A reader recently asked me how they could use aliases in Outlook.com to create an anonymous email account. My answer was simple: you really can’t. Microsoft’s implementation of aliases is not designed ...

Get this: More than 300 billion emails are sent and received every day. Gmail is, of course, one of the biggest providers out there. If you’re a Google user, make sure your account is secure. Your ...

It used to be that people looking for how to hide an email address would have been thinking about how to keep an email distribution list from being shared – and the easy answer to that question was to ...

Now that we taught you how to prevent companies from spying on your email with invisible images, it's time to learn another handy trick that can improve your privacy. This time, we're looking at a ...

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Apple's iCloud cloud storage service is easy to use and packed with useful features. Even though it doesn't compete with Google in terms of free storage space (5GB vs. 15GB), it never hurts to have a ...

Have you ever shopped at an online store once, and then found yourself dealing with a constant influx of marketing spam emails for weeks and even months? Virtually every online service wants me to ...

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