Hide all notifications in the action center by swiping with two fingers

Windows Phone 8.1 has been impressing and annoying users around the world for quite some time now – no wonder, there is much to discover but since it is still a developer preview there are still some bugs and issues. Anyhow, sometimes even users who have been on it since the very first day find something new. And since it is the small things in life that make us smile, these little surprises are pleasing.

How to enable Nokia’s ‘Living Images’ on your PureView Lumia?

Nokia’s Living Images is a new feature coming to Windows Phone 8.1 and their Lumia Cyan firmware update for the high-end PureView devices, like the Lumia 1020, Lumia 1520, Icon and so forth. Living Images captures a few seconds before you snap a photo, so that when you’re browsing through your Camera Roll or StoryTeller, your photos come alive. Think Cinemagraph, but without having to think about using it, as it just works automatically.

How to add the Fifa World Cup 2014 schedule to your Windows Phone Calendar

tricks to stay current with the 2014 FIFA World Cup on your Windows Phone. Here’s one more tip from the Windows Phone Central forums that we wanted to point out – how do add the World Cup 2014 schedule to your Windows Phone Calendar so that you never miss a game.

Lock Computer With USB Flash Drive

Today i am learn you how can you lock ur own pc with usb flash drive .Guys this tips will not work on all versions on windows including both windows 32 bit and 64 bit.
 so guys follow the steps for do this ..

Share Your Windows 8 PC's Internet with a Phone or Tablet by Turning It into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

These days, there is hardly a place in America that doesn't have access to the internet. But with web usage fees and ridiculous cell phone provider contracts, sometimes it's still necessary to go a little DIY when it comes to staying connected.

If you have a Windows 7 or 8 computer connected to the internet, you can use it as your own personal Wi-Fi hotspot.

Make Money Online Using Infolinks

“How do i get money from infolinks”

Advertise your website using infolinks as Infolinks is an in text advertising network that serves pay per click ads on a publisher blog/website.  It is one of the best ads network after google adsense for making money online especially for bloggers who do not have extra space to displays ads and difficult to get AdSense.

Recent Posts with Thumbnails Widget for Blogger

Recent posts with thumbnails is a nice widget for blogger and help your visitors can see your latest content have you published. This widget is very important for every blogger to add it to their blog also help to increasing your blog’s page views. In this article, In this article we explains How to add Recent Posts widget in Blogger with image thumbnails:

Add Disqus Comment System in Blogger Blog & Website

Disqus is the new comment management system, most of bloggers and website owners used mostly.it is currently serving over 750,000 websites, In this article i am going to tell you about how to add Disqus comments system with a few fast steps, you'll upgrade your recent comment system with a new way to interact your guests.

Normally you don’t need to add the other comments system, because each website platform has their own discussion platform. But they're recent system. And if you're very little uninterested in blogger’s built-in system then you'll add Disqus comment system.

Increase Facebook Likes and Followers Instantly | Twitter Followers | Youtube Channel Subscription | Website Hits and Many More Instantly

Increase your facebook likes, tweets, youtube  views, youtube subscriber in few minutes to thousand. Addmefast is free social exchange network which helps you grow your social presence.

Currently thanks to Addmefast you can get more and more Facebook likes, Facebook subcriptions, Google circles, Google +1 , Twitter followers, YouTube views , YouTube Channel Subscription, YouTube Video likes , Pinterest followers, Soundcloud music listening, Digg followers, StumbleUpon followers and Website hits .

Earn Money Online With Jobero

What is Jobego?

Jobego is a free service that allows you to earnmoney online by doing things you do every day — surfing and searching the web, doing social activities, completing special offers and polls. It’s simple and fast.

How do I earn money with Jobego?

Here are only several ways for you to earn money with Jobego. First is by completing tasks, offers, participating in surveys etc. You can also earn by browsing sites that are in our system.

Add Emotions In Blogger Comment

Many of my  friends messages to ask about adding smileys into your blog so I decide to create a tutorial about it.

Emoticons/Smileys are an excellent way of making your blog comments more beautiful and fun. And also to express your way of feeling by showing "Emoticon" in blog comments and it will look cool. Blogger does not support smileys but use some java script & coded and add emoticons/smileys into blogger comments.

Turn Your Windows PC Into a Wireless Hotspot | Wifi

Everybody's got a wireless network at home, but if you've ever wanted to get your iPod touch, iPhone, or other wireless device connected, but all you've got is a wired network at work, school, or elsewhere, Windows 7 and windows 8 makes this process trivial.

Check out Virtual Router Plus, a tiny free program that does the same thing. You can also accomplish the same thing in Windows Vista, XP, and even OS X—the Windows Vista method is almost identical to Windows 7 and windows 8, but XP requires a few more steps.

Before we begin, you should make sure that you've got a laptop or desktop with a wireless card that isn't currently connected. If your laptop is connected to the wired network, your wireless card should be free, and we can use it to allow access to the internet. Note that you have to be plugged into a wired connection in order to share the connection wirelessly with others, or have a second wireless card. Readers should also note that this won't work on (some) work networks that use group policies to enforce TPS report cover sheet boredom and prevent you from having any fun at all.

You'll want to start out by heading into the Network and Sharing Center through the Control Panel, or you can quickly get to it by right-clicking on the network icon in the system tray. Once you are there, find the link for "Set up a new connection or network".

You'll be prompted with a wizard that allows you to connect to VPNs, dial-up, or create a new ad hoc wireless network, which is what we want to do. You can easily use an ad hoc network to share files back and forth between two computers, but today we'll be using it for sharing the internet connection.

You'll need to give your network a name and choose some security options—remember that WEP is extremely easy to crack—and you'll want to make sure to use at least a decent sized key even for WPA2. The really important option on this page is to remember to check the box for "Save this network".

At this point your ad hoc network should be running and ready to start connecting your devices, but you'll want to hold off just a minute.

You'll notice that the ad hoc networks that you create get added to the quick-select wireless network list—when you disconnect from your ad hoc network, it's the same as stopping it. Connecting to the network is the same as starting it back up; this way you can quickly switch back and forth between connections with just a few clicks.

The last step is enabling connection sharing through your regular network card, which will allow anybody connected to your ad hoc wireless to use your internet connection. To do so, you'll want to head into the Network and Sharing Center, click the "Change adapter settings" link on the left, and then find your network connection in the list—it's very important that you only enable internet connection sharing on the adapter that is actually connected to the internet. In this case, my internet access at work goes through my Local Area Connection, so I've enabled it there.

At this point, you should be able to connect any wireless device to your new ad hoc network and access the internet, or even share files directly with your laptop.

How To Write Your First Blog Post

This post is specially for beginners who just started their life in the field of blogging and even don't know how to post their first post, such beginners can learn more from this post. In this post i will illustrate about blog interface and show how to write your first blog post, writing content, highlighting your text making them stylish for people's attraction, changing colour of text, adding images, videos and http links and many more.

Follow these steps to continue to your first post :-

Step 1. Login to your blogger account, click on your blog name and go to new post.

Step 2. Enter your blog post title in area as shown below and make sure to keep title short and rich of keyword.
Step 3. Below are some blogger function to enhance your blog post adding video, adding image, link, changing background text, changing color.

Detail according to number in the above image :-

1. Compose - To write your post body.

2. HTML - To see your blog code.

3. To change size of your text.

4. To bold the written text in your blog body.

5. To style word or phrase in italic

6. To underline the text.

7. For changing the colour of your text.

8. Adding an hyperlink to your text or image.

9. To add image to your blog post

10. To add video to your blog post

11. To add break between the lines.

Post setting is important, to choose your post catagory and to schedule your post to be post.

Labels :- You can add level to your blog post. This specifies the type of catagory of your post, through which visitors can easily access according to their desired lebels.

Schedule :- You can schedule your post to be published automatically, If you have exam or some function after some day then you can write several post at a time and schedule your post to be posted at specified time.

Now about how to write the post :-

Write yourself  don't try to be someone, don't copy other's blog article.

Don't be afraid of grammer, Keep writing and if you don't start writting you will never get it.

Think smartly for writing post so people can be attracted towards your post.

Hope this post will be benificial for the beginners those who want to write good post and itersted to blog.

How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows

Introduction

In order to use a hard drive, or a portion of a hard drive, in Windows you need to first partition it and then format it. This process will then assign a drive letter to the partition allowing you to access it in order to use it to store and retrieve data.

Creating and formatting a partition in Windows

Before you can partition a hard drive in Windows, you must have installed a new unused hard disk, deleted an existing partition, or have some unpartitioned space available on an existing drive. In the example in this tutorial I will take the unused space from one of my hard drives and partition/format it. The steps shown here will work whether you are working with a brand new hard drive, deleting an existing partition and reusing it, or partitioning available space on an existing hard drive.

All hard disk management is done in the Disk Management Administrative Tool. Follow these steps to open this tool:

1. If you are using Windows 8, type Disk Management at the start screen, click on Settings, and then click on the Create and format hard disk partitions option. Then skip to step 3.  Otherwise, click on the Start button and select the Control Panel option.

2. If in Classic control panel mode, double-click on the Administrative Tools icon and then double-click on Computer Management icon.
If your control panel is in the Category view, click on Performance and Maintenance, then click on Administrative Tools, and finally double-click on the Computer Management icon.
3. When the Computer Management screen opens, click on the Disk Management option under the Storage category. This will present you with a screen similar to the one below.

Disk Management Screen

 When you are in the disk management tool you will see a listing of your current hard drives and how they are partitioned. From the image above you can see that I have two hard disks installed. The first disk, Disc 0, has two partitions. One partition is a 24 GB NTFS partition that has been assigned the drive letter C:. The other partition on that drive is a 87 GB NTFS partition that has been assigned the drive letter E:. The other drive, has only one partition, the D: partition. The rest of the space, 26 GB, shows that it is unallocated and therefore can be used to make other partitions.

To make a partition from the unused space you would do the following.

1. Right click on the space listed as unallocated.
2. At the menu that comes up, click on the New Partition option.
3. You will now be presented with a wizard as to how you would like the partition to be created. At the first screen press Next.
4. At the following screen, determine if you need a primary or extended partition. For more information about these partitions you can read our partition tutorial listed above. Most people will be fine selecting Primary Partition. Select Primary Partition and press Next.
5. At the next screen you will be prompted to type in how much of the unallocated space you would like used for the new partition. In my example, my unallocated space is 26.43 GB, so I can choose to make a partition of that entire amount of only use half and save the rest for another partition. Regardless, of what you decide, you need to enter a size in the Partition size in MB: field, or stick with the default size, and press the Next button.
6. At the next screen select the drive letter you would like assigned to it, or use the default one given. When done, press the Next button. The drive letter that you assign here will be how you access the partition later.
7. In this step you will determine how you would like the new partition to be formatted. For the most part you are advised to use the NTFSfile system. If you need a file system that can be readable by older operating systems like DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows ME, then you should instead choose the FAT32 file system.
8. Type a name in the Volume Label field that will be associated with this partition or leave it blank.
9. Finally press the Next button and you will come to a summary screen. Review how the partition will be created, and if you are satisfied, press the Finish button to complete the creation and formatting of your new hard disk partition.

When the computer finishes creating and formatting the new partition you will be presented with the Disk Management screen again and will see that you have a new partition and drive letter on your computer. Now you can use that drive to start storing your data.

Deleting a partition in Windows

If you have existing partitions on your computer that you would like to delete in order to use its space for other purposes, then you first need to delete this partition. It is important to note that by deleting a partition you will lose all your data on that partition. With that warning given, let me give some examples of why you would want to delete a partition. Lets say that you have a 60 GB hard drive in your computer that was originally partitioned into a 20 GB partition and a 40 GB partition. You would like to install another operating system on your computer, but feel that neither partition is big enough on its own, and would like to instead create one partition using the full storage of 60 GB. The only way to do that would be to delete both of the existing partitions and recreate a new one using all the available space.

To delete a partition please follow these steps:

1. Click on the Start button and select the Control Panel option.

2. If in Classic control panel mode, double-click on the Administrative Tools icon and then double-click on Computer Management icon.
If your control panel is in the Category view, click on Performance and Maintenance, then click on Administrative Tools, and finally double-click on the Computer Management icon.
3. When the Computer Management screen opens, click on the Disk Management option under the Storage category.
4. Right-click on the partition you would like to delete and choose the Delete Partition option.
5. A confirmation box will come up asking if you are sure you would like to continue. If you press the yes button, all data on this partition will be deleted. If you are sure about deleting this partition, press the Yes button.

The partition will now be deleted and you can either create a new partition or exit the program. 

How to take a Screenshot on the iPad and iPhone without a screenshot application

Have you ever seen those fancy screen shots of the iPad screens in various reviews and blog posts? Well, creating them is easy and does not require you to purchase or download any applications to create them. In fact, the iPad software includes a built-in ability to take a screen shot of any screen that you are currently viewing on the iPad and save it as an image that you can then transfer to your computer.

To create the screen shot, you simply need to follow these steps:

1. Go to the screen you would like to create a screen shot.
    
2. When at this screen, click on the Home button, and while pressing that button, press and release the On/Off/Sleep/Wake button at the top of the iPad. The two buttons that you need to press can be seen in the image below.

Buttons that you need to press in order to create a snapshot on the iPad

1. When you press this button combination, you will see a white flash and hear a sound similar to a camera click.
    
2. The screen shots that you take can then be seen within the Photo app.

If you then need to transfer these files to your computer, you can either use iTunes to transfer the files during a sync or you can access the iPad directly and copy the files over to the location you wish.

How To See Hidden Files In Windows

Introduction

By default Windows hides certain files from being seen with Windows Explorer or My Computer. This is done to protect these files, which are usually system files, from accidentally being modified or deleted by the user. Unfortunately viruses, spyware, and hijackers often hide there files in this way making it hard to find them and then delete them.

By following the steps below for each version of Windows you will be able to change the operating systems behavior so that you can see hidden and protected files. In this way you will be able to delete or replaces files for troubleshooting purposes.

Windows 95

To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps:

1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Double-click on the My Computer icon.
3. Select the View menu and then click Options.
4. After the new window appears select the View tab.
5. Scroll down until you see the Show all files radio button and select it.
6. Press the OK button and close the My Computer window.
7. Now your computer is configured to show all hidden files.

Windows 98

To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps:

1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Double-click on the My Computer icon.
3. Select the View menu and then click Folder Options.
4. After the new window appears select the View tab.
5. Scroll down until you see the Show all files radio button and select it.
6. Press the Apply button and then the OK button and close the My Computer window.
7. Now your computer is configured to show all hidden files.

Windows ME

To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps:

1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Double-click on the My Computer icon.
3. Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
4. After the new window appears select the View tab.
5. Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files and folders.
6. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide file extensions for known file types.
7. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files.
8. Press the Apply button and then the OK button and shutdown My Computer.
9. Now your computer is configured to show all hidden files.

Windows NT

To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps:

1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Double-click on the My Computer icon.
3. Select the View menu and then click Options.
4. After the new window appears select the View tab.
5. Scroll down until you see the Show all files radio button and select it.
6. Press the OK button and shutdown My Computer.
7. Now your computer is configured to show all hidden files.

Windows 2000

To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps:

1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Double-click on the My Computer icon.
3. Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
4. After the new window appears select the View tab.
5. Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files and folders.
6. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide file extensions for known file types.
7. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files.
8. Press the Apply button and then the OK button and shutdown My Computer.
9. Now your computer is configured to show all hidden files.

Windows XP and Windows 2003

To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps:

1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Double-click on the My Computer icon.
3. Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
4. After the new window appears select the View tab.
5. Put a checkmark in the checkbox labeled Display the contents of system folders.
6. Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files and folders.
7. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide file extensions for known file types.
8. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files.
9. Press the Apply button and then the OK button and shutdown My Computer.
10. Now your computer is configured to show all hidden files.

Windows Vista

To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps:

1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Click on the Start button. This is the small round button with the Windows flag in the lower left corner.
3. Click on the Control Panel menu option.
4. When the control panel opens you can either be in Classic View or Control Panel Home view:
   
   If you are in the Classic View do the following:
   1. Double-click on the Folder Options icon.
   2. Click on the View tab.
   3. Go to step 5.
   
   If you are in the Control Panel Home view do the following:
   1. Click on the Appearance and Personalization link .
   2. Click on Show Hidden Files or Folders.
   3. Go to step 5.
       
5. Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files and folders.
6. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide extensions for known file types.
7. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files.
8. Press the Apply button and then the OK button.
9. Now Windows Vista is configured to show all hidden files.

Windows 7

To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps. Please note a guide with images that shows the same steps can be found here:

1. Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
2. Click on the Start button. This is the small round button with the Windows flag in the lower left corner.
3. Click on the Control Panel menu option.
4. When the control panel opens click on the Appearance and Personalization link.
5. Under the Folder Options category, click on Show Hidden Files or Folders.
6. Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files, folders, or drives.
7. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide extensions for known file types.
8. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
9. Press the Apply button and then the OK button..
10. Now Windows 7 is configured to show all hidden files.

Windows 8

To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps. Please note a guide with images that shows the same steps can be found here:

1. From the Windows 8 Start Screen, click on the Control Panel app.
2. When the Control Panel opens scroll down to the bottom and click on the More Settings option.
3. The traditional Windows 8 Control Panel will now open. When it is open, click on the Appearance and Personalization link.
4. Under the Folder Options category, click on Show Hidden Files or Folders.
5. Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files, folders, or drives.
6. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide extensions for known file types.
7. Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
8. Press the Apply button and then the OK button..
9. Now Windows 8 is configured to show all hidden files.

Please note that you will now see icons that were not previously visible. One of the most common concerns is that you will see a file called desktop.ini throughout your computer. These are legitimate hidden files and can be ignored.

Conclusion

Now that you know how to see all hidden files on your computer, malicious programs such as viruses, spyware, and hijackers will no longer be able to hide their presence from you or people helping you.

How to Quickly Check If Your Computer Can Run a PC Game

PC gaming isn’t quite as simple as console gaming. If you have a laptop with weak graphics hardware or an older PC, it’s important to check whether your computer can support a game before you spend your hard-earned cash.

Gamers don’t have to upgrade their hardware as often as they used to. Even a gaming PC built years ago should be able to handle the newest games just fine. Laptops not build for gaming and older PCs are a different matter.

Beware Intel Graphics

First, one big warning: If your computer uses onboard Intel graphics instead of dedicated NVIDIA or AMD graphics hardware, you’ll likely experience issues running newer, graphically demanding games.

Most laptops include Intel on-board graphics, which is cheaper and doesn’t use as much power. However, even the latest Intel graphics hardware is much slower than NVIDIA or AMD graphics. If you only have Intel graphics, you may not even be able to play the newest games on the lowest graphics settings.

Intel’s onboard graphics performance has improved with Intel’s new Haswell graphics, but it hasn’t improved nearly enough. All but the most extremely expensive Haswell chips offer only moderate improvements over the previous generation.

Check Your PC’s Specifications Manually

We’ll cover a more automatic method later on, but first we’ll look at the manual method. You’ll need to know the hardware in your computer — primarily its CPU speed, amount of RAM, and graphics card details. You can find this information in a variety of different ways, including looking up your laptop’s specifications online.

However, it would be easiest to use a system information tool for this. We recommend Speccy, made by the same company that makes the excellent CCleaner.

Here are the main three things you need to care about:

• The CPU’s speed, in GHz. Click the CPU header in Speccy and you’ll also be able to see the number of cores your CPU has, too.
• The amount of RAM your computer has, in GB.
• The model of your computer’s graphics card and the amount of RAM the graphics card has on-board. Also note whether you have NVIDIA or AMD graphics. If you see both Intel and NVIDIA or AMD, that’s fine — your computer has both and switches between the two to save power.

 Next, look up the system requirements for the game you want to run. You’ll generally find this information on the game’s website or on whatever store is selling it. It’s at the bottom of each game’s page on the Steam store, for example.

Compare the information shown in Speccy to the details below. Pay particular attention to the processor, memory, and video card requirements.

Once you can remember the basic hardware your computer contains, checking system requirements is as simple as glancing at them and comparing from memory.

Automatically Compare Your PC’s Specifications to a Game

Let’s be honest: this process is inconvenient. Computers should be able to do all of this for us.

To check system requirements automatically, use the Can You Run It? website. This website is endorsed by a variety of big companies, including AMD.

Before using this website, we recommend running the System Requirements Lab Detection desktop app. Install this app and it will scan your computer’s hardware before sending you back to the website, setting a special cookie that identifies your hardware. This way you won’t have to install any Java or any ActiveX applets.

 After running the tool, just visit the website, select the game you want to run from the dropdown box, and click the Can You Run It button.

 You’ll be informed how well the game will run on your current hardware. You can check as many games as you like in the future — but if you clear your cookies, you’ll have to run the detection tool again.

But can it run Crysis? Well, that depends on your hardware — with these tools, you’ll be able to figure out the answer!

Downloading a Ubuntu ISO And Burning the ISO on to a DVD

Ubuntu is distributed over the Internet as DVD image (.iso) files. There are several version of Ubuntu available, So you need to choose and download a perfect version first to move for the burning process. I will guide you with choosing the best one fit for you. I am going to discuss about Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 13.04.

UBUNTU FEATURES AND DOWNLOAD LINKS
1. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support)

• It is best for older machines and for enterprise use.
• It comes with LTS (Long Term Support) means you will get updates for this version till five years.

2. Ubuntu 13.04

• It is best for newer machines which have no compatibility issues.
• It has full of new features that makes your music, video, documents and apps easier to access.
• You will receive updates till 9 months only

DOWNLOAD LINKS

1. Ubuntu 12.04 - 32-bit System | 64-bit System

2. Ubuntu 13.04 - 32-bit System | 64-bit System

Now, you have downloaded a ISO file, SO you need to burn it before you can install Ubuntu into the system. Here are some guides to Burn the ISO on to a DVD.

To install Ubuntu from a DVD, you first need to burn the downloaded ISO image onto a DVD. This requires:

• A working DVD burner (i.e. R/W drive)
• A blank DVD. (recent Ubuntu versions do not fit on to CD any more)

Inexpensive "write once" DVD-Rs are a good choice for burning ISO images.

Burning from Windows

Windows 8 or 7

1. Right-click on an ISO image and choose “Burn disc image”.
2. Select a disk burner (drive) and press "Burn".

If you check “Verify disc after burning”, it will verify that the ISO image has been burned correctly

XP / Server 2003 / Vista: ISO Recorder

1. Download and install the appropriate version of ISO Recorder.
2. Insert an Unformatted CD into your Burner.
3. Open Windows Explorer, browse to your ISO file, right-click and choose "Next".

Now, you have a Ubuntu booting DVD. That you can use for installing Ubuntu into your system.

Visit: Guide for Installing Ubuntu

How to enable or disable Gmail's new tabs

Gmail just rolled out one of its  best features in years: Inbox Tabs. (Actually, the feature was announced back in May, but is only just now starting to roll out to users.)

Borrowing a page from services like Alto and Swizzle Sweeper, Gmail can now automatically organize certain kinds of messages into tabs, greatly reducing inbox clutter in the process.

For example, all your notifications from social-media services (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) will now be sorted into the Social tab, while offers from Groupon, LivingSocial, and other advertisers will now be sorted into the Social tab, while offers from Groupon, LivingSocial, and other advertisers will land under Promos.

If you're not yet seeing tabs when you sign into Gmail (in your Web browser, natch) or you want to make changes to the settings, do this:

1. On the right side of the Gmail interface, find and click the little gear icon (a.k.a. Settings).

2. Click Configure inbox.

3. Now choose which of the five available tabs you want to enable—or disable. (Personally, I see no harm in enabling all five.) If you're not sure exactly what each tab will give you, just mouse over the name of each one; Gmail will show you personalized examples (based on your own inbox) of the kinds of messages that'll get sorted there.

4. Once you've made your selections, click Save.

Note that if you already do have tabs showing in Gmail, you can simply click the little plus sign on the right-most tab to access this same settings box.

For the moment, Gmail offers no way to customize the tabs or add new ones. What's more, if you enable any tabs at all (which is now Gmail's default view), you'll lose the old Priority Inbox.