GMAIL: THE FIX IS IN
Posted on March 27th, 2013 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
PASSING STRANGE
Posted on July 16th, 2012 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Readers who don’t use Gmail accounts have written us to complain that junk mail is overloading their in-boxes.
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BRAND YOUR MAIL
Posted on April 20th, 2012 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
BrandMyMail.com is a free program for putting ordinary Gmail messages into virtual stationery, with your latest Twitter messages off to the right and your custom logo and photo below your signature. It’s interesting; Joy just started using it.
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KEEPING YOUR ADDRESS BOOK UP TO DATE
Posted on April 19th, 2012 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
WriteThat.Name (it’s not dot com, it’s dot name) is a free program for Gmail users. It keeps your address book up to date by comparing incoming mail with the info in your email address book. This is really handy; we downloaded it for ourselves.
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TWEAKING GMAIL
Posted on July 27th, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
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 Google. Though all of it is organized with labels, it’s time consuming to winnow the junk.
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YAHOO! SOMEONE IS WATCHING
Posted on June 13th, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
FRIENDLY EMAIL
Posted on April 4th, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
“Xobni” is inbox spelled backwards. It’s pronounced “zobnee,” and what it does is add the sender’s photo and contact information to one side of incoming email. We’ve tried it and have now seen scores of photos of people we’re not sure we wanted to see.
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NEW FROM GMAIL LABS
Posted on March 30th, 2011 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
A new Gmail feature called “Smart Labels” can automatically sort email into “bulk mail,” “notifications,” and “forums.”
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SPAM A LOT
Posted on December 20th, 2010 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
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 month. As usual, we were very fortunate: Our email address won several lotteries and we only had to pay the requisite taxes in advance to collect the winnings. In addition, several remarkably wealthy relatives we had never heard of had died and left us enough money to pay off the national debt of Bhutan. We didn’t even have to attend a reading of the will, but could simply show our acknowledgement by depositing some “good faith” money in a bank account that the writer could access. It certainly was a heart-warming month – except [...]
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AOL LIVES!
Posted on December 15th, 2010 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
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 ancients. Those who are hip, fast-moving and aware use Gmail and thinking about the new Facebook messaging system to come. But the new word is AOL is about to get hipper. The new AOL is still in the trial phase, code-named “Phoenix.” (You know: the bird that keeps getting reborn in the fire.) To get on the invitation list, go to Phoenix.AOL.com. The new AOL will have a “quick bar” that lets you send email, instant messages, go to Facebook and send Twitter updates without leaving your inbox. You can bring in mail [...]
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