If you are anything like me, you have tons of email.  If you are a user of one of those web-mail sites like Gmail or Hotmail where you have tons of space, you may not even delete old email messages (with Gmail’s archiving option, why would you need to?).  For instance, in my old Hotmail [...]

I got this email the other day (I found it today because it was filtered to my spam folder so I didn’t notice it right away).  I thought it was interesting for two reasons: I’ve actually heard of people being pulled in by emails like this, AND the story shared in the email is actually [...]

Image by sciondriver via Flickr Interesting news lately!  It seems a hacker has leaked some confidential information on some of the employees over at Twitter (not good press) and some news sources (namely TechCrunch) have said they’ll publish some of it!  Now there’s a bit of a debate over whether or not it would be [...]

Image via Wikipedia TGIFF!  Thank goodness it’s Firefox Friday!  It is that time again! This time I want to address an annoyance I’ve had through the years fo using web based email.  Are you sick of constantly having to go to the site just to check your email?  Everytime I need to check the mail, [...]

Hello to all you Windows Live Hotmail users out there! For years, we have been without the option to use software like Outlook or Thunderbird to check our Hotmail.  People have been trying to get around this obsticle for years and have even switched to other web mail providers like Gmail in order to have [...]

Wikipedia defines SPAM for us: “Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages.” Just like almost everyone else you talk to, I hate spam.  I hate it on all fronts.  I hate getting stupid sales calls.  I hate getting popups in my web browser.  I hate junk mail and [...]

It occured to me after writing my last post entitled: “My Email’s Being Filtered” that you may be using a different email service than Hotmail.  Here I will share some of the steps to set up filters in Yahoo Email and Gmail.  If you need help with a different email service, let me know, perhaps I [...]

Just so you know, I have set up a specific filter in my hotmail box to automatically send any message containing “fwd” in the subject line straight to the junk folder.  Why’d I do that?  Because of the constant forwords I keep receiving.  I tell you this for three reasons: I seldom read those emails [...]