One of the things that I constantly struggle with is e-mail overload. I get way more than I can handle, and I’m not great about processing it. That means that it builds up in my inbox to the point of overwhelming me.
Have you ever wished you could schedule an e-mail message to be sent in the future? I have. And until today, I hadn’t found a good solution. While some local mail clients include this feature, Gmail does not. Moreover, even if your client supports scheduling, you may have to have it open to work.
I’m a big fan of reading my news online, and I’m also a fan of the Wall Street Journal. The problem is that the WSJ has started placing a bunch of their content behind a paywall. Fortunately, you can easily get around this limitation…
Have you ever wondered about the best way to insert Adsense ads into your WordPress posts? Placing ads around your content is easy enough — just code it into your theme. But what about embedding them within your content?
If you’re a Gmail user, you may have noticed that there was a major Gmail outage earlier today. This outage affected both Gmail per se as well as Google Apps Mail. Attempts to access Gmail directly (using the web interface) resulted in a server error, effectively stopping millions from accessing their e-mail.
Have you gotten bored of the plain vanilla Gmail interface? If so, you’re in luck… Google rolled out some new themes awhile back. To access them, simply click on “Settings” in the top right corner and look for the “Themes” tab on the right. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, check out the following picture.
I just noticed that certain phone numbers haven’t been making it over from Google Contacts to my iPhone. As I’ve noted previously, I’m using Google Sync (plus a couple of workarounds) to integrate my MacBook Pro, Google Apps, and iPhone. After a bit of investigation, I discovered the problem…
Shortly after getting my iPhone 3Gs, I decided to move my online life into Google Apps. One big reason for this is the exceptionally bad spam filtering by the e-mail server at work. It’s so bad that I’ve become very dependent on client-side filtering.