November 27, 2010
We send and receive lots of emails daily. Many of the messages we receive are important ones requiring some further action or reply – but most of these emails are automatic notifications and updates from our social networks and subscriptions. How to make sense of all this clutter? How do we not miss something really [...]
November 26, 2010
Have you been using Gmail for a while, but you’re still overrun by an overflowing inbox? Time to sort you out! There’s a few simple tricks pro users use to make very good use of Gmail. We’ll make it clear for you. Most of us here at MakeUseOf use Gmail, whether we then import that [...]
November 20, 2010
With three email accounts, one for work, one personal and one for MakeUseOf, I find myself spending more time checking my email and trying to keep all the messages under control than actually getting much work done. Luckily, all three email accounts are Gmail or Google Apps accounts, and so in an attempt to organise [...]
November 6, 2010
Open an email and instantly see background information about the person who wrote it. That’s the idea behind Rapportive, a Gmail plugin that automatically looks up their professional and social networking links and adds it to Gmail’s sidebar. Best of all: you can leave custom notes about a person for future reference, perfect if you’re [...]
October 16, 2010
Owning a smartphone that allows you to check your email no matter where you are can sometimes be counterproductive. One of the biggest mistakes I make is to check my email when I know that I don’t have the time to reply to the emails I read. If I don’t reply to them on the [...]
October 8, 2010
Gmail users are often enthusiastic email users, not just as a slightly useful technology, but as a link to the rest of the world and an extension of themselves. Or maybe it’s just me. Notification applications can help you to continually keep track of your inbox by creating an icon in your menu bar. Especially [...]
September 8, 2010
One of the issues I’ve always had with my free Yahoo email account is the fact that it’s so difficult to deal with it anywhere outside of the online Yahoo Mail system itself. There aren’t very many online email systems that will let you extract email from your Yahoo account as easily as you can [...]
September 8, 2010
Do you compose text and email on your mobile phone? If you are an iPhone user, it would be a waste of features if you didn’t. The problem is though that text and mail on the iPhone has left us little room for customization. Not to mention that writing on a small screen using your [...]
August 29, 2010
In 1978 Gary Thuerk sent the first ever spam email advertising a new range of microcomputers to 400 users of the ARPANET service. In 2010 we’re still looking for a solution to this increasingly frustrating problem, and most of us don’t want to pay. We get quite a lot of spam here at MakeUseOf, but then [...]
August 14, 2010
Gmail is, without a doubt, the best email service ever. With its huge storage space, its Labs features and its search functions, it consistently beats the pants off its rivals. But saying that, there are still some features missing from Gmail that would make it an even more perfect service for me. Now a company [...]
