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Just follow these steps and you’ll be using your Gmail account on Microsoft Outlook Express in no time.

- Make sure POP access is turned on for your Gmail account.
- Select Tools | Accounts… from the menu in Outlook Express.
- Click Add | Mail….
- Type your name.
- Click Next
- Enter your Gmail address.
- Click Next
- Make sure POP3 is selected under My incoming mail server is a __ server.
- Type “pop.gmail.com” under Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server:
- Enter “smtp.gmail.com” under Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:
- Click Next.
- Type your full Gmail address under Account name:
- Enter your Gmail password under Password:
- Click Next.
- Click Finish.
- Highlight the newly created pop.gmail.com account.
- Click Properties.
- Go to the Servers tab.
- Make sure My server requires authentication is checked under Outgoing Mail Server.
- Go to the Advanced tab.
- Make sure This server requires a secure connection (SSL) is checked under both Outgoing mail (SMTP): and Incoming mail (POP3):.
- Type “465″ under Outgoing server (SMTP):
If the number under Incoming server (POP3): has not been changed to “995″ automatically, enter “995″ there.
- Click OK.

While the awesome bar, download pause and resume, malware protection, the new themes, and serious performance improvements are perhaps the most representative features introduced with Firefox 3, here are some other useful ones you may not be aware:

Duplicate tabs: Press Ctrl while dragging a tab to create a duplicate of the dragged tab including its history. Note that this feature doesn’t work on Mac.

Move tabs to another window: Just drag a tab and drop it on another window to move it. If the dragged tab is the last one in its window, it will be closed.

Resize the search bar: When the search bar is placed next to the location bar, you can drag the handler between them (invisible on Windows and Linux) to resize it.

Add keyword search: Select Manage Search Engines… in the search engines menu to open the Search Engines Manager, select a search engine, press Edit Keyword… and enter a few characters to define one. Now you can enter the keyword followed by your search terms in the location bar to search with that plugin.

Discontinuous selections: Make a selection with the mouse as you usually do. Then press and hold the Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) key to make additional selections and create a larger discontinuous one so you can copy or print just what you need.

Integrated add-ons: No need to visit Mozilla Add-ons because Firefox 3 brings it to you directly from the Add-ons Manager new Get Add-ons page: search, find and install with a single click.
Disable plugins. Crashing? It may be a plugin. To be sure, disable the suspect through the new Plugins page in the Add-ons Manager.

Check your crashes: Enter about:crashes in the location bar to get a list of crashes submitted by Breakpad (Mozilla’s crash reporter). Click on a crash report to get details provided by Socorro, Mozilla’s crash reports server.

Source: Mozzila

Gmail now allow users the ability to use SSL or secure connection while browsing Gmail. This makes data between Gmail and the browser encrypted which can come in handy while checking mails at public places.

You can opt whether to always use HTTPS or not. Go to your Settings (in General tab) and scroll down to the last setting on that page. If you would like to browse Gmail with HTTPS, then select the first option “Always use https” or if you don’t want to use it, then choose “Don’t always use https” and save the settings. I highly recommend to enable that setting to everyone who is using Gmail as a mail client but especially to those users who use additional Google services that already force https usage.

You can reach the configuration menu by clicking on the Settings link in the top right corner of the Gmail account. Scroll down to the very bottom of the menu that is showing up after clicking on the link and check the Always Use HTTPS box.

Source: Rajjup

Here comes an handy Excel plug-in called Excel Password Remover 2008 which strip the password protection from Excel workbooks and spreadsheets. You can install the plug in by downloading it from here. Once installed, it adds options Unprotect workbook and Unprotect sheet to Excel’s Tools menu, and choosing these options does what they are meant to.

To install the plugin you should set security level of Macros to medium by following the menu Tools->Macros->Security in Microsoft Excel.

Today Google Pulled Plug on Adsense Referral ads and the Referrals code is no longer displaying ads on the web sites. Last month Google announced that they are going to retire Referrals program by the last week of August and as said they retired them today.

Here are is an Alternative:

Google Affiliate Network: As part of the integration of DoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will now operate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targeting users located in the United States. For further details, please visit: http://www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork/.