How relevant and effective is email?

Yesterday fellow blogger Tina Su published 15 tips to writing an effective email. Tina is a very talented writer and I suggest you follow her blog, but that’s beside the point. The title alone got me thinking about email and how I use it to interact with other people. The realization is that I [...]

What if Gmail shuts down?

For more then seven years now I have been using email hosted through one of my domain names, if not several. I made the move for several reasons, one of which was when I started photography on a more serious level; having a Hotmail account didn’t seem so professional. I enjoyed a spam [...]

Notice to bulk e-mailers and spammers

Browsing through a website the other day I found something rather interesting in the footer

Notice to Bulk E-mailers or Spammers
Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, p.227 and Pursuant to Can-Spam Act of 2003….any and all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to any server managed by or owned by davephillipsmusic.com is subject to [...]

Firefox add-on: Gmail Space

If you are not already using Firefox, get it, simple as that. The Gmail Space extension will load into your status bar and allow you to easily upload files to your Gmail account. With nearly 3GB of storage space, I find myself uploading common things I may need at home, work, and at friend’s houses, [...]

Tips to not getting busted surfing the internet at work

There are reports online that your average company worker wastes around 1.15 hours per day, a good chunk of which is surfing the internet. This is costing companies millions of dollars per year. If you are going to do it though, don�t get caught! Lifehacker has a great article out today on [...]