May 23, 2011

About Email: Conversations in Outlook, Offline Gmail Search

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How to View Mail Grouped by Conversation Thread in Outlook

The rare and spiny argan tree's pits are impossible to digest for the goats that climb the trees to eat the yellow fruit. The pits are so hard that, collected from the goats' manure, it takes an ingenious process and a rugged rock's beating to get to the kernels. Roasted, the kernels meet the rock and grindstone, too, and later water, to separate the treasured argan oil from the argan kernel mash.
Now, to get to an email's hidden and maybe thorny parents is usually not quite so hard; Outlook can do all the searching, climbing, collecting, cracking and grinding:
›› Tired of searching for related messages to put the latest reply to a thread in context? Here's how to have Outlook collect all emails in a conversation — even from different folders — and show them in order.


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Smiley Fall - Free Email Stationery Download and E-CardIn 1887, Ambrose Bierce improved punctuation with the "snigger point", '⏝', "to be appended [...] to every jocular or ironical sentence." It worked ⏝.
Today, you can add all kinds of iconic punctuation to your emails, of course, and you can have snigger points with eyes on yellow faces flying through them:
›› Send smileys, and send many! (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

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How to Create Calendar Events from Emails in iPhone Mail

In Germany and Austria, 3:45 p.m. is "three quarters four" or "quarter to four"; 3:15 p.m. is "quarter past three" or "quarter four" — all depending on where you grew up. Depending on where you end up, you may do so confused and appointments missed.
Now, iPhone Mail does not get confused. It recognizes none of these "quarter" times; it does understand "3:45 p.m.", though, "May 18" and, say, "tomorrow at 5" for appointments to be made:
›› The invitation is in the mail. With iPhone Mail, it's easy to get it out, too, turning date and time mentioned in an email into calendar events with verve and swift finger.


How to Streamline Conversations in Outlook

Sort, set and shine: if you haven't used something in the past month, sort it out; set up the workplace so that the remaining items are easily at hand; clean often, and shine every day before you leave. Sort, set and shine.
Outlook is pretty good at these first three of the five 'S's of 5S (a program — originating in Japan — for achieving an organized work environment), sorting out redundant emails, setting up the rest in order and shining conversations all around:
›› Why tolerate email folders and your mind littered with oodles of messages that are quoted elsewhere anyway? Here's how to have Outlook clean up automatically and move or delete redundant emails.


 


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May 16, 2011

About Email: Favorite Gmail Labs Features: Share Yours

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From Heinz Tschabitscher, your Guide to Email
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Favorite Gmail Labs Features: Share Yours, View Others'

Rather than preventing electrons and matter from collapsing upon themselves, Pauli's 2nd exclusion principle, legend has it, was concerned more with Prof. Pauli himself: following this principle, the famous physicist, notorious for his two left hands, and a successful experiment could not be in the same laboratory room at the same time.
Now, what Gmail lab experiments are with you in the same room — and successful, too?
›› Some of Gmail's best and quirky features come from in its labs. Which Gmail labs experiments do you have enabled? Which are your favorites, and which would you recommend? What new labs features would you love to see in Gmail?

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Colorful Butterflies - Free IncrediMail Letter and E-Card

Colorful Butterflies - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-CardYou see rocks lush with moss. You see a fallen tree, overgrown and brightly green. You see, between the rocks, turquoise water. You see white gushes sprinkling the moss.
You see all this with your eyes closed, of course, and your ears open to Bedřich Smetana's Vltava part of Má vlast, when the Cold and Warm Vltava begin as small springs.
If you listen closely, you can also see two butterflies dancing about the rocks and water, one blue and one red, right? (Speaking of it, what other curious connection does Smetana have to butterflies?)
›› Butterflies full of color and beauty. (IncrediMail)


The Bat! 5.0 - Better IMAP, and QR Codes

The Bat! - Email ProgramIf you've fancied an email program to turn links, addresses, text and more into QR codes to be scanned with mobile phones (to start composing an email, for instance), you can give the latest version of The Bat! a try.
Next to a QR code generator, The Bat! 5.0 comes with news for those who've fancied better IMAP support in the venerable email program: a refined protocol implementation now lets you use "color groups" (which make marked messages stand out in the message list) with IMAP accounts, for example, and search using regular expressions.
New "smart hints" let you preview messages just by pointing to them and add people to your address book or save attachments with less clicks. The "smart hints" possibly have too many options in The Bat!'s configuration for most; image blocking possibly had too few for some. Now, you can block remote images not only by server but also by sender, folder and myriads of other options (including regular expressions).
›› The Bat! is a highly sophisticated and efficient email client. It makes handling even large volumes of mail a pleasant and secure experience. (Windows)


Highlight Text with a Marker Pen Background Color in Outlook

In the field of Fungi by the city of Coventry the witch of Warwick schemed against the master of Mercia: Leofric should be convinced to "repeal all taxes." He agreed, famously, if his wife, Lady Godiva, would ride naked through the streets of the city; which, of course, she did.
The highlight when Peeping Tom of Coventry was put on the Covent Garden stage in 1837 was — the light. First used in a theater, limelight could be focussed on a single actor, say the production's star, William Charles Macready.
Now, you don't have to ride horses or heat calcium even to direct the focus in emails you compose — in Outlook of Office:
›› Want to highlight key text with style and, perhaps, subtlety? Here's how to emphasize with a colorful marker pen in Outlook.


 


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May 9, 2011

About Email: Zoho - Business-Class Email, Now for Your Domain

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Zoho Mail - Business-Class Email, Now for Your Domain

Zoho Mail is no longer just personal: new hosting plans let you set up accounts and management for an entire business's email needs using your domain.
Also new recently at Zoho Mail and available for all users are labeling messages by dragging and dropping; sorting folders by alphabet; and getting notified by Chrome desktop alerts.
›› Zoho Mail is a solid email service with ample storage, POP and IMAP access, some integration with instant messaging and online office suites.

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Animated Cypress Point Ripple Globe - Free Email Stationery Download and E-CardAfter the cypress forest, a water hole some 15 times the size of the United States: since 1928, Cypress Point's picturesque and challenging course has enthralled golfers.
Snow globes have enchanted for a little longer than that. In your emails, you can have both, in a way:
›› Put an interesting view into a ripple globe in an email. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)


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You can still find it in poems today, and when it would be a good idea to catch a breath; a few centuries ago, the slash was more widespread, though, indicating breaks not only in poems (set as flowing text) and for breathing (in song books) but in all kinds of text — just the way the comma does now.
A comma is, in fact, merely a pruned slash — indicating breaks in your Gmail contacts' backup, for instance, which let you catch your breath if something went wrong:
›› Has getting all your address books in sync produced but a mess? Are you trying to migrate your contacts from one Gmail account to another? Here's how to import contacts from a backup CSV copy into Gmail.


View Mail Grouped by Conversation Thread in Win Live Mail

Both filtered parent and filtered child messages (from their respective "banks") feed into the "statistical information retrieval function" to produce a "similarity value table", from which "combiner" and "selector" distill the list of parent messages.
U.S. Patent 5,905,863 explores these means to compute, statistically, which messages might be related — even when Subjects do not match and the email program has inserted no reference to the answered email.
Windows Live Mail has no such banks and tables and stats; its relating messages by, well, Subjects is still handy enough:
›› Want to explore all of a subject before jumping to conclusion and reply? Here's how to have Windows Live Mail group all messages belonging to a conversation together and in order.


 


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