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Yahoo's webmail has been down for as long as 48 hours, and restless users are speaking out.…
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These two great apps provide a premium experience at a deep discount, thanks to the Cyber Monday sales sprit.…
Read MoreApple releases Mavericks update to remedy Gmail sync problems
Apple’s free OS update, Mavericks, has gone along fairly swimmingly — except for Gmail users who use the desktop Mail app for…
Read MoreDark Mail Alliance turns to Kickstarter to fund private mail initiative
Less than a week after announcing their partnership, Lavabit and Silent Circle have taken to Kickstarter for their latest initiative, the Dark…
Read MoreGood news, bad news: LinkedIn data in iOS Mail arrives but it can read your mail
Want to see more information about an email sender in iOS Mail before you even read the message? That's what LinkedIn Intro provides. However, to make the magic happen, you need to have all of your email routed through a LinkedIn server.…
Read MoreSomewhere, someone is building the successor to email, and it is social
Communication technology is constantly evolving, and that has been especially true in the past decade where the social revolution has grabbed and…
Read MoreDragging email into the 21st century
We get all kinds of email, and not just spam and everything else. Some email is just notifications, like a library book…
Read MoreiOS 6 hands-on review: The new Mail app
Up until iOS 6, I'd considered Apple's mobile Mail app merely adequate for my needs. Now, it's moved into not-half-bad territory. Here's a rundown of my experiences using the new features of the Mail app, which will be available to everyone when iOS 6 rolls out Wednesday.…
Read MoreMiss Nev app wants to recruit local businesses to help receive your packages
Miss Nev (as in "never miss a package"), the winning hack of Dwolla and Etsy's eCommerce Hack Day in New York, plans to launch a platform that lets local businesses receive packages for customers in exchange for purchases or payment.…
Read MoreReturn to sender: Google pulls new iOS Gmail app
Google released a native Gmail client for iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices, but quickly pulled the software from the iTunes App Store due to some app errors. As a long-time Android user, I like what I see in the client, but it needs work.…
Read MoreTips and tricks: Mac OS X Mail 5
In this instalment of tips and tricks, we'll be focusing on Mail 5, the new version that ships with Lion. There are a number of changes to the app that you might not be aware of, and some handy trips from past versions that still apply.…
Read MoreAn in-depth look at Mail 5 in OS X Lion
Managing email on OS X has always been about finding the lesser of many evils. I have too many email addresses to use webmail efficiently, but I've never been happy with any email program on the Mac. That finally changed, thanks to OS X Lion.…
Read MoreDon’t be left behind: 5 Mac apps that won’t make the Lion cut
Apple is dropping Rosetta from OS X Lion, which means PowerPC-only apps won't work on Macs running the operating system. It might surprise you how many still-useful and used apps that will leave out in the cold. Here's a few, and some replacement suggestions.…
Read MoreHow to Create and Manage iOS Email Distribution Lists
It may surprise you to find that iOS does not support email distribution lists, since they're fully supported by Mail on the Mac, and you can sync your mail settings to your iOS device. Luckily, there are ways around this particular omission.…
Read MorePlease Fix This, Apple
My closet is so overfull with boxes from Apple that I hardly have room for anything else. I love my Macs, iOS devices, and Apple software. But there are some things about Apple products that just leave me wondering: why don't they fix this?…
Read MoreQuick Look: Postbox 2
If you need a smarter alternative to Apple's Mail, this may be just the thing. Postbox 2.0 is a Mozilla-based email client that prides itself on saving you time and keeping you organized. It has support for plug-ins, native archiving, to-do tags and tabs.…
Read MoreMoving to Mac: Use Thunderbird to Switch from Outlook to Mail
If you read Scott's recent Moving to Mac series, you'll know that transitioning to Mac from Windows is not as tricky as some might fear. However, there is one area that can cause a lot of pain, and that's moving email between Outlook and Mail.…
Read MoreTechUniversity: Mail 101
Apple's Mail application is a full-featured email client that's included with all copies of OS X. It allows you to send, receive and organize all of your email with ease.…
Read MoreTechUniversity: HTML Signatures in Mail
Apple makes it fairly easy to do basic text formatting for HTML signatures, but using HTML to create more complex signatures requires a bit more work. We'll walk you through, step by step, how to create a custom HTML email signature is Apple's Mail app.…
Read MoreMobileMe Mail Beta Walkthrough
Apple recently started offering a new beta of the web Mail application portion of its MobileMe software suite. As a longtime MobileMe subscriber, I'd say it was high time it updated that particular app, which has been more or less broken since launch.…
Read MoreNew MobileMe Mail Web Beta Introduces Gmail-like Features
I much prefer the Mail interface of iPad Mail application. Which is why it's great to see Apple release a new beta version of MobileMe's web mail app that borrows heavily from its cousin on the iPad.…
Read MoreiPhone OS 4.0: Mail, Folders & iBooks
iPhone fans around the world will rejoice with the improvements coming in Apple’s iPhone 4.0 OS this summer. Support for organizing applications within folders, an improved Mail app and the new iBooks app are among the most notable.…
Read MoreNew Postbox Release Includes More Mac Goodness
A few months ago, I looked at email client Postbox. I found it an interesting enough app then, but a new release for the Mac brings even more feature additions. If you passed on Postbox earlier, now's the time to give it a second look.…
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