Use google PPT viewer to convert powerpoint presentations to slideshows

Google has launched it's ppt viewer which integrates with integrates with gmail and allows users to view power point attachments as slideshow on computers which don't have powerpoint installed. We can use this functionality to convert any presentation to a slideshow. Simply browsing through all the slides makes the slides available in the flash format in the temporary directory of the browser. This works great for internet explorer and is not very usefull for firefox. For more advanced purposes you can use slideshare.net a service for creating and sharing presentations.

Add encryption to your webmail

Free email services are great. The only thing they lack is an encryption facility which is provided by default by any business level email service. Due to this the emails can be read by any middleman using a packet sniffer.

Now you can use FireGPG to encrypt your email messages. It is a firefox extension which adds support for encryption to email messages. For this it adds an entry to the context menu for easy accessibility and the encryption is done using GnuPG.

FireGPG

Currently only gmail is supported and support for other email service is being added.
Related: Encrypt your chat messages

How to get access to email address of the deceased?

An interesting topic emerged at google groups some time ago. Someone from a family had passed away and the family wanted to access the gmail account of the person. According to gmail guide in order to do that you must provide the following information

1. Your full name and contact information, including a verifiable email address.
2. The Gmail address of the individual who passed away.
3. a) The full header from an email message that you have received at your verifiable email address, from the Gmail account in question. (To obtain the header from a message in Gmail, open the message, click 'More options,' then click 'Show original.' Copy everything from 'Delivered- To:' through the 'References:' line. To obtain headers from other webmail or email providers, please refer to http://www.spamcop.com/help_with_headers/)
   b) The entire contents of the message.
4. A copy of the death certificate of the deceased.
5. A copy of the document that gives you Power of Attorney over the Gmail account.
6. If you are the parent of the individual, please send us a copy of the Birth Certificate if the Gmail account owner was under the age of 18. In this case, Power of Attorney is not required.

All this information must be sent through post or fax to :

Google Inc.
Attention: Gmail User Support
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

650-644-0358

Google will take approximately 30 days to process and verify the information and then give the person access to the email account if the information provided was correct.

In case of yahoo the only way to get access to the email account of a deceased is by going to court and then legally asking yahoo to give access to the account. The email account of the deceased, will otherwise, be closed after 90 days of inactivity.

Google Trick: How to access blocked google talk

Many administrators block google talk now a days. This is a 2 step trick to access google talk even if it has been blocked by the administrator.

1. Download the firefox web browser from here.
2. Download the gtalk extension from here.
3. Restart the browser.
4. Simply press Alt + G or Go to the view menu at the top and then under sidebar submenu press gtalk sidebar.
5. Login and start using goole talk.