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Jan 17, 2011

About Email: Nominate Your Favorites - Readers' Choice Awards

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Nominate Your Favorite Email Programs - The 2011 Readers' Choice Awards

Something that produces electricity when heated it was not; when Bruce Cook, Alan Russell and their fellow researchers at the Ames Laboratory tried to curl, cut and carve their newly crafted material, they found something else, though: it wouldn't.
Dubbed BAM, the alloy from boron, aluminum and magnesium is exceptionally hard — if you can get a hold of it: BAM is also super slippery with less friction than, say, graphite, diamond or teflon.
Now, that's from 1999 and slippery; what's from 2010/11 and sticky? To what email programs and services do you cling? What new email features will you remember?
›› Nominate the best email products in categories including free email services, email programs, mobile email, e-card sites and social network messaging.

Swan - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

I saw a swan recently. It swam, but only with one leg. The other was tucked under its right wing.
One theory tells me something was wrong with the swan's temperature. Not covered by feathers, a swan's feet and legs are its air conditioning: they lose heat like a human's head, hand and feet; they soak up the sun like a lizard's back.
The swans in this stationery don't look cold — but their surroundings sure do:
›› Stationery of beautifully animated swans. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

Import Contacts to Yahoo! Mail from Gmail, Facebook, etc.

When you become famous and people start to admire you, "tear off your garments" and hurtle your best Archimedes impersonation through the streets. If some still follow you around and call you teacher or guru, do this: "drive them away, striking them with your fists and pelting them with clods of earth and stones".
When Dio Chrysostom commanded that some 2000 years ago, he did not know Archimedes, of course, or Brian from Nazareth. He knew, though, that giving in to the lures of fame makes you a vassal to that passion — and to whatever could bring or threaten it. You're not free any more, and free you should be.
Your address book should also be free, of course; free from any individual email service and network; free to follow you around, say to Yahoo! Mail:
›› You compose your emails in Yahoo! Mail but your addresses are in Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail or Facebook maybe? Here's how to import names and addresses and other contact information swiftly into Yahoo! Mail.

How to Disable Google Buzz in Gmail

Pick a number between 2 and 9. Say it out loud. Now start counting, also aloud: "One".
It's my turn: "Two". Now, whenever we reach a multiple of the number you picked, we'll not say that number. We'll shout "Buzz!" instead. All right?
Let's say you picked 3: 1, 2, Buzz!, 4, 5, Buzz!, 7, 8, Buzz!, 10, 11, twe... Oh, looks like I'm out — out, out as Buzz can be out of Gmail:
›› Prefer Gmail without the social headaches of Google Buzz? Here's how to disable Buzz in Gmail and remove it from your account.

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Jan 10, 2011

About Email: SaneBox - Gmail Email Sorting, Now with Facebook

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SaneBox - Gmail Email Sorting Now with Facebook, LinkedIn

SaneBox, epistulae sanae in cista sana, now can know about senders before they've ever sent you an email: connect it to Facebook and LinkedIn, and the people you know there (albeit not only those close to you) will be lent additional importance.
SaneBox's motivating reports have also been enhanced with additional graphs contrasting important mail with all the mail you get.
›› SaneBox does a great and helpful job separating the emails you need to see now from those you can consume at leisure, reserving your Gmail inbox for the former if you like.

King Penguins - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card

King penguins don't build nests. They grow a flap on their bellies instead.
Covered by this fold of skin called brood patch, the single egg a pair lays about every 15 months rests incubating on the penguin's feet until the partner takes over, after a week or two. The chicks hatch after some 2 months.
Now, granted, we cannot see the brood patch, egg or hatchling in this email background, but we do have two majestic grownups' pretty faces looking into the distance:
›› The King penguins easily star on any tour to the Falklands — and in your emails, too. (IncrediMail)

Most Useful Gmail Labs Features

When gas comes out at the top, it's good to have holes at the bottom: mixing propane, butane or methane with enough air (from the holes) up front, Robert Bunsen reasoned, the flame on top of a burner should be stabler, easier to regulate and hotter, too.
It was and still is, of course, on Bunsen burners found most useful the world over in laboratories. — Oh, speaking of labs and their useful features:
›› Some of Gmail's best features are in its labs. Enable them, and profit from unsending, inline images, going to the next mail automatically and more. The experimental is exciting, of course, but certainly not dangerous. Here are the most useful Gmail labs features for you to try now.

How to Hide Your Location in Google Buzz mobile

A tropical beach: sand, sea, quiet. Suddenly screams and shrieking.
Out of thin air — out of the blue, literally —, a huge, loud and menacing bird has appeared. (You've seen the videos, right?) The colorful bird hones in on the beach. The screams are louder and more frequent now, until the giant has landed and taxis to the gate like any airplane.
This is Sint Maarten. The small, lush island in the Antilles also has a French half. Its people speak English, Dutch and French, of course, some Spanish and a French creole, among other languages.
It is in this creole, now, that a few children scream, hide from the tourists and birds, and then hide from each other in a game called "cache-cache" (hide-hide) in French but "caché-fête" (hidden-celebration) on Saint Martin.
Want to scream to the world, too, and still hide? In Google Buzz, there's reason to celebrate:
›› Don't want to reveal your precise location for the world to see when you post to Google Buzz from a mobile device? Here's how to hide your location and still post to the world.

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Jan 3, 2011

About Email: Opera 11 - Less Stuff, Cleaner Mail

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See Total (Not Just Unread) Inbox Message Count in Outlook

My toes hurt. Again and for several hours today, I smashed them against rocks and roots.
Of course, I had to look as much beside, above and beyond the hiking trail as on it.
If you, too, want to see everything:
›› Want to know not how many unread messages a folder, say your to-be-followed-up mailbox, contains but how many emails in toto? Here's how to set up Outlook to show you total folder message counts.

Sledding Through the Snow - Free IncrediMail Letter, E-Card

Frank Philip Bowden took his skis to Davos, Switzerland, to watch them slide; and slide; and slide; and... slide.
Finally testing with real skis, Bowden could confirm what he'd suspected all along: the cold snow's friction makes skis glide slowly. It is the very friction that melts the snow for just a bit, of course, and makes the skis glide much more smoothly.
It is the smooth gliding, now, that makes sledding so much fun; plus the scarf-flapping speed and horse-hair-raising turns:
›› Heavy snowfall does not impede the sled's progress — it accelerates it, and it invigorates the fun you can send with this animated email stationery, too. (IncrediMail)

Opera 11.0 - Less Stuff, Cleaner Mail

Labels, saved searches, filters, learning folders: oh my! Opera 11 turns four into one; only labels remain. They can work as filters now, of course, and as saved searches or as smart learning folders. You can now also keep your mail panel cleaner by hiding the mailing lists Opera has identified, for instance, or the contacts you are following.
Happily, perchance, you'll note that Opera 11's mail panel itself stays out of the way automatically when you're not in Mail.
›› The Opera email client is a slick and flexible interface that will satisfy almost all your email needs, and Opera integrates RSS feeds in this experience as well. (Windows)

How to Forward an Email with Yahoo! Mail

Shakespeare's Petruchio has an opinion about what should happen to the bowling ball:
"Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run,
And not unluckily against the bias."
The same is true, of course, for people sneaking through the sunlit night and for emails making the rounds; forward, forward!
›› Share an interesting story, direct a request to the appropriate person, or copy an email to another account — all by forwarding in Yahoo! Mail.

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