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Month: December 2015

  • Can’t send Yahoo email from Gmail (SMTP)

    Problem (Yahoo! from Gmail) I use Gmail as my primary email system. I own multiple email addresses from different email providers and domains. It is therefore useful to be able to change the ‘from’ email address when sending emails from within gmail, to one of these email addresses. I had this setup perfectly for everything,…

  • Comparison of Tags versus Folders

    We will be discussing which of these methods of organisation works best: Folders (sometimes known as directories) Tags (sometimes known as categories) Tags versus Folders Folders are places to store particular types of information. Some common examples are: Documents Photos (digital) MP3 (or other music files) Videos Emails Let’s use the examples of photos to…

  • Definition: Tags

    In computing tags (sometimes known as categories) are a way of organising some, usually human readable, data. Two common examples of data are: Digital Photos Emails A piece of data (such as an email) can have one or more tags. It is useful to be able to have multiple tags per item because you might have…

  • Organising Your Emails

    This article is for people who: Are overwhelmed by too many emails (spam or otherwise – what is spam?) Want to be more organised with their emails A common request I get is to help people organise their emails. There are two main ways to organise emails. The first one, which I call Zero Game, is for…