If you’re a typical business, then maybe lazy is a little unfair on you. Let’s re-phrase that.
The headlines of today are screaming at you to tighten your belt. You want to cut costs, but you want absolutely no hassle whatsoever. You’re not lazy, you’re just too busy.
Let’s take someone who is incredibly busy. Nigel [...]

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Following a request from Andrew, a client and tips subscriber, I thought I’d run through how to block mail from certain senders.
Andrew asked:
“Can I block mail from selected addresses ie from junk mail sources that send mail regularly?”
The answer if a few clicks and few seconds of your time.
Simply select an email you want to [...]

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Do you ever get a “PDF” attachment to an email?
It could be a brochure, letter or even an invoice.
Think the person who sent it was some geeky whizz-kid? Wrong. If you know how to print a letter, you can be quickly producing PDFs yourself.
There are expensive pieces of software out there. But as I know [...]

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You either don’t know what I’m talking about. Or you do, because you used to get our IT Tips.
Either way, I’d really love it if you could tell me what gets on your nerves. You see I’m writing the next batch of tips. And instead of me deciding, why don’t you help me help you?
In [...]

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Your email inbox can be your friend and enemy all at the same time.
Even when you’re not there, it keeps filling up.
There’s ‘helpful’ colleagues who use the c.c. field a little bit too much.
There’s irrelevant junk which increasingly gets past the filters you have.
Now At The Risk Of Stopping You Reading, I’m Going To Repeat [...]

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