How to Preview Gmail Messages


1. Sign in to your Gmail account.
2. Go to Gmail Settings and then click Labs Section
3. Search for preview pane.

4. Click on enable radio button and hit Save Changes

5. Once you've enabled it, there will be a new button on the top of the email list which will enable you to activate the vertical split or horizontal split and switch between the full list view and split view.

6. That's it! The currently selected message will be displayed to the right or to the bottom.

And the messages previewed will be marked read in 3 seconds by default! 

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Clever Google Tricks You should know

Here are some tricky google hacks to make your search more interesting and fun oriented.

1. Find the Face Behind the Image Result
This is a neat trick you can use on a Google Image search to filter the search results so that they includeonly images of people. How is this useful? Well, it could come in handy if you are looking for images of the prominent people behind popular products, companies, or geographic locations. You can perform this search by appending the code &imgtype=face to the end of the URL address after you perform astandard Google Image search.

2. Google + Social Media Sites = Quality Free Stuff
If you are on the hunt for free desktop wallpaper, stock images, WordPress templates or the like, using Google to search your favorite social media sites is your best bet. The word “free” in any standard search query immediately attracts spam. Why wade through potential spam in standard search results when numerous social media sites have an active community of users who have already ranked andreviewed the specific free items that interest you. All you have to do is direct Google to search through each of these individual social media sites, and bingo… you find quality content ranked by hundreds of other people.

Examples:
site:digg.com free “desktop wallpaper”
site:reddit.com free “wordpress templates”
site:del.icio.us free “stock images”
site:netscape.com free “ringtones”
site:stumbleupon.com “free icons”

3. Google for Music, Videos, and Ebooks
Google can be used to conduct a search for almost any file type, including Mp3s, PDFs, and videos. Openweb directories are one of the easiest places to quickly find an endless quantity of freely downloadable files. This is an oldie, but it’s a goodie! Why thousands of webmasters incessantly fail to secure their web severs will continue to boggle our minds.

Examples:
1. Find Music: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory”     +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Counting Crows”
2. Find Videos: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory”     +description +size +(mpg|wmv) “chapelle”
3. Find Ebooks: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory”      +description +size +(pdf|doc) “george orwell 1984″

4. Results Based on Third-Party Opinion
Sometimes you can get a better idea of the content located within a website by reading how other websites refer to that site’s content. The allinanchor: Google search operator can save you large quantities of time when a normal textual based search query fails to fetch the information you desire. It conducts a search based on keywords used strictly in the anchor text, or linking text, of third party sites that link to the web pages returned by the search query. In other words, this operator filters your search results in a way such that Google ignores the title and content of the returned web pages, but instead bases the search relevance on the keywords that other sites use to reference the results. It can add awhole new dimension of variety to your search results.

Example:
allinanchor:”google hacks”

5. Browse Open Webcams WorldwideTake a randomized streaming video tour of the world by searching Google for live open access video webcams. This may not be the most productive Google trick ever, but it sure is fun! (Note: you may be prompted to install an ActiveX control or the Java runtime environment which allows your browser toview certain video stream formats.)

Examples:
Axis Webcams: inurl:/view.shtml or inurl:view/index.shtml
Cannon Webcams: sample/LvAppl/
MOBOTIX Webcams: control/userimage.html
FlexWatch Webcams: /app/idxas.html

6. Judge a Site by its Image
Find out what a site is all about by looking at a random selection of the images hosted on its web pages. Even if you are somewhat familiar with the target site’s content, this can be an entertaining little exercise. You will almost surely find something you didn’t expect to see. All you have to do is use Google’s site:operator to target a domain in an image search.

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Tips to prevent yourself from being hated on facebook

1. Beware! Don’t sync your  Twitter account with Facebook , if you are someone who tweets every 10 minutes will end by flooding the live-stream of your friends and  they will end up marking hide your updates .
2. Do not add people you do not have any kind of relationship, if you ask someone to add it is because you know him or you can have something in common that can make interesting relationship between both of you, and not because he or she has a very good profile picture
3. When you upload a picture don’t tag everyone in the picture.As each comment will give a notification to every one in your contact and this will annoy many of them.Tag only those who are present in the picture.
4. The relatives of your friends are not friends, Facebook is not a popularity race to see if you have more friends.
5. Do not invite all of your contacts to attend events, only those who may be interested and those who are geographically possible should be invited.
6. Each time you use an application on Facebook as a requirement it asks you to send an invitation to your friends do not click on the send button, somewhere must have a button to skip this step (the policy of Facebook require it .)
7. When uploading pictures make sure they have access only to people who should have access to them, your mother is not interested to see how you vomit on your best friend (and probably your boss either.

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Lock Your PC using mouse click

Today lets see a simple trick on how to lock your PC using mouse click. We normally use Alt+Ctrl+Del orWindows+L to lock our PCs.Instead of trying those windows keyboard shortcut keys to lock Pc, lets now try out something new

1. Just Right click on the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut.

2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, copy the following into the ‘Type the location’ of the item text box:

“rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation” remove quotes while typing.

3. Click Next.

4. In “Type a name for this shortcut”, type LOCK MY PC and Click Finish

5. Now just double click on the icon, your desktop will be locked.

Though this is a age old trick.It makes some difference to newbies

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How to display Windows version on Desktop

Most of you might have noticed Windows version on the desktop in the lower right-hand corner during beta releases of windows.Lets now see a quick trick on doing this in your windows platform.I tested this registry hack in Windows Xp, Vista and Windows 7 and its working fine 

Steps to show windows version on Desktop

1. Goto Start –> Run (Windows Key + R)
2. Type Regedit and hit Enter.
3. In Registry editor, navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
4. Select “Desktop” in left pane and search for “PaintDesktopVersion” in right pane and double-click it.

5. A dialog will pop-up, change the “Value Data” field from 0 to 1.

6. Restart the Windows you will find Windows version printed on the desktop.

Check Windows version on the desktop in the lower right-hand corner.

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How to block websites on your computer without using any software

It is very easy to block sites on computer without any software. This trick will work on Windows XP,Windows Vista, and Windows 7. I have tried this trick on all windows and it really works. Follow the steps below to learn how to block sites on computer.

• Go to Run(Windows Key + R)
• Type C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
• Hit enter
• Open the file as Notepad
• Type 127.0.0.1 www.yoursitedomain.com below 127.0.0.1 local host
• Save it.
• Done!

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How to Fix Adobe Photoshop stuck on Caps Lock

I have recently become an expert in Photoshop, And I faced this problem. And as I have found its remedy, now I share this. You might have enabled all Caps button(TT) thats the problem. To disable Caps button

• Go to Abode Photoshop –> Window
• Click  Character
• Now click on TT button in bottom of window now it should solve your problem.

or

• Just highlight the text you typed and press Ctrl+T on the keyboard, and it should bring up thecharacter palette.

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Photo Resizing Apps

New camera models are better every day. They can take awesome quality photos at large resolutions, so even beginners can be very proud of their portfolio. That’s great, but when you want to send your latest vacation photos over email, you wish they were smaller. Here are two free applications which will help you batch resize your photos without any hassle. Both programs work with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 operating systems.

Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows 7

The Image Resizer Powertoy was originally designed for Windows XP. This program is a clone that works with newer versions of Windows, Windows 7 included.

As you can see from the above screenshot, the application is integrated with the Windows Explorer menu. After clicking “Resize Pictures”, you’ll be able to either choose one of the four preset sizes or input your custom size.

The application can be downloaded for free from http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

Fotosizer

Small and easy to use, Fotosizer is a good choice if all you want to do with your photos is to resize them in order to make them good for email attachments, photo sharing websites or discussion forums posting. The software allows you to add images one by one, but, if needed, you can add a whole folder at once, with or without its subfolders.

You can resize the photos either to specific height and width in pixels or by a percentage of the initial values. There are a few optional settings: picture rotation, black & white, sepia or negative.

Get this freeware application from here: http://www.fotosizer.com/download.aspx


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How to check if your camera can capture infrared photos


Infrared photography has many applications, such as cosmic photos, recovering texts of water damaged documents, quality checks for hidden material flaws, surveillance and public safety, or aesthetic purposes.

You would imagine that you need special equipment to take infrared photos. Well, for the “far” infrared spectrum (thermal light), indeed, you need it. But for the “near” infrared, all you need is a digital camera that doesn’t have a filter that blocks infrared light, and an infrared filter.

How to test your camera for IR capability: check if it can see beams emitted from a common infrared remote control (point it towards your camera and press any button). The beams should appear white in the LCD screen. If your camera does not have an LCD screen, take a picture of the remote control while pressing one of its buttons. Otherwise, it means that your camera has the IR blocking filter. Probably it can be removed, but I would not suggest you do that, because it may void your warranty, or you may never manage to put the camera together and functioning again.

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