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Nov 29, 2010

About Email: Add Bcc Recipients in Windows Live Mail

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How to Add Bcc Recipients in Windows Live Mail

If you don't have the special tincture handy, a pinch of sugar in your normal writing ink should do. Now, put the freshly finished form in James Watt's machine, lay a sheet of damp paper on top, close the press and turn the screw.
Screw presses churned out facsimiles of written letters with growing popularity in the 19th century. Bcc, now, churns out copies, too, without screws and blindly even:
›› Send a copy to somebody but hide their address from all other recipients? In Windows Live Mail, this is easy using Bcc:.

Menorah Windowsills - Free Hanukkah IM Letter and E-Card

The oil was there, but it was tainted.
Cask over cask of olive oil was found — and found unfit for the menorah in the Temple of Jerusalem. Finally, the Maccabees discovered a pristine vat of purified oil — enough to last a day, perhaps a few hours more.
Processing new oil would take about a week. The Jews lit the seven-branched candelabrum and set to producing purified oil. After a day, the closely watched flames did not fade or falter. A few hours later, they were still burning, and continued to burn until the new oil was ready.
The oil for one day had lasted eight. In reminiscence, the chanukiah has eight candles for the eight days of Hanukkah:
›› The chanukiah, lit on many a windowsill and in your email, spreads Hanukkah cheer. (IncrediMail)

How to Change the Default Mail Font in AIM Mail or AOL Mail

At any lake in summer — and sometimes winter, too — you can witness what I'm observing now: people bike, drive, walk and hike in groups and pairs, sometimes alone, from far and near, from city, village, town and farm to jump, slide, run and fling into us humans' other default element, the water.
Speaking of walking and defaults, you can spare yourself going around in circles with your mouse a lot in AIM Mail and AOL Mail with different defaults:
›› Don't want to use Arial for all email purposes? Increase the font size every time you start a new message? Here's how to change the default font face, size and color in AIM Mail and AOL Mail.

Email Archiver 1.0 - Saves OS X Mail Emails as PDFs

Documents bustling from computer to computer, from software to software maybe and certainly from person to person to printer: before Adobe's nascent portable document format became known as Acrobat, it was called Carousel.
Let's spin that wheel a tad further, from email to Carousel to PDF:
›› Email Archiver saves messages from Mac OS X Mail as PDF files including all layout, headers and attachments. (Mac)

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Nov 22, 2010

About Email: Find the Emails to Delete, a New View on Outlook

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Find Big Mail - Finds The Emails You Need to Delete in Gmail

Swap the old small disk, in place, for a new big one. You've just expanded your storage; no configuration, no copying, no downtime.
Drobo and FreeNAS with ZFS, for instance, let you add more space while your machine keeps running — just like Gmail lets you add more storage while the mail keeps coming.
You mean you've still got room aplenty in your account? Find Big Mail will, I guess, find big mail for you to fill All Mail. Or not?
›› Find Big Mail labels the big emails in your Gmail account, and the ultra big, too, so you can reclaim space more effectively.

Simple Things - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

You give one. You get one. You give one. You get one. You give one. You...
Gift giving is not easily ended — and that's good, argues Margaret Visser, in a culture that abandons furiously, fast.
Now, it's simple: you send one...
›› Simply nice Thanksgiving greetings. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

NEO Pro 5.0 - Alternative Outlook View with Ribbons, Notes

NEO Pro, a more productive view on your Outlook emails, now comes with a more Outlook-like view — a ribbon interface. If you prefer, you can switch to familiar toolbars, though.
Also new to Nelson Email Organizer Pro 5.0 are notes you can stick to any email message and easier access to threads, which now let you act on all messages in a conversation with one stroke to delete, file or categorize in bulk, for instance.
›› Nelson Email Organizer helps you handle email better in less time with Outlook. (Windows)

How to Download Attachments from Windows Live Hotmail

1055 years of Blu-ray video: that's 108 petabytes of data, just the amount Windows Live Hotmail stored for all its users about a year ago in attachments alone.
Today, chances are their disks hold even more. If some of that data is yours, keep it there — and download it, too:
›› When you receive files attached to emails in Windows Live Hotmail, you can downoad them easily one by one — or all in one go zipped up and compressed.

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Nov 15, 2010

About Email: EmailTray - Spots Important Mail in All Accounts

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EmailTray 2.0 - Wants to Notify You of Important Mail

Every step a balancing act: for a food tray to rest safely on its carrying hand, the mass center of all the tumblers, beer steins, plates and saucières must be just over that hand. It's best to start loading from the center, then, and possibly with something heavy.
All those Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, POP and IMAP accounts are quite something to balance, too. It's probably best to start unloading with the most important emails on the EmailTray:
›› EmailTray checks and unifies all your email accounts, tries, in some way, to spot the important messages and lets you know about just these. (Windows)

Pumpkin and Apples - Free Email Stationery and E-Card

At the bottom go some "sharp" apples. At top, you'll have butter, raisins, currants, sugar and sack as well as fried pumpkin covered in eggs and herbs. Voilà Hannah Wolley's Pumpion Pie from 1670.
Pumpkins and apples? Voilà:
›› Send warm and friendly Thanksgiving emails with a pumpkin, many apples and even more lovely colors. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

How to Sign Out of Gmail Remotely

A small, black boat with three masts made its rounds through a pool inside the Madison Square Garden in 1898 without sails.
The masts are blinking in contemporary illustrations, to the backdrop of a triumphant Nikola Tesla turning knobs to steer the vessel — via radio waves. Now, from the first demonstration of a remotely controlled vehicle to controlling Gmail on a distant computer — via radio waves, copper, optical fiber and what not:
›› Not sure if you signed out of Gmail when you left your aunt's house or the Internet café? Not to worry: open Gmail where you now are and sign out remotely.

How to Use Yahoo! Mail or Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows Live Hotmail

R starts a reply, F forwards, and N opens the next message: Elm (from electronic mail) was one of the first popular email programs in the 1980s that came with their own interface and keyboard commands.
Today, we move mouses and tap screens, of course, but keyboard shortcuts are still wildly productive. In Windows Live Hotmail, you can have R, F and N command what they did in Elm by choosing Gmail shortcuts, for example, or have it behave more like Yahoo! Mail:
›› Love to operate Windows Live Hotmail using swift keyboard shortcuts but wish they'd not rely so much on key combinations dear to Windows users but foreign to you? Here's how to enable some Yahoo! Mail or Gmail shortcuts for Windows Live Hotmail.

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