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Google just added another nice little feature to the way we share images through email…or to be more specific – Gmail. Compose a new email and you will see a image icon with “New” hovering above it. This is a new way to quickly access and email your backed up photos from your mobile device. Try it out and you realize it’s a time-saver.
If you have Auto Backup enabled on your smartphone, the new quick access feature saves a few seconds and some bother as it makes all your photos and videos backed up on Google+ (Google Photos) immediately available via the Gmail window.
Remember, Auto Backup also allows you to back up entire folders. As you can see in the interface below, you can also share entire folders via the button. Folders will be shared via a link with the people you send your email to.
Photos are organized with the most recent ones coming first in the view. Once you insert an inline image, resize images within the email window by dragging on any corner to make your share picture perfect. To take advantage of this feature, enable Auto Backup and tap into your collections on Google Photos. Combined with Google’s allowance for unlimited standard size photos and videos (i.e. they are not counted against your free Google Drive storage quota), it is a winning feature to also save precious smartphone space.
Storing photos within a click of Gmail makes them easier to share. While there are many options to back up photos from your mobile devices (e.g. Flickr and Dropbox), the little “photo” icon combines the best of two worlds.
Is it a time saver for you? Do you share a lot of photos via email or do you lean more towards social media?
Google makes the Chrome browser and Google makes Gmail. Naturally, you have some great Chrome extensions to make your Gmail experience better.
But there are just so many of them! Some have the same functionality, like tweaking the interface or scheduling a mail for later, and others are defunct extensions that top search results. So we scoured through the Chrome Web Store and came up a list of the best of the best. Here’s how to super-power your Gmail in Chrome.
The first thing you need to install ismxHero Toolbox, which is possiblythe only Chrome extension for Gmailthat you need. It combines features that other extensions try to offer, and does it for free. With mxHero Toolbox, you can schedule emails to be sent later, send emails that self-destruct after a period, track email openings and clicks, set reminders to follow up on emails, and send emails individually to each recipient in a bulk mail. The best part is that unlike extensions like Boomerang for Gmail or Right Inbox, mxHero Toolbox is completely free and offers unlimited messages— well, as good as unlimited because the limit is 50 emails per 30 minutes, which is going to be enough for most people.
The email inbox is now one of the most important tools used in your workday, so you need a good tool to manage it. And it doesn’t get better than ActiveInbox, which gives you everything you need to address and sort your Gmail. Each email can be turned into a task and assigned a due date, so you always know what needs to be done. Similarly, when you are sending a new email, you can add a to-do list or other notes so you know what you have to do—your recipient won’t see this. All of this information is neatly maintained in the ActiveInbox sidebar, with a list of all your projects and to-do lists. You can group different emails into projects, and drag-and-drop to change the order of emails. There is a lot of depth to this extension and the more you use it, the more features and tricks you will find to enhance your productivity.
If you don’t keep your Gmail tab open all the time, Checker Plus is one of the best Gmail plugins for Chrome to get notifications of new emails and interact with them. It supports multiple Google accounts and has various customizable ways of notifying you, whether it’s through a pop-up notification, a sound, or even reading out an email with its built-in text-to-speech function. I particularly like how it lets you interact with new mails, giving you the ability to quickly delete one or mark it as read without having to open your inbox.
This is one of my favourite productivity add-ons for Gmail. It works much like Gmail’s built-in canned responses, but only better. Where a canned response is a template that takes up the whole email, Insert Text can be put it at any point of your response. The best part is that it lets you set up folders, so you can categorize your ready messages. It’s brilliant and if you don’t already have it, you will wonder how you were using Gmail without it all this time.
With Send From Gmail, things get simple. When you want to mail someone an interesting link you just saw, Send From Gmail does that in a jiffy with a toolbar shortcut like in the picture above. It auto-creates a new mail filled in the subject field with the title of the website and URL in the body, so all you need to do is type in the “To” column and hit send. Like I said, simple.
If writing or reading an email with a YouTube link or photos from Picasa, Gmail offers to play it right there, without exiting the inbox. But that’s not the case with non-Google apps like Vimeo or Soundcloud. Well, unless you have iFramely for Gmail, which turns links into playable embedded frames.
Right now, if you want to attach a file in Gmail, it needs to be either in your Google Drive or on your hard drive. But what if it’s stored in your Dropbox or it’s a photo on Facebook? With Cloudy for Gmail, you can attach just about any cloud file in an email. It works with Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Picasa, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and direct URLs, so you can send emails faster than ever.
If you want a professional-looking email signature, complete with links to your social media profiles and other details, then Wisestamp is the easiest way to spice up signatures. Creating a new signature is a painless three-step process, after which you can add other details like your social media links, chat links, personal websites, and more. Unfortunately, the free version of Wisestamp includes only one signature and a link-back ad, so depending on how professional your needs are, it might be worth paying for more signatures, different templates and company-wide standardization.
Gmail has several useful keyboard shortcuts and KeyRocket teaches you how to remember all of them as you type. So suppose you open the Compose New Message window by using your mouse to click on the button. KeyRocket will give you a gentle reminder in the form of a pop-up box that you can hit ‘C’ while in Gmail to do the same thing. Over time, you’ll pick up these shortcuts and be much faster in controlling your inbox.
There’s more to the Internet than Gmail, so when a contact sends you a message, Rapportive adds context. This extension, which runs in the sidebar, gives you more information about people in a conversation, such as their social profiles and recent tweets, and brings an option to add notes to that contact for future reference. There are a few other extensions like this one, but Rapportive is still the best of the lot.
If you are particular about how you want your Gmail inbox to look, Gmelius is going to be your new best friend. Want to switch labels to the right? Done! Need to see which email your cursor is hovering over? There’s a nice little highlight for that. Want to remove ads on the right, or chat and calendar widget, or tinker around with how the header looks, or much more? This extension has you covered. In no time, your Gmail will look exactly how you want it to look. What’s more, Gmelius Premium is currently in beta mode and so is free, which means you can check out how to search your Gmail inbox from the Chrome omnibox and get a clean print style for your emails.
What About Firefox?
Not all of these extensions are available on Mozilla Firefox, but that browser has its own set of cool tools. If you’re a Firefox user, would you be interested in a similar article? And what tools do you use to make your Gmail better?
Anyone working professionally with a computer has their hands on the keyboard most of the time. Reaching for the mouse can be an annoying disturbance and personally I often turn over my mouse in such situations. An easy solution is to simply keep the hands on the keyboard and complete as many tasks as possible with keyboard shortcuts only.
Apart from making you work more efficiently and faster, you can also impress your friends or colleagues by being able to work without a mouse. This article describes some cool Windows 7 keyboard tricks to get you started. In the end you might never want to take your hands off the keyboard again.
For your convenience, more keyboard shortcut resources are attached at the bottom.
Note that some of these shortcuts will only work if Windows Aero is enabled. If Aero effects are disabled on your computer, it might not be powerful enough to support resource intensive graphical features. The visual effects may also have been disabled to increase overall performance. If you wish to enable Aero nevertheless, have a look at my recent article explaining How To Enable and Troubleshoot Aero Effects in Windows 7.
Aero Shortcuts
[Windows] + [Spacebar] (Aero Peek) Make all open windows transparent to view gadgets and icons on desktop.
[Windows] + [D] (Aero Peek) Show or hide the desktop.
[Windows] + [Home] (Aero Shake) Minimize all but selected window. Reverse by clicking the key combination again.
[Windows] + left arrow OR [Windows] + right arrow (Aero Snap) Dock selected window to the left or right half of your screen.
[Windows] + up arrow OR [Windows] + down arrow (Aero Snap) Maximized and restores the selected window.
[Windows] + [SHIFT] + up arrow OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + down arrow (Aero Snap) Maximizes and restores selected window in vertical dimension only.
[Windows] + [Tab] (Aero Flip) Launch 3D representation of open windows and click [Tab] key again to flip through them.
[Windows] + [T] OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + [T] Move focus to front or back of taskbar. Press [T] again while holding the [Windows] key to cycle through items in the taskbar from left to right or, with [SHIFT] button held too, from right to left.
[Windows] + [B] Puts focus on the ‘show hidden icons’ button on the system tray.
[Windows] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [9] Launch first through ninth icon on taskbar, including items pinned to taskbar.
[Windows] + [SHIFT] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [SHIFT] + [9] Starts new instance of respective taskbar icon.
[Windows] + [Ctrl] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [Ctrl] + [9] Cycles through multiple instances of the respective icon.
[Windows] + [Alt] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [Alt] + [9] Opens jump list for respective icon.
Multiple Monitors
[Windows] + [SHIFT] + right arrow OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + left arrow Move selected window from one monitor to another. They will remain in the same relative location.
[Windows] + [P] Select presentation display mode.
Magnifier
[Windows] + [+] OR [Windows] + [-] Activates Windows Magnifier to zoom in or out of screen.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [D] Switch to docked mode.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [L] Switch to lense mode.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [F] Switch from docked or lens mode back to full screen mode.
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [I] Invert colors.
[Windows] + [Esc] Exist magnifier views.
Other
[Windows] + [G] Cycle through desktop gadgets.
[Windows] + [X] Launches Windows Mobility Center. Especially useful if you’re working on a laptop.
Aero enhances Windows 7 with several visual effects. Aero Peek for example makes open windows transparent and reveals the desktop underneath them. These effects are very stylish and useful, but they are also heavy on your computer’s resources.
Depending on your system resources, Aero is not necessarily enabled per default. This article reveals how system components are scored and how you can enable or disable Aero effects.
Moreover, I will demonstrate how you can use only selected visual effects to go easy on your system resources.
What Aero Effects Are There?
Aero Peek
This feature unites two similar effects. For one, it refers to the thumbnail preview you see as you hover over a taskbar icon. Once you move the mouse over the thumbnail, a full size preview of the respective windows is shown. Secondly, when you hover the mouse over the far right of your taskbar, all open windows become transparent and the underlying desktop is shown.
Aero Shake
Click and shake a window to minimize all other open windows. To restore the minimized windows, shake the open window again.
Aero Snap
Dragging a window to the left or right side of the screen will dock it to the respective half. This makes viewing two windows side by side very easy. Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes it. When you re-size a window and let it touch the top or bottom edge of the screen, it automatically maximizes vertically, while retaining its width.
Aero Flip
This is a 3D effect that lets you flip through all open windows. It works with keyboard shortcuts only. Hold the [Windows] key and click the [TAB] key to launch the effect and then move between windows.
Why Do Some Aero Effects Not Work On My Computer?
Windows 7 automatically adjusts Aero effects based on your computer’s Windows Experience Index. The index assesses key system components, including processor, memory, graphics, gaming graphics, and primary hard disk on a scale of 1.0 to 7.9. The base score equals the lowest subscore. The subscore for your computer’s graphics performance determines which Windows Aero effects are supported.
How Can I Find Out Or Update My Computer’s Windows Experience Index?
Go to > Start and type > experience index into the > search field. From the results click >Check the Windows Experience Index. If you have a laptop, make sure the power plug is connected as the test does not run on battery power. Then click > refresh.
How Can I Adjust Aero Visual Effects?
Note that Aero is not available for Windows 7 Starter. Furthermore, you must use an Aero Theme, rather than a Basic or High Contrast Theme. To verify or change your theme go to > Start and type > theme into the search field. Then click > Change the themeand select a theme from the list of available > Aero Themes.
Make sure your Windows Experience Index (WEI) is up to date. When you just updated it, you can click > Adjust Visual Effects in the top left of the same window. Otherwise, go to > Start and type > adjust performance into the > search field. A window with >Performance Options for > Visual Effects will pop up.
This is where you can > Let Windows choose what’s best for my computer (based on your WEI score), > Adjust for best appearance, > Adjust for best performance, or select > Customsettings.
To go with the best performance and still retain functionality for all Aero effects, select only the following options:
Enable Aero Peek
Enable desktop composition
Use visual styles on windows and buttons
For best performance you should have as little options checked as possible. I also like the > Show windowscontents while dragging option, but other than that I can live without fancy visual effects.
What Can I Do If It’s Still Not Working?
Windows may have issues with your video driver or your system performance is too low to support Aero. Generally, the WEI subscore for your graphics must be 3.0 or higher for Aero to work. Note that my score is 2.7 and Aero still works rather well, however, Aero Peek was disabled by default. In any case, there is an easy to use troubleshooting tool that will track down the issue or fix bugs and automatically enable Windows Aero.
Again, make sure your WEI is updated. Then click > Start and type > Aero into the >search field. From the list click > Find and fix problems with transparency and other visual effects. In the wizard that pops up click > Next and the tool will work its magic.
If the tool isn’t able to automatically fix some of the issues, you must attend to them personally. Then run the troubleshooting wizard again to automatically enable Aero, or go through the steps described under “How can I adjust Aero visual effects?” to do it manually.
