Email

One Simple Trick to Getting Less Email

December 1, 2009

Spending less time dealing with email is a worthy goal. At Taming Email Leo Notenboom espouses an unusual tactic. In order to reduce the amount of email you receive, send less email. In other words, stop before you hit send, and ask yourself a few questions such as is email the right tool for the [...]

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What is Google Wave?

October 4, 2009

On October 1, 100,000 lucky users got an invitation to preview Google’s new real-time communication platform: Google Wave. It combines email, instant messaging, chat, project management and social networking in a client that sits within the browser. To learn more, read Mashable’s guide or watch Google’s video .

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How to Automatically Archive Old Messages from Your Gmail Inbox

October 4, 2009

Email experts advise against using your email inbox as storage and instead suggest frequently cleaning it out and storing old messages in archive folders instead. For Gmail users, here’s a filter that will move all messages older than a certain date to your archive. Click “Create a Filter” and in “Has the words” enter “before:2009/07/01″. [...]

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How to Reduce Email Errors

April 7, 2009

Kevin Purdy offers this email writing tip on LifeHacker.com. To make your emails more direct, and less prone to what he calls the “Oops-Forgot-To-Add” syndrome, reverse the order in which you compose them. Start with the attachment, then write the body, add a subject, and then add the recipients.

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Protect Yourself from PayPal Phishing Attempts

November 25, 2008

A recent round of PayPal phishing schemes brings up the importance of staying diligent and alert when responding to email. To sharpen your phishing sensors, PayPal offers a Fight Phishing Challenge . Common Crafts explains Phishing Scams in Plain English. And Wombat Security Technologies offers an educational Anti-Phishing Phil game based work done at Carnegie-Mellon.

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How to Use Blind Carbon Copy

October 21, 2008

Do you know when and how to use the Blind Carbon Copy feature of your email client? When addressing an email to send to a single recipient, it’s obvious that their address goes in the TO field and yours in the FROM field. But when sending a message to a large list (whether it’s an [...]

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Efficient Use of Gmail

August 13, 2008

Efficient use of Gmail (Google’s free email service at http://www.gmail.com ) requires a paradigm shift in how you think about your email inbox. Other email services and clients treat email as you might a piece of paper in your office. It is either in your inbox, a filing cabinet or a trash can. Gmail does [...]

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How to Own Your Email Address Forever

February 13, 2008

If you are tired of changing your email address whenever your ISP changes, buying your own domain name is a simple way to assure that you can keep the same email address year after year. A domain costs about $8 to $18 per year, depending on where you buy it. Once you own your domain [...]

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How to Use Email Aliases with Gmail

December 24, 2007

With a single Gmail email address, you can create an unlimited number of alias accounts to help sort and track incoming mail. Your email aliases can be created either by adding dots to your address or by tacking on a “+” phrase. For example, if your email address is myname@gmail.com, you can also use my.name@gmail.com [...]

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