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Avoid Communication Overload
I am convinced that there are too many ways for us to communicate with each other. We have social media sites, text messaging, cell phones, land lines, snail mail and email – and likely a handful of ways I didn’t even remember to list. It can actually be annoying and time consuming trying to keep [...]
Use Hotmail With Any Existing Email Address
We all tend to have more than one email address: the average person maintains three of them. This is done to organize different types of email, maintain different parts of our persona or simply to keep spam away from our primary email Inbox. There are several good reasons to want more than one email address, [...]
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 [...]
Scramble Your Email Address to Avoid Spam
I don’t know about you, but my inbox sees more than a hundred spam messages per day. These are only the ones that somehow bypass the filters that are in place. It seems as though no matter how hard you try, you cannot wipe out all of the spam that flies about the intertubes. This [...]
How Does Mail Work on the iPad?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed With Mail on the iPad, you can actually feel your email. That huge multi-touch display will quickly adapt to show you things in a way that works best for you. In Landscape mode, your mail will appear down the left side [...]
Facebook Bug Delivers Mail to the Wrong People
A few days ago, Facebook apparently had a coding problem which cause messages to be delivered to the wrong people. The bug supposedly only affected a small piece of the Facebook population, including early-adopters who attended Harvard. Some people started receiving notifications in their inbox that were clearly not intended for them. At least one [...]
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 [...]
Spam Increases Along with Security Issues
The unfortunate deaths of a number of celebrities recently has generated an increase in spam. Add political scandals to the news, and the junk mail really spikes upward. There has been (and will continue to be) a significantly higher volume of this junk email directed at your inbox. Not only is this spam a waste [...]
How do You Manage Your Email Inbox?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed How much email do you get on a daily basis? I receive a ton of it, and I’m sure many of you do as well. There is a lot that demands my attention. I tend to forward some of them to [...]
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, [...]
ADD and OCD Help GTD
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed You may be sitting there asking yourself “How does someone with mild OCD and ADD ever GTD?”. A person in the chat room asked recently asked how I am able to manage my time, and what time management tips I might [...]
From BlogWare to WordPress
I hate to sound cliche, but… I’m UNDER CONSTRUCTION. In the past couple of days, I’ve been quite silent. Partially, because I’ve been flushing my inbox of necessary tasks (largely Gnomedex related). Partially, because Shayne and I have been working on getting WordPress running on our new servers. That, and I spent some time trying [...]
