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Gmail Can Now Stop Auto-Saving Contacts, Fixes Other Small-But-Crucial Things

10:40PM April 7, 2011 | Kevin Purdy

By default, Gmail automatically saves the details of people you reach out to. That’s handy when looking up an old friend, not so handy when trying to tame your unruly Google Contacts. Now Gmail offers an option to get out of contact auto-saving, along with some other little-but-gratifying fixes. More »


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A Constant Barrage Of Agonising Digital Noise: Is Your Life Like This?

3:20PM November 18, 2010 | Sam Biddle

What better occasion than National UnFriend Day to reflect on the dump truck of digital noise poured on us daily? It’s worse than phony friends. Updates! Likes! Retweets! Do you feel frazzled? This well-executed video sums it up disconcertingly well. More »


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Yahoo! Mail Gets An Upgrade

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3:00PM December 17, 2008 | Nick Broughall

If any of you out there use Yahoo! Mail, you might have noticed some changes to your account yesterday. Essentially they’ve introduced a smarter inbox system that prioritises messages from your contacts, plus the ability to send and receive up to 1GB worth of files. They’re also planning to introduce the ability to feed content from social media sites directly into your inbox… More »