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How To Block Emails From Certain Senders In Gmail

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Organizing your mail inbox is one of the grossest things that you can think of. If you have OCD like me then you must be visiting your inbox very often each and every day and all you do is deleted unwanted emails from your mailbox, clear them and delete them from the trash bin as well. What if you would be able to block emails from certain email ids that you wish. Sounds great right. It will not even need much of your hard work for deleting and organizing your mailbox as you won’t be receiving unwanted emails once you block them. So, try this and stay organized with any stress.

As Gmail is the most popularly used mailing services all over the world, we are considering Gmail as the mailing service here and let you know the process to block emails in Gmail.

Here Is How You Can Block Emails/Block Sender

  • As a first and the very basic step login to your Gmail account by logging in using your Google account credentials
  • Then you will be headed to your Gmail Inbox
  • Now open the email from the business, particular email id or a person that you wish to block
  • Now click on the down arrow next to the email sender’s name or address
  • Then click on block option

And if you have blocked someone important accidentally or unintentionally, then don’t freak out, it is simple to unblock as well, here is what you should do.

  • Head to the Gmail settings by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right corner of your screen and then selecting settings from the menu
  • Now head to filters and blocked addresses tab
  • Scroll to the option The following email addresses are blocked. Messages from these addresses will appear in Spam
  • Now select the email address from the list which you wish to unblock
  • Then click on unblock selected addresses option

You can thus very simply block emails from unwanted email ids, senders and businesses and keep your inbox clean.

Some Of The Really Awesome Windows Notepad Tricks That You Must Try

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Windows notepad we all know about this application but don’t think about it much. It doesn’t shine for any particular purpose and users don’t usually opt to use it on their regular basis for any work. But not many people know that this application can be used for executing small tricks that can help you in showing off your skills among your friends, family, and others. So, catch out some of the interest windows notepad tricks.

Matrix:

You can recreate the effects of The Matrix on your PC, you can do that in simple steps. All you need to do is just create a document with the following text copied in it

“@echo off

color 02

:tricks

echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%

goto tricks”

Save this file with the matrix.bat and save it as a batch file and then after saving it, just double tap on it and find the matrix happening which gives you a feel of a hacker.

Computer Talks

Thanks to the virtual assistants that had made the computer talks a normal and regular thing. Notepad helps you to relive the computer talk moments on your computer. All you need to do is just open a new notepad document and paste this code into it

“Dim Message, Speak

Message=InputBox(“Enter text”,”Speak”)

Set Speak=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)

Speak.Speak Message”

Save this file with the name ‘computertalks.vbs’. Then after saving it, just double tap on the file and enter some text, your PC starts to speak.

Generate A New Pin

This is another one of the really interesting yet lesser known windows notepad tricks. Creating unique passwords for every login you go through online will be a difficult thing as we know and understand. This is a trick using notepad that can help you to generate a random four or five digit password. You need to create a new notepad file with the following content or text in it.

“@echo off

:Start2

cls

goto Start

:Start

title Password Generator

echo I will make you a new password.

echo Please write the password down somewhere in case you forget it.

echo —————————————-¬———————–

echo 1) 1 Random Password

echo 2) 5 Random Passwords

echo 3) 10 Random Passwords

echo Input your choice

set input=

set /p input= Choice:

if %input%==1 goto A if NOT goto Start2

if %input%==2 goto B if NOT goto Start2

if %input%==3 goto C if NOT goto Start2

:A

cls

echo Your password is %random%

echo Now choose what you want to do.

echo 1) Go back to the beginning

echo 2) Exit

set input=

set /p input= Choice:

if %input%==1 goto Start2 if NOT goto Start 2

if %input%==2 goto Exit if NOT goto Start 2

:Exit

exit

:B

cls

echo Your 5 passwords are %random%, %random%, %random%, %random%, %random%.

echo Now choose what you want to do.

echo 1) Go back to the beginning

echo 2) Exit

set input=

set /p input= Choice:

if %input%==1 goto Start2 if NOT goto Start 2

if %input%==2 goto Exit if NOT goto Start 2

:C

cls

echo Your 10 Passwords are %random%, %random%, %random%, %random%, %random%, %random%, %random%, %random%, %random%, %random%

echo Now choose what you want to do.

echo 1) Go back to the beginning

echo 2) Exit

set input=

set /p input= Choice:

if %input%==1 goto Start2 if NOT goto Start 2

if %input%==2 goto Exit if NOT goto Start 2”

Save the file as ‘generator.bat’. Then double-click on the saved file and you will see the menu.

We hope you enjoy trying these awesome windows notepad tricks.

How To Send Self Destructive Emails Using Snapmail

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Have you ever thought why Snapchat has become the most popular application all over the world, among the youth or the young? I personally think that it is the self-destructive messages feature that attracted more and more users towards using that as it protects their privacy. And many applications started imitating this most hit and popular feature. While some are a hit again and some are not.

As far as self-destructive emails are concerned, there are a lot of applications, websites available for the users and we have earlier talked about a website. And today in this article, let us know about a Chrome extension, that allows the users to simply send self-destructive emails right from their Gmail steps For inbox.

There are a lot of options out there to send secure and self-destructing messages to others. But what if you really just want to send them a message using Gmail? Snapmail is a Chrome extension that allows you to send messages just like you might otherwise to recipients that will destruct in 60 seconds.

Steps For Sending Self Destructive Emails

Let us now see the process to get that extension and send emails that automatically delete after a certain time.

  • You must be using Google Chrome for this
  • Just open your Chrome browser and then go to the Chrome web store and download and install Snapmail  extension into your PC
  • And one thing you must note is that this extension only works for Gmail inboxes
  • It will add a Snapmail button next to the send button in your Gmail
  • You can click on the Snapmail button to send a self-destructive mail, you can find the button next to the send button

Thus sending encrypted emails gets easier with the help of this Chrome extension. It’s a lot more secure than just emailing important passwords.

You Need To Check Out This Best To-Do App For Android

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A To-do app is a great way that you can use to increase the productivity.  You can offload the tensions and worries of task management from your brain and thus you can concentrate more on your task. But you have to put in a lot of your time and efforts in finding the best time management application in Android that suits you the best and fits your needs.

Take a little amount of time to learn about this application and you won’t regret as you discover this wonderful application that has the ability to replace the to-do app that you are currently using.

The Android app that we are going to introduce here in this piece of article is TickTick

TickTick – To-Do App Features:

It has a simple interface with simplicity, readability, and usability as its key elements in a design.

It has three panels in which the first and the main panel the currently active and all the tasks in your list. The left menu lets you switch to the various lists. The right panel shows the various details and even lets you edit the task.

This Android To-do app lets you organize your individual tasks with the various interesting and useful features it has in store. Users can add notes for the task, add comments and include attachments. Comments and notes, attachments adding features come in handy for the users when they had to do a task in collaboration with others.

The app even allows the users to sort the tasks for easy access and recognition as well. Users can also set reminders of the various works they need to finish in time or have got a deadline for.

This TickTick application can thus be your best choice, do try it and subscribe to the premium version if you think it is worth it.

Do try this app and stay organized!!!!

Learn A Few Easy Ways To Hide Folders In Windows

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It is very much important to protect your privacy and which is also a difficult task these days if you are sharing your computer or laptop whichever device you use with someone else like your colleagues or friends. There arises the need to secure your files in a safe place. So, we are here to help you know the various methods using which you can hide folders in your Windows PCs or laptops.

 Hide Folders:

  • Open File Explorer, then click on Tools>Folder Options
  • Then in the Folder options window switch to the View tab
  • Then under the option Files and Folders, select Hidden Files and Folders and then check the radio button with the option don’t show hidden files, folders or drives and click on ok
  • Then head back to the file explorer and select the particular file that you wish to hide and right-click on it and from the pop-up menu select properties
  • Then in the properties, make sure you check the hidden option in the general tab

You can access the files by temporarily making the hidden folders visible under folder options.

Make Folders Invisible:

This is yet another method that helps you in making the folder invisible rather than just hiding it.

  • As a first step you need to hide the name of the folder that you would want to make invisible, just select the folder and press F2, then while holding the ALT key type 0160 and press enter
  • In the next step, you need to make the folder invisible, right-click and select the properties of the folder and switch to the customize tab and click on the change icon. Choose a blank icon and click ok

 Hide Folders With A Tool:

There are many useful tools that will allow you to hide your various folders in Windows. My Lockbox is one such tool that you can try using to hide your folders. But unfortunately, the free version of the tool will allow you to secure only one folder at a time. You can change the folder from time to time as you wish.