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Consolidate Multiple Gmail Accounts
It's quite a hassle to manage multiple email accounts on a regular basis because you have to remember all the usernames, passwords and logins to check for new messages. But what if you could tweak your Gmail inbox and get all the emails at one place?
This article describes the step-by-step procedure to manage multiple email inboxes from a single email account.
Before we move on, let's assume that you have the following three email accounts:
1.John@gmail.com
2.John-office@gmail.com
3.John-business@gmail.com
You want to manage all the three email accounts from the inbox of john@gmail.com, which is your primary email account. Just follow the steps mentioned below:
1.Login to your secondary email account from where you would want to forward emails to your primary email account. In this case, the secondary email accounts are john-office@gmail.com and john-business@gmail.com.
2.Once you are logged in, click the Settings link which is placed at the top right of the page.
3.In the settings page, click the "Forwarding and Pop/IMAP" tab and enter the email address of your primary email account in the forwarding text box.
This would forward all the emails received at the current email address to john@gmail.com, which is your primary email account.
4.In the same way, login to other secondary email accounts and implement the above setting.
5.Now, login to the primary Gmail account where you would want to receive emails from all your other email accounts. Click the small "Labs" icon at the right top of the browser window.
6.This will open the Gmail Labs page. In this page, scroll to the bottom and find "Multiple Inboxes".
Select the radio button "Enable" and click "Save changes" at the bottom of the page.
7.This will reload your inbox. Click the "Settings" link again placed at the right top of the browser window.
8.Now click the "Multiple inboxes" link as shown below
9.In "pane-0" enter the email address of your first secondary email account (john-office@gmail.com) and in "Pane-1" enter the email address of your next secondary email account (john-business@gmail.com).
Leave all other settings as it is and click "Save Changes" when you are done.
10.Now reload your email inbox and you will see two panes in the right side of inbox.
These panes are "containers" of your secondary email accounts. Whenever you receive a new email message at any of the secondary email accounts a copy will be forwarded to your primary email account (e.g john@gmail.com)
The copy of that email message will be listed in the respective panes which you created.
That's it! Now you can check email messages of all your email accounts at one place without having to login and out from each and every account. This setting save a lot of time and should be practiced if you get a lot of emails across multiple email addresses every day.
Google Buzz Tips
If you are still uncertain on whether to use Google Buzz or not, I have compiled some Tips and Tricks on using and integrating Buzz with your other social networking sites.
1.Turn off Google buzz
First off, if you are a Gmail user who has no interest in using Google Buzz, Google has made it easy for you to turn Google Buzz off right on the bottom of your Gmail account page. At the bottom of the web page click the link that says "turn off Buzz" and Google Buzz will be removed from your Gmail account.
2.Remove Buzz messages from Your Gmail Inbox
Buzz automatically adds new Buzz messages to your inbox, along with all the other email subscriptions hitting your inbox daily - which is one of the chief complaints about Google Buzz.
First, at the top of the screen, right next to the search box, click the link titled "create a filter". Second, the filter tool contains a text box identifiable by "has words" where you would enter the word "buzz". Third, you will receive a warning when you click "Next Step" saying that the filter search you started will not work because it needs more information, but I have tested that theory and found that it does work for Buzz messages, so you can click OK. Fourth, make sure the box next to "Skip the Inbox" is checked and click on the "Create Filter" link.
3.You Can Tweet and Buzz
Why wouldn't your Twitter friends want to have your Buzz links, too? Google Reader is already connected via Twitterfeed for you to send things to your Twitter account, but that's not the only way to share. The Shared Items section on Google Reader allows you to grab the Atom feed link and past it directly into Twitterfeed. Once you press the "go" button, Twitter can then sync the two accounts together.
4.Using text markup language in Google Buzz
As long as you are using simple text markup language, Google Buzz will be able to recognize it. So, you can Buzz with style as you highlight words that you want to stand out in italics, bold, or strikethrough font options. How you use it:
The keystroke code for making text bold is surrounding the word or phrase with an asterisk.
*word* = word
Underscores surrounding the text tells Buzz that the word(s) should be italicized.
_word_ = word
If you want to strike out the text, then putting dashes at either end is the command used by Buzz.
-word- = word(strikethrough)
Transfer Themes from File-to-File & Program-to-Program in Office 2007
Have you ever found yourself working on a Word document or Excel workbook and wishing you could apply that really cool theme you used in a PowerPoint presentation the other day? And I don't mean just a blanket theme setup… you took the time to change the colors and fonts to make it "just right".
Or, what about the times when the reverse situation is true?
Maybe you had a great theme set up in an Excel workbook, the colors looked amazing in the charts and the font was just perfect. Now you'd like the same setup for your PowerPoint presentation…
Can it be done without the hassle of jumping back and forth between the two programs trying to create the same settings?
You bet - and it's way easier to do than you think!
So, let's say we're in PowerPoint and we're looking to transfer the theme from an Excel file to our current presentation.
Don't bother opening Excel - we can do it all in PowerPoint.
We need the Design tab, Themes section.
Click the bottom down-arrow on the themes list and choose Browse for Themes.
The Choose Theme or Themed Document dialog box will open.
Navigate to the file with the theme that you want applied to your presentation. Select it and then click Open.
Voila! The presentation is now set with the design elements from your workbook.
Basically it works the same in all the Office 2007 programs.
Although, while PowerPoint has a Design tab on the Ribbon, the others use a Page Layout tab.
You'll find the Themes section on the far left end of that tab.
It doesn't get any easier than that when it comes to transferring all those settings from one file to another.
Fix Your Page Border Dilemma
Ever try to print a page border on an MS Word document, only to find out the bottom is missing?
What did you do?
Probably everything you could think of, right? You know, choosing a narrow border, changing margins and so on.
Did it work?
Probably not. So, what did you do then? Remove the border completely?
Let's hope not!
I'd like to suggest that we take another look at the page border tab and see what we can do. After you've made your choices, don't click OK. Instead, take a closer look at what's available.
Have you ever noticed the Options button on the right side?
Click it.
When the Options dialogue window opens, you're looking for the "Measure from:" field in the top section.
Use the down arrow to select Text.
The margin numbers in the fields above will then change. They represent the amount of space from the text area of the page to the page border.
You'll need to experiment with those settings to see what you like best.
Click OK to exit the options.
Click OK again to exit the page borders.
Once you're back in your document, you can see the borders you've set and you should find that with the page border pulled in closer to the text, your printing dilemma is gone!
Add Extra Toolbars to your Windows Taskbar
I personally like to keep my desktop clean with minimal icons on it and just change the wallpaper from time to time. After all, what is the point of having pretty wallpapers on your desktop if you are going to have ugly icons all over it? So in order to do this, while at the same time retaining high productivity, I classify all the frequently used shortcut icons into groups and have them as a pop-up menu (an additional toolbar) I can access from the windows taskbar. I find that my productivity with the computer remains the same, but my desktop is much neater and cleaner when the icons have been moved to pop-up menus (additional toolbars).
These additional toolbars are similar to the quick-launch toolbar which comes as a default toolbar in Windows.
Adding a toolbar to the windows taskbar is very simple and can be achieved as follows
1.) Add all the shortcuts you want together into a folder.
2.) If you want shortcuts to be grouped together into sub-sets, then add a sub-folder with shortcuts within it
3.) Right click on the taskbar and choose Toolbars>New Toolbar.
4.) Navigate to the folder required and then click on "Select Folder".
5.) The toolbar should appear on the taskbar and will function similar to the Quick Launch Toolbar.
6.) In order to remove/disable a particular toolbar, right-click on the taskbar, choose Toolbars and then remove the tick mark against that particular toolbar.
Note: I normally group all the shortcuts into various sub-folders and put all the sub-folders together under a root-folder which I place within My Documents. I then create a toolbar which points to the root-folder. I tend to keep the quick launch toolbar on the left next to the Start button, and add additional toolbars on the right next to the System tray. I use the space in-between for tabs of open windows/currently running applications.
I find this method highly efficient as I can use the available space effectively and I also know exactly where all my shortcut files are and can modify them if required with the change reflecting in the toolbar immediately.
Example of a Toolbar
The screenshot above indicates a toolbar named "Unused Links" which was created in the above fashion. It contains all the links I don't want cluttering my desktop and makes them readily available. The classification into groups facilitates easy retrieval in case I need anything in future. As described earlier, I have it on the right extreme of the windows taskbar, adjacent to the system tray.
Clearing Text Styling in PowerPoint 2007
We all know that when it comes to PowerPoint presentations we tend to use a lot of styling aspects such as text color, shadows, glow, etc… basically all the things that appear in the WordArt Styles section of the Drawing Tools, Format tab that appears on the Ribbon when we're working in text boxes. 
You may not have noticed it but any time that you work with text in a presentation it's treated like WordArt, which is why you have so many choices for customizing the look of your text.
But… what if you've made a lot of changes and you just want to clear them all away to start over?
Do you use the undo button over and over and over again?
Or, maybe you've actually gone through the hassle of creating a new text box and retyping the text?
Either way, those choices can quite a waste of time.
So let's try a single clean wipe of the formatting.
To do that we need to first select the specific text or text box to be stripped of the formatting.
Now we need to be back at the Drawing Tools, Format tab. 
Click the bottom down-arrow on the preset style palette then choose Clear WordArt from the bottom.
POOF!
The extra formatting is wiped clean and you can work on finding the "right look" for your presentation.
Customize Your Windows 7 Shut Down Button
Tell me, how often do you actually "shut down" your computer? More often than not, do you put it to sleep? Lock it? What if someone else consistently uses the computer after you? Wouldn't it be nice to just log off?
That's a lot of questions with one relatively easy answer!
Just right-click your Start button and select "Properties". Under the Start Menu Tab you'll see a selection that says "Power button action:" and a drop-down box next to it. Simply drop that box down and select the action you most commonly use with your computer and hit OK.
Now whenever you click the Start button you'll see the action you chose instead of the usual "Shut Down option!.
If you don't like it, just follow the same steps and re-select "Shut Down"
Super Easy!
