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Dec 6, 2010

About Email: SaneBox Sorts the Important from the Rest in Gmail

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SaneBox - Separates the Important from the Rest in Gmail

If you really have to pray, pray for "mens sana in corpore sano" — a sane mind in a sturdy body. For, Juvenal argued, people don't know what to wish for: if they get it, it's rarely for their best.
In any event, you don't have to wish for a sane Inbox in a stuffed Gmail; you may just get it:
›› 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.

Holiday Magic - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card

Apples and curtains and tables and pitchers: Paul Cézanne's still lifes disturbed.
The apples and curtains, the tables even and pitchers all appear flat on a plane, stacked on top of each other. It makes for great art, but... obviously, it is important not to get into one of Cézanne's still lifes with a sleigh.
You wouldn't get very far on that two-dimensional canvas -- certainly not home in time for Christmas from sleighing fun in the snow:
›› Christmas' magic has turned the land through which we return home (from play) a bright, white wonder. (IncrediMail)

How to Manage Your Tasks in Gmail

Scan your list once, then feel it through from the bottom: when a task catches your eye, do it; now start again from the bottom.
Toss out, periodically, the things that don't get done — not even under the threat of being tossed. Add anything new at the bottom immediately.
Mark Forster's Autofocus 2 task management system promises both sense and sensibility. Gmail's task list is a great place to experiment; it's easier to add tasks and start wading the list at the top, though:
›› You have a powerful project management that you use for simple to-do lists open next to Gmail all the time? Why not put the list right inside Gmail (and link from tasks to emails easily, too)? Here's how.

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How to Remove the AOL Footer from Emails You Send in AIM Mail, AOL Mail and AOL

How much mileage do you get out of your camera? How, then, about footage? "Footage" — events captured in a moving picture camera — does indeed come from "foot", the measure of length: it's how many feet of tape you've used.
Now, camera phone or desktop PC, in AIM Mail and AOL you can get less footage — feet of email covered with pitches for AOL services:
›› Wonder whether you advertise AOL services with every email you send? Here's how to find out if AOL adds a promotional footer to all emails you send from AIM Mail or AOL — and how to remove it or turn them back on.

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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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