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April 6th, 2008

Spam be gone!

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I don’t know what happened.  I thought I had it under control.
For over a month now, I’ve been relatively email spam-free.  I only got roughly 1 or 2 spam messages in my inbox per week.
The last two days were different.  When I woke up the other morning, I had over 150 messages.  That’s rare in […]

By Celine -- 0 comments

March 27th, 2008

Taming Email Overload, The Home Biz Notes Way (plus notes on dealing with spam)

If you’re tired of me going on about my own email habits, go over to Home Biz Notes and watch Yvonne Russell do it.
Yvonne mentions in the post that she has a spam problem. Here are some suggestions for those who are encountering the same thing (I’d have to say this probably includes almost […]

By Celine -- 6 comments

February 9th, 2008

Video Demo: Mastering GMail

Tags: E-mail, GMail, Software tips, Video demos

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October 17th, 2007

7 ways to make your emails unprofessional

Proper email etiquette is something everyone should know if they want to be perceived as professionals. However, not everyone wants to be a professional. You can be the office goofball, butt of jokes, or simply that creep that everyone’s trying to avoid. If you don’t care what other people think or if […]

By Celine -- 7 comments

March 15th, 2007

How about no e-mail this Friday?

Saw this on Gear Live recently:
Two years ago, Jay Ellison, executive vice president at Chicago-based U.S. Cellular, got so tired of his e-mail building up to the amount of 200 a day that he finally sent out a memo to his 5,500 employees. “I’m announcing a ban on e-mail every Friday,” it read. “Get out […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

March 6th, 2007

Psst, a new version of ClearContext is available and a Vista gadget too

It does pay to read your feeds!  Today Brad has this great announcement:
Regular readers of the weblog may have noticed that posting has been light the last couple of months.  Work on our v3.1 release has kept us busy.  I’m pleased to finally come up for air and offer all of you early access to […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

March 5th, 2007

Tips to make Gmail better

 Matt Cutts has some cool tips for Gmail addicts like me.  Okay almost like me since I’m not into Firefox anymore and so I don’t use Greasemonkey either.  However, if you do, then these tips are for you: Three solid Gmail productivity tips
 
Technorati tags: Gmail, Firefox, Greasemonkey, email tips
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By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 8th, 2007

Which web mail service is better?

 Most of us are pretty set in our ways as far as e-mail goes.  If you use a free e-mail service like Yahoo, Gmail or Live Mail I doubt if you’ll change any time soon, but have you ever wondered which one is better?  Vikas at Digital Inspiration has done the work for you.  He […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

October 23rd, 2006

Managing e-mail on your Blackberry … block it all

Huh?  Isn’t the whole point of having a Blackberry getting e-mail on the go?  Yes.  The problem is that if you let all the e-mail through, your Berry might be pinging (or whatever your alert sound is) all the time.  At first I just tried routing everything through GMail and that worked pretty well.  Then […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments