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The latest Gmail Labs offering does something that Greasemonkey hackers (and our own Better Gmail extension ) have long found useful—hide label tags from the inbox, freeing up more screen space for subject lines and message previews. Head to the Labs section of Gmail’s settings and enable “Remove Labels from Subjects” to clear out label tags on messages. They’ll still show up on the actual message page/permalink, but for those with smaller screens like netbooks or tablets, or anyone who just wants more space for skimming the first bit of text from each message, it’s a nice binary switch.

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Yahoo just published a blog post confirming yesterday’s reports that it plans to buy Xoopit, the startup that adds social and media-sharing tools to email .

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Comedy Central’s Reno 911! Season 6 in Stores 7/7! Uploaded by wiredset .

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With the flood of “Hello my dear” and “YOU ARE WINNER” emails in my inbox every morning, I’m actually beginning to tire of the never-ending variety presented by spam. But it’s mail like this that renews my faith in the bots and non-native speakers variating these strange messages. The best part is trying to figure out how the scam works; it’s not your usual phishing or Spanish Prisoner scheme.

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Many of us subscribe to the inbox zero philosophy of a productive inbox, but if inbox zero has never jelled for you, NYT tech guru David Pogue suggests treating your inbox as a to-do list instead. Photo by JasonRogersFooDogGiraffeBee . Responding to a reader’s request for tips, David decided to share his personal productivity habits, including his positive experience ditching the “empty your inbox daily” philosophy, instead treating his inbox as a to-do list.

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Many of us subscribe to the inbox zero philosophy of a productive inbox, but if inbox zero has never jelled for you, NYT tech guru David Pogue suggests treating your inbox as a to-do list instead. Photo by JasonRogersFooDogGiraffeBee . Responding to a reader’s request for tips, David decided to share his personal productivity habits, including his positive experience ditching the “empty your inbox daily” philosophy, instead treating his inbox as a to-do list

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Paint isn’t cheap. Avoid being stuck with nearly full paint buckets with a calculator that figures just how much paint you need

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Yahoo’s email service rolled out an interesting new feature today that filters your inbox to show only emails from contacts or “connections” to help you get to your most important emails first. The new filtering features appear in a View From bar right above your inbox. When you view messages from contacts, Yahoo Mail will display emails only from people you’ve manually added to your contact list.

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You spend minutes crafting the perfect comment for each post, but we don’t give you any heads up when someone replies @you.

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So often, writing an email involves opening a new tab to look up something, copying the link, then heading back to paste it. Gmail’s latest Labs feature consolidates that process with pop-up Google searches.

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