Every morning Flow State emails subscribers a set of background music, mostly wordless, to soundtrack your work day. And they’re pretty good at digging up non-obvious music, some of which isn’t even available on major streaming services (though almost all of it is on YouTube).
Twitter and Facebook and news alerts all prove it: The best form of one-to-many communication is the email newsletter. The Lifehacker staff follows newsletters for morning briefings, unique takes on tech, or personal stories. These are our favourites.
Everyone who works in a creative field, or wants to, should subscribe to the monthly newsletter Three Cents. In each issue, writer and editor Manjula Martin writes three brief essays and lists some well-curated links about creative work. It's helpful for learning industry norms and expectations, and it's a great way for freelancers and work-from-home creatives to feel less isolated.
Unroll.me, the newsletter unsubscription service, was just busted selling off more data than most of us thought possible, so it goes without saying that many are dumping the service altogether. Good news though, a Google Script can unsubscribe you from a ton of emails almost just as easily.
Yesterday, The New York Times went deep into some of Uber's shady business practices. In the article, one small section revealed that one service we've talked about extensively over the years, Unroll.me, has been mining and selling off your email data, and Uber used that data to gain intelligence on Lyft.
Dear Lifehacker, I have just tried to unsubscribe from a marketing email from a business who I'd previously bought some items from in-store. However, when I clicked the unsubscribe link it automatically subscribed me to another email marketing service. Since then I have been receiving at least one spam email every 20 minutes from the new list. Is there any recourse against this business for providing a dodgy unsubscribe link?
If you're a RSS user who hates getting newsletters in your email, Kill the Newsletter is a simple little service that will kick those newsletters over to an RSS feed, so you can peruse them at your leisure.
It's almost impossible to completely block out email spam. That said, if you know who the biggest culprits are, you know a good place to start. Here are the companies that sent out the most spam emails last year.
iPhone: Unroll.me has long been one of our favourite ways to destroy spam in your inbox, and today that experience extends to the iPhone.
Keeping up to date with your favourite websites can be tough. Blogtrottr converts your favourite sites into a scheduled email newsletter that you receive as often as you want so you can stay on top of all the news.
