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Unroll.me is a free online service that lets you easily unsubscribe from email newsletters and other bulk messages in Gmail. You, however, will have to grant complete access to your Gmail mailbox and to your Google Contacts for Unroll.me to automatically remove your email address from various mailing lists. This morning, it was revealed that Unroll.me is silently scraping your Gmail mailbox and selling the data to Uber. Maybe it is hidden somewhere in the terms of service that the app can share your data with other companies but who actually reads the fine print. If this worries you,  here’s a simple guide on how to block the app from accessing your Gmail emails in future. Christian Heilmann’s tweet – Feature request for Gmail: automatically find and follow the unsubscribe link in all highlighted emails – prompted me to build an automated system for unsubscribing your Gmail address from the bulk senders. Here’s how it looks like: How to Unsubscribe from Email Newslette...

WhatsApp is a perfect messaging app for staying in touch with friends and family. It is super-fast, works on nearly all phones (including desktop computers) and Facebook has no plans to charge WhatsApp users. You have been using WhatsApp primarily for text messaging and calling but there are a couple of other interesting uses for WhatsApp that will help boost the utility value of this app even further. Other than communicating with the external world, you can also use WhatsApp to: Capture and save ideas, notes, voice memos, scanned documents and everything else in you own private storage space that is accessible from everywhere. Quickly transfer web links, documents, screenshots, and other files between your computer and phone  without having to sign-up for another service. The idea is simple. You create a new virtual contact inside WhatsApp and, everything that you wish to capture privately, you can just share it with this virtual contact. It ...

How do you remember important things that you think you might forget? Some rely on their brain to memorize information while others prefer  writing things down on post-it notes. There are ton of digital note-taking apps – from  Evernote to Trello – that can also help you remember anything with ease. There’s another interesting option from Google that you may wish to explore for remembering things. It’s called Google Assistant , the voice assistant app that is now available on newer Android phones. If you don’t have one, you can still use Google assistant inside the  Google Allo app that is available for both iPhone and Android. Let Google Remember Things for you To get started, say “OK Google” to launch Google Assistant on your phone and then say “Remember ..” followed by information you would like Google to remember. For instance, you could say: Remember my favorite color is blue Remember that my registration nu...

Lots of us maintain multiple Google accounts for a variety of reasons. Maybe your day is mostly spent inside Gmail and Google Calendar associated with your work account but you prefer to store files inside Google Drive of your personal Google Account. Google does make it easy for you to sign-in to multiple Google accounts simultaneously so you don’t have to log out of one Gmail account to check emails of the other one. Simply go to  http://ift.tt/1QPMLv5 and sign-in with the other Google account inside the same browser session. Sign-in is Easy, Switching Accounts is Difficult One you are logged in, click your profile image in the upper right and select any Google account from the drop down to switch to that account. The default account, the one that appears on top of that list, is the one that you signed in with first. Thus, if you type mail.google.com in your browser’s address bar, you’ll always be taken your Gmail accou...