Email Overload

Emails and your inbox can sometimes need spring cleaning. Let's face it: You're not sitting on 1,000 unread emails because you're popular. You're probably subscribed to a dozen useless mailing lists that send you multiple emails a day, or you have the same email threads popping up again and again. One of the best things to do is first of all unsubscribe to those emails which are never going to read and are completely irrelevant to you. Secondly, there is a feature that allows you to mute any Gmail conversation that you are not taking a part in. Stars offer a speedy way to highlight important emails. The default is a yellow star icon. If there are still a ton of emails that you can't filter but are distracting you from what you really need to focus on, try changing up the layout of your inbox. Gmail has a couple options to suit different needs thanks to some some great app development. Now if only these filters and tricks existed in internet fax services.

Constantly Connected Yet Alone

The idea that technology is encouraging us to retreat from the real world, even as we connect elsewhere, does not seem so far-fetched. After all, you can get just about anything from your couch these days, including music and spiritual guidance. All you need is a smartphone and mobile applications. There is no denying that today’s technology-powered hyper-convenience can be a wonderful thing. One of the paradoxes of technology is that it connects us and isolates us at the same time. We get more, faster, but cannot help wondering if that is always better. We have more to read and more to watch, more to learn and more to transact, more friends and more followers — and yet we can somehow feel less satisfied. If you can do everything from your couch and your home, who is to say that in the future that we might not ever leave home? Just as McLuhan said in the previous generation that technology is changing the way we communicate and interact, the stage is changing again. Where do you think that we are headed?