Gmail users who envy Outlook's SkyDrive integration will find that the proverbial grass is now a little greener on their side, thanks to fresh features in Attachments.me's Chrome and Firefox browser extensions. With the plugin installed, files residing in Microsoft's cloud service can be attached to emails from within Gmail. Also included in the update is support for user-created rules that can direct attachments to SkyDrive as they flood into inboxes.
If you’d like to add SkyDrive to an existing account, you can click on our menu at the top right of Gmail, and click on ‘Manage account’, then
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Freelancers are a huge part of the workforce, with 42 million in the U.S. alone. And as one-man (or more commonly, woman) operations, they typically have to manage everything from accounting to sales to operations. So we’ve been extra-curious: What are the most popular apps used by freelancers? Below is an infographic showing the top 25 based on data from nearly 100 freelancers on BestVendor.
It includes some newer apps that seem to be trending among freelancers, such as Harvest, Expensify, and Remember the Milk. Freelancers are all about the cloud. Not one piece of desktop software made the
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Yahoo Mail-subscribing-households use 11% more electricity per year than Gmail households, a recent study by Opower found. That adds up to nearly a whole extra month of electricity, about an extra $110 per year.
Opower looked at the correlation between email address and electricity usage across 2.8 million American households. Of those, we focused on Yahoo Mail and Gmail because they were the most popular domains in our dataset. The email addresses correspond to the member of the household who manages the electricity bill.
Realize that Yahoo has had a rough stretch lately:
- 2 CEOs fired within 8 months
- 14%
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15 companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal joined forces on a “technical working group” to jointly work on a standard for blocking phishing e-mails by verifying that they come from legitimate companies. It seems obvious that trusted, legitimate companies could come together to do this, but it’s only started happening in the last 18 months.
What is DMARC Work?
DMARC.org – or the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance – is a new white-list system will be available for use across the Internet. DMARC standardizes how email receivers perform email authentication using the well-known SPF and DKIM mechanisms. This means that
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1. Using Outlook, Nokia PC Suite and iTunes
#1 Make sure you have installed iTune, Microsoft Outlook and Nokia PC suite.
#2 Connect your Nokia Phone to your computer using data cable/bluetooth/wi-fi.
#3 Open Nokia PC Suite, connect it with your phone to synchronize the contact with your Outlook which will transfer all your phone contact to Outlook.
#4 Go to Sync -> Sync Options -> Contacts and select the option “Microsoft Outlook” under the section “Syn with contacts application”
#5 Click on OK in this window.
#6 Now, click on ‘Sync’ button for contacts in the Ovi application home. This synchronises the contacts from your
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According to Experian Hitwise “Facebook” was the most-searched term of 2011. This was the third year in a row that Facebook topped the list. The company’s name accounted for 3.1% of all searches in 2011, a 46% jump over last year, the researcher reports. However, if you take into account four variations of Facebook — Facebook, Facebook.com, Facebook Login and www.facebook.com — the social networking giant’s share of the top 50 searches was 3.48%, an increase of 33%.
The four terms also appeared in the top 10:
#1. Facebook
#2. YouTube
#3. Facebook Login
#4. Craigslist
#5. Facebook.com
#6. Yahoo
#7. eBay
#8. www.facebook.com
#9. Mapquest
#10. Yahoo.com
Looking at the
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Brainchild of Shay Rojansky, Limor Schweitzer and Roberto Varela BrandMyMail a new web-based platform for customizing your email messages using social media. The service is designed mainly for businesses, but can be used by anyone who wants to spice up their email with real-time content, including Twitter feeds, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, blog posts from WordPress and Tumblr, Quora posts, eBay listings and more. Embed signatures, blog posts, Facebook and Twitter updates, pictures, videos and more in your emails, send beautiful, rich emails for business or fun, directly from your Gmail account.
BrandMyMail is a service that stands between you and
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Google offers 2-step login verification for Gmail accounts. The feature has been around a while, and now Google has written a reminder for all users who need an extra layer of security for their Gmail account and other services connected to it. The Two step verification process is a feature of Gmail that allows you to add an extra layer of security to your email account. If you enable the two step verification, whenever you check into a Google account from a new place such as a new browser or a mobile phone, you will have to enter a security
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Real-time email marketing company founded by Vivek Sharma and Michael Nutt, Movable Ink recently launched a service that could dynamically change emails after they have been sent out. The technology can change emails based on time of open, recipient’s current location, social cues, fast-moving inventory, and more, and works across all email clients (Gmail, Outlook, iPhone, Yahoo, etc) says Leena Rao
Movable Ink creates a live container that can live inside emails, letting companies share current and relevant information from their websites with users based on time, location, social context and what kind of device they’re using. That allows emails
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Dispatch is setting out to become a sort of Finder (or Windows Explorer) for the cloud. You enter your credentials for the various services you use online — Dropbox, Facebook, Gmail, Google Docs and so on — and it lets you browse through the files stored on each service from a single dashboard. You can view these files in a preview window, download them, or move them around between services by dragging and dropping files from one service’s folder into another.
Dispatch.io was created at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon 2011. It was created by a team of three, including 17
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