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Outlook: Delete Autocomplete Email Addresses

Even after you have corrected a wrong email address in your contacts, the old email will continue to bug you when outlook tries to autocomplete addresses for you.

Monitor Solaris system load with vmstat

Keeping an eye on system performance is critical for many applications. The vmstat program provides detailed if cryptic information about the system load.

How to Prevent Gmail from Automatically Creating Contacts

Google creates a contact of every person you email. This is helpful as it is used to auto-complete your address field. However, there a multitude of reasons why you may not want these email addresses clogging up your contacts forever. Here is how to stop gmail from automatically saving contacts.

Gmail: How to Hide the Phone Icon and Disable Outbound Voice Calling

If you don’t like Google’s new addition to Gmail that allows you to make outbound voice calls to phones you can disable this feature and lose the Call phone icon as well.

Gmail: How to Disable Conversation View

If you don’t like your emails of the same topic grouped together, you can make Gmail organize your inbox like ordinary clients by disabling the threaded conversation view.

Gmail: How to Increase the Cancellation Period (Undo Send) of Sent Emails

Gmail allows you to cancel a sent email, but it’s default may be too short a time for you. You can extend the cancellation period up to 30 seconds, which should be plenty of time to stop an email that you’ve changed your mind on.

Gmail: Enable High Resolution for Video Chat

If the resolution and window size of Gmail’s video chat isn’t to your liking, you can enable high resolution video and a larger viewing window to make for a better experience while actually freeing up some computer resources.

Gmail: Enable Auto-Advance to Save Time When You Delete, Archive, or Mute Conversations

Normally, Gmail takes you back to your Inbox when your delete, archive or mute a conversation. This can be time consuming if you are having to deal with a lot of messages. Auto-Advance will automatically move to the next (or previous) email after performing these actions, allowing you to quickly move through your messages.

Gmail: How to Allow Another Gmail User Account to Read, Delete, and Send Mail on Your Behalf

You can now delegate email rights to another Gmail user. This can be useful if you want to give email access to your spouse or business associate and also give them access to your Contacts.

Backup Gmail, Hotmail, and/or Yahoo! Mail Contacts to your Computer

Lately, everyone seems to be looking into backingup their inboxes for their online email accounts. While this is important, what would happen if you lost all of your contact information? Here’s how to backup your contacts to your computer from Gmail, Hotmail (Windows Live Mail), and Yahoo! Mail to your computer harddrive.

Gmail: Forward Important Emails to a Different Email Address

Expecting an important email from your boss, but it’s time to go home? You can set up Gmail to forward the messages from your important contacts by setting up a filter.

Gmail: How to Insert Images into an Email Message Body

Gmail allows you to insert images into the body of an email message instead of just attaching the image. This makes for a better looking email and prevents the reader from having to open an attachment after opening the email.

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