October 18, 2012
We’ve all received them – those dreaded emails. Perhaps they don’t even deserve to be held in the same regard as "emails". They’re worse than just an email, they’re a forward! Nooooo…! OK, so I’m probably dramatizing them just a tad, but not by much, wouldn’t you agree? Forwarded emails are a pain. You might be thinking that it’s a bit harsh to put them in the same category as spam.
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October 10, 2012
Juggling several email inboxes can be a hassle, but luckily with all the main email providers - Gmail, Outlook (Hotmail) and Yahoo - you can merge all of your email accounts into one inbox, and send and receive email all from one place on the web. This will come in particularly handy to those of you who don't like the idea of using a desktop client. We've put together a guide for all the major email providers, making it easy for you to figure out how to do it.
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July 13, 2011
To those who are concerned about privacy, the web is a dangerous place. Everywhere you turn, everybody is asking you to fill in your personal information. At some level, you need to protect yourself, and not use your real email address to fill in every registration form you come across. You need an email anonymizer or email forwarding service, along the lines of NotSharingMy.Info.
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June 15, 2010
With so many social sharing tools available nowadays, it is so easy to get lost. An email message has remained the most convenient way to get in touch and share anything with people that really matter to you. Email conversations are less cluttered than any other method of online conversations. More often than not, it [...]
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June 11, 2010
We’ve all been there. You’re interested in a website or a download, but the site wants your email address before letting you near the goods. You want access, but you’re not quite sure you want it enough to hand over the information. The site asks you to supply an email address, and follow up with [...]
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August 11, 2009
Have you ever had the need to send completely anonymous emails to someone? Perhaps you were trying to prank one of your friends, or wanted to shyly declare your love. Perhaps you wanted to report illegal activity or abuse, but didn’t want to get caught up in all it. Going to a telephone booth is [...]
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July 5, 2009
If you spend a lot of time on the web, either for leisure or work, you may find yourself having a lot of email accounts. I know I do. I have heaps that I regularly check; work, websites, personal. But I found myself wasting so much time logging in and logging out of Hotmail and [...]
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May 25, 2009
Gmail has been known to roll out new features every now and then. It has always been very user friendly and now, with all the new features coming out so quickly (in Gmail labs), it is becoming more interesting than ever. Being the Gmail fans that we are, here is a quick run down of [...]
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April 17, 2009
There are two ways to send a webpage to someone. The most common and the most followed is to copy paste the webpage link in the email. The second is to send the entire web page via email, that is include it within the body of the email. Which one do you think is more [...]
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April 6, 2009
Am I finicky? I guess I am but I do like to arrange whatever I write or email with the proper space, font or indent. Call it a format fetish but I do hate the sight of email forwards with trailing blank lines and haphazard text. And the “˜>‘ which goes onto become “˜>>‘ with [...]
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January 16, 2009
How many eMails do you receive each day? A dozen? More? Chances are you are receiving too many. Hopefully you’re receiving little spam, but certainly you have a lot of mail hitting your inbox that doesn’t need your immediate attention. Maybe you even receive private stuff at work that you should rather not attend to at all [...]
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November 27, 2008
Want to send a short email to a friend and get it delivered to his/her cell phone as SMS? If you know your friends’ phone numbers and the carrier they are on then you can easily send emails to their cell phones directly from your email program. Here is how it works: Most of mobile [...]
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October 27, 2008
Our lives are made up of work, friends, family, hobbies, events, clubs, and so on. Because our lives are so diversified we often have multiple email accounts. Gmail is a great, free email program that has a lot of functionality. If you have more than one Gmail account you can easily link them together so you can receive and send email from one Gmail account and keep everything together without having to use multiple programs or services.
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