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How to enable Gmail desktop notifications

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Gmail is the most powerful and useful email service from the search engine giant Google. It is popular because of its various features and user-friendly nature.

Gmail leads in the competition of the mail services. Many people might not be aware of the desktop notifications feature in it. It is the feature where the users will be notified whenever a new email arrives.

Here in this article, I am going to show you the process of setting up the notifications for email which will send you notifications no matter what you are doing on the PC whether browsing the internet, watching videos, pictures, you are not going to miss anything important after enabling this feature.

  • To start with this thing, you must be logged in into your Gmail account.
  • There will be a gear icon available on the top right corner of the screen, click on it and you will find the Settings option, click on it.
  • You will be taken to a new page, there you have to scroll down to the Desktop Notifications option
  • Over there you will find three options and select according to your choice, I suggest to choose the first option “New email notification on”
  • Now click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen.

That is it you are done with the setup and using these simple steps you can enjoy the notifications feature which will alert you when a new mail arrives.

How to UNDO the mail that you have sent in Gmail

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Well, everyone might be very well aware of the UNDO feature in Windows. We find it and use it in Microsoft Word very regularly. But have you ever thought of having an undo option for the email messages that we have sent. Well it actually does. Gmail the king of mailing services which has replaced the word of mail with its very own name has this feature inbuilt in it and very few people know about it.

We can actually UNDO mail that we have sent in case we feel that’s not the proper messages or the proper person, in the Gmail service.

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At times, we may feel bad about the sent mail and we may have sent the mail to a wrong person, in those situations we may always want to have a UNDO mail option which can be easily activated in your account by following the simple steps below

  • First login into your Gmail account and click on the settings option which will usually be available at the top right of the window.
  • Under settings got to general and then you may find the option UNDO mail and then go and enable it
  • You can even have the option of setting the time to UNDO for 5, 10, 20, 30 seconds, set the time you desire to have. I suggest you to select 30 seconds which will be sufficient in times.
  • Now save the changes
  • Now try sending an email and send it
  • Immediately after sending the message, you can find the UNDO message option on the top of the window.
  • UNDO mail if you want to and will not be sent..

This is so easy right. Do try it and these Gmail tips and tricks are gonna help us a lot in times. So I hope this one simple tip from my Gmail tips and tricks may help you when you need them and you make use of this UNDO mail using the very simple activation steps above.

Gmail now warns you before clicking any bad link

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Gmail Security

Now you can feel safer while using Gmail. Suspicious links are circulating through phishing emails in the recent days.

Google took few more security steps to make Gmail safer for the users and introduced two new features which alert us before clicking bad links.

Gmail verify and authenticate senders by following various checks. Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is one of them. Gmail uses SPF to identify and record spam messages. Once Google found any unwanted mail from a suspicious sender, it will warn us by displaying a question mark symbol as the profile photo of the originator.
The second feature Google introduced in Gmail is while accessing the Gmail from a web browser if Google found any risky links in the emails you receive, immediately it displays a warning message. You will get “Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!” message on the screen. The warning will show in full page.

In recent days people frequently facing trouble with spam and phishing links. Sometimes they are becoming victims of financial frauds and ransomware attacks. In this context, the latest measures taken by Google will protect the users to a maximum extent.

How to recover permanently Deleted emails from Gmail

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Deleted emails

Sometimes we accidentally delete important emails from our Gmail inbox. Once you noticed the importance of the deleted mail, you can restore it from the Trash folder. But the biggest problem is most of the times we clean trash folder also.

So how can you restore your important mail that was deleted permanently? Do you have any idea? Don’t worry; there is a solution for this. Google provides support to restore your important emails in certain conditions.

Follow this

Google maintain a backup copy of the permanently deleted emails for several days. You can contact Google Support by filling an online form to get back your important mail. For this follow the below steps:

1. Log in to your Gmail account

2. Open missing email support page. Here, you can report that your important emails got deleted.

3. In the form, your mail ID is automatically filled because you already logged in to your Gmail account.

4. Now select the date when you first observed that your important emails deleted.

5. Finally, in the description box, briefly, narrate your exact problem. You may mention that your account is compromised, or important emails accidently, whatever the reason describe it in a transparent manner. Google will consider it. Press submit button.

Once you have submitted the form, within half an hour you will get an email from Google support ID mail-support@google.com. The mail explains whether Google able to recover your emails or not. If it recovered the emails, they would start again in your inbox.

Trouble remembering all Passwords? Use this Android App

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Okay, let’s do some exercise!

How many passwords do you use from the time you wake up in the morning to the time you go to bed in night? Let’s make a rough count… Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Amazon, Flipkart, SBI online, LinkedIn, Evernote, Quora etc. Phew, the count doesn’t end still, what about Outlook, Snapdeal, Debit cards info and even your PC or mobile passwords.

Also the burden on our brains doubles if we have multiple accounts for a single website. How many of you remember all those passwords exactly every time you need them? Aren’t you, then this article is for you.

Almost everything in this world is digitalized now. There is nothing exaggeration in saying – the only thing that secures your privacy and your identity today is your passwords. Because of the negligence, intolerance, busyness or even with the mixture of all the three, most of us choose to go for a single MASTER PASSWORD that we use for all the websites.

But this can make the doors open for a havoc to come. To solve this problem, there are a plenty of potential applications in the market known as ‘Password Managers’ to track all your passwords. One such application is ‘Dashlane Password Manager’ for Android.

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Dashlane makes it easy to track all your passwords and your personal info that you use across the internet, with the access anywhere and anytime. You can save all your passwords at Dashlane in one place and use them whenever needed without the headache of remembering all those. The ultimate features that Dashline provides what sets it apart from all other applications are –

  • 1) Apart from saving all your passwords at a single convenient place, Dashlane gives you the instant access to all your accounts whenever needed and its AutoFill features makes you feel awww.
  • 2) It allows you to sync the data between between multiple devices you use.
  • 3) It will alert you to change your passwords regularly and it can even make the strong passwords on behalf of you for your accounts.
  • 4) ‘Digital Wallet’ feature is like feather in its cap and it will make your secure payments on the go.
  • 5) You can grant access to your passwords to some others in case of any emergency.

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The most important and the ultimate feature that Dashlane provides is its user interface and its AES-256 encryption to your passwords.  They say only YOU have the access to your information and not even Dashlane has the key to your encrypted data.

You also try and let us know how it feels to use ‘Dashlane’, in the comments section below. And lastly,

“Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.”

– Rakesh Priyatham