Google 2 point verification

Dear Readers,

As i said you all early in my wall that Google has just announced the next level of security measure to our accounts by introducing 2 point verification.

2 Point verification is nothing but once you enter your password for any Google account , you would be prompted to enter the verification code which will be generated on your smartphones. Once you enter the verification code if it matches then you would be allowed to access your account else you will not be able to access your account.

This two point verification is divided into two different parts 

1. Via smartphone

2. Via application specific password.

Via Smartphone:

This method is nothing but your verification code will be generated via your smartphone thru Google Authenticator application and you can use this to login to your Google account using that verification code.

Via application specific password:

Once smartphone verification is enabled for example if you have configured your gmail account with outlook or with your iphone mail application then it will not fetch any emails. It will say authentication failed. Because these applications will not be prompting for verification code so you would need to enter your application specific password.

Don't worry Google has many recovery option in-case if your phone is missed or stolen.

It's very simple to activate 2 point verification code.

1. Login to your Google account

2. Click on settings

3. Click on Accounts and import tab

4. Click on "Other Google account Settings"

5. Now click on "using 2 step verification" rest is very simple. Follow as said on screen.

Outlook items read when selection changes

Dear Readers,

I have seen many of my co-workers suffering with this problem. They open outlook and start reading emails. When they move to next, next emails the previous emails goes read. In this way they miss out some important emails or they again mark that as unread to read it later.

This happens daily but no one is fixing this though they understood it's an extra effort for them daily. It's very simple to fix. Please follow the below steps.

Step1: Goto Tools --> Options
Step2: Click on "Other" tab and select "Reading Pane" under Outlook Panes.
Step3: Now un-check "Mark items as read when selection changes".

Microsoft Office 2003 to 2007 usage

Dear Readers,

One of our reader has queried to us like they were using office 2003 for long and now they have upgraded to 2007 version. The interaction and the usage is very different in 2007 compared with 2003.

This becomes difficult to everyone hence microsoft has given an online interactive guide thru which we can click on the options as like 2003 version and it will show how we should work in 2007 version.

Try this and let me know if you specifically looks for something.

Click here to navigate to interactive guide.

Extracting cells with specific Character

Dear Readers,

I got a scenario last week like in our shop we have 1000+ jobs which runs everyday. We have got the entire list of jobs that runs in our server and the requirement is to differentiate Daily/Weekly/Monthly jobs in different colums. The only identity is the 4th character of the job name gives either it's weekly / monthly / daily.

4th character = D is daily W is weekly M is monthly.

So if it's daily i need to put  Y it in column "Daily" , Weekly in Column "Weekly" , Monthly in Column "Monthly" (See below)

Job Name Daily Weekly Monthly

ABCD120N Y N N

BCED125N Y N N

ERED124N Y N N

WERW130N N Y N

TERM140N N N Y

The formula that i used is  =IF(MID(A2,4,1)="d","Y","N"). It's nothing but i am taking the 4th character of the job name and if it's "D" then i place Y in that column else N. Same in monthly just replace "D" with "W" and for monthly "D" with "M".

Today's iPhone/iPod touch Deal

Dear Readers,

Mad Chad is a game which has scored good ratings in it's shortest release period. It;s a crazy game that many loves to play. Please try it out.

Cloud Printing thru Gmail

Dear Readers,

I am extreamly sorry that i am late to inform on this, but the delay was to make sure if it works good for me, so that i can explain you better.

Yes, a week before Google has kicked out it's next feature to us with Cloud printing. When apple folks raise their voice stating iPhone 4 has a great feature to do wifi printing thru air print which is compatible only with iPhone4 or above. Google was quite for some time until clound print was announced and now the voice of google on this cloud printing is unreachable / unbeatable by apple.

Cloud printing is nothing but you configure your home printer thru your google account and you will be able to print from any part of the world to your printer. All you need to do is activate your google account with this clound print that's it. You are done, you can now print from your gmail account thru any computer or mobile app to your configured printer.

Simple Requirement:

1. Should have printer configured to your computer.

2. Install Google Chrome Browser Ver 9.0 or higher. Click here to download and install.

Steps to activate your clound printing.

1. Once chrome new version is installed, open "Options"  from tools menu.

2. Click on "Under the Hood" tab, scroll down till end you would be seeing "Google Cloud Print" option.

3. Click on "Sign in to Google Cloud Print" and enter your google credential.  Your account will be enabled in no time. That's it. You can click on "Print Test Page" if required to make sure everyting is fine.

4. From now you can print documents from your google account to your printer irrespective to your location. Wow!!! We love you Google!!!!



Unread message in gmail

Dear Readers,

There are couple of changes in gmail Labs recently that i have noticed.

1. Search option for gmail labs has been introduced. Ie., you can give a search of any lab features instead of scrolling down.

2. New lab feature "Unread Message Icon". Actually either you can turn on "Title Tweak" lab feature or Unread Message icon feature. Both does the same job but display is different.

Stop Ads in your Gmail

Dear Readers,

An another good day with resolution to couple of queries from our readers. 

Ads are good occationally not every day, every minute. This really anoys to everyone. Most of you should be aware of Google Ads. They try to put ads on all possible applicaitons that google have and earn $$$'s by themself.

They put the ads on our gmail mailbox. Our readers has sated that they click on the ads accidently many times and it pops up many windows. Though not all ads will popup multiple windows but if we don't want obvisouly we should stop it. Lets see how.

1. Login to your Gmail account

2. At the top right corner click on "Settings"

3. Click on "Web Clibs" tab on the listing

4. Uncheck "Show my web clips above the Inbox" option. This will stop your ads in your gmail inbox.

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Today's iPhone / iPad touch delas

It's been long time that we posted free app deal... It's time now though there are many apps comes with different deals we look for some good app for our readers.

If you are interested in a puzzle kinda game then go for "KUVIO" . it's a pattern matching game. It's free for couple of days only.