This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Google’s Gmail. Gmail, launched in March 2004, has grown to be one of the most-used free e-mail services on the internet. While it doesn’t have a large of a userbase as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, it’s still a force to be...

One tip I recently became aware of was that unplugging chargers (i.e. cell phones) when not in use can save a good bit of power. When you think about it, this really makes sense. Because the charger typically has a power converter on it which converts the wall current into what the device needs, whenever the charger is plugged in the current is being converted,...