And by “best” I really mean the ones with the highest “Nonsense Factor”. These are all taken from the archives of Snopes. The sad thing is, they are all still in circulation and there are still people every day that read them, believe them, and then forward them. 1. The US Government [...] Read more »
Archive for ‘email’
A huge email is stuck in my Outbox!
MondayMay 12,2008
That’s what happens when you try to send an email with a large file attached – it can get stuck. You just got back from vacation in Illinois, and you have lots of pictures of the World’s Largest Catsup Bottle; of COURSE you are excited about sending those gigabytes of touristy images to [...] Read more »
5 things you need to know about email
SundayMay 11,2008
Think you know how to email? Well, you probably do. Just about anyone can type an email and hit the Send button. And a lot of people know what is acceptable and what is not. But I still get email from long-time computer users that violates some of the basic [...] Read more »
Yahoo’s spam filters – ever incompetent
WednesdayApr 23,2008
I hadn’t checked my old Yahoo email account in a while, and I recently logged in just to see what was there. What you see here is just a partial listing of what Yahoo’s spam filters determined were legitimate, non-spam emails that had a rightful place in my Inbox. With Gmail having such [...] Read more »
Create a custom email signature
TuesdayMar 25,2008
If you use email (of course you do because everyone does) you should have an email signature file (better known as a sig file). Why type your name at the end of each email, when it is always the same anyway? Let the computer do it for you. If you get an email from [...] Read more »
Tricks you can use with Gmail
TuesdayMar 18,2008
As you know by now, I use and highly recommend Gmail – Google’s free email service. I could probably do several month’s worth of weekly tips on things you can do with your Gmail account. But this week, I want to tell you about two of the most valuable tricks available. Trick #1 Let’s [...] Read more »
Email forwards
WednesdayFeb 20,2008
Okay…I have received an email from 3 different people in the last week, asking me if the virus they were being warned about was real. I am going to cover this in detail here, because there is an element of truth to it that makes it dangerous. The best scams/hoaxes usually have a little [...] Read more »
Email that self-destructs
TuesdayFeb 19,2008
Have you ever sent an email, and then regretted sending it? Maybe it had some harsh words, or maybe you made a business commitment that you really didn’t want to make. In any case, we have all typed things that we wish we could somehow magically make disappear, even after we have hit that [...] Read more »
Need ANOTHER reason to use Gmail?
FridayJan 25,2008
I have recommended several times that you NOT use the email address that comes with your internet account. Here’s another reason.
Follow up to Gmail recommendation
MondayDec 10,2007
Last week I talked about using Gmail as your primary email account (for more details, just see my last blog entry – below). When I work on a Gmail user’s computer, one thing that I often see is that the Gmail website inbox has hundreds or thousands of emails just sitting there. What a [...] Read more »
