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Gmail: Use Reply By Chat to Converse About an Email in Real Time

The Reply by Chat feature allows you (and your contacts) to converse about an email message that you have sent or received, in real time. An added bonus is that if you have Gmail saving your chat history, the chat will be nested in with the rest of the conversation generated by the message.

Gmail: How to Search for Messages Within a Certain Date Range

While Gmail’s search options do allow you to do basic searches for messages within a date range, it still doesn’t give you absolute control over the date part of the query. You have to select a range that is 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 6 months or 1 year from a certain date. Instead, use the basic search box and assign the date range directly from there.

Gmail: Easily Send Your Google Task List

If you utilize the Google Tasks feature, you can easily email your task list to friends or family directly from Gmail.

Gmail: Listen to Google Voice Messages Right from the Notification Email

If you use Google Voice, you probably take advantage of the email notifications when you receive voice mail. Instead of constantly having to go to Google Voice to listen to the message, you can listen to it directly from the notification email while still at Gmail.

Gmail: How to Block a Sender from your Inbox

Do you receive countless “bad” emails from someone that got your address? Maybe you gave your address to them and now regret it, or maybe they got it via some other method. While Gmail has no block functionality, you can keep these troublesome emails from appearing in your inbox by automatically deleting these emails as they arrive.

Google Talk: How To Block Someone

What if you’re no longer friends with one of your Google Talk contacts, how do you block them so that you don’t have to keep your status as Invisible? By following these steps, you can take away their option to chat with you without having to keep hiding.

Gmail: How to Send SMS Messages Without Using Email

By now, I’m sure that you know that you can send SMS messages using email and the appropriate email address to users of T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint, as well as AT&T, Alltel and others. But who wants to rely on email when you can text back and forth without leaving Gmail or having to refresh the page.

Gmail: Import Contacts from Hotmail

If you are wanting to move from Microsoft’s Hotmail to Gmail, one of the first things you’ll need to do is to move your contacts over. Fortunately, both email clients make this an easy and painless process.

Facebook: Restrict Who Can Find You in Search Results

By default, Facebook allows any user to find you in the search results. If you would like to keep things a little more private, you can configure your privacy settings to narrow the amount of users that can find you when searching with Facebook.

Facebook: Delete or Remove Friend

Everybody loves friends on Facebook… until they get annoying or start spamming. Here is how to delete or remove a Facebook friend. Updated for latest Facebook version.

Facebook: Change the Privacy of a Group

Although the admin selects the appropriate privacy option when the Facebook group is initially created, he or she may need to change the group’s privacy setting later to adjust to the needs of the group.

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