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How to increase the default timeout settings in Mozilla Thunderbird

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 11, 2023

If you are using Mozilla Thunderbird as your email client in your Windows or Mac, you might need to do some tweak in the default settings of Thunderbird particularly, its default timeout setting. This setting is responsible in setting a limit of the connection or negotiation protocol that governs or affects your sending or receiving of emails. If you are sending an email with a huge attachment, it requires a longer time to complete the sending since the attachment needs to be uploaded first prior to sending. If the timeout… Read More

How to add “other” existing email account (POP3 account) in your Gmail

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 10, 2023

If you own or manage a website, most likely you have your custom-domain email accounts like your.name@your_company.com. These are POP accounts and therefore you can add these accounts to your Gmail account. Why add your POP accounts to Gmail? Most POP accounts with custom domain names that come from your website can be accessible in two (2) ways. First, by using an email client or software like MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, MS Outlook 2003/2007/2010/2013, Thunderbird, etc. Second, if available (if your web server is allowing you… Read More

How to Change and Configure Gmail Inbox Behavior

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 10, 2023

Gmail is one of the widely used email account in the world today. It is fast, reliable and most of all, it is free. By default, Gmail comes with cool features that are readily available and is fitting to everyday email needs. With its pack of features, most people don’t even find a need to change how Gmail behaves. However, Gmail is also a very flexible email system. You can change many things and settings that affects how you use the email service. And one of the features that you… Read More

Microsoft Excel Tips: How to calculate the number of days, months or years between two dates

How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks October 9, 2023

One of the fundamental questions that Excel users may find themselves asking is “How to calculate the number of years, months, or days between two given dates?” This article will show the ways or methods in calculating days, months or years between 2 given dates. There are certain situations when you want to know the number of days, months or years. For instance, in computing rentals or amortizations, in comparing usage or consumption, and many other scenarios, knowing how to calculate the days, months and even years will be vital…. Read More

How to Avoid Email Scam and Spam

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 8, 2023

The email population is getting bigger as many people are getting or subscribing to an email account or accounts everyday. Also, there are several email providers today that allows people to create an email account with them for free. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and AOL are among them. This is also the main reason why hackers and spammers are targeting emails since hundreds of millions of people are using emails. Therefore, with this great number of emails out there, the more email addresses that the hacker can scrape the web… Read More

Microsoft Excel Tip: How to lock cells and make them un-editable

How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks October 8, 2023

There are certain times and conditions when you feel the need that other people can only edit or add and modify data from selected cells in your Excel sheet. The rest of the cells in the sheet or workbook must be un-editable. Example of these Excel sheets are survey questionnaires wherein other people can just input their answers but not alter the questions. Others can be a fillable form wherein other people can just enter their personal or other information but the form content and layout are locked for editing…. Read More

Hotmail Tip: How to remove all ads from Hotmail / Outlook.com email views

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 8, 2023

As you use your powerful and full-featured Hotmail, now called Outlook.com interface, you might have noticed that sometimes, advertisements appear in your Inbox. These ads are cool at times but sometimes, they can be annoying. Ever wonder how to eliminate those ads? Like Gmail, Yandex, or Yahoo Mail, Hotmail (Outlook.com) is also offering their email service for free. As a result, Hotmail runs some ads to monetize their email service and pay for their infrastructure and product improvements through research and development. If you want to have a clean Hotmail… Read More

Gmail Account Recovery

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 8, 2023 2 Comments

When you first setup your Gmail account, you are given the option to enter an alternate email address. This alternate email address is very useful when you are unable to access your account because you can reset your password and Gmail will then send a reset link to that email account. What do you do with reset link? Well, when you receive a reset link after initiating a password reset for your Gmail, you just need to click on that link, and you will be able to enter a NEW… Read More

Microsoft Excel: Using Data Validation to provide drop-down selection menu

How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks October 8, 2023

In Excel, there are various ways to provide a drop-down menu in a form or in cells. With drop-down menus, also called combo boxes, you can select an option based on pre-selected data. Samples of data where drop-dowm menus will be useful are gender (Male and Female options), Status (Single, Married, Divorced, etc options) and many others. The major reasons for providing a combo box or drop-down selection menu includes the following: On the other hand, combo boxes or drop-down selection menus are only applicable when: In this article, I… Read More

Hotmail Tip: Cleaning up your Inbox using “Move all from” feature

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 8, 2023

If you are using Hotmail, with its new “Outlook.com” look-and-feel”, you can now enjoy the benefit of easy organization and cleanup of emails using the cool feature called “Move all from…”. This command is only shown at the top of the message window when an email is selected or displayed. The function of this command is to automatically move the “selected” email message and “all” other messages that came from the same sender to your preferred email folder. Therefore, it is good to create custom email folders first before using… Read More