Facebook iPad App Preview Leaks Out
Update: It looks like Facebook has blocked access to the app at this time. Still, you can check out my screenshots to see how the app looks.
Facebook users were able to get a sneak peek of the social networking site’s long-rumored iPad app on Monday by using a jailbroken device and tweaking a file embedded in Facebook for iPhone.
The hack appears to have been first uncovered by Marvin Bernal on Twitter, and TechCrunch has since confirmed “with a source who had previously seen the Facebook iPad app” that this is indeed the iPad app that the company planned to launch with.
Facebook for iPad
Take a look at my screenshots and a description of some of the other features below:
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Categories: All About Smartphones, Email, Facebook Updates, Other Categories, PC TIPS, Updates, Utilities Tags: API, Facebook Chat, iPhone, site, video
How To Enable Gmail’s New Look?
Good news to all Gmail users. After overhauling Google search and Google Earth look, Google has now introduced a new look to its popular Gmail service. The new Gmail user interface with new buttons and design is simply awesome. If you are using Gmail, it’s time to switch to the new look.
The new Gmail user interface is not enabled by default. You need to manually switch to the new user interface. The new user interface is now available in the form of themes. Yes, you need to switch to the Preview themes to get the new Gmail user interface.
Here is how to enable Gmail’s new user interface:
Step 1: Log-in to your Gmail account.
Step 2: Click on Settings and then click Mail settings to open Gmail Settings page.
Step 3: Switch to Themes tab
Final Step: Under themes tab, click on Preview theme at at the bottom of the list to enable the theme and interface.
That’s it. the theme after applied will look like the picture given below. Share and Enjoy.
How to translate emails and text in other languages?
Sometimes the email that we receive may contain text in other languages. In one of the emails that I received there were words that contained English alphabets but in an unknown language. Inside the mail there was also a boquaet of flowers. After looking at the sender’s email it was confirmed that the mail was a SPAM. Though the obvious thing to do next was to delete the email, out of curiosity I wanted to know the contents of the email. So I copied the contents (by Ctrl + C) and went to www.freetranslation.com and translated into English.
Only then did I find out that the email was actually a Birthday greeting from one of my foreign friends in Russia. Luckily I did not delete it and was able to translate the email. If you face similar issues in translating text in other languages you can also use this free translation website as mentioned above.
Some search engines such as google and altavista has a link named ‘Translate this’ in the search results to translate into english the contents of a foreign lanuguage website.
These are some of the websites that allow you to freely translate. (Free translation tools)
- Google, Altavista, Dictionary, Free Translation, Tmail and Systran are some of the websites that allow translation from many languages to many other languages.
- www.systranssoft.com is a website that translates online. Goto the language translation page and key in the text or the URL to translate. Select the source language and select the destination language from the list. Then click on the ‘Translate’ button to translate into your desired language of selection.
- Tmail (www.tmail.com) is another language translation website that translates emails in other languages. For example if you want to translate an email in French to English, then key in your email address in the To: column and in the CC: coloumn type fren@tmail.com. Then copy the french email into the body of the email and send it. You are sending the email to yourself and the fren@tmail.com means(fr-> french to en->english). The translated email will be sent to your email shortly. If you want to convert korean to english then the CC: will be kren@tmail.com and so on.
What is Phishing?
Due to the wide use of computers and internet, the dangers that come with their usage is also increasing. Today emails are very useful in many ways. But the same emails bring us many problems and make us lose money. My friend once received an email from his bank. He was curious why his bank would send an email to him and opened that email.
In that email it was mentioned that he was selected and won a car worth $20,000. Therefore in order to register the car in his name and deliver to him they wanted some of his personal details. A link was provided in the email to update his particulars. There was also a warning message which said the particulars have to be updated ONLY using the link provided in that email.
My friend was very happy. Who will not be if he had won a car. He clicked on the link. His bank’s home page appeared on the screen. He checked whether it was the same page as his bank. Yes it was. It was the same page as his bank’s page. He was even happier now. His Name, Birth date, Father’s Name, Home Address, Account number, Password, Credit card number and many other details were asked in that page. He happily filled all the details. He was then shown a ‘Thank You’ page which said that the car’s key and the registration papers will be sent to him in a week.
After two or three days he went to the bank to withdraw some money. But the bank clerk said that ‘There was no balance’ in his account. He argued that he did not withdraw any money and asked him to check again. The bank clerk said, you did not withdraw money but you bought a lot of things ‘Online’ from internet. Then he started thinking how was it possible. It took a few hours to figure out that the email that he had received earlier was a hoax and he had been cheated.
This is called ‘Phishing’ in internet. The email will look like it is from a particular company or organization. A link will be provided in the email and it will ask you for your particulars and to update your password and other personal details. If you click the link the page will look very similar to the company’s original website but in reality it is not. Thus they will make you believe it is from a particular company and cheat you. This is called Phishing.
Tips to be safe from Phishing?
- If any email asks for your bank’s login name, password, bank account no, credit card no etc, do not believe it. No bank will ask for these details through email. You can call your bank and check with them.
- If you receive SPAM emails from unknown persons or unknown companies just ignore them and delete them.
- When you visit websites in internet, do not fill in forms and subscribe to insecure websites. You can see whether a site is secure from the LOCK icon displayed in the status bar of the browser or in the address bar the address starts with ‘https’
- Never click on links contained inside emails.
- If you are a ‘online banking’ user then frequently check your bank balance and transactions. If there is any doubt just call your bank to verify.
- Another thing to remember is ‘nothing comes free’ in this world. So if any email claims that you have won a lottery, or someone wants to transfer amount to your account etc, just ignore such SPAM emails.
How to password protect my emails inbox in MS Outlook?
In most places, many people use the same computer. Especially in a home, many family members use the same computer. In such a scenario, the emails sent to one person can be easily read by other persons using the same computer. In such cases, is it possible to create individual inboxes for each member and secure it with a password, so that each one can access only their email inbox.
Yes, it is possible. MS Outlook makes it possible for you. In MS Outlook you can create your own message folders, contacts for each one separately. You can create these for each individual users and make it secure by protecting these folders with password so that each person can see only their folder. Just follow these steps to protect your email inbox with password.
- First of all you need to create a new Identity. Select ‘File->Identities->Add New Identity’ option. Here you create a new user with a ‘user name’. Also select the ‘Require a password’ option and key in the ‘password’. Remember this username and password for future use.
- Now, it will prompt and ask whether you want to register this new user and log in, click on ‘Yes’ and enter all your personal details in the following screen. Now you have created yourself as the new user and you have protected your inbox with your password.
- Likewise, you can create identities for each member of the family.
- After creating many identities, each user can see their protected inbox by choosing ‘File->Switch identities’ and key in their username and password to see their inbox.
Similarly Netscape Mail version 7 has this multi user feature. But it is not protected using password.
If you use web mails such as yahoo, gmail or hotmail then you do not have to worry, since you can only view your emails by logging in each time.
Categories: Email Tags: email, File Switch, How to password protect my emails inbox in MS Outlook?, MS, Similarly Netscape Mail
How to sort emails?
Usually we don’t delete the emails that we receive. We just keep it thinking we may need it in the future. Even if we deleted the SPAM and unwanted emails, there are still so many emails that keeps accumulating. After a while, if you want to search for a particular mail, then it becomes very difficult to find the mail we want. When the same person sends many emails, to find the email we are looking for in that long list, takes a lot of time. But there is a way. You can sort these emails. If you use MS Outlook or Outlook express to download and read emails follow this tip.
Look at your inbox. On top of your list of emails you will see the headings in small lengthy buttons namely ‘From’, ‘Subject’, ‘Received’ etc.
Just click on any of the buttons to sort the emails accordingly. For example if you want to sort all the emails based on the ‘Sender’ which is the ‘From’ heading then click on the ‘From’ button and all your emails will be immediately sorted based on ascending order of the sender’s name. Click on the same ‘From’ button again to sort in descending order of the sernder’s name. You will see a small arrow either facing up or down on the button based on whether it is sorted ascending or descending order.
Likewise you can also click on the other heading to sort for instance, based on the ‘Received time’ etc.
Eudora email client users can also use this method to sort their emails.
