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Has anything new been going on with Gmail lately? I’m just trying to stay on top of things.
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Well, I have good news for you and everyone else who uses Gmail. There actually is something very new and exciting going on over at Google right now, in accordance to the Gmail e-mail program. Another new Gmail feature has recently been released and let me tell you… Continue reading
E-mail Recall
We’ve all done it before. We prepare an e-mail message and we’re 100 percent sure that it’s ready to be sent off, but as soon as we click the Send button, we realize we made a big mistake! Either you addressed it to the wrong person, you forgot some important information or you forgot to make some minor corrections. Whatever the case may be, you’re probably wondering if… Continue reading
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What is an e-mail header and should I pay attention to it at all?
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That is an excellent question! When you hear the word header, you may start to think about a subject line. Well, that’s not the case when it comes to working with e-mail. A subject line is what you see when your e-mails first arrive in your Inbox. The actual header can be… Continue reading
Gmail for Everyone
As Google is saying, “it’s a Gmail party and everyone is invited!” Ever since Google introduced the Gmail e-mail program to the public back in 2004, it has been an invitation only service. This meant that you either had to be invited by someone who was already using it or you could sign up using your mobile phone. If you wanted an account, you could give them… Continue reading
Watch Your E-mail
What do I mean? Well, I’m just warning you to keep a close eye on your e-mail, because some vicious virus attacks are making their rounds these days. Now, Chad mentioned this in Wednesday’s security article, but I’ve been seeing so much about it lately, I wanted to give you all another heads up on the issue. I am talking about the spam e-mails that are going… Continue reading
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I would like to change my e-mail address to something a little easier for me to remember. I use Yahoo! as my main e-mail program. How can I do this?
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That is a great question! I’m sure you’re not the only one who has been wondering this for some time now. You’ve probably been thinking about finding an answer to your question for awhile, but you… Continue reading
Add to Your Whitelist
Are you one of the many who have created a whitelist for your e-mail to try and keep all the spam out of your Inbox? If you are, then good for you! It’s one step you can take to ensure that most of the “bad” stuff stays out of your e-mail and in the trash. Now, before I go any further, in case you’re not familiar… Continue reading
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I use Outlook Express and an annoying little thing started happening recently. Every time I close OE down, a message pops up that says “To free up disk space, Outlook Express can compact your messages. This may take up to a few minutes.” What does this mean exactly and should I do it or not? Please help!
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This is an excellent question. I too use Outlook… Continue reading
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Sometimes when I send an e-mail out, I get some sort of spam verification e-mail in return. It tells me to verify my e-mail address for the recipient, but why do I have to do that? Please explain!
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That’s a great question. This type of thing is becoming more and more popular with e-mail users every day. If you’ve never come across it or if you… Continue reading
More Spams
I thought I would take some time today to update you all on some of the most recent spam e-mails that are making their rounds these days. You may have seen some of these in your Inboxes before or you may have not. Either way, they are all e-mails that should be completely ignored and of course, deleted.
The first one comes from the OTC Financial Network company… Continue reading
E-mail Read Receipt
When you send e-mails out, do you ever wonder if they actually get read or not? E-mail is great, but sometimes it leaves us in the dark. How are we supposed to know if a recipient really read the message we sent? Sometimes it’s just pertinent to know and that’s where e-mail read receipts come into play. Before I explain, I just want to let you know… Continue reading
Make Gmail Faster
Is your Gmail running slow? You love it, but at the same time, you hate it when it takes ages to load up your Inbox. Or maybe it keeps getting stuck at the loading screen and sometimes gives you an error message. Gmail is no doubt an excellent service from Google, however, for people with a slow connection, it isn’t such a fabulous feature, as all the… Continue reading
Send It Later
Have you ever had the need to just send it later? What am I talking about? Well, e-mails of course! Sometimes situations occur where you need to type an e-mail out right away, but it doesn’t actually need to be sent out until a later time. This happens to me all the time. I want to make sure I write the e-mail as soon as possible to… Continue reading
Mailinator
If you are someone who is very active online, then you will probably know what I’m talking about when I say e-mail validation. The process goes like this: Every time you sign up for a new account on such sites, like social networks, online file storage, forums, etc., they always send you an e-mail that contains a link in which you are supposed to click to activate your particular… Continue reading
Save That Hotmail
Here’s another helpful tip for all of you readers out there who happen to use Hotmail as your main e-mail program. This one is going to help out so many of you, I just know it! Okay, so with all the e-mails you send out every day, do you ever stop and wonder what you actually wrote in all of them? Or maybe there was one in… Continue reading
Change Yahoo!’s Color
Yes, that’s right. Here’s another helpful tip for all you Yahoo! e-mail users out there. When you log in to your Yahoo! e-mail account, do you notice the colors that come up? Did you even know there were colors there? Well, if you didn’t before, you do now, because I bet you’re looking for them! The colors are just basically a border around your information, but if… Continue reading
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Is there any way that I can “spice up” my Hotmail e-mails a little? They’re always so boring and I’d like to add a little jazz to them. Please help!
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This is the perfect question for any Hotmail user. Now, as we established above, we all like to send and receive e-mails, but sometimes they turn out so dull looking, don’t they? Sometimes mine are so… Continue reading
Spell Check It
It’s no secret. We all love to send and receive e-mails, don’t we? Whether it’s the giving or receiving, we enjoy it all. On the other hand, don’t you hate it when you send an e-mail and realize later that it had several spelling errors in it? And even worse, how do you like it when you get an e-mail like that? I don’t enjoy either very… Continue reading
Yahoo! E-mail Alerts
Alright, here we go! This one is for all of you Yahoo! e-mail users out there (and I know there’s a bunch of you!) We’ve touched on this topic before for Outlook Express and Thunderbird, but I thought you all might like to know how you can do it in Yahoo! So, what am I going on and on about? That would be e-mail alerts. Read on… Continue reading
E-mail Petitions
Has anyone ever forwarded you an e-mail that has a petition attached to it? Well, these are called e-petitions and they usually deal with something that may be going wrong in the world. For instance, a few of the more recent ones have been for lowering gas prices and for our troops. So, when you get them, you probably feel compelled to sign your name to it and… Continue reading
Red X Again
After all the e-mails I answer every day regarding “red x” issues, it’s no surprise to me that several of you are still struggling with this common problem from time to time. I do believe I answer at least five e-mails each day from people who cannot see images in the e-mail they receive. Since pictures are a big part of the e-mail world, that’s tough to… Continue reading
Create Your Own E-mail Address
Today I’m going to teach you how to tweak one of the most commonly used things on computers today and that would be e-mail! When you think of an e-mail address, you typically think of something like john@aol.com or john@hotmail.com (or any other popular e-mail service). But, how would you like one that looked something like john@smithfamily.com? Wouldn’t it be cool to have a custom… Continue reading
Vacation Replies
The holidays are almost here and I’m sure most of you are probably going to be gone for those. You’ll either be visiting your children or grandchildren or even maybe getting away on a well deserved vacation. Either way, you’re not going to be at home sitting in front of your computer checking your e-mail everyday like you normally do. So, what do you do with all that… Continue reading
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Every so often, I receive duplicate copies of certain e-mails. Why does this happen and is there any way I can prevent it from happening again?
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Surprisingly, this is a common problem and it has happened to all of us at one time or another. It’s happened to me several times and I know that whenever it happens to some of you, you e-mail me and… Continue reading
E-mail Hang Ups
Have you ever been downloading your e-mail and all the sudden, it just stops? You know, it just sort of hangs there in suspension and you have no choice but to stop the download completely. It can happen at any point in the download process. Let’s say you have 40 e-mail messages to bring in. It’s going along fine and then, it just stops on number 34… Continue reading
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Has anything new been going on with Gmail lately? If so, please share!
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All I can say is that all of you avid Gmail users are in luck! I didn’t know this until I was checking my very own account the other day. I was signing out and right before I did that, something caught my eye. It was a link at the top of the… Continue reading
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Can you fill me in on some of the new e-mail scams that I should be looking out for?
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I sure can! That’s a fantastic question. I’ve been seeing a lot of new spam e-mails coming through in both my work e-mail and my personal e-mail account. As you all know, it’s quite frustrating. While there’s not much we can do about them besides set up… Continue reading
