Hangout lest you video chat with 9 other users, you can also share a you tube video, text chat etc at the same time.

How to start a hangout in Gmail:

Go to your chat list. Look for the “video camera” icon. Click on it to start a hangout:

When you click on it, it will give you option of inviting people to hangout:

Prerequisite: You must have a Google Plus account. Without that hangouts are not possible. You won’t be shown the option of hangout if you are not Google Plus.

Follow the steps below:

1. Log in to your gmail account. From the top right corner, open the settings and click on Add Account:

2. Clicking on Add Account takes you to a new sign in page to add the new account.Use the username and password of the other gmail account here:

3. That is it. Now you can use both accounts in the same browser, at the same time. You can verify in the settings that the gmail accounts are very well added:

You can use more than 2 gmail accounts simultaneously using the same method. Cheers

Who got hacked?

Sony had a real hard time dealing with hackers when its Play Station network was hacked several times along with its other sites in a series of hacking. Microsoft India’s online store was hacked in February this year. Popular professional social networking LinkedIn was hacked last month. And last week Yahoo’s database has been compromised putting approximately 400,000 users at risk. These were just a few examples as the list is too long to be listed here. A number of forums are hacked regularly leaving users’ information (personal, financial etc) at risk.

Wisdom pearls to avoid suffering:

While there is little you can do as a user to avoid being hacked when the compromises occur on the server-side, you can surely follow few guidelines to avoid suffering when your xyz online account is among the victims.

• Never use your email password for other online accounts. You may use the same password for different online accounts other than email, though this too is risky but since all of use tens (if not hundreds) of different online accounts such as various forums, social networks, a normal human being just cannot remember so many account-password details.
• It’s a cliché but needs to be repeated. Have a strong password with a combination of alphabets, upper case, lower case, numbers and special characters.

Know when email password stolen:

Should I Change My Password is a wonderful website run by The Avalanche Technology Group based in Australia. It maintains a database of all the leaked that has occurred. You can use this website to find out if your email account was compromised ever. One additional feature, you can select for email notification. Just check the box below the search button (refer to the picture below). You will be sent an email if your email account is compromised in a new hack. This leaves you worry-free for checking again and again for your email account safety.

Isn’t it a wonderful application? What you Say?

What to look for in an Outlook Duplicate Remover Software:

If you will search over the Internet then you will get to know that a lot of tools for the same are available online and to select the most reliable out of them is a difficult task. Mentioned below are some points which may help you to select the most efficient Outlook duplicate remover software:

User Interface:

First of all the software should have understandable user interface. Having this feature, you do not require assistance of an expert or prior training of the software to delete duplicate emails from your Outlook all by you.

Various Actions on Duplicate Emails:

The software should have various personalized options such as Delete (move to deleted items folder), Move to folder, Mark as Expired, Copy to Folder, Delete Permanently, etc to be performed on scanned duplicate emails.

Support for Multiple Mailboxes:

The software should have option to select multiple mailboxes and allow you to delete duplicate emails from all the selected mailboxes.

Different Criteria to Find Duplicate Emails:

The software should have a wide range of criteria to identify duplicate emails.

Log Report:

Authentic and reliable software provides the detailed log report of the process.

One of the tool which has all the above mentioned features is known as Stellar Phoenix Outlook Duplicate Remover. One of the add-on features of this software is that it appears as ‘Add In’ on the top left corner of your Outlook and thus you can use this software within your Outlook. The software provides a wide range of scanning criteria to find out duplicate emails and is designed to use successfully with MS Outlook 2010, 2007, and 2003.

Author Bio – “I am Jane Parker and having 6 years experience in IT consultancy. I like to write on latest technologies, issues related to email applications and software for backup, Outlook Duplicate Remover, PST recovery, password recovery and more.”

In this tutorial we will see how to use “filters” to combat spam. We will apply filters to the spam which are repetitive and come on a regular basis.

Log in to your Gmail account and go to Spam box. My Spam box looks like this:

Now click on the check-box of a spam mail and go to “More” options and select “Filter message like these“

Now here we have multiple options based on which we can filter the message. These options or based on sender, based on receiver, subject of the mail etc. We will choose Send From option and include the sender in the list.

Now after we click on Create filter with this search, we can choose the option of “Delete it“. By this way whenever a new mail comes from that sender, it will be directly moved to trash and you won’t see it in your spam folder.

Hope this tutorial helps you in staying spam free. Questions, suggestions etc are always welcomed. Enjoy

If you are wondering how to get it. Follow these steps:

• Sign in to Gmail or refresh your page.
• Look at the bottom right of your screen (Close the chat box or the To-do list).
• Click on Switch to the new look (like the one in the pic)

Thats it. You have the new dashing new look of Gmail. Enjoy By the way do tell us how do you find the new look of Gmail.

]]> http://www.computerandyou.net/2011/11/how-to-get-the-new-look-of-gmail-quick-tip/feed/ 0 http://www.computerandyou.net/2011/10/ecrypt-me-the-easy-way-to-secure-emailing/ http://www.computerandyou.net/2011/10/ecrypt-me-the-easy-way-to-secure-emailing/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:36:40 +0000 Abhishek Prakash http://www.computerandyou.net/?p=1162 There are a number of people who are not satisfied with the security provided by popular web-based email service providers like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. List is growing as the fear is not imaginary keeping the recent events of hacking. Though these hacking events are not frequent but what about the constant monitoring and unauthorized scanning of your mails by the service provider itself?

These fears have resulted in concerned people switching to encryption software. But these encryption software are not that easy to use for everyone. And that is what eCrypt Me aims to provide: easy to use encrypted email service. Using eCrypt Me is like using any other web-based email with encryption working in background.

So, What is eCrypt Me and how is it secure?

eCrypt Me is NOT a new email service provider. And thats the best part. You use your existing email to create an account and login to the eCrypt’s web-based interface in a secure environment. You do not need to install and configure anything. You send and read messages like any other normal mailing service but the encryption process in the background makes it secure.

The idea behind being “secure” is that the user logs into the secure environment of eCrypt, access the files and attachments there itself and thus never exposes the content to outside world. It uses a combination of ECC521 and AES256 encryption algorithms to secure your data while the connection between the web browser and eCrypt is secured by AES256 encrypted SSL. The main drawback is that for an end to end encryption both the users (sender and receiver) should have an account on eCrypt.

What else beyond security?

There are lots of other features that make eCrypt.me an interesting alternative to the existing email service providers. The interface is easy to use with all the necessary elements of a mail client like labelling, calander, contact book, contact import etc. It also provides File Vault for secure online file storage. The attachments can be directly stored into the Vault from emails  and can also be easily attached into mails from the Vault.

You can manage multiple email accounts from one eCrypt account. Moreover, eCrypt Me is accessible from a mobile device also. Basically it is accessible from any device that can browse internet.

What is the verdict?

eCrypt is a concept focused around business organizations, both small and large-scale. With it all the communication among the employees can easily be secured. The easy to use encryption can be a good catch for the small organizations that rely on business version of Gmail.

Even as an individual you can use eCrypt Me as it is free to use in its beta version with 125 MB of space to offer. You can give it a try here before it starts to charge money

• Log-in to your Yahoo Mail account
• Click on Contacts tab
• On this page there is an option to import contacts, click on it
• Now you can see options to import contacts from Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail and Others
• Click on Facebook and allow Facebook to access your information
• Thus you got all the Emails of your Facebook contacts
• Now go back to Contacts tab and click on Actions drop down button
• In there select Export All
• Now you have all the contacts in CSV format

Hope it was helpful. Questions, suggestions and word of thanks is always welcomed.

It looks more elegant (to some extent it looks like Hotmail, am I right?). I guess the new look blend more with Google+ and Google are making strides towards unifying the Google experience. Change is in the air. We cannot escape it, for sure. Though the new Gmail is not launched yet but you can still enjoy the new look of Gmail by enabling the preview theme.

How to get the new look:

• Go in to your mail settings.
• Click on the themes tab
• Select the Preview (Dense) or Preview theme

Enjoy the new look of Gmail. Feedback, suggestions and questions are welcome.

Log into your gmail account. Look at top right and click on the “gear” symbol to choose “Mail Settings”. It looks some thing like this:

Now go in “Mail Settings” and there choose the “Accounts” tab. Here you can see many options like Adding another email address as your own (with this you can compose from another email inside gmail. for eg: if you are inside your abc@gmail.com you can send mails from xyz@yahoo.com), you can get emails from other email addresses (for eg. inside your abc@gmail.com you can receive mails from xyz@yahoo.com), you can grant account access to others (for eg. your account can be read by your secretory and she/he can reply to the mails on your behalf), you can change the default name of your gmail account.

Here click on “Add another email address you own“. Provide the other email you want to use inside this gmail.

Click on “Next Step” which will then ask for your permission to send a verification mail to the added email address. Click on “Send Verification“.

A verification link will be sent to the specified email address. There are two ways to verify it. Either click on the link provided in the verification mail or copy the verification code sent in the mail and paste it into dialogue box that appeared after clicking “Send Verification”.

When you have successfully verified the newly added email address, you can see the one is reflected in your account settings. You can use it as the default mail (by default this mail will be used to send the messages) or secondary mail (your wish).

Now when we have different emails inside one gmail account, let see how to use it. Click on “Compose” to write a new mail. In there you can see a drop-down menu in “From” section of composing a mail. Here you can choose the email address you want to use to send the mail.

I hope the post has helped you. Do provide me with your feedback by liking/voting/commenting on the post. Enjoy