How to Block Abusive or Unfriendly Email [How To]
Sep 7th
This week a person very close to me started receiving abusive emails from a family member. This friend asked me if there was a way to block email from that particular user without changing email addresses completely. More »
How Does Gmail’s Priority Inbox Work for You? [Reader Poll]
Sep 7th
Google announced their new Priority Inbox feature last week, and ever since we've been eagerly testing how good Google is at knowing what emails are important to us—and we're wondering how it's doing for you, too. More »
How to Update Your Insecure Passwords and Make Them Easy to Use [Security]
Sep 7th
You know how important strong passwords are, but you've got a huge backlog of passwords—some you can't remember, others you've been using for years. Here's how to securely update, create, and manage your passwords on any computer. More »
Access Gmail’s Priority Inbox on Your Mobile Device [Gmail]
Sep 7th
Want access to Gmail’s fancy new Priority Inbox sorting on your portable browser? You can view the messages you’ve trained Gmail to consider Priority through a simple email search bookmarked for later. More »
Survey Shows We’re All Checking Email Way Too Often [Email Overload]
Sep 2nd
Xobni, makers of an Outlook plug-in that improves your email contacts and analytics, did a little analyzing of their own through a survey of 2,200 U.S. workers, and more in the UK. The results are anything but happy. Among Americans, 72 percent check their email on vacations, sick days, and in bed, with one in five stating that checking email is the first thing they do in the morning, or last thing right before bed. Half of those who check email outside work hours said they also check their email during vacations, and that’s likely because 26 percent of respondents said they felt overwhelmed and unproductive from the volume of email received while gone. Priority Inbox, you couldn’t come soon enough. [PRNewswire via TechCrunch] More »
Notes for Later Creates Personalized "Email Yourself" Bookmarklets [Bookmarklets]
Sep 2nd
For all the to-do apps and reminder services out there, some people, at some times, just want to email things to themselves. To make that lo-fi reminder possible, Notes for Later has a bookmarklet that quickly sends web page write-ups to email. More »
Why Technology Is So Addictive, and How You Can Avoid Tech Burnout [Technology]
Aug 31st
We’re surrounded by gadgets that demand our attention, constantly fragmenting our ability to properly focus on the task at hand. Living with technology doesn’t mean we have to live with an addiction, however. Here’s how to beat tech burnout. More »
Gmail Priority Inbox Finds and Sorts Important Messages Automatically [Gmail]
Aug 30th
Google’s new Priority Inbox feature not only sorts your inbox, but it also figures out what’s important based on what messages you reply to and read. More »
Hotmail Updates, Can Now Push Email, Calendar, and Contacts to Your Phone [Syncing]
Aug 30th
Popular web-based email service Hotmail updates today with support for Exchange syncing, meaning Hotmail can now push email, calendar events, and contacts between the web and your phone—if your phone supports Exchange (iOS, Windows, Nokia, and Palm devices do). More »
Notifinder Sends Email Alerts for Saved Craiglist Searches [Craigslist]
Aug 26th
Don’t let keeping up with new listings on Craiglist become a chore. Notifinder is a free service that sends you email alerts when listings that match your specified keywords appear on Craiglist. More »