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Stop Telling People There’s A Dot In Your Gmail Address — It Doesn’t Matter
My Slate email address is will.oremus@slate.com. If you email willoremus@slate.com, your message will bounce. There is no willoremus@slate.com. If there were, though, it’s a good bet that he’d get a lot of messages that were intended for me (poor guy). For just that reason, Google decided to do things differently from other email providers when…
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Gmail Finally Gets Email Scheduling Baked Right In
Google’s ubiquitous email service has now been around for 15 years, so to celebrate this milestone, Gmail is getting a couple of important new features.
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How To Make Sure Important Emails Stay Out Of Your Spam Folder
The algorithms guarding our inboxes have now developed to the stage that spam is usually kept at bay, but these auto-sorting processes aren’t perfect yet — if you’re not regularly opening up your spam folder to check on your email provider’s accuracy, you could well be missing some genuinely useful messages that you need to…
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How To Check Facebook Without Going On Facebook
Here’s the situation: you’re interested in what’s happening in the lives of a few of your friends, but you’re reluctant to open up Facebook lest you get submerged in the usual tide of branded offers, game requests, and inane updates from people you haven’t seen for several years. Don’t worry! There are ways to check…