How To Send and Receive Money with Gmail

Google has been hitting really hard on some major aspect of online services recently, did you missed it? they managed recently to offer a music streaming service together with the new Hangout for Android and iOS, and now they are offering a good service to send and receive money online with Gmail, taking part in competition to other major Online Money Transaction Services, particularly Paypal which has almost blacklisted and revoked many countries from using their service, were you not able to open a verify PayPal account? here is the easy way you can send and receive money with Gmail account. This process made use of Google Wallet to send and receive money from your Gmail Web based UI, therefore, you might want to first setup your Google Wallet, Shall we begin?

Google Wallet Setup

• Visit google.com/wallet, 
• login with your Google account. 
• Enter your details as required. 

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If you add a bank account you will be able to transfer any received money from your Google Wallet account into your bank account and if you add a credit or debit card you will be able to send money.

 After successfully creation of your, Wallet account, if you’ve ever purchased with Google wallet, maybe you purchased android apps or anything from play store, the first thing you will see is the transaction history for your Wallet Account, you can also add  another bank account or credit card by clicking payment methods options on the right hand side, follow the prompts to verify your account and have the card added to your account.

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Send and Receive Money

Now that you have setup your google account, and you have a payment method added, now you are ready to send and receive money, assuming your account has access, (if not, kindly ask someone who already has access to send you any small penny and your account will have access to the feature). To send money once you have access, log in to your Gmail account and click on compose, at the bottom you will see a plus symbol that reveals various service – one of which is the option to send money indicated with $ sign. Click on the dollar sign and start the process of attaching money to your e-mail. Enter the amount you’d like to send, and enter the account you’d like to fund the transaction from. Enter the recipient’s e-mail address, then probably a subject and body as you like. When done hit send. The email will be sent to the recipient with attached money.

Before you can claim funds, you just need to verify you’re real owner of the account, you will be ask some questions, such as your address, and last four digits of your Social Security Number., once the fund is claimed, the money can take up to 24 hours to be made available in your Google Wallet account, from wallet you can do anything with it, spend it through wallet or deposited it in your connected bank account.
This is convenient way of sending and receiving money with now fees of using your Google Wallet balance or when transferring from a linked bank account, now the service is initially rolled out, there is no fee for using a debit or credit card , though the fee may be charged at 30 cents per transaction.

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Secure your account

I don't really need to remind you of your account safety, I know the last thing you'd want is someone to gain access to your e-mail account where they can possibly send money without your notice, I suggest you take the necessary method to keep your account information secured and give unauthorized uses some tough time in accessing your account, by just enabling two-step authentication, then you'll be required to enter your password as well as six-digit code before you can access your account or anyone else. the code can be sent via text message. I think this is good news for every one using Google Account and unable to to get a verified Paypal account, as with time this Google Web money service will be a total substitute to Payapl (if they're not charging high as payapl though), and cosidering they decide to pay Adsense revenue Via Gmail, every one will rush into that, What do you think about it??

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8 Tips to Make Your Computer Work and Run Faster

I had worked countless of times with slow computers and to be real fact its like working with dead Computers,  I wrote earlier on some possible causes of computer slow down but today I will be sharing many tips on how you can get your slow computer to be super fast just like when its new, different operating system have some specific features which can cause the computer to be slowing down but what I will share will be general fixes for all crawling computers which may try their best to frustrate you, meanwhile, none of these tips require money or additional hardware, just some little of your time to read and implement them.

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#1 Free up Disk Space

I have seen many computers with high RAM and processor and still yet they are still slowing down, possible causes of this might be the result of some useless files on the Computer, before you can get your computer back to fast again there some files and program you must delete to free up some disk space. The following ways can help you free up some disk space.

Remove Unnecessary Programs

Start>control panel>add/remove programs after that wait for the list and go through the programs to uninstall all programs that you do not use, mostly if you are using an OEM system (built by HP, Dell, Acer, etc) these systems always come with useless pieces of additional software like help suites and start guides, you can remove all these as they are just there to waster  space they  are never required for the system to run.  if you are running a slower spec or older computers you should consider using lighter software for your security like avast those premium antivirus like Norton, McAfee are generally overfed with fancy interfaces and feature which will slow down your computer.

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Notice: don’t uninstall programs if you don’t know their uses, I suggest you find out what they before you completely remove them.

Organize Files and Folders

Next step is to go through all your files and folder; many times you may have the same files stored in different location with different names or same name, or maybe some files are outdated that you don’t longer needed mostly saved web page files, by ordering and arranging your files you will make your Computer more efficient, after you have detected and deleted such files remember that they are still hide inside your recycle bin, make sure to look in your recycle bin and delete them permanently or quick press empty recycle bin to delete all recycled files. Most times all my working with slow computer ends here as after I finished this step, the computer fast twice as it is before.

Use these software

The following programs can be used to free up disk space.

Ccleaner: This is a program that get rid junk and temporary files you don’t need such as  internet cookies, temporary files, and other internet junks.
Auslogics Defrag:  Am sure you’re quite aware of defragmentation process in windows, well this default window components has its weakness, but this Auslogics Defrag is little bit better there are also some paid software which are more better than free one, you can search for these if you’re really willing to spend money to make your computer more faster, but I must tell it really worth it.

 #2 Repair Disk Errors

We use our hard drive daily thereby making it possible to develop bad sectors, sometimes too much of bad sectors in hard drive can slow down a PC performance and most times make writing and file saving difficult, I will suggest to make your computer run faster there is a window utility which can check and fix disk error, the error checking utility scans the hard drive and system files for bad sectors and fixed where possible. See the picture below for detailed guide.

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#3 Microsoft Services

There are some Microsoft services programs which are set to load that you do not need or used them regularly, these programs can always be start later and their respective service will load, but making them start up with system start up can simply increase boot times and increase total resource usage, you can remove such files by open up run and type: “msconfig” without the quote from the service tab check the “hide all Microsoft service box at the bottom of the window and any other programs.

#4 Indexing Services

This feature is used by few people, is a small program but uses lots system memory, even if you use the search feature a lot it is still unnecessary to have it enabled it will be better if you ween out searches you don’t need, such as your documents, music, VIDEO ETC those files that you know how to navigate around them, but if you never search, then just remove everything, to disable it: In control panel>add/remove programs> on the left click add/remove window components>uncheck indexing service and click next, is now disabled.



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Window Vista: Right click on C:/drive and click properties>on the general tab, uncheck index this drive for faster searching>select include sub folders and files.
Window XP: Click start>type in “services.msc”> find and right click Window Search>in the startup type choose disabled.

#5 Fix Slow Shut Down

Some computers failed to shut down when you tried to shut it down and some are very slow to shut down, common possible causes are the open windows that took long time to close when shut down process is ongoing, to eradicate this you have to make some changes in your window registry.
Open up run and type regedit.

• Goto: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEM
• SYSTEM
• CurrentControlSet
• Control
• Right click WaitToKillServiceTimeOut and click modify
• Change the value to a lower value in milliseconds. By default it is at 12000, 12 seconds.

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#6 Use ReadyBoost

#7  Increase Boot Cores.

This is easy one of the best way to increase boot times though this only applies to Computer with multi-core processors like dual core, quad core etc,

• to do this click on run> type in "msconfig" without ""
• Click the Boot tab
• Click the Advances Options button
• Check the number of processors box
• Click the drop down menu blow and set it to the highest number.
• Click Ok
• Reboot

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#8 Optimizing your Page file.

All computer uses a method known as paging to save on memory space, this is where it will dump certain data that hasn’t been used for a long time from memory to a reserved space in the computer Hard drive, the more data you put here the more you must resize your page file, this process uses processing power that could use for other things, to improve this you can make the size of the page file fixed. Here is how.

• Right click My Computer and click Properties
• Click the Advanced Tab
• Click the settings button under performance
• Click the Advanced Tab
• Under Virtual Memory, click change
• Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.

If you have 512MB of memory or less, make the maximum size 150% of the amount of system memory. So, for instance, if you have 512MB system memory, you would make the page file 768MB. If you have greater than 512MB system memory, make the page file 100% of the system memory. So for instance, if you have 1GB (1024MB) system memory, make the page file 1024MB.

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Though there are many other ways you can use to speed up your computer, like increasing RAM, but when RAM is increased or in situation where no RAM is available any of the above tips can really come in handy, and above all if your Computer doesn't slow down, I think you'd find this post very informative, will be glad if you can share your  views and opinions using the comment box below.

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Google I/O 2013: Google Launches Music Streaming Service

The well known Google annual developer conference Google I/O was held in San Francisco recently where the Tech and web giant launches its new music streaming service to Plus 1 its other numerous services, this music service will give access to millions of songs with a monthly subscription of $7.99 till 30 June, boarding a menace to other providers like spotify and alongside again surpass its rival, Apple.

Getting To Know and Setup

Let slip the music service, the Google Engineering director, Chris Yerga said users would be able to stream from a wide large library on any device using the Android Operating Systems as he said “this is radio without rules” It's as 'lean-back' as you want to, or as interactive as you want to, Google has signed licensing deals with music companies including Warner, Sony and Universal thereby making millions of songs available for the service.

The Price

The price of the all access service slightly followed up with the other popular existing provider, in the US all service will cost $9.99 a month after a 30-day free trial, perhaps a discount will be for users who sign up by 30 June will be able to subscribe at a reduced price of $7.99 per month. Nevertheless a lot of complaining has been raised concerning the price and its high rate, but in my own consideration though they ought to beat the price down a little bit to kick start the competition and allure the devoted users of spotify.

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The features

Welcome to Google Play Music, the service will makes it easy for you to discover millions of tracks, add your personal collection and listen to the music you love on Android and the web, users will be able to search for an artists and add tracks to their Library not only radio but also has a radio feature as well, A “Listen Now features will create a mix of favorite artist or genres based on previously listened to songs. There is also an offline playback, which is working beautifully where you can choose to save the album “on device” .

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Setting up

The setting up came with two ways to play, One standard and other All Access, with standard plan which is completely free let you add up to 20,000 of your songs, buy new music on Google play and also listen on android and on the web. But with all access which covers everything from standard and additionally you can apply millions of songs whenever you like, listen to radio with unlimited skips, enjoy playlists crafted by their music geeks.

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Before you can completely set up your account, and verified your country of residence, you will have to complete a free transaction which will require you to add your credit card to activate your account, though your card will not be charged in anyway, but if you’ve already signed up with Google wallet then you don’t need to add your info and CC, all you had to do is accept and if some reasons you didn’t like the service you have to cancel before the free month is up, by this you wont get charged.

To get the app on your phone you can of course updated via play store, pin different albums as well as make several playlist from the app on your phone, search for any music you wanted to listen to, then downloaded the music for offline playback. you can access this service on web at music.google.com, further review and details will be updated in the near future as soon as many users are getting used to the service, well ofcourse any comment or request can be tender using the comment box below.

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6 Easy Steps to Writing Great Blog Posts or Article

There are many blog posts over the internet today, this is a no fault of the web as creating of website is very easy but writing a great blog post that will attract readers to come and re-visit your blog site require additional knowledge and skills, no one have to be a professor in English before he/she can write a good blog post, but knowing the steps makes it easier so one don’t spin his wheels. The following are the easy steps to take in writing a good blog post.

Choosing the Topic and Title

The first step in a post is of course to choose the topic to write about, unlike in schools where topics were assigned, in blogosphere you have the opportunity to choose any topics related to your niche and write interesting thing about it, selecting a topic is one of the hardest things in writing a post, sometimes many posts may comes on your mind and you are “all at sea” to write one, and sometimes you wouldn't find the right topic to write about, to overcome this you must know what your readers truly want, what they love reading on your blog, it is advisable to choose a topic that is not too trivial, not too big, not too personal or too controversial, if you dare to choose such topics you are likely to run into troubles, after choosing a topic then think of a catchy title that’s SEO-rich for your topic, you can use Google keywords idea to get hint on the title to choose for your topic.

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Gathering Information

After you've chosen a topic and already gave your topic a unique and catchy title next step is to gather information to expand your topic idea, be motivated to read when you need to gather information for teaching others or writing articles, this is necessary for you to make the best out of other who have written about similar post, hey! Not saying to duplicate their contents in anyway but there is no harm in learning from their write up to develop your own ideas, some of your points might need enlightenment, (you cant possibly know everything), easy way to haunt for information is to use search engines and forums.

Catchy Headline

The next step is to construct an enticing and attractive outline or headline even if hesitantly of what you are writing about, your headline must talk about everything the whole post is saying, I must tell you that your headline is the very first thing any reader of your post will first glanced through, if you get people to read your first 2-3 lines, there is a good chance they will read all your content, let your headline short, summarize what's inside the post body with much explanation that will tempt any reader to continue reading the post.

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Featured Image

 A very descriptive image does it all, if you've been writing posts with no image, you are really missing a lots, to mention few of what you are missing out, there is no way to pin your post, (am sure you know good traffic that comes from pinterest), sometimes funny image can attract uninterested reader, placing a clean and clear image that describe what's the post is all about after the headline or second paragraph or if you are writing a how to post, screen shot images will really make the post more understanding.

Body Content

This is where all the works fall in, this step contain all the content body, this is where you explained in detail what you want your readers to know you shouldn’t have much problem here if you know very well what you are writing about, you must make it simple and straightforward that even a 3 years old child will understand, avoid using of long words, be normal and witty, don’t be personal in your post or too serious.

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Conclusion

This is the last step in writing a post, here again you can summarize the whole content or give out important points or reason of the post, you can asking your readers to share, comment their opinions and ideas on the post they’ve just read, and make sure before you publish, carefully proofread your post and check for errors and make necessary corrections, there is no gain in hurry to publish other than publishing content with many grammatical and typo errors.

Other tips to consider

Inter-Linking

Interlinking if very important in SEO strategy, it simply means referencing the link of your older posts in new one, why doing this? First it help readers to stay much on your blog, thereby reduce the bounce rate of your site (2) it help you to get higher page rank. (clear-cut)?

Word Count

This depends on the type of post you are writing about, but I must tell you that no search engine will give good regard to post below 400 words, its even look like ordinary “notification content” in front of your readers, you must know how to increase short-posts to count more than 500 words, or if you know the post you are writing is not up to a blog post, don’t try to make it one, to be down-to-earth: “the standard blog post must be 500+”.

Punctuations

Punctuation is very imperative in writing, it is used to remove uncertainty of meaning from a sentence, and help readers to understand any statement well punctuated more better, few examples are comma, full stop, question mark, bracket, and many others,

Uses of Keyword

Keywords refers to the number of times people enter a specific keyword on the search engines, knowing the idea of what most people will type to search engine and optimize it in your post can fetch you thrice traffic with half effort, these keywords change with time, using Google Keywords tools and other keyword research tools will help you to know the proper usage of keyword more better.

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Samsung Mobile Review: The Galaxy Big Four

This post happen to be my first Samsung Mobiles review, it is not an exaggeration if I say Samsung products especially their Tablets are belong to the top products in the mobile market today, and also one of the most used smartphone globally, their products has been better from start to the recent stage and with no doubts it will be even more better till their future products, why don't we take a look at the greatest changes and cool features that has happened to Samsung Mobiles till date?

Samsung Galaxy S IV

When you first glanced at Galaxy S IV you may probably guessed it is not differ from the Samsung Galaxy S3, but when you take a time to hold or maybe use it for a while then you will discover it comes with many new features such as the 13 megapixel camera, the great touch free and smart scroll which allow you to receive incoming calls by just waving your hand at the screen or read contents by just sloping your phone or head without even touch the phone, Don't like much stress switching TV stations? then you can use WatchOn to change TV channels from your phone and get a customize guide that shows you what you love to watch.

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Samsung Galaxy S3

This multi touch smartphone that runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with Processing power of Exynos 4412 1.4GHz Quad-core CPU, 1GB RAM, was released on May, 2012 to over 28 Europeans countries, the price rate From £391 SIM-free, or £30 a month on contract  it comes with Pebble Blue, Marble White colors and other colors, the screen looks charming with 4.8in Super AMOLED, 1,280 x 720 resolution display, Love your music? Wolfson DAC, Apt-X Bluetooth mono speaker give you the best on audio output while the camera give finest shot with main rear 8 Mega Pixel Auto Focus with  the battery beat up iPhone 5 with removable 2100mAh, if you don't know what to do with 16/32GB micro-SD Storage capacity, of course you can make use of over 700,000 apps available on Google play.


Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0

If you want sharing of life with photos more easier this Galaxy Note can do it all, it is the powerhouse of productivity that was built on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, you can get even more done with multitasking pop-ups that let you doodle pop up note, it was also generously featured with clean 8" HD Display, Smart gestures and even beautified with smart accessories such as portable battery pack, S Pen,Samsung Galaxy Bluetooth Keyboard, Micro USB Wireless Adapter and lots more.

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Samsung Galaxy S2 

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars, first launched on Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" and later updated to Android 4.0.4 "Ice Cream Sandwich but latest updated  on January 2013 to Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean", experience fast blowing connectivity speed with your S2 4G combine with dual core processing power to ease multitask and movie downloads, also come with available internal memory of 16GB,

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First Mobile Review, How's it? if we are to be really optimistic I think Samsung is little more better than its challenger, iPhone, I wouldn't want to turn this into a debate as many angry iOS users will disagree with me on this as it they are now doing in the mobile world fighting for  iPhone, am not saying iPhone aren't great but was fully loaded with some annoying features, Am I Wrong? My next post on mobile will be be on the most annoying things on iPhones and I hope you subscribe to my Latest Updates to get it first hand.

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Is Google Plus Fit to be the Next Social Media King?

One of my earlier Post pushed me to write this post, in that post one of our readers post a comment about the next social media king and suggested Google Plus if or after the reigning king Facebook messed anything up, (which they are already started),  I totally concurred with him and my concurrence drag out many inquiries on why I made that reply, i wouldn't want to prolong the short-tailed issues anymore, I think i should discuss my reasons.

Is the Media Getting Bored?

Back then when Facebook ignited it started perfectly the time when Internet is shedding tears of Media king, here we are living in Facebook era, and we're being ruled by Facebook, but Facebook era seems unlikely to end but  I know this will change at some points in time, to my question is the media getting bored? my answer is not really, but the media need a social network better enough to provide even more better services so that people will leave Facebook not in droves but a little bit at a time, this will happen sooner than most people think, you don't need to be surprised IBM reigned for 40 years, Twitter also had its time, the ancient king Yahoo also used its time, no one will reign forever life changes.

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Google Gives best Service

When we're talking about best services am talking about reputations, Google has earn many internet reputations, mail services, browsers, Operating System, Videos, Business, Search engine, Finance and any other aspect of life, they provide these services with best user satisfaction and still they are still updating and upgrading to ensure even more better services, am sure they will do the same if  the Social media king task is directed to Google plus.

Maximum Privacy

Fake Facebook id’s there are just many of you!, access to private information are easily gained on Facebook One of the Reasons to Deactivate a Facebook Accounts because I cant stand seeing my pictures on Facebook with different name, ummh if you can? Google plus provide maximum privacy with its add to “circles” idea, you can create a circles for only friends and other for family, you can create this circles as many as possible and you share with only a circles or two or share to public, you have the total control of who see what you shared than as it is on Facebook, additionally you can also control what you see from every circles in your content feed.
  
Many existing users

Even if Google take over the Social Media, some still wonder if the switch will be easy.  Because there is no way to be social if you don't go where people are, though it might be tough and be like slow process but am strongly believe that switching to Google plus will not be a very difficult task, because of the one account many services of Google, and besides  there are many existing users already which is even challenging Facebook users, one don’t even need to create new account as your existing Google account will give you automatic access to use Google plus and other Google services, this will make uses of Google plus a sweet dinner to carry till day break



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Amazing New Feature

To show you that Google plus is capable of the social media king task, take a look at how they manage gradually to cover all that precious Facebook features, and they name it in a completely sexy names, such as stream, followers & circles, events, communities, +1’s, find people, and to crown it all they even added some extra new features that are not available on Facebook like using of #hashtags, audio and video hangouts, personalized search, Google Plus local. This is a great reasons to use Google plus.
 
One Account Many Services

I won't waste your time to start counting many services provided by Google, as you well know they are many, and its only one account you need to gain access to those services,  as I mentioned above that it will make the switch very easy, you can access many Google services with a single login, make switch between accounts this is very useful to many users who don’t know how to use different accounts on single a browser.

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Advertisement? NO…..NO

Before you will ignored all the above reasons, check this last one out, Google Plus doesn’t place any ads on their sidebar, unlike Facebook which has its site sidebar full of chaotic ads, “travel agents, real estate” are advert frustrating their time to snatch and arrest your attention from enjoying the great time online, also the newly introduced sponsored post which has already started forcing online marketers to sponsored their post, before the introduction of this silly features any post can shows up in friends news feed as much as it can, but now Facebook has minimized the exposure of non sponsored posts which is a very bad idea and give sponsored posts access to spam every timeline which cant be controlled! If Facebook want to maximize their revenue they can do so by mobile ads (my assumptions)!

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