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How to Change Chrome Notifications

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Push notification example in Chrome

Do you find you’re seeing more browser push notifications? Some of these are quite useful, but others are a result of me clicking to allow something in my haste. This week, I hit the tipping point. Each time the little box would push out from the right side of Chrome, I’d want to smack it. While that might make me feel good, the better solution was to change my browser settings.

How to Delete an Email Address from Gmail

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gmail suggesting emails for jane

Back in the old days, people rarely changed email addresses. Today people change jobs and have multiple email addresses. Some email programs don’t want to let go of the old addresses. This can cause problems with auto-complete. This happened to a friend with Gmail. She mistakenly sent an email to a colleague’s old work email address. I’ll skip the embarrassing parts and show you how to delete an email address from Gmail.

Easy Ways to Bulk Delete Gmail

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Filtering for Gmail address to delete

Are you like me and have a habit of letting your Gmail Inbox get big? Many of my emails are not a priority, such as promotional emails. In this tutorial,  I’ll show you how to bulk delete emails on Gmail using email addresses, text patterns, dates, statuses, and search operators.

How To Remove My Chrome Extensions

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Browser extensions are great add-ons when they work. But I ran into a problem where one of them continually crashed when I opened Google Chrome. Worse, because it didn’t load properly, I couldn’t uninstall the Chrome extension in the normal manner. Fortunately, there is another solution to this problem.

How To View Your Chrome History

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Tabs from other devices in Chrome history.

When I mention Google web history to people, they think of items they typed in Google’s search box. Many people are comfortable with their browser storing this information. Google and other search engines use that data to refine your future search results. This is all part of Google’s effort to deliver personalized search and faster pages. But sometimes you want to delete that information.

Create Distribution Lists in Gmail

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Sometimes Gmail’s simplicity makes people think it is missing features. A case in point is distribution lists or group lists. Many people think that it’s not possible to send an email to a group of contacts or email addresses. The truth is that you can create personal Gmail distribution lists in a couple of easy steps by using Gmail groups.