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 | Here's to a restorative week — and a marvelous 2011!
Heinz | |
Gmail - Delegate Your Mail, Restore Your Contacts
 Your 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
 Hard, 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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