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A few tips and tricks, included as questions arise.

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Search images

Use this in url:

&tbm=isch

Example to search for middle owhyee:

https://www.google.com/search?q=middle+owyhee&tbm=isch

Organizing by thread vs. by date

To turn off the default grouping of emails with similar subject lines, go to Settings, General, and set "Conversation view off":

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Gmail forwarding

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Google Apps for UCLA

Emails to jbruin@ucla.edu will go to Google Apps for UCLA, also know as g.ucla.edu, or "g" for short.

To access these emails, go to g.ucla.edu and sign on with your UCLA logon (1 below).

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To access Google through a program other than a web browser, you need to set up a Google Apps password; click 2 above, then click "My Google Apps username or password"

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You will then be able to create a password for use with Thunderbird, and other software.

Thunderbird settings

Go to Account Settings (Tools menu, or right-click over an account on the left)

Under Account Actions, click "Add Mail Account" 

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Enter your name, and jbruin@g.ucla.edu as your email address, then your Google Apps password. 

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If the settings don't work automatically, change to the following (probable only the server names will need changing):

Server: use imap.gmail.com

Username: jbruin@g.ucla.edu

Connection security: SSL/TLS

Authentication: normal

Outgoing server: smtp.gmail.com

Port: 465

Connection security: SSL/TLS

Authentication: normal

Username: jbruin@g.ucla.edu

Changing Google Drive to new account

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