EMAIL GETS OLDER, BUT NEVER OLD

Worldwide email just turned 29 officially, and there’s a history of it at Vashiva.com. That’s the web site of an M.I.T. professor who was 14 when… Read more

TWEAKING GMAIL

Joy has 53,914 saved emails in her Gmail account, going back to 2005. That’s about two-thirds of the seven gigabytes of free storage allowed by… Read more

TAMING THE EMAIL MONSTER

Shortmail.com is a free service that tries to save you from looking at long emails. Every message sent or received through the service must be… Read more

SINGLE FILE CLICKING

“Single Click Filing for Outlook” is a quick way to get email organized in Microsoft Outlook. Tap a key and an email goes to the right… Read more

GMAIL GAME

If the email monster has you trembling in a corner, here’s a free game to help. It only works on Gmail accounts, but that was good enough for us… Read more

YAHOO! SOMEONE IS WATCHING

Privacy watchdogs went on the alert recently when a new version of Yahoo! mail included targeted ads. How can they target you if they don’t… Read more

JUMBLE ME

Email can get you in big trouble but here’s something that can help. It’s  JumbleMe.com, an email service that blocks email from being… Read more

FRIENDLY EMAIL

“Xobni” is inbox spelled backwards. It’s pronounced “zobnee,” and what it does is add the sender’s photo and contact information to… Read more

NEW FROM GMAIL LABS

Sorting your email is a big step toward taming it. If you use Gmail, which about 100 million people do, there’s a new mail organizer. To get… Read more

A DIFFERENT EMAIL ADDRESS

Tinyurl.com and bit.ly are two places to go to shorten long web site addresses. But at bouncr.com you can shorten your email address. Choose a new… Read more