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Using Gmail – Filter Emails from Shopping Websites and Add Shopping Label

Subscribe to Shopping or Coupon Websites like Argos, Littlewoods, Livingsocial, Voucherpages or Groupon to receive regular newsletter emails.
When the newsletter email arrives, click on the checkbox beside the email to highlight it, options will then be displayed which can be applied to email.

1. Select the More menu and click on the Filter option

1. When the screen below is displayed – click on the ‘Create filter with this search’ option

1. Set the ‘Apply the label’ option to ‘Shopping’ and then click on option ‘Apply filter to matching messages’, followed by ‘Create Filter’

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Taking Screenshots

Windows 10 has built-in print screen option that works great for basic tasks, but many third-party programs offer more ease of use and features.

Take Quick Screenshots with Print Screen (PrtScn)

The Print Screen button on your keyboard can take a screenshot and save it as a file, take a screenshot of only one window (instead of the whole screen) or take a screenshot and save it as an image file.

To Take a regular Screenshot

Press “PrtScn” button, a screenshot of your currently active window will be copied to the clipboard. You can now paste it into your favourite image editor or document editor.

To take a screenshot of only one window, click on the title bar of the window that you want to capture. Press “Alt + PrtScn”, and a screenshot of your currently active window will be copied to the clipboard.

To Save Your Screenshot as an Image File

Press the “Windows logo key + PrtScn.” The screen will dim for a moment, and then you will see the screenshot appear as a file in a folder entitled “Screenshots”, inside your default “Pictures” folder. The screenshot is automatically labelled with a number, e.g Screenshot (1).png.

See more at:
http://www.howtogeek.com/226280/how-to-take-screenshots-in-windows-10/

Searching the Internet using Google

Google is currently the most popular search engine, so popular that it has given rise to the verb ‘to google’. There are other search engines competing with Google as it can be very lucrative in terms of advertising revenue if they build their brand name.

From the www.netmarketshare.com, here are market share for Google and other popular search engines…

Desktop Search Engine Market Share – May 2015

Improving your Searches

In today’s world, more and more things are done online. Even if you don’t consider yourself a computer person, you now need computer skills in order to conduct research, shop online, keep in touch with family, and more.

The ability to search for information online is one of the most important information literacy skills you can possess. By improving your search skills, you can find what you’re looking for more quickly, without having to sift through tons of irrelevant results.

As you gain experience with search engines, you’ll be able to conduct better and better searches, which means it will become quicker and easier to find what you are looking for. Here are a few tips for improving your searches:

As you’re typing your search terms, the search engine will try to guess what you’re searching for and it will show a list of search suggestions. These can give you ideas for search terms that you may not have thought of.

Search phrases. Put quotes around a phrase so each word in the phrase isn’t searched for separately. For example, if you put quotes around “diabetic biscuits”, the search engine searches for that entire phrase in a webpage. But if you simply type diabetic biscuits, the search engine searches for each of the words individually where both words appear anywhere in article.
Exclude words. Use a hyphen (-) at the beginning of a word to exclude search results containing it. For example, macaroni -cheese. Note that there is a space before the hyphen, but not after it. In many search engines the word NOT (in all caps) is used, as in macaroni NOT cheese.
Use OR. You can use OR (all caps) to include either of two search words. For example, soup recipe tofu OR fish should return recipes for soup that contain tofu or fish (or both). You could also search for soup recipe tofu OR fish OR chicken OR beef.

See more at:

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/searchbetter/google-search-tips