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Get Started with Email (7)
Just getting started with email? We'll get you ready to send your first message and read emails from your friends or even a newsletter in no time.

Calendars and Task Managers (17)
Your inbox is your task list, and firmly under the control of everybody but yourself, they say. Now, is it "your" calendar, too? Better take control — with an online calendar and task manager, for example, ideally one that integrates well with your email service or program, of course.

Free Email Accounts (795)
Everybody can get one (or more), you can access your messages or write new emails from anywhere, and it's all a whole lot of fun, too. Free web-based email accounts are great, and many of them tame the spam problem, too.

Email Programs A-Z (2012)
Does your email program have hidden capabilities that can make your email life easier and more productive, or even more fun? Learn to do more with email, your email software and your email account faster and better (and happier; and prettier).

Software Reviews (320)
For email, and for you... for your email, only the best can ever be good enough. Here's your one-stop place to find the best email clients, email servers, email tools, services and utilities, the top spam filters, stationery creators and smiley tools, as well as a lot more.

Find Email Addresses (56)
Using email is easy, but finding somebody's email address sometimes is not. Here's help for locating people and their email addresses.

Spam Stoppers (500)
Do you dread all the junk in your email Inbox? Do you remember how useful email was without spam, wishing the original, wonderful email experience could be restored? Well, take a look at these promising strategies, tools and tactics to help you understand and fight spam.

Free Stationery, Cards (1552)
Your email is your arena! Express yourself with creative stationery for Outlook and Outlook Express, enhance your messages with ingenious letters for IncrediMail, spice up your emails with witty signatures, and send lovely email greeting cards.

Security and Privacy (58)
Make sure only you and the intended recipient can read your email with encryption, stay ahead of worms and viruses, and send emails anonymously. It's all about email security, privacy and anonymity, and it's all here.

Etiquette and Productivity (132)
Either you're afraid of doing anything wrong with email — and do nothing, or you're brave to try — and do something wrong. But don't be afraid: this is only email, and these are not all the options. If you know the basic email netiquette (which is easy!) you'll communicate perfectly without offending anyone.

RSS News Feeds (198)
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom feeds are great alternatives to email newsletters. They work like newsletters by delivering the latest news to your desktop, but since you only get what you ask for, RSS feeds are a spam free way to follow blogs and newsy sites.

Instant Messaging (13)
Email is the king of communication. Its asynchronous nature gives you time to think and group building happens on the fly. But for a quick chat or game with a friend, or to get an answer fast instant messaging provides a viable, easy and fun alternative.

Email Marketing (151)
Email is a very powerful marketing tool. In spite of spammers abusing the medium, email can still be used and is still valued by users for timely, rich and enticing information and advertisements. Find the right tools and the right tips for your email marketing efforts here.

Fun Facts & Email Trivia (12)
Could you wake up to an email from outer space one day, or does the pope send electronic messages? Here's the place to find out about these and similarly breathtaking factoids (like, um, who wrote the first email, and did it say "Hoy, hoy?").

How Email Works (29)
Are you curious how emails manage to travel around the world in a few seconds? Have you always wanted to know what MIME stands for and how it helps files of all kinds hop on emails to travel with them? Here's your chance to find out how email works behind the scenes.

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