Jul 21, 2008
Last time I revealed how someone can read your emails by enabling the forward emails feature in your Gmail. Today I have another small tip for you which will help you to safeguard your Gmail account from being hacked.
Check your address bar when you are logged in your Gmail account.
You will see the address to be:
http://mail.google.com/mail/
Change this address to:
https://mail.google.com/mail/
Did you notice a the https in the second URL? This simple https will encrypt all the sessions and no one will be able to read the cookies which Gmail creates. Your Gmail account is safe from hackers now!
Related:
Is My Gmail Hacked?
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Jun 30, 2008
Usually people at many companies aren’t permitted to use Internet for some particular works (like searching for jobs in competitive companies 
) Network administrators are asked to keep a check on worker’s search queries and find out what they are searching for. So if you search for “software jobs” then Google takes you to the URL http : / / www.google.co.in / search ? hl = en & q = software + jobs & meta = where the terms software and jobs are easily visible. Hence it is easy for the network administrator to record your search data.
Recently I wrote how you can find out what other websites are being hosted on a web server which is hosting your website. Using the similar method you can find what other websites are being hosted on Google’s web servers.
The funny part here is that the awkward domain names being hosted on Google’s web servers will give you that same Google homepage which google.com shows and hence you can use it to search for anything you want just like you use google.com
Here is the list:
Try making any one of these funny looking URLs as your default search engine and search your queries just like you do in google.com. No one will be able to find out if you are using any search engine to search for a better job 
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May 28, 2008
Today I found an awesome Google feature which I am sure many do not know. If you want to know the latest show times for some movie then you would do arbit searching in Google and somehow will end up on a website which has details of these timings but with tons of ads around. With Google all you need to do is type in “showtimes CITY” (without quotes) where CITY contains the name of your city.
After this when you click on the first link above the real image then you will get the detailed view of all th movie timings with respect to each and every location in that city.
This page will show you the timings for Today, Tomorrow and Day After Tomorrow also!
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May 27, 2008
Well, this tip actually helps in cases if somehow a hacker is able to get to the settings of your gmail account. So I would request you to regularly check your settings so that you are content that no one else is busy using your mailbox along with you.
The above image shows the link which takes you to the settings page of your gmail account. Then as shown in image below click on “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” and choose the Disable Forwarding radio button in case it isn’t chosen.
There might be cases when you are using the forwarding feature from before as per your convenience but I would request you to keep a check if the mails are being forwarded to the account to which you want it to be forwarded to. Who knows if someone is forwarding your mails to some other mail box of his!
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May 26, 2008
Before we start you need to change your Gmail settings so that keyboard shortcuts are enabled. On the top right corner of your inbox you will find the link to settings and that will take you to the page shown above in image.
Browse through mails
K: to move the black arrow upwards.
J: to move the black arrow downwards.
enter key: this is to open the mail which is indicated by black arrow
While reading the email
R: to reply to the mail
F: to forward the mail
!: to mark the mail as spam
s: to star the mail
#: to send the mail to trash
How to get back to inbox once mail is read
U: this brings you back to inbox if you were reading your mail
How to send an email
C: this takes you to compose the email
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