Year-end is a good time to backup your contacts
On 2011/12/16
Losing your contact or address book is a digital catastrophe, second only to losing your photos. You can’t re-take your photos. Recreating your contact list is painful, difficult and impossible for some of the people in your list .
When was the last time that you checked to see if your current email or cellphone [...]
Gmail: Using Labels with Multiple Inboxes
On 2011/01/02
I use Gmail for both personal email and for email services on my domains, such as RHFtech.com.
Labels are a useful tool for filtering email. Labels can be more useful when paired with the Gmail Labs feature Multiple Inboxes.
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Google Apps and Gmail – multiple sign ins
On 2010/09/28
Recent changes to Google Apps made it impossible to open both a Gmail account and a Google Apps account in a single browser, simultaneously. I didn’t like that as it would mean a major change to the way I work with my computers. So I went on a hunt and…
I discovered there is a [...]
Gmail – The two Bobs
On 2009/10/13
Gmail Labs has two features that may save you embarrassment:
Don’t forget Bob
Enable them in Gmail by clicking on the Settings link in the upper right of the web page and clicking on the Labs tab or click on the beaker icon. [...]
My inbox had 323 messages from my sister with the subject “NEED HELP”. My poor BlackBerry was buzzing itself to death.
My sister uses Outlook Express on a Windows XP Home notebook. She has a business consulting with high school students and their families preparing them for SATs and helping with the [...]
Thunderbird 3.0 Attachments Reminder
On 2009/08/23
Thunderbird is the Rodney Dangerfield of email clients. It shouldn’t be.
I use it as my main business email application for many reasons, not the least of which is that it handles HTML code much better than any of the major alternatives, such as Microsoft Outlook [...]
Thunderbird – Changing the default font for real
On 2009/07/05
I use Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client application for my business email needs. I do this because it handles HTML much better than Outlook.
Thunderbird’s default font is Times New Roman, a serif font I dislike. I want my default font to be a sans-serif font like Arial. I have [...]
Gmail now lets us insert images into our email
On 2009/04/10
Gmail added a new feature, Inserting images, to its Labs, a place for testing out ideas. You can now place images into your email rather than attaching them. You first need to enable this feature in your Gmail or Google for Apps mail settings..
Click on the Settings link in the Gmail menu, along the [...]
Checking if your email was sent
On 2009/03/26
You hit the Send button but did your email provider really get the message and send it? I always bcc myself (with a different personal email address) to see. If I get the message in my other email account, I can be assured it was sent.
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