Use GMail’s 8GB As Storage In Windows Explorer

Google offer a very healthy 7372 MB of storage to it’s GMail users.

This guide will show you how to add your GMail account to Windows Explorer, thus enabling a drag & drop system for you to use you GMail account as additional storage on your computer. Even if you don’t use GMail as an email provider nobody can turn down an extra 8GB of storage, can you?

Be aware that support for this tool may suspend at any time if Google decides to block its use.

To get started, download the latest version of GMail Drive from www.viksoe.dk/gmail/ and install it.

You’ll notice that it’s dropped an addition to your ‘Computer’ in Explorer.

Right click the GMail Drive in Computer an select Login As…

Enter your vital statistics and hit OK

You may get a window saying “enumerating folder”. Try not to disturb Explorer or this window whilst it’s working.

Once your in, it’s a simple case of dragging and dropping your documents, pictures, music into the GMail Drive.

It’ll instantly sync your GMail Drive with your online GMail account, where you can view the item, download, or view as a Google Document.

Source: Mintywhite

Make a vertical text selection in Word

Every once in a while, you may need to select a portion of text from top to bottom instead of from left to right. This obscure mouse shortcut will handle the job.

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Here’s a trick that seldom appears on the shortcut lists. Most of the time, we select text horizontally — a word, a series of words, a paragraph — from left to right or vice versa. But occasionally, the selection has to be vertical. For instance, suppose you wanted to delete the leading characters in Figure A.

Figure A

To make a vertical selection, hold down [Alt] as you drag down through the text you want to highlight. Figure B shows the column of unwanted characters selected using this technique. Hit [Delete] and bam, they’re gone.

Figure B

Although we selected text at the beginning of the lines in this example, you can make vertical selections anywhere on the page.

Note: Some users have reported that the Research pane appears when they try this selection technique. Here’s the secret: Release the [Alt] key before you let up on the mouse button. Word should retain the selection. If you hold down [Alt] but release the mouse button, Word may think “[Alt]-click” and open the Research pane in response.

Source: Techrepublic