Category Archives: Email

Disposable Gmail Email Accounts

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

One new feature I’ve recently discovered with Gmail is that you can setup temorary or disposable gmail email addresses just by adding something like +newsite. Here’s an example. If your email is johnsmith@gmail.com, you can create a temporary or disposable … Continue reading →

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Yahoo Email – How to Force HTTPS

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

One of the insecure things that Yahoo email does by default is to not use HTTPS in their email and calendar. What that means is that your HTTP wireless transmissions can be intercepted by the bad guys. One fix I’ve … Continue reading →

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New Email Address? Let People Know.

Posted on May 3, 2011 by

I’ve recently had the experience of having email from my brother and a friend put into my SPAM folder. The reason in both cases was that they were using new email addresses and didn’t let me know ahead of time. … Continue reading →

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Temporary Email Addresses

Posted on September 19, 2010 by

Many sites demand that you give them your email address to validate you, but then you’ve opened the door to tons of spam from the same company. An easy way around this is to create a temporary email address, which … Continue reading →

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Yahoo Email as Default

Posted on November 16, 2008 by

One of the aggravating things in Windows is that when you click on an email web link, by default it opens either Outlook or Outlook Express. To change that behavior to Yahoo Mail follow this procedure. In Yahoo Mail click … Continue reading →

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