E-mail “chain letters” are a plague to e-mail users because they waste time and can cause unnecessary panic. The truth is that they are almost universally hoaxes. By applying a little bit of knowledge and common sense, you can know for sure. Here are some telltale signs of an e-mail hoax. They all reference an […]
Time is a valuable commodity among busy entrepreneurs. Spam, the Internet’s equivalent of junk mail, steals time and resources that could be spent selling your product or expanding your client base. Since the anti-spam mechanisms work differently in each e-mail program, I’ve outlined how to do this for a number of popular e-mail programs below. […]
Question: I’ve never seen a comprehensive article about how to “open” a photograph sent by e-mail. My computer tells me I don’t have imagevw.exe and therefore can’t open a .jpg file. What is the best way to deal with photographs generally? Answer: There are a few ways to handle pictures received by e-mail, and there […]
Unsolicited e-mail, known as spam, drives everyone nuts, except perhaps the people who profit from it. Here’s a series of helpful questions and answers that can help you remove spam from your inbox, or at least minimize it. Please scroll down to the bottom to see all the Q&As. Question: What is spam? Answer: Spam […]
Get the latest version of Microsoft Office 2007. Question: I am headed out of town and I want to set up an auto-reply on my home computer, to tell people I am away and that I’ll be back on a certain date. I use Outlook 2002 (Office XP) and have a cable modem connection to […]