Email

Spam Down More Than 80% From This Time Last Year

by Mike Mansell July 4, 2011
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With the developments of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, I for one have done a lot less social communication by way of email. No longer does it make sense for users to email pictures or share tidbits from their lives via one-to-one email communication. Social networks allow for people to share with groups of people at once, and the implementation of comments leaves “reply to all” conversations in the dust.

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State of Wyoming Makes the Switch to Google Apps

by Mike Mansell June 23, 2011
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Less than a year ago I wrote about a new venture that Internet giant Google was embarking on. After years of developing well-known and highly used and trusted communications and collaboration platforms for individuals like you and me, the company was working on making Google Apps specifically for government organizations.

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Should Google Adapt Unlimited Storage?

by Mike Mansell June 16, 2011
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Today every single Gmail account gets a standard inbox capacity just under seven and a half gigabytes. But although a far jump from what the service offered only a matter of years ago, Gmail’s capacity is no longer an outstanding feature for the service. Other free email providers like Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and even America Online have all implemented “unlimited” storage for some time now.

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How To: Automatically Keep Backups of Your Email

by Mike Mansell June 16, 2011
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Being a huge computer and Internet users, it should come to no surprise that I work diligently to keep my email inbox in tip-top shape every single day. I’ll take the time out of my day to unsubscribe myself from spam and annoying mailing lists, and I will frequently purge any non-essential email from my inbox.

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Review: Sparrow Email Client

by Mike Mansell May 9, 2011
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When I first opened my MacBook Pro back in March, one of the first things that I asked was “What email client are all the cool kids using?”  At the time, a new email client named Sparrow had been getting quite a bit of attention because of its new layout that mimicked that which we [...]

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How To: Recover A Hacked or Compromised Email Account

by Jeff Weisbein September 29, 2010
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Today, my email account was compromised and used to send out spam. Thankfully, I was able to login to my account which is hosted with Google Apps and change the password before most of the spam emails were able to be sent out.

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Subscribe to the BestTechie Newsletter!

by Jeff Weisbein August 4, 2010
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I’m pleased to announce the BestTechie Newsletter. The technology focused newsletter will start off as a monthly email and will include a recap of the biggest news in technology for the month, provide expert analysis in various aspects of technology, offer special product promotions and discounts, and my hand picked recommended articles, videos, software, websites, [...]

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Finally! Gmail Improves Email Signatures

by Mike Mansell July 20, 2010
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Do you use Gmail as a universal email inbox? Or do simply want a nicely formatted email signature? Well, after a lot of waiting, Google has finally made improvements to the signature feature of their web-based email client. These improvements are somewhat basic, but their subtle introduction to Gmail has made the service that much [...]

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How To: Use Gmail for Multiple Email Accounts

by Mike Mansell March 27, 2010
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Google’s email service, Gmail, is a truly awesome email service.  With its revolutionary spam filters, message sorting, conversation grouping, and integrated Google Talk client, Gmail has quickly become my favorite email platform.  However, I have several additional email accounts that I use for various other projects and organizations (work, school, personal webpages, etc).  I even [...]

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