Google’s Gmail is already using https:// (secure web page technology) and has been working on encrypting all data it moves between data centers since last summer. Now, with the revelation of NSA’s spying on U.S. and citizens of other countries, both Google and Yahoo are stepping up their efforts to make sure all data in transit is secure… Read More »
This limited-time offer is available for only a couple more days. So if you have something you want to send by snail mail, a secret lover, a friend, family member or want to lash out at EB for treating TC so badly (you can send your snail mail to P.O. Box 73, Middleville, Michigan 49333-0073 and address it… Read More »
My brain isn’t good at remembering things I don’t want to remember — stuff like going to the dentist, going for an echocardiogram, cutting my toenails, applying for welfare, going down to pick up this month’s food stamps (thanks for the raise, EB), going to the grocery store…which leads me to forget stuff I think of a week… Read More »
How many newsletters do you get you wish you didn’t? And how many times do you have to unsubscribe from a newsletter until you are finally unsubscribed? I reference Land’s End. I once bought something from that site and stupidly agreed to subscribe to their newsletter. After trying to unsubscribe from their sometimes many-a-day “newsletters” I finally gave… Read More »
Mailbird Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 Works on 32bit and 64bit Windows 1.1MB executable A desktop email client made just for Gmail BETA VERSION – You can use one Gmail account with it We have used a lot of email programs and we’ve tested a lot more than we’d like to admit. We… Read More »
This has nothing to do with the news media’s over-reaction to Google’s lawyers’ unfortunate use of the phrase “no expectation of privacy”, although it does remind us to remind you that email is a very insecure form of communication. But if you encrypt email, someone has to decrypt it to read it. Most encryption programs are arcane and… Read More »