Did you know that the dots within your Gmail address have no significance?
So if your address is tyler.durden@gmail.com, it means that any e-mails which are sent to tylerdurden@gmail.com, or t.ylerdurden@gmail.com, or even t.y.l.e.r.d.u.r.d.e.n@gmail.com will also land in your inbox.
So, what's the use of this 'Gmail glitch'?
Well, you can use it to set up filter rules for your internet subscription services or one-time online registrations.
Consider, if you do not want to provide your real e-mail address to sign up for an online internet service, simply use an alias like t.ylerdurden@gmail.com and then create an e-mail filter to delete all messages that come to this ID.
If you want to create a filter for your different internet subscriptions, you can use the '+' feature.
Say you want to subscribe to a newsletter from The Onion, you can use tyler.durden+theonion@gmail.com.
The newsletters will still come to your inbox, but you can now use 'theonion' as a keyword to search for all your tagged e-mails, and even set filters.
Click Gmail in the top left corner, choose Contacts, then More > Find & Merge Contacts.
You will get a list of all the double entries in your address book.
Choose the ones you would like to combine and click Merge.
When you delete contacts from your mobile device, they will be removed from your Google account as well.
But you can still recover them within 30 days of deleting.
Go to Contacts, click More > Restore contacts.
Choose the time you would like to revert to, and click Restore.
Google drive
10 Aug, 2014
If you work with documents, presentations and spreadsheets on a regular basis, you might want to try out Google Drive at drive.google.com.
Whenever you get an e-mail with a productivity file as an attachment, save it to your Drive account, and you can begin collaborating on these with colleagues.
1. To share a file that you have open in Drive, click the blue Share button at the top of a Doc, Sheet, or Slide.
Then add your colleagues' Gmail addresses and you can even decide how much access they get: view-, comment-only, or the ability to edit the file.
2. When collaborating on a single document, you and your colleagues can use comment bubbles to annotate paragraphs, and even suggest edits, which the document owner can then accept or reject with a single click.
3. When you add a comment in Drive, you can type + and the person's email address (e.g. '+tylerdurden@ gmail.com') and they'll get an e-mail letting them know that a comment has been directed at them.
4. If all your collaborators are online and accessing the same file as you, you can click on their profile picture at the top of the document to be taken to where their cursor is.
5. Want to revert to an older version of your document?
Go to File > See revision history to see changes made to the document. You can even restore to a previous version.