No More “On Behalf of” When Using Your Own Domain in Gmail

If you have ever sent an email using Gmail with one of your other email accounts (bellsouth.net, yourdomain.com, etc) you’ll notice that the message sent to the recipient lists, gilbert@gilsmethod.com (your real email – @yourdomain) on behalf of gilbert@gmail.com (your Gmail account @gmail) as the From: address.
Gmail announced today that they will allow users [...]

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21 Great Sites for Finding Deals Online

Sick of the PriceGrabbers of the world? Don’t fret, there is an abundance of shop comparison web sites online. The list below is the result of several hours worth of Google searches and putting together a good list of shop comparison websites. I’ve included price comparison, product comparison, and Woot! like websites on this [...]

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Share Your Printer and Files with Windows XP

If you have more than one PC at home and you’re trying to figure out how you can share files with your computers, this how-to will walk you though the process of adding your Windows XP computer to a network so that you can enable file and printer sharing. This article came about as the [...]

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Transfer Your Outlook 2003 Emails to Gmail

In my previous article I detailed the steps necessary to transfer Outlook 2007 emails from your computer to your Gmail account. This how-to is a follow up to a comment left by one of my readers that pointed out that there were significant differences between Outlook 2007 and 2003. I decided to publish this article [...]

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Create Photo DVD Slideshows Using Picasa and DVD Maker

I began using Windows Vista DVD maker for all of my picture slideshows, however when I learned of Picasa’s capabilities in this same space (customization of title screens, more flexibility with formats, and the ease of use inherent with Picasa) I began to use Picasa instead. The problem arose when I was ready to burn [...]

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Are You Ready for Windows 7?

If you’re asking yourself, "Windows 7? What’s that?" Then you’re probably among a large number of users that are unaware of the new operating system hitting the market on October 22nd of this year. That is correct, almost 3 years later Microsoft is now set to release a replacement for Windows Vista (which was released [...]

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Use Xmarks to Backup and Synchronize Your Bookmarks

So you’ve got two computers at home and one at work which you browse the internet and are constantly bookmarking your favorite sites to. The problem is that unless you copy those bookmarks to a flash drive or other media you will not be able to access the same bookmarks on all three computers. Don’t [...]

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Manually Add Hidden Networks in Vista

Although elementary as a security measure, disabling the routers ability to broadcast its SSID is still used by many and I feel it is an added layer that will keep snoopers away. If you have this feature enabled you will find that adding a network device requires additional steps that you may not be familiar [...]

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