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Have you ever received an email from someone that seems to know you personally, but the sender’s name is nowhere to be found in the email?
It happens to me fairly often, and I’ve discovered a way to quickly determine the sender’s identity in at least some of those cases.
All you need to do is check to see if the sender of an anonymous email used that same email address to open a Facebook account. Just follow the instructions below for the device you’re using. [Read more…]
Have you ever composed an email message and wished you could have it be delivered to the recipient’s inbox at some specific future date and time?
For example, maybe you’d like to write someone a birthday greeting ahead of time to make sure you don’t forget it.
That’s all well and good, but what if you forget to log back into your email account and send the message when that person’s birthday actually arrives?
Luckily, Gmail allows you to schedule your emails to be delivered at any specific future date and time of your choosing. [Read more…]
Does it seem like your email inbox receives more junk and SPAM messages each and every day?
If so, it probably takes quite a while for you to wade through all those emails and read the important messages while deleting the junk.
Well, I have a simple tip that can help you clear the junk out of your email inbox in a hurry.
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Question from Kevin: I hope you can help me with a Gmail problem, Rick.
I subscribe to several email newsletters (including yours), and almost all of them always end up in the “Promotions” tab instead of the Inbox.
That includes the newsletters I pay for, and I’m really tired of it.
I’ve selected “Not Promotions” so many times but Gmail ignores my choice and keeps on putting them in Promotions anyway.
I heard that I can disable the Promotions tab altogether so the newsletters will always go into my Inbox, but I can’t find that setting. Can you help me? [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
If you’re like most Internet users, your email inbox probably contains several old messages that contain the usernames and passwords for some of your online accounts.
As you probably know, many services send new subscribers/customers a welcome email containing the username and password they’ll need to enter in order to log into the account. [Read more…]