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Clearing out space on your email
9 years
Here are a few tips if you find yourself running up against the mailbox limit on your email. The actual process for clearing out space will be dependent on the application you use for checking your email (e.g. Outlook, Microsoft Live Mail, web browser) and the email provider.
1/ Clear out sent items, deleted items and junk folders. Some email providers count the emails in ‘Sent Items’ and deleted or trash items as used space. You can usually save a lot by purging these items permanently. If you rely on these for reference of some sort, consider permanently deleting anything that is more than 3 months old or 6 months old (when was the last time you actually needed an email more than 6 months old?).
2/ Look for emails with attachments, save the attachments locally to your computer and then delete the email. A single very large attachment can take up the same space as potentially hundreds of emails. Get the files out of email storage so they are not counting against your mailbox allocation.
3/ Find out exactly how big your mailbox is and which folders are the biggest culprits. Most email programs will have tools for letting you know the sizes of individual folders – use this to find the worst offenders and treat accordingly.
4/ Check options in your email program for archiving and deleting space on server. Some email programs are set to keep a copy of the email on the server even if you delete it locally in your email program – this means files on the server might still be taking up space. You may also have some options for archiving older emails which means you can still search for them but they don’t show in your mailbox or take up space against your allocation.
5/ Use an alternative service like Gmail or Outlook.com – these products give you free email accounts with lots of space and show you a few ads in return. It can be a hassle initially to have to change your email address and let everyone know the new address but going forward you gain the freedom to change ISP without changing your email and they usually offer a lot features and more space than on your local ISP.
6/ Pay for more storage – if none of the above options work or appeal, your provider will have options for paying for more space – ask them about options and find one that fits best for your needs.
Here are some more specific tips as and guides if you are using
Outlook – http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/cleanmailbox.htm
or Gmail – http://www.howtogeek.com/112734/how-to-free-up-space-in-gmail-5-ways-to-reclaim-space/
If you’d like us to help you with clearing out space on your email or discussing options and processes to migrate to a web-based solution, get in touch.
Transfer files from Android to Computer
12 years
Contacts:
The main instructions to get contacts from your phone to a sim card, memory card or usb device are here:
https://support.google.com/android/answer/168477?hl=en
If you want to backup the contacts database they should be in this folder on your phone or something similar to it depending on customisations made by the device manufacturer:
/data/data/android.providers.contacts/databases
You could just copy these files to your computer to backup the contacts database.
The easiest way going forward would be to add your contacts as Google contacts and these would sync between your phone and Google account automatically as long as you have your account sync turned on (settings -> Accounts and sync -> Your Google account).
Files:
For most files, the easiest way I’ve found is to sign up for Dropbox account and load the app on your phone. Photos you take can be automatically uploaded to your Dropbox and then the’re accessible on your computer like a regular folder.
If you do sign up for DropBox, do me a favour and use this link – http://db.tt/lpDpafmj I get 250mb extra storage for the referral and it costs you nothing.
You can copy files off your phone by simply plugging the phone into the computer using the usb cable for your phone and copy the files off as an Android Phone will show up in Windows as an extra drive. Mac users will need to download Android File Transfer – http://www.android.com/filetransfer/.
Or if you want to do it over wifi and not need to plug your phone in, check out Airdroid or ES File Explorer from the app store. Both of these apps make it easy to transfer files off your phone to your computer over Wifi. Although ES File Explorer is more complex and aimed more at users who would know how to set up shared folders on their computer.
Paid Apps:
There are plenty of other apps in the Android Play store that will back up your data for you. 2 paid apps that I highly recommend are Lookup Pro which adds antivirus and security features as well as photo and contacts backup and Titanium backup for a more comprehensive backup of your entire phone although it requires your android phone to have root access.
The Future of Google’s Street View
14 years
by Gregory McKinnell
in Articles
This is a fascinating article to read and think of the possibilities. Hardly any of it is possible currently but it seems plausible that it won’t take long for technology to develop to make it all possible.
http://www.kmeme.com/2010/10/future-of-googles-street-view.html
And if the article is right – I’d imagine the amount of money Google will make from licensing Street View data will be astronomical.
New google trick
15 years
by Gregory McKinnell
in Tips
Latest Google party trick:
Google can now do the sunrise and sunset times. And it doesn’t rely on a third party source. They do the calculations themselves based on longitude and latitude. Because the calcluations have been worked on by astrologers and mathematicians for centuries, it is accurate down to the minute for most locations.
Just type in
sunrise [city name]
sunset [city name]
or
[city name] sunrise
[city name] sunset
You can also do the same trick with ‘weather’ and ‘time’ instead of sunrise and sunset to find the weather or current time in other cities.