Thursday, March 9, 2023

How to Use Gmail's Snooze Feature to Stay on Top of Your Inbox

Sometimes you just need to hit the snooze button.

And with this Cool Tip Gmail feature, you can.

Managing your email inbox can be a daunting task, especially when you have to sort through dozens, if not hundreds of emails every day. 

Fortunately, Gmail's snooze feature can help you stay on top of your inbox by allowing you to temporarily remove emails from your inbox and bring them back at a later time.

Here's how to do it.

  • Find the email that you want to snooze.
  • Hover over the far-right side of the subject line for the email in the Index.
Gmail Snooze Subject Line
  • Click on the snooze button, which looks like a clock icon, located at the right of the subject line. .
  • Choose when you want to snooze the email by selecting one of the preset options such as "Tomorrow," "This weekend," "Next week," or "Pick date & time."
  • If you choose the "Pick date & time" option, select the date and time when you want the email to reappear in your inbox.
  • Click on "Save" to confirm.

Gmail Snooze

Once you snooze an email, it will disappear from your inbox and be archived. 

However, it will reappear in your inbox at the time you specified.

You can also find the Snooze clock at the top of an email when you open it.

Using Gmail's snooze feature can help you stay organized and reduce email overload. 

By snoozing emails to a later time or date, you can reduce clutter, prioritize emails, avoid forgetting important messages, and stay focused on the task at hand. 

So, if you haven't tried this feature yet, give it a go and see how it can help you stay on top of your inbox.


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Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Protect Your Tech: A Consumer’s Guide to Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan

What would happen if all of your family photos disappeared?

How would you feel if you woke up one morning to find all of your financial records missing?

What would happen if your laptop was stolen?

You'd probably be distraught.

Technology has become an integral part of our lives, from personal computers to mobile phones and smart home devices. 

However, disasters such as natural calamities, cyber-attacks, or hardware malfunctions can leave us vulnerable to losing our valuable data or devices.

Here's a Cool Tip:

  • Create a technology disaster recovery plan.  

While creating a disaster recovery plan might seem like a daunting task or unnecessary for the average consumer, it can save you time, money, and stress in the long run.

Here are some steps you can take to create your own disaster recovery plan:

  • Identify potential risks: List out all the possible disasters that could affect your technology, such as power outages, hardware failures, cyber-attacks, stolen equipment or natural disasters.
  • Prioritize your data: Identify your most critical data, such as financial records, personal documents, and family photos. 
  • Backup your data: Regularly backup your data to an external hard drive, cloud storage, or other secure location. 
    • Test your backups to ensure they are working correctly.
  • Create a communication plan: Establish communication plans with your family or friends in case of an emergency. 
    • Make sure your family knows where to find critical information and how to contact each other.
  • Protect your devices: Install antivirus software, firewalls, and other security measures to protect your devices from threats. 
    • Regularly update your operating system and software to ensure they are secure and up-to-date.

Creating a disaster recovery plan is crucial to protecting your technology from potential disasters. 

Disasters can happen anytime, anywhere, so it’s essential to be prepared.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

How to Check Which Apps are Draining Battery on iPhone

Have you ever noticed when your iPhone battery drains faster than usual? 

If so, there's a high chance that some apps running in the background are the culprit. 

Here's the Cool Tip:
  • Check which apps are draining battery on your iPhone.
Here's how to check which iPhone apps are draining your batter:
  • Open Settings
  •  Tap on Battery
  • Check Battery Usage
  • Review the list of apps and the percentage of battery they've consumed in the last 24 hours or last 10 days. 
    • The list is arranged from the app that consumed the most battery to the one that consumed the least.
  • Identify Battery Hogging Apps
    • When you see an app that you rarely use or don't need, you may want to consider uninstalling it or limiting its background activity to save battery life.

iPhone App Battery Usage
  • Check Background Activity
    • Tap on any app in the list to see more details about its battery usage. This will show you the time the app spent on screen and the time it spent in the background.
Based on the battery usage details, you can decide whether to uninstall or limit the background activity of an app:
  • Go to the Settings app, scroll down to the app you want to limit, tap on it, and turn off the Background App Refresh option.

That's it.  

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Monday, March 6, 2023

Link Like a Pro: Use This Cool Tip to Add Hyperlinks

Do you find yourself constantly copying and pasting website links into your Microsoft documents? 

Did you know that there's a Cool Tip to insert links using a keyboard shortcut? 
    • Use Control + K as a keyboard shortcut to quickly insert a hyperlink address in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Here's how to do it:
  • First, highlight the text that you want to turn into a link.
  • Press the Control + K keys on your keyboard. 
    • This will open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
  • In the Address field, type or paste the URL of the website you want to link to.
  • Click OK to insert the link into your document.

Insert Hyperlink Example

That's it!  You've just saved yourself precious time.

This shortcut works in all recent versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as many other Windows programs.

Enjoy!

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Sunday, March 5, 2023

In Case You Missed It - Cool Tech Tips for the Week 3/5/23

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We had a great week of Cool Tips here at www.OneCoolTip.com.  

These Cool Tips include how to organize your Microsoft Word document using the Outline feature, how to find your misplaced or lost iPhone with an Apple Watch, learning the secret of F5 to refresh your web browsing, how to get to your Windows 10/11 settings quickly, how to play a Dino game in Google Chrome browser, how to use the new tab feature in NotePad in Windows 11 and finally, how to create images using AI at you.com

Check them all out!

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Monday, February 27, 2023

When creating a new document, the biggest challenge is to get started with your thoughts.  Learn thihs Cool Tip to organize your document.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

The Apple Watch is a versatile device that can do much more than simply tell time. 

This Cool Tip will help you find your lost iPhone!

#iphohe #AppleWatch #FindMyiPhone #Apple @Apple

 

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Is your browsing "fresh"?  Learn how to refresh your browsing!

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Thursday, March 2, 2023

Is there a quick way to access key Windows 11 settings?  Yes, yes there is.  Learn how.

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Friday, March 3, 2023

Isn't it a pain when you try to Google but find you don't have an Internet connection?

But you can play this game anytime.  Learn how.

#Google #Chrome #Dino #game @Google

 

Saturday, March 4, 2023

Who doesn't like a nice surprise?

The February 2023 Windows 11 update has a very Cool surprise for the Notepad app.

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Sunday, March 5, 2023

AI is coming for you.  And AT You.

Learn how you can use AI to create incredible art.

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AI Comes to YOU

AI is coming for you.  And AT You.

That's You.com.

Artificial Intelligence, AI, is coming faster than most experts imagined.

And it's extremely popular.

We've told you about ChatGPT and Bing's new AI Chat.

But AI is now also available at You.com.

You.com is a search engine built on artificial intelligence that provides users with a customized search experience

So what can you do at you.com?

Similar to Bing and ChatGPT, you can chat to get customized search results and suggestions.  

You can also get customized AI artwork.

For example, the YouImagine art generator can generate a picture based on your detailed description.

Paint a picture of a brown cat at the beach at sunset in the style of Van Gogh, generates the following unique picture:

Brown Cat at Beach at Sunset
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Saturday, March 4, 2023

Notepad Gets a Cool New Feature in Windows 11 Update

Windows Notepad App
Who doesn't like a nice surprise?

The February 2023 Windows 11 update has a very Cool surprise for the Notepad app.

Microsoft enhanced Notepad, first introduced in 1993 for MS-DOS and then 1985 in Windows, with tabs to improve the app experience.

The updated app with tabs provides a quick and easy way to keep your data organized and enables you to switch between notes.

Here's how to use it:

  • Open the updated Notepad app 
  • Click the + icon to create a new tab.
Notepad with Tabs
Notepad with Tabs

Besides the introduction of the tabs feature, Notepad has been updated to support emoji input and auto-saving of unsaved files.


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Friday, March 3, 2023

Unleash Your Inner Dino!

Google Chrome Dino
Isn't it a pain when you try to Google but find you don't have an Internet connection?

Google has long tried to make this pain a bit more fun with a simple Dino game in the style of the popular Flappy Bird game that was viral hit mobile game in 2013.

Here's the Friday Funday Cool Tip:

You can play the Google Chrome Dino game anytime, even when you have an internet connection.

Here's how:

  • Enter chrome://dino/ into the Google Chrome browser.  
  • Press the space bar to play.  
  • To make the Dino jump, press the space bar.  Don't hit the many obstacles!
  • When playing on mobile, tap the screen to make the Dino jump!

Google Chrome Dino Game
Play Google Chrome Dino Game

Enjoy your Fun Friday!

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Thursday, March 2, 2023

Master Windows 11 Quick Settings - Here's How!

Is there a quick way to access key Windows 11 settings?

Yes, Virginia, there is a Windows Santa Claus.

And that Cool Tip from Santa is Quick Settings.

Windows 11 has a new Quick Settings menu that lets you access and adjust some of the most common features on your PC, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, volume, brightness, focus assist, night light, and more. 

You can also add or remove shortcuts to other useful features such as cast, project, battery saver, VPN, etc.

Here's how to  access the Quick Settings menu in Windows 11.
  • Click on the status icons (Wi-Fi, speaker, battery) in the lower-right corner of your taskbar, 

Windows 11 Quick Settings
Windows 11 Quick Settings
  • Or press Windows+A on your keyboard. 
You will see a panel with various toggles and sliders that you can use to change your settings quickly.

To customize the Quick Settings menu in Windows 11, click on the pen icon at the bottom of the panel. 

You will see all the available shortcuts that you can add or remove by clicking on them. You can also rearrange them by dragging and dropping them. 

Once you are done editing your Quick Settings menu, click on Done to save your changes.

For Windows 10, on the right end of the taskbar, select the Action Centericon or use Windows+A.

The Quick Settings menu is a convenient way to access and adjust some of the most frequently used settings on your PC without opening the full Settings app. 

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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

F5: The Ultimate Shortcut for Keeping Your Web Browsing Fresh!

F5
Is your browsing "fresh"?

It might not be.

Here's the Cool Tip.

F5 is a keyboard shortcut that is commonly used to refresh a web page on most web browsers. 

The shortcut is also known as a reload button, and it is a simple and effective way to refresh the content of a web page. 

Here's what you can do with F5:

F5
Press it once. This will refresh the current web page in your browser.   You can also use Ctrl + r shortcut.

Ctrl + F5
You can use the Ctrl + F5 (or Shift+ F5) keyboard shortcut to force a refresh of the page and bypass the browser's cache. This can be helpful if you want to see the latest version of a web page that has been updated recently.

Ctrl+Shift+Del
To clear the browser's cache, you need to open the option to clear the browser’s cache, via the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Delete (or Ctrl + Shift + Del).

Clear Browser Cache
Use Ctrl + Shift + Delete to Clear Browser Cache


That's it.  Enjoy your fresh browsing!

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