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Customize Gmail's Online Interface With Gmelius [Firefox, Chrome & Opera]

Remove features you don't like from Gmail, leaving behind only the things you do. Gmelius is a simple extension for Chrome, Firefox and Opera that lets you turn off parts of Gmail you're not interested in, including ads. Gmail's interface is great, and largely clean, but recent changes at Google leave minimalists pulling their hair out.

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Do Nigerian Scam Emails Hide A Terrible Secret? [Opinion]

Another day, another spam email drops into my inbox, somehow working its way around the Windows Live spam filter that does such a good job of protecting my eyes from all of the other unsolicited bobbins. Naturally, the message comes from a Nigerian citizen, a legal representative of a deposed prince who would like to pay me to hide some ill-gotten gains in my bank account.

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Professional Mail Search In Outlook With Lookeen [Giveaway]

Lookeen is a Microsoft Outlook add-on that introduces accelerated search to the email client and is also an integrated desktop search tool. How does Lookeen add to the Office experience? Try it for yourself! This week, we're giving away 25 copies of Lookeen worth close to $1000 in total. Read on to find out more about what Lookeen can do for you and join the giveaway.

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Grey Mail: The New Email Nuisance To Hit Your Inbox

Spam has been the bane of email for a long time, but I'd be lying if I said my inbox was full of spam nowadays - it isn't. Filters and worldwide anti-spam networks cut it right down, and increasingly savvy consumers are unwilling to give out their email to just anyone. I personally haven't seen a single spam message hit my inbox for years now. Grey mail is the new productivity killer, and it's only going to get worse.

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Is It Time To Let Hotmail Back Into Our Hearts? [Opinion]

Hotmail has had some seriously bad rap over the years, and is now almost universally shunned by tech professionals and bloggers. The main complaint has always been that the service is spam riddled, but is that fair? Is it time we gave Hotmail - the daddy of web based email - another chance to win back our hearts?

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Trying To Promote Your Product Or Idea Via Email? Don't Do Any Of These [Opinion]

Say you have an idea for a product or application and have been developing the app or you have had someone else make it for you. If you’re trying to spread it to the masses, you may have thought about approaching blogs like MakeUseOf, magazines, and other outlets so they can feature your product. However, good PR practices are also key to getting your product and ideas out there.

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Roundcube vs. Horde: Which Webmail Client Is Better?

A webmail client is great to have when you're on the go. Several top webmail contenders can handle your email accounts just like your desktop clients do. Here we're comparing Roundcube and Horde.

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Send Self-Destructing Messages To Your Minions With Burn Note

This message will self-destruct...". If there's one thing every kid watching spy shows dreams of, it's exploding messages that disappear forever. The explosion is cool, but so is the idea that you can send a message to your friend without anyone else ever being able to read it afterwards. Burn Note gives you exactly this functionality, albeit without the exploding tape or piece of paper.

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ROUNDUP: The 10 Best Features That Keep Me In Gmail

Gmail is one of Google's greatest projects and in my eyes it has revolutionized email. Not only is it the best web-based email client around, Gmail also beats free desktop clients by miles. After using Thunderbird for almost a decade, I recently switched to exclusively using Gmail's web interface. In this article I will share my ten favorite features that made me switch and will make me stick with Gmail.

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Liberate Gmail From The Browser With Dedicated Email Client Postbox [Giveaway]

This week, we're giving away 25 copies of Postbox 3 for both Windows and Mac worth $750 in total! Let me show you around, and maybe you’ll be one of the lucky winners!

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Mass Unsubscribe From Nuisance Email Newsletters With Unsubscribr

Do you get more email than you know what to do with? You're not alone. I get multiple, daily emails that I routinely delete without so much as opening. Or, at least, I did, until just now. I used Unsubscribr and stopped those messages from getting to me. You should too. This free tool lets you unsubscribe from the stuff you don't care about without having to actually read any of the messages and look for the "Unsubscribe" link or instructions.

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6 Precautions You Should Take Against Email Harvesters & Spammers

Spam has its roots in email harvesting. Email harvesting is the umbrella term for the methods spammers (or bulk email marketers) use to obtain email addresses in volumes. It could be as low tech as purchasing email address lists or go high-tech with the use of special email harvester bots which scan or spider through webpages, discussion boards, and chat groups.

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3 Ways To Free Up Storage Space In Your Gmail Account

Google Mail currently offers 7,679 MB of free storage. For the average user, that is enough space to last a lifetime. But what if you run out of storage space nevertheless? How can you find and delete obsolete emails in bulk or track down large attachments to regain precious MBs? This article highlights three ways to quickly make room for more mail.

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5 Tips On Keeping Sensitive Information Out Of Your Chat Logs & Emails

So you’re talking to someone online and you need to share a password or another sensitive piece of information - what do you do? Send it in an email or instant message? Your sensitive information will sit around in email archives and chat logs forever. You'll need one of those tricks up your sleeve. There are many ways to share a piece of information without it appearing in your chat logs and emails.

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How to Download & Back Up Your Gmail & Other Google Data

We’re storing more and more data in the cloud these days. Email, contacts, documents, photos, calendar entries - you name it, it’s on Google’s servers. But what happens when the services we rely on go down? When the US government seized Megaupload, many users lost data they were storing on Megaupload’s servers.

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Easily Send Command Line Emails with Blat

Blat. Not exactly the word you envision would be the name of a tool that you can use to send out emails to anyone in the world, from any application or software tool that you desire. It more sounds like the sound that a raw egg makes when it hits the floor. Well, that's exactly what I'm going to introduce to you today, if you've never heard of it before.

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5 Reasons for Using Anonymous Email Services to Get Your Message Across

Anonymous emails allow you to send emails without revealing your ID or detectable fingerprints like your IP. A layman cannot begin to take the anonymous digital route that easily; he has to depend on hosted services like disposable email IDs to anonymous remailing tools to remain a John Doe (or Jane Doe). Sending an email without letting the recipient know can be used for a variety of non-malicious causes which make them really useful. Here are five for your consideration.

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5 Gmail Filters to Help Prioritize & Organize Your Inbox

What filters should each and every person have in their arsenal so that their inbox is as orderly as mine? I'm here to help you get started in setting up your first five filters, or help you add on to your current collection. These five should handle daily-to-weekly activities of the everyday internet guy or gal and get that inbox looking as clean as a whistle.

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The 5 Best Ways To Easily & Quickly Encrypt Files Before Emailing Them [Windows]

Earlier this year, I was faced with a situation where I had a writer working for me overseas in China, where we were both certain that all of our email communications were being monitored. I resorted to using a fully-fledged encrypted email system called VaultletSuite where both of us had to install the client on our PCs. While it appeared to be very secure, it was also a bit cumbersome.

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Why Smartphones Are Awesome: The Case For Checking Email All The Time

A few weeks ago, we had a post published where Yaara wrote why she thinks many people use smartphones way too much, and why they may not be all that great. While many of Yaara’s arguments are insightful and convincing, I happen to be one of those people who are obsessively tethered to their phone, addicted to checking email.

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