corrected! So, check twice the letters of the title words before clicking on the Publish button: See as an example in this blog post: Use of Body, Mind and Money Here the URL has 'momey' for 'money'! Similarly the mistakes committed in the Tag words are retained as such for all the posts you create in the future whenever you try to use them. You cannot change at all the mistakes here. So, give extra care in typing the spelling of tag words.
