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Entries Tagged as 'Email'

IMAP on Gmail - woohoo!

Gmail is now rolling out IMAP access for email to some accounts. This is good news and here’s why.
More here:
Official Gmail Blog: Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP

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October 24th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Email

Deal with email overload.

Clever - Sentenc.es - A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email. Picked this up from the Video for Merlin’s “Inbox Zero” talk

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July 26th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Email

Drag and Drop attachments in Gmail

This is a very cool Firefox add-on that makes it possible to drag and drop attachments in Gmail - dragdropupload

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July 18th, 2007 · No Comments | Tags: Email · Firefox

Gmail shortcuts

Print the Gmail shortcuts page and keep it handy by your keyboard to learn to use Gmail more efficiently from the keyboard.

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September 6th, 2006 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Using Gmail as a Spam Filter

Interesting idea - Gmail certainly is good with spam.

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April 8th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Email obfuscating WordPress plugin

Here’s the plugin I didn’t know I was looking for. The Obfuscate E-mail plugin for WordPress makes using email addresses on your WordPress powered site much easier and a bit more secure from spammers. If you use an email address in your post this plugin substitutes the text in the address with random ASCII and [...]

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March 24th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Get productive with your email

Stever Robbins writes a mean list of email productivity tips.
Here’s what he says about constantly sending messages back and forth with certain people throughout the day.
Sometimes the problem is the opposite—sending 500 tiny messages a day will overload someone, even if the intent is to reduce this by creating separate threads. If you [...]

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March 15th, 2005 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Give away those Gmail invites

Here’s an interesting way to give away your Gmail invites—send them to the gmail invite spooler.

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September 15th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Gmail invites available

I realize I only have one or two readers (counting me) but I have Gmail invites for the next six commenters on this post. Tell a friend.
UPDATE: Be sure to indicate that you do want a Gmail invite.

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September 9th, 2004 · 8 Comments | Tags: Email

Gmail Notifier

Gmail Notifier
The Gmail Notifier is a downloadable Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.

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August 21st, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Set default email client and browser

I’ve recently had the privilege of setting up a brand new, speedy notebook. A notebook computer is my computing tool of choice. In the transition from my old machine I began having difficulty on my new machine getting my email program to respond to email addresses when clicked in a web page. Windows XP had [...]

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August 20th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Email · Firefox · Software · System Help

Gmail tools

Are you using Gmail yet? Accounts are hard to come by because you have to wait for a friend to refer you but if you have a Gmail account you might be interested in this handy link collection of tools.

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July 29th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Import your mail into GMail

Do you have one of those snazzy new GMail accounts? Do you also have a boatload of email stored on your machine that you’d like to have in your Gmail account? Good news—you can take advantage of the 1 gigabyte of storage and and the great search capabilities of Gmail and have all your email [...]

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June 25th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Ezine guides

Preparing Your Ezine
How to Use A Template to Create Your E-Zine

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March 12th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

How to send plain text email and why

More people should send plain text email. This article explains why and tells you how to do it — Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text

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February 20th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Obfuscation of E-mail addresses

“Enkoder Form 6.0 - Protect your Email address from Spam.”

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October 29th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Spammunition 0.63 Beta

Spammunition 0.63 Beta is an interesting looking spam fighting tool for Outlook 2000 or newer and looks like another promising weapon for the spam wars we are forced to fight.

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January 22nd, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Email