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Tag Archives: E-Mail
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

So the Uni have now begun rolling out readingLive (a rebrand of Live@edu) to all students, so once mine was activated this evening I proceeded to update my Gmail settings (as described in my previous post on how to make University e-mail usable) and ran into a whole stack of problems. I would go so [...]

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Monday, March 22nd, 2010

You may have seen my recent rant about the University of Reading’s e-mail software. I got so fed up, in fact, that I decided to do something about it. That something was to “migrate” my University e-mail to Google Mail. With a release a few months ago, Google gave Mail the complete toolset you need [...]

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Friday, March 19th, 2010

One thing I see appearing on Twitter a lot is people striving for #InboxZero – i.e. to have no e-mails unread in their Inbox. Seeing as I get presumably considerably less e-mail than these other much more important people, I see that as having a completely clear Inbox. (I use my Inbox as a todo [...]

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Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I was always under the impression that part of the point of University was to help get people ready to go out into the real world and make a contribution to society. I can’t help but thinking that the University is trying to not help us in its use of mail software. “Prayer” (the name [...]

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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Since the recent arrival of my Nexus One, I decided it would be a great idea to move all the e-mail for my website over to Google Apps. This enables all the snazzy benefits of the Nexus One, without the polling required to read IMAP mail accounts. Unfortunately my Uni e-mail will still have to [...]

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