Yesterday, the company previewed the new AOL Mail, code-named Project Phoenix, an influential shift in the new direction of the once-reigning “king of the inbox” – and we got a special sneak preview last week. The
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David Kernell, the former University of Tennessee student who hacked into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account during the 2008 presidential campaign has been sentenced to one year in custody.
The 22-year-old was convicted of unauthorized access to a protected computer and destroying records to impede a federal investigation, while he was …
Facebook has summoned members of the media to San Francisco next Monday for a “special event.” The invitation is totally devoid of useful information except for a speech bubble icon with a vague resemblance of an e-mail message inside of it—the very same icon set that’s currently used in Facebook’s “Messages” section.
People have …
If you’re bombarded with e-mail all day, a totally empty inbox is one of life’s little pleasures. Ever cleared out your inbox late on a Friday afternoon? I bet you did that thing where you lean back in your chair and put your hands behind your head. Or is that just me?
A new service called Nudgemail lets you artificially replicate the …
If you find yourself running low on storage space inside Gmail, Lifehacker has a good piece on a service called Find Big Mail. The service basically hooks into your Gmail account and creates three new folders in your inbox: My Big Mail, My Really Big Mail, and My Ultra Big Mail. You can then scour the messages in those folders and delete …
Looks like the rumor that originally surfaced in early June has come true.
Gmail has officially announced an option to turn off threaded replies. Those of you who don’t like "conversation view" (and judging from the previous post, there are at least a few of you out there) will soon be able to view chronologically-ordered Gmail
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The first Peek device launched two years ago. At its very core, it resembled a thin BlackBerry that only did e-mail—no web surfing, no calls, just e-mail. It was priced relatively aggressively at $100 and commanded a $20-per-month service plan, though no long-term contract was required.
The newest version of the device, the Peek 9,
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If you’ve been looking for a simple way to send HTML e-mail from your iPhone, MarkdownMail ($1.99) may be the answer. The application makes use of a simplified coding syntax developed by John Gruber known as Markdown, which it leverages to quickly create things like hyperlinks, bolded words, italicized words, bulleted lists, headings, …
There’s a big e-mail virus making its way around the internet—”the first large outbreak of this type in nearly a decade,” according to IDG News.
There are a few different versions of the e-mail, but the most common one contains the subject “Here you have” along with the following message:
“Hello:
This is The Document I told you
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Plenty of people use Gmail without really leveraging some of the more advanced features. Here’s a quick list of 10 useful tricks that don’t require any advanced hacking or wizardry. Enjoy.
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In case you hadn’t noticed, your Gmail looks a little different today. Google has tidied up the overall interface and added prominent Mail, Contacts, and Tasks links in the upper left corner along with a big "Compose mail" or "New contact" button depending upon which feature you’re using.
And speaking of contacts, Google has overhauled
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I’m not sure about anyone else but I’ve been having issues with my Exchange account since upgrading to iOS4 on my iPhone 3GS. Updates are extremely slow and I’m talking, like, 4-6 hour delays. Apple released the following config file last night but I’m still not seeing any improvement. Maybe I should inform the IT guys.
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