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[How To] Block Unwanted/SPAM Emails at Gmail Account

Rajesh — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:58:16 +0000

One of my friend asked -

“Hi rajesh.. how do u block unwanted email at gmail account? the steps please. not spam i just want to block it Foreverrr… drives me crazy thanks thanks…”

I often get this question by many of my friends So I thought I must share solutions with everyone.

I replied her -
[Read following in dramatic way ]

“Congratulations Today is your lucky day, As today you are going to break free of SPAM. Yes SPAM free life.“

Here are different Solutions-
1. Smart Labels -

Go to Mail Settings
Click Labs
Look for “Smart Labels”
Click Enable
Go down and Save Changes.

- What happens is your all uncessary mails will go to different smart labels/folders.
- Now go to each Label i.e. Bulk, Forums, Notifications etc, check at right side top you’ll find “Archive incoming Forums (skip the Inbox)” just enable to stop mails appearing them in inbox.
- I know it is not exactly what u are looking for but trust me it’ll reduce your 50% of your headache.

2. Filters -
Whenever you receive such mails

Select that mail
Click More
Click “Filter Massages like these”
Click Next Step
If you don’t want any more mails from that email address then simply select “delete” option
and Click Create Filter.

- Now all your mails from that email ID will be directly deleted.
- You can try with various filters options.

3. Simply Unsubscribe -
Many times our email address get automatically subscribed to many newsletters and other similar services in various ways which I will expalin some other day but the point is if you receive such mails then simply open that mail and find unsubscribe link and unsubscribe yourself. This way you can reduce your unwanted mails by 30%

4. Precaution -
From next time use some other email address to signup new services. As you may like to keep your personal email ID simply for personal use. I can understand how outrageous you feel when you check your inbox in 5-6 days gap and find filled with 200-300 mails and 90% of them are unwanted.

Happy Emailing

How to Stop Facebook Chat Going to Messages [Tips]

Rajesh — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 07:52:54 +0000

It seems every time Facebook rolls out it’s game changing new features they force us to hate Facebook more and more as with every new feature they tries to capture as many as conversation of users, keep a record of it and later either make it public or use it for targeting us with their ads. They are just thinking of how much relevant data they can store and use it for targeting us back with ads but they are just not caring how the user will feel cause they don’t even keep an option to turn off the feature or turn it back to older one.

One of such new feature which is taking nerves of people these days is new Facebook Messages although it was announced way back in November 2010 but they are rolling it out in different phases and recently they have rolled it out to almost 60-70% of the users or may be more cause I can see almost everyone in my friend circle has got it. As expected users hated it like anything for two main reason -

1. Your all chat conversation saves in your Message box (I also hate it) – As Chat is something which people like to keep it private as they share many secret and intimate talks which they can’t in normal emails or messages. Also it makes your message thread soooooooooo long and messy.

2. All the messages under single thread (Although I like it) – People wants to keep their different conversation topics under separate threads they don’t want to club all their conversation of different topics under same thread.

Check out some of the sentiments -

I liked keeping certain threads of messages seperate by the subject! I HATE how chats end in my inbox. I use the chat for one thing and messages for another. So confusing. Since facebook texting doesn’t always work, I can’t tell if the ones in the messages were supposed to be from texting or chatting…good heavens give us the option to go back!!! - Anonymous

Every time facebook is modified it get worse. We are used to this. But now you have brought it to a new level of complexity and uselessness. Conversations split in 2000 nameless new ones and God only knows following which criteria, messages in the chat appearing in the mailbox while you are talking, the chat itself showing messages of ages ago where there aren’t recent ones and so on… - Anonymous

Every time I open my fb account my blood boils bec of this stupid change. all my chats are saved and i don’t know which is which. it’s too many I don’t have time to delete all that’s why i end up in this thread looking for someways on how to return in the old way. - Anonymous

So the question is How to Turn off or Stop Facebook chat going to messages?
1. Just Delete your Chat conversation – I tried almost everything but the only option so far I have found is that just going back to your message box and delete your chat conversations apart from that there is no other option to avoid this mess.

2. Use 3rd party Chat Apps - Other effective way is to use 3rd party chat app like [link] for chatting, which will helps to avoid sending your all chat conversations to your message box.
Here is solution from Facebook’s Official help center -

How do I access my chat history?
Your chat history with a friend is included as part of your complete conversation in Facebook Messages , along with your other messages, texts and emails.If you’re chatting with someone, your recent conversation history is available by scrolling up within the chat window. To clear this recent history, click the actions menu at the top right of the chat window and select Clear Window. Note: clearing your chat window does not delete these messages from your conversation history.

To permanently delete part or all of your conversation:

Select See Full Conversation from the actions menu at the top right of your chat window.
Select Delete Messages… from the actions menu at the top of the conversation.
Check the individual messages you’d like to delete and click Delete Selected at the bottom of the page, or click Delete All to delete the whole conversation.

Check the Video too [Link]

How to Transfer Your Domain Name from Google Apps to Godaddy Registrar

Rajesh — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:46:38 +0000

Initially I bought many domain names from Google apps as it is safe and easy but one problem is that you can not enjoy the evergreen discount coupons of Godaddy and it is less flexible also transferring from Google apps to Godaddy or new domain registrar is not very smooth and easy. So I thought of writing a blog post on it. As in our company TechShu we faced this problem many times and every time it takes a lot of time if solution is not documented, in TechShu we have a very unique habit of finding solution to our problems and writing blog post on that so that everyone will get benefited from training new team members to our clients to open world.

So here we go -

1. Buy Domain transfer service from Godaddy with Desired domain name to transfer.

2. Unable to transfer – You’ll receive email from “Important Contact Information Needed [khel...@domainsbyproxy.com] (FROM: tran...@godaddy.com)” which states that -

“In order to complete this transfer we must have the approval of the administrative contact for this domain name. However, the administrative email address obtained from your current registrar does not appear to be valid, or could not be obtained.”

3. Need Transaction ID and Security Code – In order to initiate the transfer, Godaddy needed to send you Transaction ID and Security Code that were provided by the gaining registrar. They were sent to the Administrative Contact listed on the domain when you purchased the transfer at Go Daddy (In simple terms they’ll be send to the email ID with which you have registered Google Apps domain name). If you did not receive this email as you are transferring your domain name from Google apps which provide who.is protection and Godaddy will be unable to find out the administrative contact email ID of your domain name.

4. Clear Private Registration Service -

You need to ensure that you have removed the Private Registration Service that Google apps provide for free associated with the domain and Cancel the Private Registration.

The private registration for your domain is managed through Domains By Proxy in case of domain names bought via Google Apps, You will need to log into your account with Domains By Proxy in order to cancel the privacy service.

Go to domainsbyproxy.com and click on ‘My Account’.
Log in to your Domains by Proxy account.

If you do not remember your Domains by Proxy login information, click on the ‘Forgot your password?’ link to retrieve your customer number and reset your password for that

Go to login> Click Forget Password> 1st retrieve your Customer ID and then Reset Password with the help of customer ID.

Once logged in, click on ‘My Domains’.
Check the box next to the domain(s) you wish to cancel private registration for.
Click on ‘Continue’.
Confirm that you wish to cancel the registration by selecting YES.
Click the ‘Submit’ button.

You will then receive an email regarding the cancellation. The domain will no longer appear in your Domains by Proxy account, and the cancellation will not affect any other services on the domain such as DNS or email. Please remember that cancellation of the private registration is not refundable.

5) Unlock your domain name and get Authorization Code – Go to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/YourDomainName.com/ > Domain Settings > Domain names > Advanced DNS settings > Click on Sign in to DNS console > Sign in with your given access credentials.

Click on your desired domain name, Unlock your desired domain name.
Go to Authorization Code: Send by Email section and click on send by email.
You’ll received authorization code which you’ll be needing at later stage of transfer.

6) Reinitiate transfer Go to Godaddy> My Account> My domain> Transfer tab> Click on desired domain name and reinitiate transfer

7) Transaction ID and Security Code finally – You get a email with “Transfer of YourDomainName.com – Action Required” with Transaction ID and Security Code.

8 ) Authorization - Go to Godaddy> My Account> Domain manager> Domains> Pending transfers> Authorization> Type your Transaction ID and Security Code.

9) Accept Transfer – Go to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/ YourDomainName.com/ > Domain Settings > Domain names > Advanced DNS settings > Click on Sign in to DNS console > Sign in with given access credentials> Domains> Pending Transfer> Select desired domain name> Click Accept/Decline> Select Accept and Ok.

10) Hurray.. You are done with transfer.

SPECIAL NOTE : One more point to take care of, Go to https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/ YourDomainName.com/ > Domain Settings > Domain names >

Uncheck “Automatically renew my domain registration every year” Or else you’ll be ended up paying every year to Google apps like once I did for my one domain name.

Please note that if you are approaching to your domain renewal period than you can not be able to uncheck if that is the case then you can turn off or uncheck the auto renew option once date of renewal is over.

How to switch back to old Facebook chat or Hide Sidebar chat permanently?

Rajesh — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:42:57 +0000

It seems it’s not only me but all 750 million Facebook users hates new sidebar chat of Facebook.

There are solid reasons why I hate it -

1. It shows offline friends – Why the hell they show offline friends if we can not chat them, than what is the meanning of chat box if we can not chat them? is it some kind of most frequent friends showcase box?

2. It never goes off – Although they have provided hideout button but when you click someone to chat if again comes out.

I want to switch back to my old FB chat and so do my all friends but problem is FB hasn’t gave any option to switch back I was so sick of it I stopped chatting in Facebook with my friends.

Then Miracle Happened – Yesterday I was hitting some buttons on keyboard and suddenly the sidebar chat goes off I was like wow how did it happened then I repeated the drill few more times and find the secret keys to turn off sidebar chat permanently -

Secret Formula to Kick ass of Facebook sidebar chat -

Those who are fed up with sidebar chat box of Facebook just hit the two button keys simultaneously Ctrl+= twice

i.e. hit 'Ctrl' and '=' buttons for twice and see the magic

and if you really wanna switch back to sidebar chat which I never ever want to just hit Ctrl+0.

God it’s such a relief to switch back.

Now how to find all the Friends who are online?

Well you can go to https://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php and chat with them but for that you have remain online in your main chat box

Only one issue with this trick is your fonts get bigger, well there are 3 solutions to bring back the sizes to nomal -

1. Use ctrl + Mouse scroll to zoom in zoom out

2. Go to menu options of your browser and find Zoom+- option

3. or open google.com and hit ctrl+0 buttons (see Google always rocks )

Another trick to Disable Facebook Chat Sidebar

If you use Firefox, Chrome or Opera browser then, you just need to install ‘Sidebar Disabler’ extension. Which will help you to disable Chat Sidebar and return to the old Facebook Chat.

Install ‘Sidebar Chat Disabler’ for -

Chrome - [Link]
Firefox - [Link]
Opera - [Link]

CIAO!

HELP – How to deal with a Facebook Fake Profile or Impersonation?

Rajesh — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:33:36 +0000

Today a friend of mine (gal) asked me -

“Hi, someone has used my pictures to create a fake profile…i thought if you could help me…”

She is the third friend of mine whose profile has been impersonified, So I thought instead of writing her I should blog about it so that others can also be benefited.

What Facebook suggests to resolve it?
If you go to their “Report Abuse” section then you’ll find following solution -

How do I report a fake profile that’s pretending to be me?
Fake profiles created to imitate real people (impostor profiles) are not allowed on Facebook.

If someone created a profile pretending to be you:

Go to the profile
Scroll to the bottom of the left column and click “Report/Block This Person”
Click “This profile is pretending to be someone or is fake”
Choose “Pretending to be me” from the type drop-down
Click “Continue” to submit your report

Note: If you can’t view the profile you’re trying to report, ask a friend to file a report for you.

What is my take to resolve it?
Presently you can just report an impersonation on facebook and then wait for something to happen as if you just follow the above mentioned Facebook remedy then it may take a several months or it may not be solved.

So what to do?
In my last 2 cases of my friends, what I have observed that if you ask your friends about 20-30 to report abuse as per the
above steps with “Pretending to be someone I know” options then Facebook do take action and delete that profile.

Good news is that Facebook has recently updated it’s algorithms to hunt down spams and abuses.

Legal Help -
My friend suggested following for legal action -

You can also file a complaint on the following link of Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 which is a special wing of the FBI. Once you file the complaint you will see immediate action being taken.. The steps are simple and very effective. Have used it twice and have helped two of my friends (girls) from identity theft – Lijoy Babu

Complain Link – http://www.ic3.gov/complaint

One Last tip -
Specially for females always keep your privacy settings tight and never let any strangers be in your friends list. Check for the Guide to Managing Your Facebook Privacy and Facebook Safety.

Happy Safe Facebooking.

PS: For Impersonators read this -
‘Two held for impersonation‘ If you think you can not be held. It is a serious crime and has strict laws against, it better just refrain from it as 5 minutes fun can turn into lifetime regret.

How to Install GNOME 3 on Ubuntu 11.04 over Unity Desktop

Rajesh — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:18:54 +0000

I have been using Ubuntu with Gnome desktop ever since I have heard of Ubuntu and I was very excited about the new Unity Desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal but it really didn’t impress me much. I would better like to use new Gnome 3 over Unity.

Here is simple steps of “how to install Gnome 3 over unity desktop” -

1. Open terminal (Ctrl+T) and hit following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3


gksu apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

2.You are done, Yupp it’s really simple

How to Renew Domain Name bought via Google Apps

Rajesh — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:53:46 +0000

Today I got following mail about how to renew domain name (Bought from Google Apps) and I keep on getting such mails from my friends so I thought of writing a tutorial to help them.

Simple steps of “How to Renew Domain Name bought via Google Apps”

Step 1 -

Goto www.google.com/a/your-domian-name eg http://www.google.com/a/rajeshrana.net,
Login to you Google apps admin, if you have forgot your password then check this to how you can recover Google admin Apps password.
Goto Domain setting>Domain Names
Make sure you have checked “Automatically renew domain registration every year ” option.

Step 2 –

Login to Google.com/accounts with your Gmail account with which you’d registered your domain name (generally it’s your personal gmail email address).
Click Checkout

Step 3 -

Check for your Default payment method
If it’s there then click on edit payment method (If it’s not there then add new payment method)

Step 4 -

Check for payment method if it’s correct
Make sure that your payment method like your (credit card detail) is current and working one

Step 5 - Enjoy

How to Speed Up Slow start of LibreOffice?

Rajesh — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:28:22 +0000

Recently I switched to LibreOffice from OpenOffice due it’s compatibility issues with MS Office XML docs and it’s slow development process as a result of Sun Microsystems acquisition by Oracle.

I was so happy to swtich over but later I really got pissed off cause it takes too much time to start, takes alomost 10-15 seconds to go away it’s spalsh screen.

So today I tried to find out how to speed up and thankfully It’s really simple to do that -

Just -

Start LibreOffice Writer
Goto Tools>Options
Click on Memory
Check Enable Systray Quickstarter
Now reopen your LibreOffice
You are done
It’s Awesomely Fast

Google Chrome Operating System by 2010…Cool

How to find out when I joined Facebook?

Rajesh — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:26:00 +0000

Today I was looking for the exact date of my Joining Facebook and I didn’t find any answer Then I tried following two approaches -

1. Find the Joining confirmation Mail from Facebook – I got my exact Joining Date and Time
2. First Profile Image – I have already deleted that

NSLookup – To Find IP Address Mapping

Rajesh — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:47:12 +0000

nslookup is a network administration command-line tool available for many computer operating systems for querying the Domain Name System (DNS) to obtain domain name or IP address mapping or for any other specific DNS record.

type dig @ns1.yourhostingsite.com example.com