Browse E-mail and Internet Help and Tips

Browse E-mail and Internet Help and Tips

Six ways to get online from anywhere
Can't find a hotspot? Don't worry: There are other ways to get online when you're on the road. Glenn Fleishman explains what they are and how to set them up.
Google's free airport Wi-Fi: Five ways to protect yourself
Planning on taking advantage of free Wi-Fi at the airport during your holiday travels? Make sure you follow these tips for securing your wireless computing.
Integrate your iWeb site with Facebook
Here's a few tips on bringing iWeb and Facebook together.
Four hints about Mail and Spaces
Four hints for the price of one ... learn how to easily switch between open windows of an app across Spaces, how to delete Mail messages without showing a preview of the next, and two tips for working with links in messages in 10.6's Mail app.
Avoiding death by e-mail
Do you love your e-mail? Come on, it's just the two of us. Do you really? If you feel imprisoned by your inbox (and like you never get any work done as a result) check out one company's idea for breaking out.
Add notes to events and contacts created with data detectors
Data detectors in Mail in 10.5 and 10.6 can help you create new contacts and events from dates, addresses, and phone numbers. Learn how to automatically associate notes with these new entries.
When to use Twitter instead of e-mail
Twitter versus e-mail? From evading junk mail filters to serving as a quick group messaging service, sometimes Twitter works best.
Bugs & Fixes: Solving Safari cookie problems
Sometimes, solving a cookie-related problem requires more than just deleting cookies from Safari, as Ted Landau details in this week's Bugs & Fixes column.
Create Mail accounts manually in Snow Leopard
Learn how to bypass Snow Leopard's automatic Mail account setup feature.
Filtering foreign e-mail
Looking for an easy way to filter e-mail that contains foreign character sets? Here's one suggestion, but the job may require sterner measures.
Four reasons to switch to IMAP
You may know that your e-mail client uses either the Post Office Protocol (POP) or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) standard to retrieve your messages. But do you know why you should care? Joe Kissell shows how you can reduce e-mail aggravations by changing the way you receive your messages.
Bugs & Fixes: When PDFs won't load in Safari
Snow Leopard has been out for more than a month, but Ted Landau keeps stumbling across compatibility problems. The latest? It involves trying to view a PDF document, accessed as a Web link in Safari.
Find and merge address book duplicates
Whether you use Apple's Address Book or Microsoft Entourage's built-in contact manager, duplicate contacts can make it harder to find information you seek. Here's how to clean up the mess.
Prune your contacts
If you no longer recognize half of the names in your address book, it might be time to clean house. Here's how to get rid of the clutter in Mail, Address Book, and Entourage.
Five reasons to watch Google Wave
Looking for a service that combines e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, document sharing, wikis, and multimedia content? Google thinks you should be. Here are five reasons the company might be right.
Three ways to improve Gmail
It's convenient, it's free, but sometimes Gmail can also feel a bit primitive. If you wish this popular e-mail service had a few more niceties, check out Joe Kissell's three favorite ways to improve the Gmail experience.
Easily adding e-mail addresses
Mail won't allow you to quickly add multiple recipients from selected e-mail messages but a third-party tool will.
The seven most underused Mail features
Snow Leopard brings a whole new version of Apple's e-mail program, Mail. But most of us never used all of the old features. Joe Kissell reveals the seven most underused Mail features you should check out right now.
Bugs & Fixes: iTunes 9 and Safari mix it up
Apple rolled out a new version of iTunes this week, and with it have come a pair of problems -- one related to Safari and the other involving the new Genius Mixes feature.
Web workflows: channeling the flood
Browsing the Web is a huge part of blogger Gina Trapani's daily work routine. Here's how she keeps up with it all.
Web workflows: Keep it simple
When it comes to reading, filtering, and managing the flow of information online, Christopher Breen plays it strictly old-school.
Web workflows: Don't waste time
How do you keep up with the flood of information online? We asked some of our Web savviest contributors how they do it. First up: Joe Kissell
Six reasons desktop e-mail still rules
Did you find yourself stranded without e-mail during Tuesday's Gmail outage? Joe Kissell is here to tell you six more reasons conventional desktop e-mail programs are still better than even the best webmail.
Customize Safari's RSS interface
Tired of the way Safari presents RSS feeds? You can customize it by creating your own CSS style sheet.
Super-safe Web browsing
As a security consultant, Rich Mogull has to visit some less-than-safe quarters of the Internet. Here's how he does that without putting himself or his Mac at risk.
Five favorite Entourage tips
Ready to stop doing things the slow way in Microsoft Entourage? Joe Kissell shows his five favorite ways to boost your productivity in this popular e-mail program.
See RSS article authors in 10.5's Mail
Learn how to see the author of a given RSS article in Mail, assuming the feed includes that information.
Bugs & Fixes: Safari bug confounding Apple Support searches?
While searching through Apple's support site, Ted Landau comes across an odd error message that may be related to the recent Safari 4.0.2 update.
Create a replacement Reload button for Safari 4
Safari 4 moved the Reload button to the right side of the URL entry area. If you prefer a location on the left, this hint provides a workable alternative.
Add a Debug menu to Safari 4
Learn how to add the Debug menu to Safari 4 (and why you might want to).