George’s Wonder Blog

Did you know you can get Google Calendar in 38 languages? I didn’t, but the Google Calendar team is closing in on their goal of 50 languages currently available in Gmail (Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, UK English, US English, Ukrainian, or Vietnamese).

The newly added languages to Google Calendar are Latvian, Romanian, Filipino/Tagalog, Serbian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Hindi and Indonesian. Maybe you want to brush up on a foriegn language or English is your second language? Sign in to Google Calendar, click Settings, in the Language dropdown at the top select your desired language, click the Save button at the bottom and you’re done.

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According to Tip: Customize your web clips :

 … web clips display feeds (news headlines, blog posts, or pretty much anything in RSS/Atom format), ads and other information at the top of your inbox

I’ve got a couple of feed readers, but I don’t use them regularly and I think its just really cool that I can see them in my Gmail inbox, albeit 1 line at a time randomly from a list I choose.

Quickly add your own feeds into Web Clips…..

• Log into Gmail
• Click Settings, then Web Clips
• If you want, you can remove existing feeds by clicking the remove link
• To add your own feed URL’s just type it or copy/paste it into the “Search by topic or URL” box, click Search, then click the “Add” button for the feed you want to add. When you are done click “My Clips” to return to your list of web clips
  
• You can also browse the pre-selected feeds by category down the left underneath of “Browse clips in…”

So pretty cool, huh?

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In Gmail looking out for security - again I wrote about the new Remote sign out feature which allows you to monitor account access and close any open Gmail connections to your account. Recently I was reading ZDNet’s Make your Gmail even more secure this great post was about increasing security for your Gmail account. The Gmail Blog also wrote about it - Making security easier.

So here’s another way to make your Gmail account even more secure…

While logged into your Gmail account go to Settings > General and scroll down toward the bottom and click “Always use https”. You can learn more about exactly what this does for you by clicking the “Learn More” link to the left, or by visiting the ZDNet or Google Blog links at the top of this page. 

SCREEN SHOT:

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Gmail once again shows their concern for security by adding a new security feature: remote sign out. If you ever wondered if you left your Gmail logged in somewhere or maybe someone figured out our password, now you can not only find out, you can figure out where they logged on from (by IP address), and when. Plus you can log out all sessions besides the one you are currently using.

Look to your Gmail footer and read all of the good details - Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account .

MORE OF MY POSTS ON GMAIL:

Custom Gmail Email Address, Spam and Filtering
Gmail Great Features
Gmail Announces the launch of Gmail Lab
Gmail Notifier (beta) for Windows or Mac

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I often get asked about how to avoid spam, and the answer really is to reduce your spam - you probably will never be totally spam-free. One great way is to use disposable email addresses - Gmail makes it easy! Gmail also has great spam filtering built right in!

FIGHT SPAM

Let’s say your email address is yourusername@gmail.com and you sign up for an Amazon account. Just use the plus sign (+) after yourusername and before the at sign (@) and you get the custom email address of yourusername+amazon@gmail.com. Maybe you sign up for a webmaster forum called “the idiot webmaster” I could use the email address yourusername+idiotwebmaster@gmail.com for that one. Now you can go into Gmail and have these emails filtered (marked, labeled, deleted, whatever).

ORGANIZE

You can also add periods in yourusername@gmail.com (anywhere!). You can use your.user.name@gmail.com, you.ru.ser.name@gmail.com or even .y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e.@gmail.com and they all work. At any rate those can also filter these email addresses, and all with ONE gmail account. Cool, huh?

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2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address

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