How to Import contacts from YahooMail to Gmail

Gmail has been quite a success story, and lot of users have moved from yahoo and hotmail to gmail. For non techie's the most important task while switching over from yahoo to Gmail is importing contacts from yahoo to Gmail.

Well if you are planning to move from Yahoo mail to Gmail here is how you import contacts to your new gmail in 10 easy steps.

1. Login to your Yahoo Mail first.

2. Click on options on Right hand top.

3. Click on Address Book in left hand Panel.

4. In the management tab click on Import/Export  

5. At the bottom of page Click on Yahoo CSV! Export now button

6.Save the CSV file to your desktop.

7. Login to your Gmail account.

8. Click on contacts in Left hand panel at bottom.

9. On the Top Right hand side of page click on Import

10. Browse for the CSV file you downloaded to your Desktop and click Import Contacs.

11. Once the Import is complete you will see a confirmation message.

How to Download Books from Books.Google.Com

How to Download Books from Books.Google.Com

This is, definitely, not a hack for Google to hate this post. This will just teach you how to copy and retrieve the files that Books.Google.Com temporarily saved in your computer before showing it to you through internet browser.

Just follow the steps bellow;

1. Open your Internet Explorer (Not Firefox). Make sure that you are the admin of your computer. Then, go to the page in books.google.com that you want to download.

2. Now, go to “C:\Documents and Settings\%your admin name%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\” of your computer. Delete all of the content of that folder.

3. In your Internet Explorer, refresh the page and browse-thru the pages of the books that you want to download.

4. Refresh the “Temporary Internet Files” folder. Copy all PNG files to another folder. You can distinguish PNG Files through its icon.

These files that you have just copied are, actually, the pages of the books that you have just browsed.

Enjoy!!!

Offline installer for Google Chrome

Download Online installer for Chrome from Google


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Download Offline installer for Chrome from Google


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Chrome: Google's Open Source Browser

Google Chrome is a free and open source web browser developed by Google. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. The open source project behind Google Chrome is known as Chromium, and its source code is released under a BSD licence.

A beta version for Microsoft Windows was released on today in 43 languages. Mac OS X and Linux versions are under development and are scheduled to be released sometime in the future.

Enjoy your Gmail with multiple account names

Did you know that you can have multiple account names for your Gmail account? I'm not saying you can create multiple accounts on Gmail here. One Gmail account can be used by multiple names


I read an article from one of the Korean blogs (IF & Jack Pack), and it's very simple and creative! Of course, some of you may already know about this, but I'm sure most of you didn't know about this idea or tip.

Google has a naming issue with Gmail for a number of countries, so it is carrying two domains for Gmail which are gmail.com and googlemail.com. So, you can simply have two mail account names by this.

rocklife@gmail.com and rocklife@googlemail.com (both mail accounts aren't mine or exist. Don't try to send me spam.)

But this is not the idea that I would like to share with you guys today. Here's a theory for this idea.

1. acountname@gmail.com (standard way)
2. accountname+abc@gmail.com
3. accountname+0123@gmail.com

The above three email addresses are from the same single account. If you send email to no. 2 or 3, you will find emails for your no. 1 account. (original email account). The Gmail account will get your emails whether it contains additional letters or numbers or a mix after the "+" sign. You must insert "+" between account names and additional words or numbers.

Also, if your account name contains "." like rocklife@gmail.com, it is just same as rock.life@gmail.com. I don't know why, but it seems kinda funny that "." is meaningless. Maybe some types of programming require this to sort easily since I'm not a programmer. So no idea about this.

However, if you use this idea on your Gmail account, you may be able to label your account more efficiently.

Hope this has been a useful and nice tip to most of my readers!

The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt

An application dubbed G-Archiver backs up your Gmail account to a hard drive with a not-so-nice twist: It swipes your user name and password.

I was looking for a way to back up my gmail account to a local drive. I've accumulated a mass of important information that I would rather not lose. During my search I came across G-Archiver, I figured what the heck I'll give it a try.

It didn't really have the functionality I was looking for, but being a programmer myself I used Reflector to take a peek at the source code. What I came across was quite shocking. John Terry, the apparent creator, hard coded his username and password to his gmail account in source code. All right, not the smartest thing in the world to do, but then I noticed that every time a user adds their account to the program to back up their data, it sends and email with their username and password to his personal email box! Having just entered my own information I became concerned.

I opened up a browser and logged in to gmail using his account information. It still worked.

 Upon getting to the inbox I was greeted with 1,777 emails with account information for everyone who had ever used the software and right at the top was mine. I decided to go ahead and blast every email to the deleted folder and then empty it. I may have accidentally changed the password and security question to something I don't remember as well, whoops, my bad. I also contacted google to erase this account as I didn't see a way to delete it myself.

I come up with a different conclusion: You just can’t trust a lot of the software out there. What apps can you really trust? This G-Archiver thing sounds way helpful, but it isn’t by any stretch.

But what’s really worrisome is that Atwood’s tale shows how someone who actually knows code can take a hit. I couldn’t have deciphered that the application was hijacking my user name and password. A lot of people couldn’t.

If you add it up I can only come to one conclusion: Don’t trust software from companies you’ve never heard of. The problem: These incidents could have a big chilling effect on legit software companies.