Changing Themes in Email

A few people have recently said that they don't like the new look of our email system. You can set a new "theme" to change the look, if you want.

• Click on the small gear icon in the upper right corner.
• Click on Mail Settings.
• Click on "Themes"
• Select a theme that you like.
• Click on "Inbox" on the left edge to return to your email.

If you want to leave feedback with Google about their changes, you can use their feedback form.

Electronics Shopping

Its mid-November now and that means a lot of people are shopping to replace their computer, iPod, TV, or what-have-you.  I thought it would be helpful to review some on-line shopping tips.  If you think that I missed anything, feel free to add it to the comments below.


General shopping:

• Check for coupons on RetailMeNot.com & DealCoupon.com
• Compare prices on many sites using www.google.com/products.
• Check product reviews to avoid problems. Amazon.com, Google.com, & Epinions.com are good for this.
• Watch sites like www.DealNews.com, www.Woot.com, and www.DailySteals.com for sales.
• Remember to include the tax and shipping when comparing costs between stores. I have often found that the store with the lower advertised price is not the cheapest once shipping is added.

Computer & electronics shopping:

• See the general list above.
• Check DealMac.com and DealNews.com for sales.  They even have Black Friday news.
• NewEgg.com is well known for good pricing.
• Some one-day-deal sites can be useful, but you'll have to check them every day.
• CowBoom.com
• DailySteals.com
• MeritLine.com's Daily Deals page
• Woot.com
• For cameras, check the reviews on www.Steves-DigiCams.com and www.DPReview.com.
• Steves-DigiCams.com also has a feature & price search that will suggest models and stores.

Check for academic discounts.

• Apple: http://store.apple.com/us-k12
• Dell: http://www.dell.com/us/en/k-12/df.aspx?refid=df&s=k12&cs=RC1084719
• HP: http://www.hpk12.com/

Email Improvements

Google has notified me of an upcoming change to our email system.  This should be happening within a few weeks, at most.

To learn how your cairodurham.org email is about to change, please look at this web page.  The video at the top takes less than 2 minutes and the descriptions in the page give a lot of insight.