Keep A Cleaner Inbox As Gmail Gets One-Click Unsubscribe Button

Google is making it easier to unsubscribe from pesky email newsletters you don’t want cluttering up your inbox. A prominent “unsubscribe” link at the top is the small but user-friendly change that is coming to all Gmail accounts. The “unsubscribe” link right in the header information of an email is a timesaver. Many users don’t bother to rummage around in the footer section of a promotional email for that tiny “unsubscribe from newsletter” link that’s barely visible. The quickly accessible unsubscribe link should make dealing with unwanted emails a one-click axe job. The change also helps genuine marketeers. It saves...

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Take Control Of The WordPress Editor With TinyMCE Advanced

Love WordPress, but wish the WYSIWYG editor offered more features? Install TinyMCE Advanced, a plugin that adds features like tables, emoticons and custom font families to your editor’s toolbar. The main WordPress editor is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), and lets users create HTML without realizing that’s what they’re doing. But editing HTML they are, and WordPress’ interface tries to strike a balance between power and simplicity. Part of how this balance is accomplished: leaving out features likely to confuse beginners and look terrible, especially if they’re not necessary for basic writing and editing. After all, advanced...

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Galaxy S5, Nokia X, Google Smartwatch, Xbox One Price Cut [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Samsung unveils the Galaxy S5, the Nokia X is revealed, WhatsApp announces free voice services, Google is rumored to be working on a smartwatch, the Xbox One gets its first price cut, and selfies may be helping to spread head lice. Samsung Unveils The Galaxy S5 As expected, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S5 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The South Korean company’s latest flagship device isn’t a huge step up from the Galaxy S4, offering a similar design and only slightly improved specs. The front of the S5 looks the same as the S4,...

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Gnome Boxes: An Easy Way To Set Up Virtual Machines in Linux

VirtualBox and VMWare, which can run multiple operating systems on top of your current OS, aren’t the only two virtualization options available for Linux users. If you’re a Gnome Shell user (as in, you use the main interface of the Gnome 3 desktop), you can use something called Gnome Boxes for all your virtualization needs. About Gnome Boxes Gnome Boxes is a simple virtualization tool that prefers ease and convenience over numerous customization options. For the technically inclined, Gnome Boxes implements QEMU, which is a completely open source machine emulator and virtualization tool that claims to achieve near native performance...

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