Personal Technology Tips in Plain English
When Talking To Yourself Is Encouraged
Jul 4th
C’mon, it’s 4th of July and there’s no way that you should be inside in front of your computer!
But you have so many thoughts about work running through your brain that MUST be followed-up. Or maybe someone just told you of an amazing referral for the __________ you were looking for? Or perhaps you just met someone and no one has a pen around the BBQ grill to write that person’s contact information down?
We know you have a lousy memory. What to do? Do you trust yourself to remember? Of course not!
How about talking to yourself and forgetting about it until you can take care of it later? YES! Here’s how. . . Read the rest of this entry »
Get an Unlimited Storage Email Account at Yahoo! Mail Free
Jun 23rd
Do you ever delete messages, not because they’re useless, but rather just because you’re running out of space in you account?
Do you remember the other year when Google launched the account size war for email on April 1st with their free 1 GB Gmail accounts? Quickly, Yahoo!Mail and others upped their limits. To this day, Google has been ever increasing storage limits for all users — it’s now over 2GB per account. But for some, this is not enough – especially with everyone emailing you video clips and hi-res photos they took recently.
Yahoo! is now the first to make a move to make storage limits a moot point in the email wars. . . Read the rest of this entry »
How to Get Your Own Custom Email Address For $6.99
Jun 7th
Everyone has a Yahoo!Mail or Hotmail account, so how do you stand out in the crowd?
It’s about time you shelling out the 6 bucks necessary to get your very own custom email address.
There are various options for choosing a custom email address — you can use different permutations of your name like ___@LASTNAME.com or ____@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME.com or ___@LASTNAMEfamily.com — or you can use the “personality” approach such as ___@IMAQTPIE.com or ____@yourinstantmessengeruserid.com or . . . the variations are of course endless. . .
After you’ve figured out generally what type of custom email address you want, you have to Read the rest of this entry »
Perfect for YOUR FAMILY: Use Google to get custom email, calendars, messaging and more
Jun 6th
Everyone in the world seems to have a Yahoo!Mail, Gmail or Hotmail account — most people use one for personal use even if they already have one at work. The great part of these email services is that it’s web-based and you can use it from anywhere.
But we’re now finally at the point where the web isn’t really out of the reach of small businesses and certainly families like yours. Google wants to help in this cause. Now, you can use Google services for your family, club or any other group just as if you’re a big company. What do I mean by that? How about getting these things for free: Read the rest of this entry »
How To Use Microsoft Outlook with Gmail Accounts
May 4th
One of the great parts about Gmail is that you can use any desktop email reader to manage your Gmail for free. Yahoo!Mail charges for this feature. Gmail gives you POP email access to your Gmail email account, so you can configure your Outlook to read & send email utilizing your Gmail email address. It’s really easy to set-up an additional email account profile in Outlook — so when you check your email, it will now check your gmail account too and download the messages to your Outlook Inbox. And when you compose a new email, you can then choose to send it “from” your gmail account.
Here’s how…
Scan Blogs While Reading Your Gmail (How to add “webclips”)
Apr 16th
One of the neat features of Gmail is a one liner at the top of your “Inbox” called “Webclips” — it auto-refreshes and rotates headlines from various interesting sites on the web. A great function of Webclips in Gmail is that you can customize the feed so that it can scan your favorite blogs too.
How To Jump To Another Email Account On Your Samsung Blackjack Cell Phone
Apr 11th
One of the better features of the Samsung Blackjack i607 is that since it uses Windows Mobile, you have the ability to set-up multiple POP3 email accounts so that you can read & respond to emails using each respective email account — I have a personal email account, gmail email account, a business email account, the synchronized Outlook account from my desktop, and the SMS/MMS messaging account that I manage on my AT&T Blackjack PDA phone right now.
Instead of “backing out” of an email account to get back to the total list of email/messaging accounts and then selecting the next email account you want to manage and drilling down again to get to that email list, there’s an easier shortcut that bypasses all that clicking. Read the rest of this entry »
I love tech, gadgets and the web. Hope you pick-up a useful tip or two here today that helps you use technology to your advantage! Better yet, why not share your own expertise in a comment on a post today to help the other readers that land here for answers!