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Gmail: Hide Labels and Circles in the Label List

Gmail allows users to organize emails into categories through the label feature. Labels can be accessed from the left side of the Gmail interface. While an effective way to keep your emails organized, too many visible labels make it harder to find the desired category. Additionally, Google+ places circles in Gmail which can be another distraction. This tutorial will show you how control which labels and Google+ circles show in the label list.

Gmail: Automatically go to Priority Inbox when Signing In

Gmail has just rolled-out the priority feature that can be used to automatically sort your email by importance. By default, when you sign in your account, you are redirected to your old Inbox. This tutorial shows how you can set your Priority Inbox as your main inbox so you can see important emails right away!

How Do I Add a Gmail Account to Opera?

Adding your email accounts to browser can be extremely useful when you want to quickly check your email. This tech-recipes tutorial will show you how to add your Gmail account to the Opera browser and thus check your email from the sidebar.

Gmail: Import Contacts from Yahoo! Mail

If you are wanting to move from Yahoo! Mail 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.

Gmail: Create a Distribution (Group) List

If you are regularly sending emails to a certain group of your contacts, it can become rather tedious to constantly have to select them over and over again. A better method is to create a Group list that contains these contacts, then you only need to select the list when you wish to send those contacts an email.

Gmail: How to Enable Desktop Notifications for Chat and New Messages (Chrome Only)

If you are a Gmail on Google Chrome then you have all you need to receive desktop notifications for new email and/or chat messages. Here’s how to enable them so it will be easier to know when someone is talking to you.

Backup Gmail Offline to Mac Mail or Windows Outlook

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This guide is an alternative, offline method of backing up your Gmail emails.  I will explain how to setup your Gmail account to use POP and in turn use Microsoft Outlook Mail or Apple Mail to download your entire gmail account to save offline.  You can archive the messages in Apple Mail or save as a PST file in Outlook. Keep reading for the details.

Windows Phone 8: Enable or Disable Auto-Upload to SkyDrive

By default, the Photos app in Windows Phone 8 will automatically upload your photos and videos to your SkyDrive account. While this automatic feature can be useful at times, it also consumes your data plan. If you do not have an unlimited data plan, you should consider turning this feature off.

Photoshop CS6: Create Flaming Text Effect

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Eye-catching text is important for any project. Flaming text often provides an overdose of eye candy. This tech-recipes tutorial will cover the creation of the proper layer styles to build text which will appear to be en fuego. I am using Photoshop CS6 but similar steps will work on prior versions.

Windows 8: Change the Color of Events in Calendar

If you sync multiple accounts with the Calendar app in Windows 8, the app will automatically set the color for events from each account differently. While that is enough to help you identify events from different accounts, you should consider changing the colors to your favorites. Manually setting the colors will help you know which event comes from which account, and you will be able to manage them more effectively. Continue reading to find out how.

Windows 8: Prevent Windows Update from Restarting PC

Seeing the “PC will restart in 15 minutes to complete the update” window can be a nuisance. The simple registry hack described in this tutorial will remove it.

C++: Operator Overloading (Even a Little More Complex)

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Use the instructions in this tech recipe to Overload the operators: +=, -=, *=, /=, %=.

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