Enquiring Mimes» email http://enquiringmimes.com/wp Tools and Technology for Adults Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:26:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gmail Tip of the Day – Consolidate All of Your Email Accounts into Gmail http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:18:05 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=1095 Do you have a few old email address that you rarely check and when you do, you find they are chocked full of spam and maybe one halfway-important message that you've missed and you're going to have to write one of those crow-eating messages that say something like "sorry I missed your message, I don't read email in that account very often?" ... Tutorial after the jump Here's how: Within Gmail select Settings - Account - Get Mail from Other Accounts - Add an account, enter your email address and press next step. gmail-scrn1.jpg Enter your username and password, Gmail will probably guess your pop server name.

]]> In an orgy of admiration for Gmail and love for its new Task function (and possible an over-rush of endorphins) I declared the week to be Gmail appreciation week around here at Enquiring Mimes Ranch. In that spirit, today we'll explain another way to increase your productivity due to the general wonderfulness of Gmail. Do you have a few old email address that you rarely check and when you do, you find they are chocked full of spam and maybe one halfway-important message that you've missed and you're going to have to write one of those crow-eating messages that say something like "sorry I missed your message, I don't read email in that account very often?" Gmail to the rescue. You can have Gmail get the mail from other accounts, pull the messages into your Gmail account and throw away the spam. If you do find a treasure you can answer the message directly from Gmail so that it will look like you send the reply from your other account. Tutorial after the jump Here's how: Within Gmail select Settings - Account - Get Mail from Other Accounts - Add an account, enter your email address and press next step. gmail-scrn1.jpg Enter your username and password, Gmail will probably guess your pop server name. Your choice as to whether to leave the retrieved messages on the server, but if you really don't use the account very often -- don't leave them there. Let Gmail create a label for that mailbox. This is very handy for viewing all messages from the retrieved account. Press Add Account, you're halfway there. gmail-scrn2.jpg Now lets set it up so we can send mail using Gmail from that account. From Gmail choose Settings - Accounts - Send Mail As - Add email address You can change the name that is displayed when you send email messages, by default you're shown the same name as is used for your Gmail. Then add the new email address for the account that Gmail is now going to retrieve and hit Next Step. gmail-scrn3.jpg You'll then be asked to send an email to the old account to verify that it is yours. Since Gmail will retrieve the message, press Send Verification and just wait until it appears in your Gmail account and press the link in the message to verify your address. You're almost there. gmail-scrn4.jpg Okay, one last detail and we're done. One more time, go to Settings - Accounts and check the bottom of the page to see that "Reply from the same address" is select as below, and you're finished. gmail-scrn6.jpg
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]]> http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/feed/ 3 It used to be called dialing while drinking http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:25:03 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=606 Now the problem is emailing while drinking.  Nothing can be worse than having a couple of martinis with the folks from work and deciding it’s finally time to send an email to an ex- or to finally set the boss straight. The Google gang has come to your rescue with Google Goggles.  If you choose to use this functionality in your Gmail (it’s in the Labs menu), when you try and send an email at a suspicious time on say a Friday or Saturday night (this is configurable), you’ll be asked a series of small math problems (you can set the difficulty) that have to be successfully answered before the message will be set. If you keep the difficulty set to low, you’ll have no problem answering the questions without a calculator, but it will stop you long enough to think – do I really want to send this note? Via webmokey Also, if you don’t keep up with slang – “Beer Goggles” is an expression meaning that possible “romance” may set in later in the evening when other people start to look better to you as a result of your imbibing a few beers. gg_setup gg_quiz]]> http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/feed/ 2 Email sins – how many do you commit? http://enquiringmimes.com/wp Tools and Technology for Adults Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:26:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Enquiring Mimes» email http://enquiringmimes.com/wp Tools and Technology for Adults Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:26:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gmail Tip of the Day – Consolidate All of Your Email Accounts into Gmail http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:18:05 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=1095 Do you have a few old email address that you rarely check and when you do, you find they are chocked full of spam and maybe one halfway-important message that you've missed and you're going to have to write one of those crow-eating messages that say something like "sorry I missed your message, I don't read email in that account very often?" ... Tutorial after the jump Here's how: Within Gmail select Settings - Account - Get Mail from Other Accounts - Add an account, enter your email address and press next step. gmail-scrn1.jpg Enter your username and password, Gmail will probably guess your pop server name.

]]> In an orgy of admiration for Gmail and love for its new Task function (and possible an over-rush of endorphins) I declared the week to be Gmail appreciation week around here at Enquiring Mimes Ranch. In that spirit, today we'll explain another way to increase your productivity due to the general wonderfulness of Gmail. Do you have a few old email address that you rarely check and when you do, you find they are chocked full of spam and maybe one halfway-important message that you've missed and you're going to have to write one of those crow-eating messages that say something like "sorry I missed your message, I don't read email in that account very often?" Gmail to the rescue. You can have Gmail get the mail from other accounts, pull the messages into your Gmail account and throw away the spam. If you do find a treasure you can answer the message directly from Gmail so that it will look like you send the reply from your other account. Tutorial after the jump Here's how: Within Gmail select Settings - Account - Get Mail from Other Accounts - Add an account, enter your email address and press next step. gmail-scrn1.jpg Enter your username and password, Gmail will probably guess your pop server name. Your choice as to whether to leave the retrieved messages on the server, but if you really don't use the account very often -- don't leave them there. Let Gmail create a label for that mailbox. This is very handy for viewing all messages from the retrieved account. Press Add Account, you're halfway there. gmail-scrn2.jpg Now lets set it up so we can send mail using Gmail from that account. From Gmail choose Settings - Accounts - Send Mail As - Add email address You can change the name that is displayed when you send email messages, by default you're shown the same name as is used for your Gmail. Then add the new email address for the account that Gmail is now going to retrieve and hit Next Step. gmail-scrn3.jpg You'll then be asked to send an email to the old account to verify that it is yours. Since Gmail will retrieve the message, press Send Verification and just wait until it appears in your Gmail account and press the link in the message to verify your address. You're almost there. gmail-scrn4.jpg Okay, one last detail and we're done. One more time, go to Settings - Accounts and check the bottom of the page to see that "Reply from the same address" is select as below, and you're finished. gmail-scrn6.jpg
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]]> http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/feed/ 3 It used to be called dialing while drinking http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:25:03 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=606 Now the problem is emailing while drinking.  Nothing can be worse than having a couple of martinis with the folks from work and deciding it’s finally time to send an email to an ex- or to finally set the boss straight. The Google gang has come to your rescue with Google Goggles.  If you choose to use this functionality in your Gmail (it’s in the Labs menu), when you try and send an email at a suspicious time on say a Friday or Saturday night (this is configurable), you’ll be asked a series of small math problems (you can set the difficulty) that have to be successfully answered before the message will be set. If you keep the difficulty set to low, you’ll have no problem answering the questions without a calculator, but it will stop you long enough to think – do I really want to send this note? Via webmokey Also, if you don’t keep up with slang – “Beer Goggles” is an expression meaning that possible “romance” may set in later in the evening when other people start to look better to you as a result of your imbibing a few beers. gg_setup gg_quiz]]> http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/feed/ 2 Email sins – how many do you commit? http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:18:05 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=1095 Do you have a few old email address that you rarely check and when you do, you find they are chocked full of spam and maybe one halfway-important message that you've missed and you're going to have to write one of those crow-eating messages that say something like "sorry I missed your message, I don't read email in that account very often?" ... Tutorial after the jump Here's how: Within Gmail select Settings - Account - Get Mail from Other Accounts - Add an account, enter your email address and press next step. gmail-scrn1.jpg Enter your username and password, Gmail will probably guess your pop server name.

]]> In an orgy of admiration for Gmail and love for its new Task function (and possible an over-rush of endorphins) I declared the week to be Gmail appreciation week around here at Enquiring Mimes Ranch. In that spirit, today we'll explain another way to increase your productivity due to the general wonderfulness of Gmail. Do you have a few old email address that you rarely check and when you do, you find they are chocked full of spam and maybe one halfway-important message that you've missed and you're going to have to write one of those crow-eating messages that say something like "sorry I missed your message, I don't read email in that account very often?" Gmail to the rescue. You can have Gmail get the mail from other accounts, pull the messages into your Gmail account and throw away the spam. If you do find a treasure you can answer the message directly from Gmail so that it will look like you send the reply from your other account. Tutorial after the jump Here's how: Within Gmail select Settings - Account - Get Mail from Other Accounts - Add an account, enter your email address and press next step. gmail-scrn1.jpg Enter your username and password, Gmail will probably guess your pop server name. Your choice as to whether to leave the retrieved messages on the server, but if you really don't use the account very often -- don't leave them there. Let Gmail create a label for that mailbox. This is very handy for viewing all messages from the retrieved account. Press Add Account, you're halfway there. gmail-scrn2.jpg Now lets set it up so we can send mail using Gmail from that account. From Gmail choose Settings - Accounts - Send Mail As - Add email address You can change the name that is displayed when you send email messages, by default you're shown the same name as is used for your Gmail. Then add the new email address for the account that Gmail is now going to retrieve and hit Next Step. gmail-scrn3.jpg You'll then be asked to send an email to the old account to verify that it is yours. Since Gmail will retrieve the message, press Send Verification and just wait until it appears in your Gmail account and press the link in the message to verify your address. You're almost there. gmail-scrn4.jpg Okay, one last detail and we're done. One more time, go to Settings - Accounts and check the bottom of the page to see that "Reply from the same address" is select as below, and you're finished. gmail-scrn6.jpg
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]]> http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/feed/ 3 Enquiring Mimes» email http://enquiringmimes.com/wp Tools and Technology for Adults Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:26:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gmail Tip of the Day – Consolidate All of Your Email Accounts into Gmail http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:18:05 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=1095 Do you have a few old email address that you rarely check and when you do, you find they are chocked full of spam and maybe one halfway-important message that you've missed and you're going to have to write one of those crow-eating messages that say something like "sorry I missed your message, I don't read email in that account very often?" ... Tutorial after the jump Here's how: Within Gmail select Settings - Account - Get Mail from Other Accounts - Add an account, enter your email address and press next step. gmail-scrn1.jpg Enter your username and password, Gmail will probably guess your pop server name.

]]> In an orgy of admiration for Gmail and love for its new Task function (and possible an over-rush of endorphins) I declared the week to be Gmail appreciation week around here at Enquiring Mimes Ranch. In that spirit, today we'll explain another way to increase your productivity due to the general wonderfulness of Gmail. Do you have a few old email address that you rarely check and when you do, you find they are chocked full of spam and maybe one halfway-important message that you've missed and you're going to have to write one of those crow-eating messages that say something like "sorry I missed your message, I don't read email in that account very often?" Gmail to the rescue. You can have Gmail get the mail from other accounts, pull the messages into your Gmail account and throw away the spam. If you do find a treasure you can answer the message directly from Gmail so that it will look like you send the reply from your other account. Tutorial after the jump Here's how: Within Gmail select Settings - Account - Get Mail from Other Accounts - Add an account, enter your email address and press next step. gmail-scrn1.jpg Enter your username and password, Gmail will probably guess your pop server name. Your choice as to whether to leave the retrieved messages on the server, but if you really don't use the account very often -- don't leave them there. Let Gmail create a label for that mailbox. This is very handy for viewing all messages from the retrieved account. Press Add Account, you're halfway there. gmail-scrn2.jpg Now lets set it up so we can send mail using Gmail from that account. From Gmail choose Settings - Accounts - Send Mail As - Add email address You can change the name that is displayed when you send email messages, by default you're shown the same name as is used for your Gmail. Then add the new email address for the account that Gmail is now going to retrieve and hit Next Step. gmail-scrn3.jpg You'll then be asked to send an email to the old account to verify that it is yours. Since Gmail will retrieve the message, press Send Verification and just wait until it appears in your Gmail account and press the link in the message to verify your address. You're almost there. gmail-scrn4.jpg Okay, one last detail and we're done. One more time, go to Settings - Accounts and check the bottom of the page to see that "Reply from the same address" is select as below, and you're finished. gmail-scrn6.jpg
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]]> http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/feed/ 3 It used to be called dialing while drinking http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:25:03 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=606 Now the problem is emailing while drinking.  Nothing can be worse than having a couple of martinis with the folks from work and deciding it’s finally time to send an email to an ex- or to finally set the boss straight. The Google gang has come to your rescue with Google Goggles.  If you choose to use this functionality in your Gmail (it’s in the Labs menu), when you try and send an email at a suspicious time on say a Friday or Saturday night (this is configurable), you’ll be asked a series of small math problems (you can set the difficulty) that have to be successfully answered before the message will be set. If you keep the difficulty set to low, you’ll have no problem answering the questions without a calculator, but it will stop you long enough to think – do I really want to send this note? Via webmokey Also, if you don’t keep up with slang – “Beer Goggles” is an expression meaning that possible “romance” may set in later in the evening when other people start to look better to you as a result of your imbibing a few beers. gg_setup gg_quiz]]> http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/feed/ 2 Email sins – how many do you commit? http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:25:03 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=606 Now the problem is emailing while drinking.  Nothing can be worse than having a couple of martinis with the folks from work and deciding it’s finally time to send an email to an ex- or to finally set the boss straight. The Google gang has come to your rescue with Google Goggles.  If you choose to use this functionality in your Gmail (it’s in the Labs menu), when you try and send an email at a suspicious time on say a Friday or Saturday night (this is configurable), you’ll be asked a series of small math problems (you can set the difficulty) that have to be successfully answered before the message will be set. If you keep the difficulty set to low, you’ll have no problem answering the questions without a calculator, but it will stop you long enough to think – do I really want to send this note? Via webmokey Also, if you don’t keep up with slang – “Beer Goggles” is an expression meaning that possible “romance” may set in later in the evening when other people start to look better to you as a result of your imbibing a few beers. gg_setup gg_quiz]]> http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/feed/ 2 Enquiring Mimes» email http://enquiringmimes.com/wp Tools and Technology for Adults Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:26:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gmail Tip of the Day – Consolidate All of Your Email Accounts into Gmail http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:18:05 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=1095 Do you have a few old email address that you rarely check and when you do, you find they are chocked full of spam and maybe one halfway-important message that you've missed and you're going to have to write one of those crow-eating messages that say something like "sorry I missed your message, I don't read email in that account very often?" ... Tutorial after the jump Here's how: Within Gmail select Settings - Account - Get Mail from Other Accounts - Add an account, enter your email address and press next step. gmail-scrn1.jpg Enter your username and password, Gmail will probably guess your pop server name.

]]> In an orgy of admiration for Gmail and love for its new Task function (and possible an over-rush of endorphins) I declared the week to be Gmail appreciation week around here at Enquiring Mimes Ranch. In that spirit, today we'll explain another way to increase your productivity due to the general wonderfulness of Gmail. Do you have a few old email address that you rarely check and when you do, you find they are chocked full of spam and maybe one halfway-important message that you've missed and you're going to have to write one of those crow-eating messages that say something like "sorry I missed your message, I don't read email in that account very often?" Gmail to the rescue. You can have Gmail get the mail from other accounts, pull the messages into your Gmail account and throw away the spam. If you do find a treasure you can answer the message directly from Gmail so that it will look like you send the reply from your other account. Tutorial after the jump Here's how: Within Gmail select Settings - Account - Get Mail from Other Accounts - Add an account, enter your email address and press next step. gmail-scrn1.jpg Enter your username and password, Gmail will probably guess your pop server name. Your choice as to whether to leave the retrieved messages on the server, but if you really don't use the account very often -- don't leave them there. Let Gmail create a label for that mailbox. This is very handy for viewing all messages from the retrieved account. Press Add Account, you're halfway there. gmail-scrn2.jpg Now lets set it up so we can send mail using Gmail from that account. From Gmail choose Settings - Accounts - Send Mail As - Add email address You can change the name that is displayed when you send email messages, by default you're shown the same name as is used for your Gmail. Then add the new email address for the account that Gmail is now going to retrieve and hit Next Step. gmail-scrn3.jpg You'll then be asked to send an email to the old account to verify that it is yours. Since Gmail will retrieve the message, press Send Verification and just wait until it appears in your Gmail account and press the link in the message to verify your address. You're almost there. gmail-scrn4.jpg Okay, one last detail and we're done. One more time, go to Settings - Accounts and check the bottom of the page to see that "Reply from the same address" is select as below, and you're finished. gmail-scrn6.jpg
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]]> http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/12/11/gmail-tip-oconsolidate-all-email-accounts-into-gmail/feed/ 3 It used to be called dialing while drinking http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:25:03 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=606 Now the problem is emailing while drinking.  Nothing can be worse than having a couple of martinis with the folks from work and deciding it’s finally time to send an email to an ex- or to finally set the boss straight. The Google gang has come to your rescue with Google Goggles.  If you choose to use this functionality in your Gmail (it’s in the Labs menu), when you try and send an email at a suspicious time on say a Friday or Saturday night (this is configurable), you’ll be asked a series of small math problems (you can set the difficulty) that have to be successfully answered before the message will be set. If you keep the difficulty set to low, you’ll have no problem answering the questions without a calculator, but it will stop you long enough to think – do I really want to send this note? Via webmokey Also, if you don’t keep up with slang – “Beer Goggles” is an expression meaning that possible “romance” may set in later in the evening when other people start to look better to you as a result of your imbibing a few beers. gg_setup gg_quiz]]> http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/10/07/it-used-to-be-called-dialing-while-drinking/feed/ 2 Email sins – how many do you commit? http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/09/06/email-sins-how-many-do-you-commit/ http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/2008/09/06/email-sins-how-many-do-you-commit/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:43:20 +0000 Dan Perlman http://enquiringmimes.com/wp/?p=340 Michael Wade in his blog, Execupundit.com, lists his nominations for the top ten biggest email sins.

Here’s his top five:

  1. Copying people on e-mails that are of remote or no interest to them.
  2. Keeping the same subject line even though the actual message has significantly changed.
  3. Promising to share part of the fortune that you inherited in the Ivory Coast.
  4. Replying to All when you meant to hit Reply.
  5. Not checking spelling.

Read his post for the other five.

I would add to the list – ever using BCC  -- if you don’t want the person you’re writing to know you’re copying someone else – don’t do it.

Via WebWorkerDaily

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