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More Intelligent Email — An Interesting Notion
Notion is a personalized intelligence layer for email that gets smarter as you use it and has a few more amazing tricks up its sleeve for you.
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Safeguard Your Communications With SafeSend
Have you ever accidentally sent an email to the wrong person? Be honest. We’ve all done it. I’ve definitely done it, more than once. Sometimes it can be harmless, generating nothing more than a benign miscommunication. But sometimes…
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Keeping Geeky Contact In College
“Miss Us?!” was the caption in this postcard sent by the Postagram app. My son and I wanted my daughter in college to know we were thinking about her…and maybe laugh.
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The Staggering Cost of Email
I know I always complain about the amount of email I get—and I’m just a stay-at-home dad who blogs, not somebody who actually has an office job. I’ve never sat down to quantify it, though. Contatta sent me this infographic, though, which breaks it down for you.
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Become an Email Ninja — Email: A MacSparky Field Guide
David Sparks has just released his latest book, Email: A MacSparky Field Guide, and this one is all about getting control of your email. As with Sparks’ other guides, this 300-page book is filled with almost two hours of screencasts and over 200 screenshots that support Sparks’ premise that you can get control of your email with just a few key behavior changes. And toss in a few specialized third-party apps and you can actually reduce the amount of time you spend in your favorite email application.
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Thin Your Inbox with theSwizzle
Are you sick of waking up in the morning to 25+ emails from businesses that you rarely even read? Try out theSwizzle, a service that easily lets you combined those commercial emails into a neat daily digest.
Continue ReadingKincast Connects Families Through Video
When Raul Mujica started his new company, he did so to address a problem he experienced trying to keep his relatives engaged with his kids as they grew up on the opposite coast. Sending video through email on YouTube didn’t …
Continue ReadingThe Email Charter (NNTR)
Back in June of 2011, TED Curator Chris Anderson (no relation to our Wired head honcho) and TED Scribe Jane Wulf wrote a blog post about the ridiculous amount of time that email takes — and a large part of …
Continue ReadingWhat’s In an Email Name?
I had just finished sending my hubby an email at work, asking about something exciting, like open season on health insurance enrollment, and I realized I’d signed the email with my first name. To some people this would not be startling. I would guess some people sign their emails to spouses (and boyfriend/girlfriends) with their […]
Continue ReadingNot-so-trusted Third Parties: Why You’ve Been Getting “Your Email Was Leaked” Notices
Got a kid taking the SAT or AP exams? It’s time to have a little talk about how to avoid phishing schemes–their email addresses may have been lost to spammers last week. Epsilon, one of the world’s largest such companies, had their databases breached. You may have noticed something was up this weekend when you […]
Continue ReadingTen More Things My Geek-Brain Makes Me Do
After such an enthusiastic response from my initial article on the dumb, weird, and baffling things my geek brain makes me do, I’ve collected a few more and garnered the courage to put them out there. These are, after all, the secret crazy things I normally keep to myself. After years of being the weird […]
Continue ReadingThe First E-Mail Address: Raising an Internet-Savvy Child
Editor’s Note: This is another in a series of guest posts by Adam Rosenberg (adam@cdt.org), New Media Manager, Center for Democracy & Technology. When I was growing up, getting a phone in your room (or even your own line!), if …
Continue ReadingThe Value of Learning to Do Something Yourself, or How I Learned All About Outlook and Thunderbird
Image by adria.richards via Flickr When it rains, it pours. This week, I have been very busy for a variety of reasons, so naturally my email decided to take priority and stop working. I learned the hard way that Microsoft …
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