Dec 27, 2010

About Email: Gmail - Delegate Your Mail, Restore Your Contacts

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Here's to a restorative week — and a marvelous 2011!

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Gmail - Delegate Your Mail, Restore Your Contacts

Gmail (Google Mail) - Free Email ServiceYour Gmail account is not just for yourself; it is, e.g., for your assistant, too: Gmail now makes it easy and password-less to grant others access to your mail. You cannot restrict the access in any way (to certain labels, say, or known contacts), but you shouldn't do that anyway.
Speaking of contacts: it is now also easy and painless to restore your entire Gmail address book to a previous state (from the last 30 days).
Back at the inbox, recently used smileys are easier to spot, and you can find out what made Gmail mark a certain piece of mail important for Priority Inbox, too — on the desktop. An updated Gmail app for Android now displays Priority Inbox's markers, though, and can notify you only of important mail.
For slightly less important threads, muting works more effectively.
›› 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.


Happy New Year Glitter - Free Email Stationery and E-Card

Happy New Year Glitter - Free Email Stationery Download and E-CardHard, hot and headed in all directions: when metals collide, the sparks do fly, tiny pieces of glowing alloy scraped and heated by friction.
That's why the font in this stationery has been welded from "4130" steel beams with round holes. Where they meet, the sparks fly for New Year's Eve:
›› Send wishes for a happy new year that are at the same time glittering, festive and silent. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)


Change the Default Compose Font Face and Color in Gmail

Microsoft has a new campus, about a mile (1.6 km) away. Employees want to get to Red West from the main campus, of course, fast and efficiently. One asks on a mailing list: "can you make a trebuchet that could launch a person to the new consumer campus? Mathematically is it possible and how?"
Vincent Connare, not yet an engineer of trebuchets, learns about the challenge — and he has something almost ready. A new, unique font easily legible on a screen; a font sans serifs but with identifiable character; a new font that "launches words across the Internet", Connare thinks, and calls his new typeface "Trebuchet".
Now, how about launching that very font into your every Gmail email — by default?
›› Make blue the new black and Garamond the new Arial: here's how to change the default typeface, font color, size and style for new messages you compose in Gmail.


How to Search Mail in Mozilla Thunderbird

Left. Right. Left. Right. Left.
A dog following a trace does not stay on track. It wags its snout and nose instead, proceeding in a zigzag motion.
In this manner, a sharp turn in the scent's trail cannot fool the dog. Spending much time beside the trace keeps the nose sensitive to the smell, too.
Now, how do you imagine Mozilla Thunderbird going after a message's trail when you search for it? Zigzags, hashes or tabus, the results come as fast as a thrown stick:
›› Looking for old mail or a recent message from a certain contact? Let Mozilla Thunderbird help with near-instant and flexible search results.


 


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Dec 20, 2010

About Email: Postbox - Better Replies

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Postbox 2.1 - Better Replies

Postbox - Email ProgramIf you despise what ordinarily passes for quoting previous messages in replies (or when forwarding), Postbox's latest version is intent on easing your pain: instead of including whatever is in the message to which you reply, Postbox can include a neat summary of the conversation so far drawn directly from the original emails.
Quick replies (without the summarizing quotation) can now default to Reply All, and a toolbar buttons lets you toggle between Reply and Reply All in regular replies, too.
›› Postbox is a mighty polished Mozilla Thunderbird that brings together fast and ubiquitous search, the powerful Mozilla Thunderbird email underpinnings and conveniences such as a conversation view and some social network integration. (Windows, Mac)


How to Remove Duplicate Contacts from Yahoo! Mail

If you had a pig — chances are you owned one in a medieval village or town —, would you let it roam the streets and maybe the nearby forest, too?
Of course you would; you'd also watch everyone throw leftovers and litter on the streets, after all. The pigs, then, fed themselves and cleaned up garbage, too.
Now, watching Yahoo! Mail throw duplicate contacts around, would you let it loose to clean up that garbage? Of course you would:
›› Get your Yahoo! Mail contacts in pristine condition by removing and consolidating duplicate entries without much effort.


Merry Olde-Fashioned Christmas - Free IM Letter, E-Card

Merry Olde-Fashioned Christmas - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-CardYe olde fashion to write "ye" is "þe", itself a young manner, of course, to write the Germanic rune Thurisaz. Thurisaz, þ and y are all pronounced like th.
Now, "ye" a handy abbreviation of the, here's a speedy shortcut to ye Christmas fun of olde:
›› Spread happiness with this lovely Victorian Christmas letter. (IncrediMail)


Set Up Multiple From Addresses with an iPhone Mail Account

Not far to Rome's northwest, steep stairs lead down a tomb. Inside, some 2,500 year old paintings show people honoring the dead: runners and wrestlers and two curious figures playing cruel pranks behind beastly masks.
Inscriptions name the pranksters "phersu" — one of the few words from the Etruscan times to which the Tarquinian tombs belong that made it into Latin. "Persona" meant the mask, of course, on stage, the role in theater and eventually a person and their personality.
Speaking of roles, how many phersu do you want to wear in iPhone Mail?
›› Want to send mail using more than one address but avoid setting up multiple accounts in iPhone Mail? Here's how to set up multiple From: addresses for a single email account in iPhone Mail.


 


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Dec 13, 2010

About Email: After the Wait, Really Fast Gmail Search

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CloudMagic 1.22 - After the Wait, Really Fast Gmail Search

CloudMagic - Fast Gmail Search Add-OnOn April 15, 1802, Dorothy Wordsworth was on her way back from Eusmere House to Grasmere with her brother. At Glencoyne Bay, they had a memorable encounter.
"I wander'd lonely as a cloud, " William would later write, "when all at once I saw a crowd, / A host of golden daffodils."
Now, if all you see in Gmail is a host and crowd of hoarded emails, how about turning to a cloud to find the only one you seek — fast?
›› CloudMagic finds mail and contacts instantly as you type across Gmail accounts and with handy message previews.


Merry Clickmas - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

Merry Clickmas - Free Email Stationery Download and E-CardMake sure the maraschino cherry is dry before you dip it in the melted chocolate. Don't remove the stem, though, and don't dip it fully either: it will be the tail. A Hershey's Kiss will form the head, frosting the eyes and almonds the ears of your Christmas mouse.
For your electronic mail, here's a another mouse — less chocolaty to travel better but just as sweet:
›› Wish everybody a Merry Clickmas (and Christmas) with your mouse. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)


Merry Clickmas - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

Merry Clickmas - Free Email Stationery Download and E-CardMake sure the maraschino cherry is dry before you dip it in the melted chocolate. Don't remove the stem, though, and don't dip it fully either: it will be the tail. A Hershey's Kiss will form the head, frosting the eyes and almonds the ears of your Christmas mouse.
For your electronic mail, here's a another mouse — less chocolaty to travel better but just as sweet:
›› Wish everybody a Merry Clickmas (and Christmas) with your mouse. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)


How to Import Mail and Account Settings from Windows Mail in Windows Live Mail

Day after day, year after year, the perpetual calendar will show you the date "automatically"; automatically, that is, if you put in the two bits the machine devours every day.
As the ad says: "Forces you to save a quarter every day, or calendar won't move."
Now, the calendar did move and Windows Mail has become Windows Live Mail. You don't have to save your settings and mail, though, or put coins anywhere to move your data to the new email program:
›› When Windows Mail goes Live, you can take your email accounts and data with you: here's how to import Windows Mail account settings, messages and folders into Windows Live Mail.


 


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