Do you ever feel that the tech giants are ganging up on you? A few days ago, a client called me to say that Thunderbird (her email program) was reporting an error in sending/receiving emails. The problem appeared to be that the password was incorrect. After a short conversation, we decided that I would have …
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Saving a Copy of Gmail Data
If you get locked out of your Google account you could lose all your email history In recent years, Google have become much more insistent (to the point of irritation) that you provide “recovery information” so that you can get back into your account if you lose your password or if your account is hacked. …
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Gmail “Suspicious Activity” – how to silence it
Does Gmail shut you out of your own email when you check it outside your own home? I have heard from several IT Support clients about Gmail’s overzealous (and, some might say, incompetent) behaviour when they take their laptop to somewhere other than home – to a weekend cottage, for example – and then try …
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Adding Yahoo or Gmail to an Email Client
Most people these days have several email accounts Typically, most people have one or more “proper” accounts and one or more accounts that are used for less important stuff and for situations where they have been compelled to give an email address but haven’t wanted to give their “proper” one (perhaps because of fears of …
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Gmail Password Problem
Google can prevent you from accessing your own email if it thinks your email program is “less secure” I have blogged before about email programs that can’t access your email and that try to insist that your password is wrong when you are quite sure that it isn’t. See “Oh dear – error“, for instance. …
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Four Years of Blog Posts
Yes, it’s that time of year when I congratulate myself on completing another year of weekly blogs So what’s happened during that year? November 2013 – a year of Windows 8.1 Hard to believe that it’s a whole year since Windows 8.1 was released. It’s still with us and I still maintain that it’s not …
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Gmail Shortcuts
Do you use Gmail in your browser? I’ve said previously that I don’t think it’s worth learning loads of shortcut keys. This is for two reasons: Unless you use them all the time it’s very easy to forget them Different shortcut key combinations do different things in different programs, so it’s very easy to get …
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Doubts about LinkedIn
I’m having serious doubts about whether it’s a good idea to keep a LinkedIn account Regular readers will know that I’m no great fan of social networking sites. I think they are devious, manipulative, insecure, and can not be trusted with a tenth of the personal data that people entrust to them. Nevertheless, for about …
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Gmail Autoresponder
Setting up an autoresponder in Gmail is quite easy when you know how What is an autoresponder? Also, known as an “out of office” reply, it is an automatic reply sent by your email provider to someone who sends you an email. It is typically used to let people know that you are probably not …
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Gmail’s New Inbox
How do you like the new Gmail inboxes, then? Google have been rolling out the new Gmail inboxes, whereby your incoming email is pre-sorted into one of five tabs. These tabs, together with Gmail’s definitions of what goes into them by default are: Primary – “person-to-person conversations and messages that don’t appear in other tabs” …
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