Are you becoming familiar with e-mails stating “The following recipient(s) could not be reached” or “Delivery Status Notification (Failure)?” Have you seen multiple copies of such e-mails numbering in the tens, hundreds, maybe even thousands, flood your inbox with no idea as to how, or why, they are being sent to you? If you answered yes to these questions, then you are unfortunately the victim of what is commonly known as “backscatter.” Continue reading
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Monday, January 31st, 2011Gmail Sneak Peek
Monday, January 31st, 2011Email can be a lot of pressure. Anyone who has gone to work on a Monday morning and faced an inbox full of emails that require attention will agree with me. Since procrastination is a favorite human pastime, most people don’t want to reply to the e-mails received right away. In fact, most of us don’t even want to open them to see what is inside.
Thankfully… Continue reading
Crate
Friday, January 28th, 2011
At one time or another, many of us need to share a file or two with
somebody, and often the attachment size limits put in place by most
email providers make this task difficult, if not impossible. As we all
know, file sizes have been increasing steadily for quite some time.
Even a regular PDF document or a PowerPoint presentation can easily
surpass 10-20 MB nowadays. There are… Continue reading
Create a Custom Gmail Desktop Shortcut
Monday, January 24th, 2011John from Provo, Utah, writes:
How do you make a custom e-mail desktop shortcut for Gmail?
The first thing that you want to do is make a shortcut to gMail on your desktop. Open your gMail inbox using whatever browser you like to use. Now right-click on the contents of the address bar and left-click on Copy. Continue reading
Unclogging the Outlook Outbox
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011I can receive email messages with no problem in Outlook, but all my outgoing email stays in my Outbox and won’t send. Can you help?
Despite possibly being the world’s most ubiquitous e-mail program, Microsoft’s Outlook e-mail client is not without its flaws. Now in its 14th iteration, Microsoft Outlook is the de-facto e-mail program for home, small business, and corporate environments alike. While a massive… Continue reading
A Guide to Windows Live Essentials 2011
Friday, January 14th, 2011Windows Live Essentials 2011 is a suite of free productivity programs that are available for download from Microsoft. They were designed to meet the basic needs of a modern PC user, because they provide a quick and easy to use way to accomplish a variety of essential tasks. Continue reading
Viewing Reminders in MS Outlook
Thursday, January 13th, 2011MS Outlook: Viewing
Your Reminders on Demand
If you use Outlook for appointments
or reminders, I’m sure you’ve seen the Reminders Window on more than one
occasion.
(Yes – mine is empty. Must
mean that I’m all caught up, right? Yeah, right – I wish…)
Anyway, I know that I’m
not the only one who has… Continue reading
Creating an Email Desktop Shortcut
Friday, January 7th, 2011Roger writes:
I have someone I e-mail a lot, and I get tired of opening and closing Outlook. Is there any way to e-mail someone without having to do that?
Hi, Roger!
If you want to e-mail a certain person quickly without opening and closing your e-mail client (such as Gmail or Outlook), there is one way you can do it, and that is by creating an e-mail shortcut for the person on your desktop. It’s easy; here’s how: Continue reading
Extracting Selected Pages from a PDF
Thursday, December 30th, 2010I sometimes want to send a PDF file doc by email, but with selected pages only, not the whole thing. Is it possible to do that?
Extracting Selected Pages from a PDF Document
In recent years, the PDF document file format has become the standard to use when sending any manner of documents via e-mail or preparing them for download through the
Rearranging the Outlook Toolbar
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010Georgia asks:
The Send/Receive button in my Outlook 2007 is on the right side. Can you please tell me how to move it to the left side?
Georgia, as you can see below, my Send/Receive button is near the center of the toolbar. To move it, begin by right clicking on the toolbar and then select Customize from the menu.… Continue reading
