Oct 25, 2010

About Email: Use Drafts as Message Templates in Yahoo! Mail

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How to Use Drafts as Message Templates in Yahoo! Mail

"Beat them together and strain them all," says the recipe, "into a posnet [a skillet or small pot] setting upon the fire and stirring it." After dealing with the egg yolks in that manner and letting them hang in a kitchen cloth, you're ready to add rosewater and sugar to taste for yellow buttered eggs.
The recipe from 1596 works for white butter — using the egg whites in place of the yolks — just as fine.
Speaking of recipes, let's see if email drafts work as templates just as fine, adding sugar and roses here and there for individual flavor:
›› Don't care to type the same message text again and again? Here's how to use Yahoo! Mail drafts like message templates and start oft composed emails with subjects, body text or recipients already filled in.


Skull & Crossbones - Free IncrediMail Letter and E-Card

Skull & Crossbones - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-CardIt leads an ugly group of four; the sole comment it stirs is "poison"; its number is 9,760; it is the Unicode character U+2620 — skull and crossbones: ☠.
Halloween emails do not need Unicode, of course, or special fonts to stir scares with skulls and crossed bones:
›› Turn away evil spirits with a skull and crossbones, or just have some Halloween fun with this IncrediMail letter. (IncrediMail)


SpamSieve 2.8 - Mac Spam Filtering Galore, Now for Outlook and Postbox, Too

SpamSieve - Spam FilterSpamSieve, the exceedingly exact desktop spam filter that keeps literal logs and shows you striking statistics if you want is now effortlessly easy to use in Postbox and Outlook, too, with a new plug-in and fresh AppleScript scripts respectively:
›› SpamSieve adds superior, easy to use Bayesian spam filtering to Mac OS X email clients. (Mac)


How to Insert Text Snippets Fast with Shortcuts in Mac OS X Mail

Take your legs off the ground, and you'll be faster.
In the 1860, odd wooden running machines invented some 20 years earlier were all the rage in France and Germany. These bicycles, equipped with pedals to turn the front wheel, allowed riders to take their feet off the ground — and move much faster.
Appropriately, the pedal bicycle was called velocipede, literally "speedy-foot". Now, how about a velocimane, Mac OS X Mail "speedy-hand"?
Take your hands off the keyboard earlier, and you'll be faster:
›› Don't type, at least not everything. Let type instead, with automatically expanding text snippets in Mac OS X Mail.


 


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