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How to Help When A Friend’s Email Gets Hacked

    Here’s the Exact Attack That Did It (And What to Do) A real incident, fully documented — including the phishing email, the attack chain, and every step I took to report it. Last month, a friend of mine received a professional-looking email. It appeared to come from someone in her industry — a […]

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How to Delete Emails with a Simple Swipe in the Gmail App

Delete Emails with a Simple Swipe in the Gmail App Do you use the Gmail app? Have you ever wished you could just delete an email directly from the main screen instead of archiving it? If you’re tired of swiping emails into oblivion (aka the Archive folder) when you really want to send them straight […]

/preview URL Trick for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Introducing: the “/preview” URL Trick for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides.At the end of the URL  in the address bar of any Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide:Swap out /edit (and whatever other characters come after it) for /preview and you or anyone who is allowed to view the file will see it without any menus. Some great recent cases for this /preview trick: […]

How to access / search for / insert emojis in Google Docs

In a Google Doc type a colon either at the start of a line or anywhere after a space, and the emoji search box will drop down, like this: Then, type in words to search for your emoji, like this: Fun, right?! 👍 🥳 🙌 😎 🤩   Want to know how I made those GIFs? Watch […]

How to Create a Short Demo-GIF (from a Video file)

I recently sent out an email about inserting Emoji in a Google Doc, including this GIF. After several people asked HOW I made it, I decided to record a quick tutorial! So let me show you how easy it is to turn a video into a GIF. Step 1: Record a Video To begin, you’ll […]

How to Disable Your Gmail Spam Filter (+ why on earth to do that)

I get a DEEP sense of satisfaction reporting spammy emails as spam, so you’ll be surprised to hear that I have disabled the spam filter on a couple of my Gmail accounts. It all comes down to WHY I did it – which is a very easy explanation: I have a couple of Gmail accounts […]

Set Your Gmail Spam Folder to Show in the Sidebar Only When There’s Spam (in only 4 clicks)

How many emails are in your Spam folder? Most importantly – are you regularly checking what’s in that spam folder? I’d hate for you to miss real emails! Many people don’t see their spam folder because it hides out-of-sight / out-of-mind “below the fold” in the left column. I’m here with a 4-clicks-setting-change that will […]

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