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

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

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

SPAM A LOT

Every month, Gmail clears the spam messages from Joy’s computer. There were 12,544 of them, That’s an average of 400 a day. It was an ordinary… Read more

AOL LIVES!

We teased our brother because he still had an AOL account. AOL – the acronym for America Online – was the Internet search engine used by the… Read more

DID ANYONE READ THAT?

If you’ve ever wondered whether someone looked at your email or not, you could use an email tracker. Gmail users can use Email Oracle, a free… Read more

GMAIL TIPS

Gmail gives you seven gigabytes of free storage, but it’s possible to run out if you like to save every photo and video you ever got. You can get… Read more

STILL MORE FREE PHONE SERVICE

If you use Gmail for email, you can also use it to make free phone calls. The calls are free to any other U.S. phone, whether landline or cell… Read more

REMOVING GMAIL BLOAT

Gmail’s slogan was always “don’t delete.” The idea was to archive all messages and use Gmail’s excellent search function to restore them later. With… Read more