Emails
What is the Future of Hashtags?
The other day, my friend Bill Boyd posed the question on his blog, “Will Hashtags Work in Email?” This is a good question, especially considering how these tags can be used to organize content and discussions between larger groups of people. So, what is the future of hashtags? Hashtags have become an icon of social [...]
How to Add Email to Windows 7
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I asked my friends over on the Windows Twitter account what some of the questions are that they receive on a regular basis. One of the most common ones they are seeing fired at them lately from newcomers to the operating [...]
How to Turn off Conversation View in Gmail
My eyes nearly bugged out of my head as I read about Google helping users to turn off Conversation View within Gmail. In my opinion, threaded conversations are the best thing to happen to email since email itself was invented. Communication is actually much easier when you are able to track what has been added [...]
Boomerang Shows Email When You Need to See It
If you tend to get far too many emails every day, it’s easy to lose track of things you might not need right away. It’s happened to me before: I will let something languish in my Inbox, knowing I’ll need it in say a week or so. However, when the week has come and gone, [...]
How Do You Manage Your Inbox?
One of the longest-running issues we all seem to have is trying to deal with an Inbox that is too full. There have been many pieces of software developed over the years in an attempt to help us manage these monstrosities. However, they’ve all fallen short of the mark. However, there’s a new kid on [...]
Gmail Labs
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I think everyone I know has a Gmail account. Do you use it? Do you like it? If so… why? I’m interested in hearing your responses. If you’re not familiar with the Labs feature, it’s something that will extend the capabilities [...]
How to Send Large Files Via Email
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I love my Dad, but we have the same argument every week on the phone. He wants to attach videos through email, even though they’re huge. I keep trying to tell him not to. Sending large files through email is considered [...]
PC Questions and Answers
I received this email from “Helen” earlier today, and I wasn’t really sure where to being dispensing advice – since it seems she’s starting at ground zero. It was a bit overwhelming, so I thought you might be able to pick your favorite question(s) from her list and answer with your own opinion(s). You should [...]
Stop Email Forwards and Video Emails
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I received the following email the other day from Doug: I’m still surprised at times when I get an e-mail forwarded to me that claims something is true without anyone having checked the validity of the contents. I recently got an [...]
Can Temporary Email Addresses Stop Spam?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I’ve used my chris@pirillo.com email for many years now. The reason I share that address so openly is that I’m just not afraid of it. Some of you are quite afraid of sharing your email address, with good reason. You never [...]
GTD: Keeping Your Inbox Clean
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed A community member wrote: “I receive about 220 emails a day (I know that’s nothing compared to what you get, Chris, but it’s a lot for us normal folk), and I sometimes find it hard to manage my Inbox. Over time, [...]
What Would You Ask Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales?
Vance Nelson has a question for you: Cass Sunstein, of Republic.com 2.0, John Seigenthaler; long time considered one of the greatest journalists in America, Jimmy Wales; founder of Wikipedia, and Robert Cox; President of the Media Bloggers Association are all going be present at my college next week. Unfortunately my schedule doesn’t allow me to [...]
What Do You Use for Email – and Why?
My first experience with email was through the VMS MAIL application (in 1992). I graduated to ‘elm’ a few years later, then Eudora (briefly) before Internet Mail and News was released. Using Pegasus to help distribute emails independent of a listserv, I wound up sticking with MSIMN when it became Outlook Express. Then, it was [...]
How Not to Send an Email
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed One of our viewers sent the following to me: “5 ways to make your e-mails more interesting and fun for all. I don’t know if such a list has already been sent to you, but in any case here are my [...]
How to Avoid Spam (Junk Email)
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Community member Zachary is the Webmaster for RuneTomb, INC. Here are his top tips for stopping Email spam if you are a website Developer or IT person. Download a good Email client. Personally, I find it is harder to block junk [...]
