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Learn How To Know The Email Status Of A Mail That You Sent

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It is the century of emails and messages and a lot of conversations are taking place over emails these days. Have you ever thought about the feature of knowing the status of our messages that we send, it is the most useful and convenient feature available these days. WhatsApp, the most popular messaging application has this feature. Think of this feature in email services, it is the most required thing, right? Yes, you can track the email status of the mail that you have sent. The process of tracking the status of the sent mail is pretty simple.

Checking Email Status:

For knowing the email status whether it is opened and read by the user, here is a simple trick. If the mail you sent includes one or more hyperlinks then use this simple process for tracking that mail.

  • Then copy and paste the shortened URL in the mail that you would like to send
  • Now if the user on the other end opens the mail and click on the link then it will be captured which you can view
  • To view that just add a + sign at the end of the URL for example if your URL is https://goo.gl/61SzOY, then top know whether it is read or not, just go to https://goo.gl/61SzOY+
  • There you can see the number of clicks and you can even know the time at which the person clicked the link.
But what if your mail doesn’t have any kind of URLs and still you need this features, don’t worry there is another way if you are a Gmail user.
  • This works only for the Gmail users
  • When you are sending a mail through Gmail, then just check the request read receipt option while composing the mail.
  • You can find this option on the down right corner of your compose window under the more options icon.
  • You are done with your setup.

Note: As it is related to the privacy of the user, the other user on that end should allow their settings in a way that you can know that they read the mail.

  • If they agree to send the read receipt, then the sender’s message box is updated with the date and time that the user read the mail.

Using this simple process you can track the status of your sent mail.

A Simple Bookmark Trick For Instantly Composing A New Mail In Gmail

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Gmail, a popular mailing service from the search engine giant Google has a lot of amazing and interesting features in store for its users. And it is very much known as a fast service. And the users send and receive a number of emails every day. If you are also among those people who compose a lot of emails every day and send them, then you should definitely be needing this shortcut which allows you to cut short the process of opening the Gmail inbox and then clicking on the new button to start composing a new email. But there is a simple bookmark trick for you.

Bookmark Trick

This Google’s mailing service is a cloud-based service and therefore there will be an URL associated with everything. All you need to do is just bookmark that particular URL of that particular task on your toolbar and make your task simpler.

  • A special URL that will lead you to a simple email window and you should be logged into your Google account if you wish to access the clutter free email window using the above URL
  • And if you wish to open that URL with some default parameters, then you can make use of some specific strings
  • And let us now see the strings that you can make use of if you wish to open the new compose window with default parameters

&to=contacts, you can also add multiple contacts in a single string, but you have to separate

&cc=you can add cc recipients with this string if any

&bcc=add bcc recipients using this string if any exist

&su=add subject of your email using this string

&BODY=this string can be used for adding the body of your email

%20 is a special character that you can make use of if you have to leave a space

This quick URL bookmark trick can come to you as handy at times for sending quick emails without any hassles.

Create A Virtual Mobile Number To Avoid Spam Calls And Messages

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No one wants to share their mobile number and other such personal contact details, but what can we do is every website or any application asks for such credentials while logging in or signing up. We can do nothing else but providing it with our details. But if you don’t wish to make your mailbox or inbox, phone logs filled with spam calls, spam messages, emails, then you can definitely choose some of the services available online that provide self-destructive emails and virtual mobile number.

When it comes to self-destructive mail, I have mentioned in my earlier article about the useful mail service 10-minute mail and you can check that article here

But in this article, let us learn how to create a virtual mobile number which helps you to not reveal your personal mobile number just to any random website for signing up for it.

Get A Virtual Mobile Number

SmsHorizon is the service that offers a virtual mobile number which the user can use for signing up with the websites, applications and all. This saves the user to protect his personal number from the spammers.

You can just sign up on the website and start your free trial for 10 days and after that, you need to register.

After signing up, you can just create a virtual number which you can use for signing up in various places, and the confirmation message or OTP according to the context can be found which you can use to confirm the registration process of the website that you used this mobile number for signing up. Thus SmsHorizon helps saves you from spam calls.

This service is thus an amazing thing for everyone who wishes to keep their mobile number safe and secure.

Keep your mobile number private with this virtual mobile number.

How To Make The Most Use Of Clock App In Android Devices

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Android devices are coming in handy for many of our tasks these days. Many of us are relying on smartphones for doing many things. One such stock app that comes by default with all the Android smartphones is the Clock app.
And today in this piece of article, we are going to focus a bit more on that app get the most out of it.

Using the Clock App 

• Do you know that you can open the app with just a single tap? You don’t have to head to the app menu every time you wish to open the application. Then, simply tap on the clock widget which can be found on every smartphone screen
• You can even use the clock as your screensaver, this can be done pretty simple, just go to the settings, and then click on Display, then click on Screensaver. Finally click on Clock option there, by tapping the gear icon you can even set the style of the screensaver
• A huge sound in the middle of the sleep can be quite annoying, so a gradually increasing tone can be quite good, clock app allows you to set a gradually increasing tone, you can set this by opening the clock application.

Then tap the three dot icon, then tap the gradually increase tone from the drop-down list and you can even pick how long the effect to last
• Another most interesting and useful feature in this application is the Do Not Disturb mode. You can customize this mode as you like and manage the notifications to not to disturb you
• This app even allows you to silence the ringtone of an alarm after a particular time you have set. You can set this by going into the app settings and then click on Silence option and finally selecting the time

Thus, these wonderful less known features of the app can make your Android devices more useful.

Enabling Ambient Display On Your Android Device

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Among the many cool and really awesome features of the Android devices, the ambient display feature is one. It, in fact, gives the users the convenience of viewing a dreading the notifications from various applications right from their lock screen and this is made available to the Android users who have android lollipop version or above installed in their devices. So, here we present you the process that you need to follow to get this amazing feature on your device and this process helps in getting this feature on any android device.

Enabling Ambient Display

And as not everyone has their phones rooted we are presenting you to the process of enabling this ambient display on devices that are not rooted, so that it helps the maximum number of people.

  • And to move forward or to just begin the process, you will need an Android app called the AcDisplay
  • You can find this application available in the Google play store and it is available for free that you can get it downloaded and installed on your device for free
  • Then open the application and you will have to enable the AcDisplay option as it will be in off mode by default
  • When you try to turn it on, it will ask you for a few permissions and do grant it them by simply clicking allow
  • Then click on the three dot icon on the top right corner of the screen and then tap on the settings option
  • Then tap on active mode option and tap on the disable on low battery option. It means the feature will be disabled when it is in low battery mode
  • You can also go through the various other settings of the application by exploring the application and make it custom according to your needs and requirements

We hope and wish these simple steps helped you in getting the wonderful feature on your device.