Grandparents who never worked on computers have had to learn how to use email to communicate with children and grandchildren. Before you even begin to use email, there are some things that you need to know. Some are safety tips, and others are just helpful hints about handling different email functions. What follow are ten important tips for grandparents.

This is it. This is our final article on the White House email controversy (barring any new news from Washington, of course). It seems only fitting then, that we began our series with the question "Where have all the emails gone?" and we end this series with the questions that, in the main, remain to be answered.

Do you have to manage projects? If you do, you understand the complexity — and the stress. Michelle LaBrosse, a project manager with 20 years of experience, shows us how five simple tools can help make things much easier.

For those of us who do only travel occasionally, justifying a BlackBerry or other device to check email is a stretch. This article discusses a few ways you can have your email, but save some money at the same time.

In this critical article, we provide our final analysis of our investigation into White House email. We make a series of six important recommendations. This is the article you need to read if you want this problem to be fixed.

We started this investigation asking the same question Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative Henry Waxman asked: where have all the emails gone? However, after five months of very in-depth research, we’ve come to the conclusion that the missing email messages are the least of our concerns. In this critical article, we provide our analysis of the priorities that need to be considered. We look at the root causes for the problems with White House email and lay the groundwork for what will be our final recommendations.

If you’re like Contributing Editor Bill Mann, you spend much of your day in Outlook. Wouldn’t it be nice to spend less time there, and more time doing other stuff, maybe even spending some time away from the computer? Bill can’t guarantee you a specific result (despite the title of this article), but if you take advantage of the five techniques he describes here, you will save significant time in Outlook every day.

Do you use multiple computers regularly for email with Microsoft Outlook? If you do, you may have found yourself requiring information from an email message downloaded to Outlook on another computer that you didn’t receive on the computer on which you are working. This article will explain how you can configure Outlook so that your email messages are all downloaded simultaneously onto each computer you’re using.

As Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz dug deeper into how the White House manages email, knowing what he does about how email works, the tiny little hairs on the back of his neck started to stand up. As he started to think about the implications from the perspective of our country’s security, he realized this was no longer simply about some missing email messages. Unchecked, some really, really bad things could happen. Prepare to be freaked out.

It may seem that our story of the controversy over White House email is unique to the George W. Bush White House. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, controversy over how the White House uses email dates back almost as far as email’s very existence. In this fascinating (and slightly disturbing) article, we take you through White House email and the White House’s attempts to hide email records for the past 25 years.