How to Make Someone Else’s YouTube Playlist Your Own

Learn how to copy the YouTube playlists of another YouTube users to your own account. You can also merge one or more YouTube playlists into one for easy viewing.  Millions of YouTube users are working diligently to organize this ever-growing database of videos into playlists that make the YouTube experience even more enjoyable. Looking for inspiring Steve Jobs speeches on YouTube? Classic nursery rhymes for kids? Popular music videos of Adele? Well, chances are that some YouTube user may have already curated the best videos for a topic into playlists that you can watch on any device with a click. You can even download YouTube...

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Make a Bookmark to Quickly Restart Google Chrome

How to make a bookmark for Google Chrome that will help you quickly restart your Chrome browser and free up system RAM.    Google Chrome, most would agree, is a memory hog. Open a few website tabs in Chrome and your system slows down to a crawl. The most recommended solution is that you uninstall the non-essential Chrome add-ons and restart your browser to release some RAM.   How do you restart Chrome? Close the browser and double-click the application icon on the desktop to launch it again. That’s the usual way but Chrome also offers a special URL that makes it easy to restart Chrome from the address bar.Go to the browser...

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How to Receive Notifications for Google Forms on your Mobile Phone

How to get instant push notifications for Google Forms on your Android and iPhone. Get notified when a respondent submits your form and also receive the answers in the notification.  The Email Notifications add-on for Google Forms will send you the form data in an email message each time a respondent submits your form. You can use the same add-on to also send automated emails to the form respondents immediately after they complete your Google Form. The popular Google Forms add-on has been updated and it can now send push notifications to your mobile devices as well. That means when respondents complete and submit your online form,...

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An Undocumented Gmail Trick – Search Emails by Date and Time

Gmail supports several search operators to help you easily find emails in your account. Learn about an undocumented trick in Gmail that will help you search emails by date and time.  Gmail supports a plethora of search operators to help you instantly find that elusive email message buried in your mailbox. You have size search – like larger_than:5mb – to find the big messages in your account. File search – like has:attachment filename:doc – will locate email messages that contain file attachments of specific types. This graphic illustrates all the known search operators that work both on Gmail and Google Inbox. Date Search in Gmail- Date...

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How to Generate a Report of Bounced Email Addresses in Gmail

When you send emails through Gmail, some messages fail to deliver and bounce back to the sender from mailer daemon. Learn how to prepare a bounce report of all failed email addresses and keep your mailing list clean.  Some of the email messages you have sent through Gmail might not get delivered at all. There could be a problem with the recipient’s email address, their mailbox could be full or maybe the mail server could be specifically blocking your emails due to the content of the message. When an email message is returned, you get a bounce-back notice from MAILER-DAEMON@gmail.com and it will always contain the exact reason for...

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How to Add a Picture Password to your Google Forms

Learn how to add picture passwords or image CAPTCHAs to your Google Forms. You don’t want spam bots from completing your Google Form and make fake submissions.  Google Forms have this “all-or-none” problem. The forms are either public (anyone can fill your form) or, if you are on Google Apps, you can create forms that are visible to everyone in your organization. It is however not possible to restrict access to forms to specific people. Another shortcoming is that Google Forms do not allow passwords or CAPTCHAs to prevent spam bots from filling your forms with random data. Google itself maintains the reCAPTCHA project but it is not...

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Know What Facebook Can See Inside Your Photographs

Facebook uses image recognition technology to accurately determine the content of your photographs. You can view these machine generated captions to know how Facebook sees your own photographs.    When you upload any photograph to your Facebook account, they look at the actual content of the photograph and try to determine what objects and scenes are inside the image. You may not have added any description, yet Facebook can determine what that picture is all about.   Whether you are having a pizza, enjoying the sun on a beach, playing with your dog or spending an evening with friends, Facebook can accurately figure it out...

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How to Make Phone Numbers Callable in Google Sheets

Learn how to insert phone numbers inside Google Spreadsheets and make the numbers clickable and callable on mobile phones.  If you click an email link on a webpage, it opens your default mail program. Similarly, you can make phone numbers on your website “callable” meaning when someone clicks the phone number, it will launch the dialer on their mobile phone and initiate dialing of the specified phone number. It is recommended that you make phone numbers clickable as more and more people would be accessing your site on their mobile devices. How to Insert Clickable Phone Numbers in Web Pages- We use the simple tel protocol to convert...

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See the Email Sender’s Company and Logo in your Gmail Inbox

Gmail will only show the names of the sender in the default inbox view. Use the Chrome extension to see the company’s domain and logo image of the senders in your Gmail mailbox.  The default layout of your Gmail inbox has the sender’s name listed in the left most column followed by the subject and the date of the message. The emails are sorted in reverse chronological order with the newest messages listed at the top. The problem with this layout is that you cannot figure out who the actual sender of a message is without actually opening the email. For instance, if you get an email from Angus who works at Google and a second email...

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How to Email Unique File Attachments using Mail Merge for Gmail

Mail Merge, available for Gmail and Google Inbox, is a perfect tool for sending personalized emails to one or more email addresses using a simple Google Sheet. If you never performed merge before, please watch the Mail Merge tutorial and documentation to get started. One of the most popular features of Mail Merge is its unique ability to send different file attachments to different email address. For instance, if you are applying for a job at different companies, you can attach the same PDF resume in all email messages but the cover letter could be different with each application. This step-by-step tutorial explains how you can you...

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