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How to Tame Your Inbox

by on January 17, 2012


Is your inbox cluttered with meaningless notification emails from sites such as Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest? Todays tip is a nudge to spend five minutes now, and save yourself time everyday by having fewer incoming emails to delete. Notification Control doesnt actually do anything except point you to the exact URL for notification settings for twelve popular services, including Four Square and Google+ (in addition to those already mentioned above.) Go ahead. Give your inbox a break!

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How to Protect Your Email Account After Compromise

by on January 3, 2012


According to tech guru Leo Notenboom, the number one problem reported in 2011 by the millions of visitors that seek help from his Ask Leo website was email account theft. If you believe your email account has been comprised, immediately login in and change both your password and all your security questions. To learn more about protecting your email account, read Is Changing My Password Enough?

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Is Somebody Reading Your Email?

November 29, 2011

Do you worry about strangers reading your email? Perhaps a nefarious hacker or the government? Sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble, but chances are that the email voyeur reading your email is someone you know, such as a spouse, boss or work colleague. An email privacy survey by Retrvo Blog confirms that there is a [...]

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How to Stretch Your Gmail Account

August 2, 2011

Gmail account almost full? Anne Mitchell of The Internet Patrol explains how to free lots of space by deleting old attachments. On the other hand, you can always simply buy more storage space from Google. 20GB costs just $5.00 a year.

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How to Keep Your Gmail Account Secure

July 12, 2011

To help you keep your Gmail account secure, Gmail lists recent sessions at the bottom of your inbox. There you can view recent account activity, and also see if your Gmail account is still logged in another session. If you do see another open session (maybe its simply your laptop?) there is a link to [...]

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How To Back Up Your Web Based Email Account

March 9, 2011

Although free web-based email services such as Gmail (and Hotmail and Yahoo! mail) offer great features and convenience at a great price, they are subject to outages and data loss. The simplest way to protect yourself is to make a local copy of your cloud-based email box with an email client installed on your personal [...]

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Have Fun Emptying Your Inbox

September 29, 2010

Need a bit of inspiration (and fun) to help you reach the ultimate techie goal of an empty email inbox? 0Boxer is a browser-based game for Gmail users that turns clearing your inbox into a social competition, complete with badges for reaching certain milestones. Earn points for archiving, deleting and replying, and see how you [...]

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New Features Available for Gmail Users

March 17, 2010

Last week Google released a number of new Gmail features to the public, taking them out of Gmail Labs, which is a beta or testing platform. These include message color coding, search autocomplete, forgotten attachment detector, YouTube previews, and vacation away messages. At the same time, some test lab features were killed. To learn more, [...]

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