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Here Are Some Little Tools That Help You To Write Better Emails

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We get to write, forward, reply to emails every day. They may be work-related, personal emails, or any others, we get to pass through email-related tasks every day. Now here in this piece of article, I am going to take you through some little tools which will definitely help you to write and send better emails.

Email, like it or not, is the one tool that pretty much everyone has, everyone uses and everyone checks on a daily basis, so the business use of email isn’t going anywhere soon as an external communication tool. Then how can we ignore the sharing of information regarding the simple tools that make your email experience a better one? Here we go

Tools For Better Emails

Giphy for Gmail 

Like GIFs? Of course, you do, you’re currently on the internet. Now you can easily include the entire spectrum of human emotion in your emails.

three.sentenc.es

The Three Sentences mantra isn’t going to work for everyone, but for some people, it will work like a charm.

The website, ‘three.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be three sentences or less. It’s that simple.‘

Gorgias:

Stop creating templates in an unstylish way. They will not come to your use, other than using your space and they will be on drafts. Now you can create stylish chrome extensions and productive templates by using a simple tool Gorgias. This is available as a free Chrome extension.

Grammarly:

The Grammarly Chrome extension helps you in a very brilliant way by checking for any grammatical mistakes and errors in your mail and thus saving your time of checking or rereading the mail before you send it. This one tool will definitely help you in sending better emails.

These are the little tools and extensions that might help you to be quick, clever, and great at sending emails. Make use of these and send better emails.

How to disable annoying notifications from Facebook

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Notifications will be a great distraction for smartphone users these days. Notifications from the various apps regularly will be very much annoying and disturbing as well. Earlier in an article I have already written about blocking WhatsApp notifications on your phones, today in this article I am going to show you the process of disabling Facebook notifications.

In your PC:

Everyone must be receiving game requests on Facebook from their friends, but to get rid of such annoying notifications, you can do something

  • First, you should be logged into your account and then head to the Facebook settings page, over there you will find game and app notifications, click on edit
  • Then click on turn off
  • For disabling other notifications like birthday reminders, head to the notification settings page
  • There you can find the Birthdays option and click on off to disable app notifications, just like you can turn off the button behind the other type of notifications to disable them.

 In your android app:

  • Open the Facebook app in your android mobile where your account is logged in
  • Tap on the three horizontal lines available on the top right corner of the app
  • Then click on Apps settings
  • Then tap on notifications and then disable the notifications that you don’t need.

Follow these steps and get rid of the annoying notifications that you often get into your mobile and even PC.

The Best Google Online Courses That You Should Take Immediately

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Do you have any idea that Google offers an array of online courses? There are different types of courses that cover various topics from Android app development to digital marketing. Some of them are even certified courses. Why not make the best of these Google online courses. So, here we present you to some of the really useful courses that you must check out for sure.

Google Online Courses You Must Check Out

Digital Marketing

This course teaches the learners the various concepts in digital marketing which include campaign optimization, clickthrough rates, landing page experience and return on investment. This course even gives the learners the opportunity to learn about the benefits of targeted advertising. By the end of the course the students also get a chance to become an Adwords certified professionals if they pass the Adwords certification exam.

Android Development For Beginners

This MOOC is probably one of the most desired course and is one of the best Google courses available. Through this digital course the students will be able to learn the basics of Android development. They will get to learn how to create content for the Android platform. The course is aimed at people who have no prior coding experience, so you can go for it if you think you need to learn this course for creating an app of your own.

Mobile Web Specialist

Most of the internet browsers these days are from the mobile and smart wear platforms. This is one of the brilliant Google courses where you will learn how to write code for creating offline-first experiences. Even you will be able to audit the performance of the application, debug the problem if any. You will get a Google certification at the end of the course.

These Google courses are absolutely free to pursue and they don’t even have any particular time frame and you can learn them when you have time, but make sure to be punctual and don’t neglect them just because they are free.

Make The Best use Of YouTube With These Extensions

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The most popular video sharing platform on the internet is undoubtedly YouTube. It has got a really huge amount of data that it offers to its users without charging a penny. Everyone uses YouTube to get some entertaining content on the web, but who uses it to the fullest and to its best? You can also make its best utilization if you start using the chrome extensions that we are going to introduce you in this article.

Useful Chrome extensions for YouTube users

Ad-block for YouTube

Ads on the YouTube videos will be the most irritating ones if you watch videos on that platform a lot. You can easily get rid of those ads by using a simple extension for Chrome that allows ad-blocking. This is an extension that works exclusively for YouTube.  It runs without any issues. You can just simply set up the application and it will do its thing with you interfering.

Stop Autoplay for YouTube Extended

When we click on a YouTube video link, it will start playing as soon as it opens even we are not on that tab watching that video, Don’t want that to happen, you can use this Chrome extension and make the videos pause and they will start playing only you click on that video window and make it an active window.

HoverCards

Sometimes, we just don’t wish to click on the video link that we have received from someone but would like to check it out. Then this extension for the Google Chrome browser actually allows the users to watch videos in a pop-up window without having to leave the window that they are currently in. Install this extension and hover the cursor on the link and the video starts to play.

Magic Actions For YouTube

This chrome extension adds plenty of useful features to the video-sharing platform. You can set to launch videos in wide mode, adjust the volume with mouse scroll buttons, set up cinema mode where the video that is currently playing will be highlighted by placing out the rest of the page.

Sideplayer

Who doesn’t love the picture in picture mode from Mac devices that allows the users to play YouTube videos in a pop-up window while allowing them to do many other tasks? Windows users, just don’t worry here is a simple Chrome extension that can help you to get the experience of the picture in picture mode. You can resize the video and drag and place it anywhere on the screen.

So, watching YoTube videos with the help of the these extensions will be a great experience, just try them out.

Facebook Hidden Features That You Must Be using

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Facebook can be considered as the public digital square. Everyone uses it, but who uses it in the best way possible is what makes sense. So, don’t lay behind in social media technology, just learn about the hidden features that the social media giant has in store for its users and become a power user. Here are a few features of Facebook that you must know and use to become a power user.

Create A Custom Post:

Sometimes we may want to share our deep thoughts from inside and the Facebook post may not be the right place actually not enough place to post that, and if we don’t own a blog in that case, then you can make use of the Facebook Notes option and take a note of your thoughts in your profile. Just logon to your Facebook account using this link https://www.facebook.com/notes and you can find a plus icon there, just click on it to add your notes. You can also be able to see the notes of the other people that you have been following using your account.

Save Posts For Later:

While scrolling through your Newsfeed, you may actually find very interesting posts, articles, videos. But sometimes you may not have time to go through the entire article and read it but you would love to do it in your leisure time, so you can actually save them to read later without the help of any third party application, just click on the three dot icon of the post and then click on save video or save link and then later when you find time click on the saved option by clicking on the ham burger icon on your mobile app and you can find the saved option on the right side menu of your screen.

Download Your Copy Of Facebooking:

How would like to know about each and everything you have did on Facebook using your account. It would be a nice memory right, you can actually take a copy of your entire Facebook activity. Just head to your account Settings>  General>  Download A Copy Of Your Facebook Data, click on that option and then follow a few steps and you will have your copy of your Facebook activities downloaded, you can go through them when you have some free time and feel nostalgic.

Know What’s Happening In The World:

https://www.facebook.com/livemap/ Try logging into your Facebook account using this link and you will find one of the coolest features of Facebook where you can experience a live and interactive map. The map will show you with small blue dost from the locations where the live stream is going and you can simply hover over the dots to get the preview. So, do try these features the next time and find the new side of Facebook.