* a girl’s guide to technology
How annoying is it when you get a follower on Twitter and you check out their page and they are a dodgey spammer. Top Tip: next time you suspect a Twitter user is a spammer, tweet their handle to @spam - Twitter’s spam watcher. It checks out the account and removes it if is just another spammer.
A small .gif or .jpg above or beside your signature can look quite professional when you’re sending out emails (a large one, however, just looks like you’re a saddo/narcissist).
Different e-mail clients make inserting an image easy, difficult, or nigh impossible. Here are some top tips for the various Microsoft clients, as well as for Google Mail. Woop Woop even Gmail.
This is the easiest one. Just select Tools, Options, Mail Format, and then click the Signatures button. The resulting dialog box has an editor into which you can easily insert an image by clicking the picture icon and selecting the image you want. Easy Peasy.
Click the New button to create a new message. In that message, design your signature, inserting the image and typing the text. Once the signature looks right, press Ctrl-A to select it, and then Ctrl-C to copy it to the Clipboard. Close the message window without saving it.
Select Tools, Options. Click the Mail Format tab, the Signatures button, and then the New button. Name your signature, select Start with a blank signature, and click Next. In the resulting text box, press Ctrl -V to insert the signature. Save the god darn thing. More time consuming than 2007 version.
Oh no, not easy to do it with this one. The Gmail’s editor or its signature tool do not support inserted graphics. Neither does the free Firefox add-in Signature. Booooo.
The solution is easy to set up, but honestly is a bit of a pain in the bum bum to use. Create the signature as a Google Docs document, with both the image and text. When you want to insert it into e-mail, open the document, copy and paste its contents into your message. Oh that’s very streamline Google - not!
There are a few greasemonkey scripts intended to add HTML signatures to Gmail messages.
By responding to spam email you only confirm that your email address is active - no no no not good!
Another thing you shouldn’t do is click the “remove me” link in the message. Links in email can point to an IP address other than the one you think it references.
The best thing you can do is delete the message. Many free email service providers will allow you to easily report it as spam if you received it through MSN hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL or GMail.
We’ve all heard horror stories about people having their bank accounts cleared out or their identies stolen, so we should all take some simple precautions to prevent us from being easy targets on line.
Check out Girl Geek’s top ten list to staying safe on line:
For all of you who maybe going away for the holidays, check out www.roamingadvisor.com to get the latest SIM card prices and roaming call charges for your chosen destination. It is the only independent roaming cost comparison engine on the web to help you cut costs when using your mobile abroad and it really is quite a handy little site.
It offers independent reviews and comparisons of all commercially available mobile roaming SIM cards in the UK. Compares SIM card prices and roaming charges on both inbound and outbound roaming calls making it easier for you to find a mobile roaming SIM card that suits your individual travel needs.
You simply select the destination you are travelling to and see how much you can save!
Check out the website for further details.
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