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What I did to remove Smart Labels in Gmail

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Google Mail or Gmail has a feature that sorts all your email in Inbox in to 5 or more special categories.

These are ‘tabbed’ categories; the usual ones are: Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums. Also called as Smart Labels.

For many, this feature is a good one.
But for some, this update was little annoying as some people are used to seeing all emails under the same Primary heading – all at one place.
If you are one among them, you can still get that setting done – seamlessly by following the steps I’ve outlined below:

A quick fix for your current logged in session in Gmail:

1. While in Gmail, go to search bar (or hit forward slash key “/”) and type label:inbox or is:inbox
2. Poof! suddenly all your emails are shown below at once, instead of grouping them under Forums, Updates, Promotions…
Now that was only a quick fix to get your dream view!
How about a permanent tweak so even after you sign out and sign in it shows the way you want it to?

How to remove Smart Labels setting in Gmail?

A permanent fix until you change the setting back to default:

1. Click on the + icon at the end of the category tabs.

smartlabels setting in gmail
2. Deselect all except Primary (actually, you cannot deselect ‘Primary’ box) check box as shown below:

smart labels check gmail
3. Click Save.

That’s all!

Now you can see all emails just flowing in without showing under various categories.

What to do if you want to use the tabs or Smart labels again?

Simple. Just hit on the SETTINGS gear icon.
Click on CONFIGURE INBOX.

configure gmail inbox
Check the boxes you want and Presto! You got’em back!!!

Bonus tip: try typing in the following commands in the Gmail search bar and see it for yourself:

1. is:unread
2. in: drafts
3. is:starred
4. is: (any label you’ve created)

Will be glad to know if this helped you. Please leave your thoughts in the comments section.

How to create and edit PNG image files online

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Creating your own PNG image files has got easier. All you have to do is just head on to this website: Online Image Editor. This website can make any of your image into a PNG image that can have transparent background and other such features that are possible in PNG format images.

This website has been the best so far in my humble opinion and have used this so long. Hope you too find this useful. Please let me know by leaving your comments below.

If you see ads on Wikipedia – you’ve got malware!

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Seeing ads in Wikipedia means it’s a malware/adware! Beware!

Wikipedia is undoubtedly (and arguably) the largest encyclopedia available on Earth…err…Internet. This is a major target for many hackers and have also been in the news for quite a many times. This post will discuss and show a way of one such instance where in a user will see ads on Wikipedia. Please note: if you are using https (secured) version of Wikipedia, then ads may not show up, suppressing the malware problem, but not eradicating it.

For those who have been using Wikipedia but have never observed, the website don’t sell ads. Except for some fundraising activities when required. However, there are some unscrupulous websites that inject their malware and adware on to your computer stealthily. This shows up ads on certain websites – however we’ll not be able to find them. But Wikipedia is an information repository done for the people by the people, with a ‘no-ads’ philosophy. So why is there an ad on my Wikipedia page? That exactly means that your computer is infected with a malware or an adware.

Source: If you’re seeing ads on Wikipedia, your computer is probably infected with malware

Here’s how to remove this:

It’s simple. This usually installs itself as a browser extension. For eg. if you are using Chrome, then go to your Extensions by going through the Settings menu, or by simply typing in chrome://extensions/ in your browser’s address bar. Remove the extension that calls itself as ‘i want this’. This should take care of it.

Alternatively, you may also want to run a quick malware scan on your computer to ensure that no other malware exists.

How to get https for all the websites we visit

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Secured Browsing Experiencing for All Major Websites – (https)

Here’s a trick that will help us to get on to https for any and every website that we want to visit. For readers, who wonder what this is, it’s nothing but a secure way of visiting websites. The ‘s’ in https stands for ‘security’ or ‘Secure’.

This tool is an extension to major browsers available today that encrypts the communications with many major websites, thus making our browsing experience easy and more secure. This extension is available for Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Firefox for Android.

HTTPS Everywhere

For the tech geeks, there is good news. Developers interested to develop this utility further are welcome to their Github’s page.

HTTPS Everywhere home page

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How to link within a local post using hash tags?

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This is also known as Bookmarking within a webpage.

This tip is useful when you want to display Table of Contents within a long blog post:

Let’s say the text that you want to be hyperlinked is ‘Mary had a little lamb‘. And this ‘Mary had a little lamb‘ is somewhere in the first paragraph of your webpage. This text has to be hyperlinked to the last paragraph of your webpage which has an explanation to the song. In other words, clicking on ‘Mary had a little lamb‘ will take the visitor to a location within the same page which has the explanation to the song. [Read more…] about How to link within a local post using hash tags?