Random thoughts and observations
My Yahoo Mail account was hacked this morning. It’s the first time an email account of mine has been compromised anywhere anytime.
I discovered the breach when I received an email from myself (via the ymail address) to my Gmail account.
The email contained a link to a site, which I never followed and immediately deleted.
As mentioned in the previous post, I now own and use the gorey.me domain. I currently have a photo gallery hosted there and I’m using it for personalised Windows email.
I’ve been really impressed with the new web-based Outlook mail. It’s a great improvement on Hotmail, which I never really used, although I have a dormant @live.com email address.
I’ve now created the email address michael@gorey.me linked to Windows services including Skydrive.
I’ve added three new Gmail Labs features to my Gmail account. They are: Default Text Styling: This enables a user to change the default font and text size. Got the wrong Bob? “Doh, have you ever addressed an email too quickly, and included Bob (your boss) instead of Bob (your friend) by accident? If you’re [...]
I’m sick of receiving spam emails claiming to be from the Commonwealth Bank. They have been flooding my ymail address for weeks and now they’re infiltrating my Google hosted email as well. I’m not even a customer of the Commonwealth Bank. But every message needs to be read and marked as spam, which wastes time [...]
I’ve picked up mgorey user names with Yahoo! and Windows Live to replace goreymedia and mjgorey (hotmail) respectively. That means my user name is now mgorey across all the major messaging services: Gmail, Yahoo (ymail), Skype and MSN (live). Full contact list here. I’m also experimenting with Nimbuzz, which aggregates IM accounts and makes them [...]
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