Sep 27, 2010

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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

Fall - Free Email Stationery Download and E-CardWhen 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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