In a previous post I described how to add a plain text signature to your emails. That’s fine if you only want a very simple signature.  But what about if you want to put colour, emphasis or links in your signature?  That’s possible too – but it does require a little more work. A word […]

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Very useful and used extensively by experts, Mail Filters aren’t often set up by novices, but Thunderbird makes them really easy to use. Why would you want to use Mail Filters? There are many reasons you might want to filter messages – have a folder for emails from family, or important emails, or unimportant emails […]

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I’m not a fan of MSN Messenger, and I usually remove it from any computer I am working on.  To find out why have a look at IM Botnet Infects Thousands Of PCs or try an internet search for “msn messenger security”. It’s also disconcerting that this non-essential program is virtually impossible to remove from […]

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Add a signature to your outgoing emails to save having to type the same thing over and over. If you use Mozilla Thunderbird there’s a built-in signature feature: You can have a plain text signature very easily. To have a plain text signature: Create a text file e.g. signature.txt and save it somewhere on your […]

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When you send an email to lots of people, and put all of their addresses either in the “To:” or “Cc:” field of your email client, you send everyone’s email address to everyone you send the email to. This is at best bad manners, and at worst a serious breach of privacy – they may […]

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There are many benefits of “Housekeeping” (in computer terms 😉 ) some are technical, some are time-saving. A few minutes each week sorting out your files will reduce the amount of time you need to think about “where did I save that file/picture” etc. If you save your all your files to your computer hard […]

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It really isn’t possible to over stress the importance of backing up your data. If you are only saving your documents to one place e.g.”My Documents” then you need to do something about it now! There are too many ways of losing your data to list them all, but some are: User error – accidentally […]

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