Do You Email?
Is Email on the way out? That’s a bit like asking ‘Do you still watch cable TV?‘ and not quite as off topic as one might think. As for cable/terrestrial TV, no, I don’t watch it anywhere near as much as I did before, thanks […]
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Pretty Good E-mail II – Practice makes Private
This is the second part of the “Pretty Good E-mail” series which follows on from an earlier introductory article. For those who are not terribly familiar with email encryption and the tools involved, I suggest you start off by reading Part I which is a
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Pretty Good E-mail Encryption – The Snowden Way
Just about a year ago, a video was posted on the Vimeo website, with the intention of demonstrating encryption for journalists, by one “anon108”. The video was for Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who subsequently broke the NSA mass surveillance stories; he watched it, didn’t really
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Moving Outlook Express messages to Windows 8
If you have recently upgraded your Windows XP computer to Windows 8, you can still access your Outlook Express messages on your computer and move them into Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird. Windows 8 and Windows 7 should have saved your messages in a folder
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E-mail – Encryption! Encryption! Encryption!
E-mail Encryption for Private People Millions of people every day send messages to friends, colleagues, and business contacts, written on postcards. Electronic postcards, but still readable by anyone who cares to pick them up. Would you send a letter without an envelope? Every time you
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Import Other Email Accounts Into Outlook.com
It’s always handy to centralize one’s email accounts, and Outlook.com added this ability relatively recently and without much fanfare. Outlook.com uses the IMAP protocol to import and monitor external accounts. According to Wikipedia: Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is a protocol for e-mail retrieval and
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10 Minute Mail – Instant Disposable Email Addresses
Disposable and temporary email addresses can certainly be helpful in the ongoing battle against spam. However, there are very few services which do not require some kind of registration or signup, if any. “10 Minute Mail” is somewhat unique in that that it offers free
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How To: Create Aliases in Outlook.com
Aliases, or alternative email addresses, are an easy and useful way to isolate/separate specific emails and help keep your main Outlook.com email address off the radar. Aliases were first introduced into Hotmail sometime ago and have been carried over to the Outlook.com webmail service. Outlook.com
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Add Background Music to Emails in Windows Live Mail
I’ve always been a fan of local email clients, and Microsoft’s native email client in particular; from Outlook Express to Windows Mail through to the latest iteration, Windows Live Mail. Familiarity is one defining factor yes, but in my experience MS’s email clients have always
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Secure Gmail: Easily Encrypt your Gmail emails
**Caveat: This only works with Gmail to Gmail using Google’s Chrome browser. Recent revelations concerning the NSA and government surveillance have tended to heighten users’ awareness that email communications are generally susceptible to prying eyes. As a result, I suspect many would be seeking some
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NSA surveillance: Another secure email service bites the dust
Following in the wake of Lavabit’s recent self-imposed suspension, another secure email provider, Silent Circle, has decided to shut down its ‘Silent Mail’ service. Lavabit is the secure email service which came under notice for being whistleblower Edward Snowden’s provider of choice. Lavabit’s owner/operator, Ladar
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How To: Get rid of inbox tabs in Gmail
I guess I was one of many who recently accessed their Gmail only to see incoming emails automatically sorted under a new tabs system. This may be fine if emails were categorized properly but it seemed to me they had been randomly sorted under different
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MailStore – How To Backup Your Cloud-Based E-Mail
MailStore MailStore is a great utility that will let you backup your online Web Mail. It will connect with web mail services such as GMail, Keiro, IceWarp, and any POP3 or IMAP services. So, this begs the question, “Why backup eMail?” The answer is pretty basic.
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Anti-Spam: Disposable Email Addresses from Spamgourmet
The dreaded spam emails, scourge of the internet and something which every user strives to avoid. Seems whenever we give out our email address these days we are leaving ourselves open to a deluge of emails. Whether we’re signing up for an online service, purchasing
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