Told you I’d do another. This shows you only two things due to my laziness but kind of good ones.
First tip, I guess:
This is for when you want your email name to be different from your Google account aka Google+ if you have it. You have a choice of leaving it as the Google account by default on the first option or writing in your own for the second option, as shown in the screenshot. To find this screen you have to log into the Gmail portion of Google… or the “Gmail” link in your navigation bar. Click the gear at the far right then click “Mail settings”. Navigate to the “Accounts and Import” link (third link at the top under the Settings header). Finally click on “edit info” on the right hand side of the “Send mail as” area. This will be towards the middle of the page, you can’t really miss it. Just in case here you go:
Keep in mind whatever your Gmail name is your Gtalk name. I still haven’t figured my way about that without changing the whole default name. Of course, your friends are more than welcome to manually change how they see your name too.
Next up: Web History. For those who do not want to be tracked I guess you can say, you simply click your name on the navigation bar which brings up the “Account overview” page:
Click “Profile and privacy”. After that page loads, scroll to the bottom where you will see:
Click “Sign into Dashboard” where occasionally it will ask you to type in your password again for security purposes. Eventually you will see something similar to this:
Under “Try something new” click “Web History”.
Click “No thanks”, if you don’t want a list of all the web sites you frequented with Google. It may or may not give you a security warning afterwards.
I should do a Facebook tutorial too while I’m at it huh?
Quick tips about Facebook’s Chat (intrusively sucky) Sidebar.
To change settings click the gear at the very bottom right of the sidebar, like so:
Note how not everyone is not online on my list nor idle-ing but even offline. To find someone and possibly chat with them, move your cursor to “Search” and type in a name.
Otherwise, you can sign on or off by clicking “Available to Chat”.
“Chat Sounds” is simply if you want the notification bloop or not. On my list, it is off.
“Limit Availability…” is if you certain Lists you choose to exclude or include:
Depending on how many lists you have and what not, you can choose to go either way which ever is more convenient to you. You can check or deselect said lists on the option you choose from make me or only make me.
Lastly is Hide Sidebar which is just that. Hiding that useless thing.. which in return gets you that old style sort of:
…at the bottom right corner of your screen and the thumbnails on the left sidebar:
The difference from before is that now you can search for friends (such as when you have the Sidebar open) but if you absolutely want it back, click the icon next to the search bar.
You may have noticed if you chat with someone inside the Facebook page three icons… First is a video camera which of course represents video chatting/calling. My example, they cannot.
Next to that button is another gear, obviously representing settings.
“See Full Conversation”: Brings the whole conversation you’ve had into full view like when you read your messages, that style.
“Clear Window”: Just that. I forgot to in this example but useful when you don’t want someone reading over your shoulder or leaving the window up but don’t want to incriminate yourself at that time period.
“Add Friends to Chat”: This brings in more friends to talk to, I don’t suggest you do this with questionable subjects. Clicking on the link just brings up:
A dialog box asking for a friend’s name.
“Report Spam”: Simple enough.
Lastly, the button that looks like an X. Guess what, you exit out of the conversation! Surprise.
And on that note, Peace out Boy and Girl Scouts! Lizzy Chan has to work After Church Sunday Lunch Rush and needs sleep cause after work is Sunday Funday in front of the TV to catch the end of a sporting event.. possibly.
