Instructions On How To Fetch Email From Other Accounts In Gmail

One of the biggest advantages of using Gmail for me has been having the capacity to have all my email accounts coming into the one spot, which I can access from anywhere that has internet access! Gmail’s Mail Fetcher can download messages from up to five other email accounts, centralising all your email in Gmail. [...]

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Importing Contacts From Old Email Account

So you set up email address in Gmail and are now thinking, but what about all the email addresses I had in my address book – do I have to type these into Gmail? No! Thankfully Gmail makes it very easy to import your contacts from Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo!, orkut, and other services into your [...]

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How To Achieve A Zero Inbox

Before I set up email address with Gmail, I really struggled containing my inbox. I would have week/month old emails sitting in my inbox waiting for me to action them. There was a great inefficiency in the way that I was handling my emails. When I was in my inbox and I could see the [...]

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Google Reader in Plain English

Common Craft, whose videos I have used previously on this blog, were hired by the team at Google to make a short video on their Google Reader. The video runs for just over a minute and as is Common Craft’s unique style, is in plain english and very easy to understand. My step by step [...]

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Where Is My Address Book In Gmail?

ADDRESS BOOK When I first set up email address with Gmail, initially I couldn’t find where my Address Book was. Having been operating email from only Outlook for years, I had become programmed to look for particular terms and had become used to the way the Address Book function operated in Outlook. CONTACTS The first [...]

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How To Use RSS Feeds To Keep Up To Date With Your Favourite Blogs

By now if you have had a look around Technorati and starting surfing the web using the StumbleUpon Toolbar, you will have no doubt found yourself an amazing number of blogs that you would like to keep up to date with. In a previous post I gave a very generic introduction to the How To [...]

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4 Benefits Of Gmail

How does Google promote its own free online email service as the best place to set up email address? Take 4:21 to watch this video and they will explain the following for benefits of Gmail: (1). Fights Spam (2). Conversations (3). Search (4). Gmail and Chat combined.

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Why Gmail Is The Best Place To Set Up Email Address

I have written of my own personal positive experience with Gmail, but I thought I would collate for you other reviews of the Gmail service. This information should help in you if you are making a decision about setting up email address or if you are considering to moving to an online email service. Check [...]

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Reviewing Sites With Your StumbleUpon Toolbar

In my last, I explained how to download the StumbleUpon Toolbar and how you can the use the StumbleUpon Toolbar to web surf through areas of your interest. Today I want to look at how you can add sites that you like to StumbleUpon. Like the majority of social media sites, StumbleUpon is based on [...]

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Downloading StumbleUpon Toolbar

Image: Wikipedia StumbleUpon describes itself in the following way: “StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests. Whether it’s a web page, photo or video, our personalized recommendation engine learns what you like, and brings you more.” To use StumbleUpon you need to download the StumbleUpon Toolbar and install it. During the installation process the [...]

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