Several posts have made the round in the last weeks that explained how a specific webmail service could be selected as the default client when the user would click on a mailto link on a website. One article that can be seen as an example would be my How To Make Gmail The Default Mail [...]

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When I starting using Gmail I was surprised that the service would not make use of a secure connection between my computer and the service which was a pressing matter because I was using several other Google services that were requiring https to connect. It felt strange and out of place that Gmail did not [...]

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The email client Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 has been released just a few hours ago and is now available for download on the official Get Thunderbird website but also through automatic updates in the mail client. I had to manually selected Help > Check for Updates to install the new version this way but most users will [...]

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I just realized this the other day, social sites send an awful lot of “quasi-junk” mail to inboxes around the world. This person wants to share a video with me, that person commented on my video, someone sent me a shout on Digg, someone wants to add me as a StumbleUpon friend, XXYY is following [...]

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You might have already read it elsewhere that it is possible to reveal the real name of any Gmail user by sharing a calendar in Google Calendar with him. Let me explain how this is done. Google Calendar can be loaded in the header area of Gmail after logging in. A click on settings will [...]

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