My brain isn’t good at remembering things I don’t want to remember — stuff like going to the dentist, going for an echocardiogram, cutting my toenails, applying for welfare, going down to pick up this month’s food stamps (thanks for the raise, EB), going to the grocery store…which leads me to forget stuff I think of a week… Read More »
How many newsletters do you get you wish you didn’t? And how many times do you have to unsubscribe from a newsletter until you are finally unsubscribed? I reference Land’s End. I once bought something from that site and stupidly agreed to subscribe to their newsletter. After trying to unsubscribe from their sometimes many-a-day “newsletters” I finally gave… Read More »
Mailbird Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 Works on 32bit and 64bit Windows 1.1MB executable A desktop email client made just for Gmail BETA VERSION – You can use one Gmail account with it We have used a lot of email programs and we’ve tested a lot more than we’d like to admit. We… Read More »
This has nothing to do with the news media’s over-reaction to Google’s lawyers’ unfortunate use of the phrase “no expectation of privacy”, although it does remind us to remind you that email is a very insecure form of communication. But if you encrypt email, someone has to decrypt it to read it. Most encryption programs are arcane and… Read More »
After reading horror stories from Yahoo Mail users and reading about how Yahoo’s servers were hacked using simple Unix commands pasted into open (available to anyone) email sign-up forms and other Yahoo Web forms, and almost a half of a million users had their account passwords and user names posted on hacker sites for all to see, we… Read More »
If you use Gmail you can open a compose window without seen your inbox or anything else. Just compose and send – no other distractions at all. Normally, with Gmail accounts, you log-in to your account and click the Compose button to write a new email. Most of the time, this is fine because we’re reading or replying… Read More »