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Sep 27, 2010

About Email: How to Check the Gmail Status for Issues

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How to Check the Gmail Status for Issues

Out of one train with luggage and sack, over the brightly lit platform, into another train, on the opposite side. Then back.
Out again now, with all the baggage, over the spacious new platform, into the direction of a conductor. Not the only one.
The scenes and confusion took place recently on Berlin's impressive main Hauptbahnhof train station. I watched — waiting, fortunately, for yet another train — individual travelers and small groups trying to make out announcements over the loudspeakers shuffling between the trains.
What was the issue? I don't really know. (Something to do with an ordinarily two-part train — sensibly, it must be said — split into two on neighboring but different tracks.)
Gmail issues may not be as interesting to watch, but usually you can find out what's going on. Look, over there's a conductor:
›› Is Gmail down? Does Google know about it, and when will the issue be resolved? Find out about Gmail updates on the Google Apps Status Dashboard.

Fall - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

When leaves fall, we call the season — fall, and for that very reason. Before it flutters to the ground, the foliage blushes, of course, and paints the country in beautiful colors, especially if the sky contributes some white and blue:
›› Join nature as it celebrates itself boasting colorful leaves and warm light, and share the fantastic fruits of fall with this stationery. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

What is Homer Simpson's Email Address?

When you can't talk, you drink.
This or something else makes people empty their glasses faster when the music is turned up in bars. Fortunately, hardly any music is ever heard at Moe's — or Homer would not be in a condition to tell us his email address:
›› "The Simpson" are part of pop culture, and pop culture is part of "The Simpsons". This includes email, of course. At one point, Homer even reveals his email address.

How to Block a Sender in MySpace Mail

It's just great, don't you think, in tea, chutney and ale; a tad hot and spicy perhaps, but who doesn't love ginger?
Aphids, it seems, shun the smell and will leave alone plants showered with ginger water; other gardeners are not so lucky.
In any event, it takes no ginger or repugnant smell to keep unwelcome senders' messages from your MySpace Mail inbox; scones with lemon-ginger marmalade will make blocking addresses all the more spicy fun, of course:
›› Tired of deleting every message from a certain sender? Here's how to block them entirely in MySpace Mail.

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Sep 20, 2010

About Email: Windows Live Hotmail - Push! And Sync!

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Here's to a happy synchronicity-filled week!

Heinz

Windows Live Hotmail - Push! And Sync!

Want to take your email with you and have it sync and push, too? On iPhone, Windows Mobile, Nokia Mail for Exchange and Android 2.2, Windows Live Hotmail now can do that (including seamless access to all online folders) — and synchronize your calendars and contacts, too:
›› Windows Live Hotmail is a free email service that gives you unlimited storage, fast search, solid security, POP access and an interface easy as a desktop email program.

Seaside in Fall - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

September in Finland: the trees and bogs turn so yellow, red, brown and golden overnight that the Fins have given this special season its own name: Ruska.
September in your email: it may not be Finland, but the trees and shore turn beautifully red, green, yellow and golden, too:
›› It's fall at the seaside, and it's beautiful there. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

Your Weekly IncrediMail Tip - Free E-Course

The train is punctual. This is good. A dedicated wagon carries special freight: countless metal jugs stacked with their massive handles tugged in and the colorful labels blinking as the train shrieks to a standstill.
Colorful labels? Meaningful colors are at the heart of Mumbai's dabbawalas delivery system: they guide some 200,000 jug-like lunch boxes from kitchens to office workers for their break. Every day, with nary a miss and never late.
Every week, you can get an IncrediMail tip right to your IncrediMail inbox — just in time for your break perhaps. It's not dabbawala delivery, but it should work nicely, too:
›› Get the most out of IncrediMail with tutorials delivered right to your IncrediMail inbox. The tips come in weekly doses, to nurture and amuse without overwhelming stomach or attention span.

How to Select Multiple Messages or a Range in Yahoo! Mail

Four pecks make a bushel. That's 60 pounds of wheat or a full 70 of dense corn ("in ear", as they say), but it only nets you some 30 pounds of cotton and a measly 20 of all fluffy spinach.
How many emails are in a bushel? You decide — and, with four pecks to Yahoo! Mail, grabbing them all with a hand full of fingers is easy:
›› Want to move a bunch of messages, or report as spam a bushel? Here's how to select and act on multiple messages in Yahoo! Mail.

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Sep 13, 2010

About Email: Gmail: Important Mail on Top, Phone Calls to Boot

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Here's to an elated week!

Heinz

Gmail - Important Mail on Top, Phone Calls to Boot

Important and urgent mail now comes first, if you like, in Gmail. If you don't like Gmail's initial idea of important and urgent, you can always train your Priority Inbox like the spam filter.
When it's important to convey tone, or when you feel the sudden urge to hear your daughter's voice, Google Voice integration lets you make and receive phone calls right in Gmail.
Other recent additions to Gmail include a spell checker for search (which then finds not only mail but also files from Google Docs) and keyboard shortcuts for Contacts (which you can now sort by first or last name and merge manually).
›› Gmail is the Google approach to email, chat and social networking. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail's simple but very smart interface lets you find mail precisely and see it in context without effort.

Shaped Flowers - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

Any shape and form turns up pretty in the tubes and mirror of a kaleidoscope.
Any mail and flower turns up pretty in the tubes and shape of internet email stationery, of course:
›› A sunflower and a butterfly put into shapes and artistic stationery. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

How to Have Yahoo! Mail Add New Contacts to Your Address Book Automatically

In a jiffy, a computer can only do so much: whatever fits between two ticks of its clock — which typically happen a few milliseconds apart.
Adding a new contact should be possible in a Yahoo! Mail jiffy or two, and it won't take you a jiffy at all:
›› Yahoo! Mail can build your email address book: here's how to have Yahoo! Mail add everybody you mail to your "Contacts" automatically.

How to Hide Labels from Subjects in Gmail

Hiding from a pleuronectida?
Stay left. Exit to the left.
The flounders called "right-eyed" sit on the ocean floor and their left. They have both eyes on their right side.
Now, all eyes on subject lines in Gmail, labels out of sight:
›› Huge blobs of color pushing your email's Subjects out of sight in Gmail? Here's how to remove labels from Subjects instead, and see your messages' topics again.

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