That's what I suspected. Thanks.

You can send an sms alert on new mail receipt in Gmail without using ifttt.

Yeah, I know how to create recipes, like you say they are severely restricted in what you can do with them, I want to make my own "This" bits such as

I haven't really looked at ifttt in great detail, everything I ever wanted to do had no recipe, which brings me to my question. How does one create one's own components in ifttt? Or is one restricted to just the ones available on the ifttt site? Some of them seem so precise I can't imagine them ever being used. For…

It wasn't the minerals I was worried about, it was the encapsulating and coating agents. They may well coat my pipes as well as the water company's.

Ugh! Do our innards get encapsulated and coated too because that same water goes thru us?

Last year I dropped my three month old iPhone (white/64gb) in the Pacific. I thought about the upcoming battle ahead with some snotty Verizon rep. Yeah, it was my fault but Verizon can better stand the loss. I had two options; I could go to the store, pick on some young geeky nerd still wet behind the ears and turn on…

You might want to try a mild borax solution in warm water to remove any previous soap residue then shampoo, rinse and use some isopropyl alcohol on the material. The borax will remove soap scum. Any soap scum residue from previous attempts at cleaning may become a target for bacteria so you need to remove it. A toxic…

Rather than bookmarking you can just keep several tabs permanently at various sections - this is probably a step up from the app.

I don't use Facebook so this may all be hogwash but I think you can improve the tip on using the browser by downloading a second browser, dolphin for example and set it to full screen, no address bar, and set the home page / new tab page to FB, in effect creating an almost closed system. I don't know if FB can …

When I was in England a few years back I discovered that country's finest contribution to world cuisine - the toast sandwich. It's a slice of toast between two slices of bread. You spread your choice of fillings on the four - yes four surfaces - and consume. The toast adds a pleasant texture and I don't need to tell…

Wait! Isn't this in "Google - The Missing Manual Volume 3"?

Why not? It's the only way to get a copy nowadays :)

I posted the same thing too when the Skydrive site was updated. You can do that with any cloud storage site that has an upload button. This is a Windows Explorer function not a cloud app function, the same way you can paste a URL into Explorer and it'll open your default browser and go there. This whole web app is…

The original point I think was to let you play your music in the player of choice. You might have 20,000 songs uploaded but you certainly wouldn't have all those on the average phone. You're limited without this app to using the Google Music Player to stream and play those songs. Google also lets you download stuff to…

Important!

Anyone who bemoans the lack of desktop notifications for Outlook.com can use GmailNotifierPro. The program itself makes a passable but not perfect desktop client for Outlook.com but it can be configured to show popup &/or tray notifcations for your unread or new Outlook.com mail. You can continue to use your regular…

Another reader pointed out I posted an incorrect link. This one goes to the correct place.

Yes you're right, thanks for pointing it out. Here's the correct link.

You forgot the Jellybean lockscreen