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Q&A: Can I delete Gmail without deleting my entire Google account?

Posted on June 20, 2022

Question from Jennifer:  I read somewhere (I think it might have been on your blog) that it’s best to close unused email accounts to prevent hackers from taking them over and using them to spread spam.

I have a Gmail email address that I rarely use and I’d like to delete it. The thing is I do use a couple of other Googly things so I need to keep my Google account open.

Is it possible to close just the Gmail and keep the Google account open?  [Read more…]

How to (possibly) identify the sender of an anonymous email

Posted on April 16, 2022

Have you ever received an email from someone that seems to know you personally, but the sender’s name is nowhere to be found in the email?

It happens to me fairly often, and I’ve discovered a way to quickly determine the sender’s identity in at least some of those cases.

All you need to do is check to see if the sender of an anonymous email used that same email address to open a Facebook account. Here’s how:  [Read more…]

How to view every password Google is storing for you

Posted on February 22, 2022

Did you know Google keeps a record of all the passwords you have stored in your Chrome browser and your signed-in Android devices right on their website?

Well, they do, and there’s an easy way to view all of those stored passwords at one time. That makes it easy to quickly retrieve a password that you might have forgotten.  [Read more…]

How to change the default search engine in Microsoft Edge

Posted on January 9, 2022

When it was first released, Microsoft’s Edge web browser used Bing as its default search engine, and there was no way to change it.

Well, Edge still comes with Bing set as the default search engine, but you can now switch it to Google or one of several other popular search engines.

If you like using Edge but would prefer to search with something other than Bing, you can follow the steps below to change the default search engine to the one you like best:  [Read more…]

How to use Google as a Timer

Posted on December 12, 2021

Google has built tons of nifty features into their popular search engine that do a lot more than just help folks find things on the Internet.

A couple of great examples are their instant instant weather snapshot and their handy dictionary service (simply type define:word into the search box, where word is the term you want to have defined).

Another of my favorites is the Google Timer. Here’s how to use it:  [Read more…]

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