June 28, 2009
I could have also titled this ““ Mail merge from Outlook. Because that’s exactly what this process is about. Mail merge is a powerful productivity feature of MS Word. Before I leap ahead, mail merge is used when we want to create several documents that are basically the same but where each document contains unique [...]
June 26, 2009
What’s with Google? Googlers seem to never put down their thinking caps and out comes this little nugget of a page called Gmail Tips. A few posts back, I had put up something on 10 Little Known Google Pages worth a Second Look. Now, here’s another section of Google which is far more useful and [...]
May 25, 2009
Gmail’s pretty popular, but even Gmail users can fall prey to email overload. An important work-related message could end up lost in a sea of spam and bacn. In the past, I’ve shown you how to use alternate-address services such as OtherInbox to help manage incoming email. Today, I’ll show you how to use ReBoxed [...]
April 30, 2009
Okay, I admit it – sometimes I multitask a little too much, and not efficiently enough. I have about seven different POP email accounts that I log into several times a day to check email. One reason I tend not to use a single email client for all of those accounts is because I don’t [...]
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 [...]
February 17, 2009
In October, Sharninder wrote a great article here at MakeUseOf called “5 Gmail Labs Features Everyone Should Try.” That was only four months ago, but Gmail has made so many great changes over the last few months that it’s time for another edition. Gmail Labs is full of experimental new features that you can choose [...]
February 16, 2009
This is another of those things that one learns from unwanted experience. If you are in the majority who has experienced a system crash, then you will empathize with the hair tearing fits that accompany the loss of saved mails, contacts and sundry email data. For those whose preferred email client is Microsoft Outlook 2007 [...]
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 [...]
December 8, 2008
Not so long ago we looked at how to send emails to cell phone as SMS for free. Lots of people found the article quite useful. Today I wanted to extend it a bit further and show you how you can use the info from the previous post to setup SMS alerts for important emails [...]
December 5, 2008
More than a year back, Aibek wrote a great list of 35 must-have thunderbird addons. Since then, a lot of great addons have been created and some of the older addons have also evolved to become better ones. As such, it is time for us to re-visit the list of Thunderbird addons and update our [...]
