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Gmail for Beginners, Part 5 – opening an attachment & attaching a picture [Windows 7]

Part 1, Getting Started is here. Part 2, Finding and Reading emails is here. Part 3, Replying to an email & Saving a Contact is here. Part 4, Composing an email & inserting a smiley is here. Warning! Some of the screenshots and step-by-step instructions appearing in Part 5 are only applicable to Windows 7. […]

Smashwords Book Sale – 3 for 1 Bargain

Smashwords Book Sale Posted on July 9, 2015 by Yvonne Hertzberger For the remainder of July Smashwords has a promo on. This puts Back From Chaos as free, Through Kestrel’s Eyes at $1.00, and The Dreamt Child at $1.25. Look for the promo coupon when you click on the book page. https://www.smashwords.com/books/search… That means all […]

Data Solutions Australia – my data for sale

I have just hung up from Data Solutions Australia, a company dedicated to providing mailing list and telemarketing list data to other companies who then use those lists to chase sales. http://www.dsadata.com.au/contactus.aspx I rang Data Solutions Australia because my landline is an unlisted number, yet I keep receiving unsolicited telemarketing calls on that number. I […]

This is how handwriting with the iPen will work on the iPad Pro

Originally posted on RGS Computing:
Penning the next Great American Novel on the iPad Pro may have just gotten easier thanks to Apple’s latest handwriting user interface patent. If the patent becomes commercialized in future tablets, iPad Pro owners won’t have to resort to attaching third-party Bluetooth keyboards or pecking on the touchscreen keyboard. Instead,…

Boots for elephants

Originally posted on 5 minutes more please:
?? The Knox Leader (local paper) published this article below, on Ferntree Gully resident Joe Parsons, who has been helping elephants in need for the past 20 years.? What an inspiring man!! BOOTS FOR ELLIES: HUNDREDS of elephants across the world have had their world made a little brighter…

Gmail for Beginners, Part 4 – Composing emails & attaching a smiley

Part 1, Getting Started is here. Part 2, Finding and Reading emails is here. Part 3, Replying to an email & Saving a Contact is here. Although replying to an email and composing one are very similar, the few small differences can be tricky, and they all involve your Contacts. If the email address of […]

Gmail Advanced – How to manually add a Contact

One of the things I dislike intensely about the Gmail ‘Inbox’ interface is how it hides important functions behind layers of unintuitive forms. God forbid there should be a menu anywhere. No, instead you have to learn to look for tiny down arrows that lead to lists that may or may not lead to something […]

Gmail for Beginners, Part 3 – Replying to emails & saving Contacts

Part 1, Getting Started is here. Part 2, Find and Reading emails is here. To make this section feel a little more realistic, I called for help from the blogging community, and they responded by sending Kenneth Wu, [Gmail username kenzomuramasa] the fictional character I have been using in all my examples, lots of mail! […]

Amazon ‘follows’? – when did that happen?

Okay, I admit I can be a bit unobservant at times but seriously, when did Amazon make it possible to follow your favourite authors [and have fun doing it]? I have to assume the Amazon follows happened sometime after the purchase of Goodreads because the concept is like a mashup between how Goodreads allows you […]

Please send an email to kenzomuramasa@gmail.com!

I was working on Gmail for Beginners, Part 3, when I realised I needed a bunch of emails to properly illustrate how Gmail deals with new Contacts. I already have a couple of email addresses [for characters out of Innerscape] but Gmail recognizes that they are all ‘me’ so I need some emails from strangers […]