Archive for July, 2009

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

Jul 30, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

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

Jul 30, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

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

Jul 28, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

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

Jul 26, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

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

Jul 25, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

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?

Jul 21, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

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

Jul 17, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

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

Jul 16, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

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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Use Google Calendar Sync to Keep Your Outlook Calendar Synchronized

Jul 15, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

If you are still weary of trusting Google with all of your precious calendar information and instead would like to simply synchronize calendars, then Google Calendar Sync is the right tool for you. When installed and enabled Google’s Calendar Sync application quietly sits in your computers notification area and seamlessly synchronizes all of your Outlook [...]

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Access the Cloud from Your BlackBerry

Jul 14, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

In previous articles I detailed how I was able to move from Outlook 2007 to Google’s online services for all of my email and organizational functions. In this article I’ll cover how I am able to access my Gmail, Google Calendar, and other information on the go.
When I started using the Blackberry I relied solely [...]

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