Dear Geek,

I have an e-mail account for my Kitty Cat fan club, my personal e-mail, and my work e-mail. I spend way too long checking each e-mail account separately. Is there a way to get all of my e-mails in one place?

Sincerely,

Kitty Cats and work, all in one place!

Dear Kitty Cats in Suits,

There is a way to do that, don’t worry! Because the most used e-mail platform is g-mail, I’m going to explain how to do this through g-mail, but it will be very similar between other ones as well.

The first thing you need to do is open g-mail and log on to the e-mail you would like to forward (not the one you want to forward to). You’ll want to click the gear button in the top right hand corner, and select Settings. Select “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab. There should be a button saying “Add a forwarding address”, click on it, and a box should come up where you can add a forwarding e-mail. This will be the e-mail they send all your stuff from the first e-mail address to, or your main e-mail address. They will then send an e-mail to your main address, just confirming that this forwarding of e-mail is verified. There will be a link in this e-mail that you will need to click on to confirm that you want things forwarded to this e-mail.

Back in your e-mail you want to be forwarded, you should refresh the page, then go back to the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab. Select the “Forward a copy incoming mail to” option, and make sure the new forwarding address (email address you want your email forwarded to) is listed in the first drop-down menu. In the second drop-down menu, you can choose some additional options, such as “keep G-mails copy in the inbox”, or “archive G-mail’s copy”. Once you choose all these options, click the “Save changes” button at the bottom.

Multiple e-mail addresses can be added as forwarding addresses in the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab.

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Hey Geek, 

I took a video on my iphone at Comic Con- I mean a conference, and sent it to one of the guys in my WoW clan- I mean co-workers, but he said I’m sending it upside down. I told him he was crazy, and that he was using his computer wrong. What the heck is going on?

Sincerely,

Upside Down

Dear Upside,

Well, I can tell you right now that it’s not the computer. Many of us know that the volume buttons on the iPhone control some of the camera functions, so it would make sense to have them up at the top when using the camera horizontally, right? For whatever reason, Apple decided that holding it that way didn’t make sense. So, actually, you are sending it upside down because you are actually FILMING it upside down. The reason you never noticed was because of Apple’s auto-rotate feature, but as soon as you play the recording on a PC, most media players, or upload it to some kind of editing software, it will be upside down. To stop this from happening from now on, just make sure you hold your iPhone (or iPad!), with the home button to the right.

To fix the videos you already have, there are some free video editing programs you can use, including Freemake Video Converter, which has a rotate option, and Windows Live Video Maker, both of which you can find on Google.

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Dear Geek,

I have this major presentation coming up. I have been up for the past few nights worrying about every little detail, such as, the font it’s going to be presented in. I don’t want it to be too boring and serious, but I also don’t want it to look like a fifth grade child wrote it. There is a specific font I want, but there is no such font in the default fonts for Microsoft Word! HELP ME.

Sincerely,

NERVOUS WRECK

Dear Nervous,

There is an answer! You can download fonts off the internet, and use those in your presentation.

Have you already found your perfect presentation font? If not, you need to find one. This geek’s favorite place for fonts, because yes, this geek is that geeky, would be dafont.com. There are others of course as well, 1001freefonts.com being another good one. Truth is, you can type in “free fonts” on google, and lots will come up, you’re sure to find a website you like.

Once you have your font picked out and downloaded, you need to get the Control Panel open. You can do this through the Start Menu, then going to “Settings”, then “Control Panel”. There should be an icon or folder that says “Fonts”, which is where you will find all of your fonts. In here, there should also be an option to “Install New Font”. If you click on that, you just need to find the font you previously downloaded, or highlight the list of fonts you want to use, and click ok!

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