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Feb 7, 2011

About Email: Gmail - Alerts at the Desk, Printing on the Go

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From Heinz Tschabitscher, your Guide to Email

Here's to an alert week!

Heinz

P.S.: Thank you all and much for hundreds of smart nominations for the best email products, services and innovations in the Readers' Choice Awards 2011!
Finalists will be announced and voting will begin on Friday, February 11.

Gmail - Learn About New Mail at the Desk, Print on the Go

To try Gmail's latest treats, it's time to break out Google Chrome's latest beta release and Windows maybe: with that combination, you can print from your mobile devices' browser Gmail, say on an iPhone. With Chrome alone, you can get pop-up alerts of new chats and emails (just the important ones if you prefer).
No matter the OS, finally, you use, a dynamic icon can let you know of new unread mail right in the tab or address bar of Mozilla Firefox and, yes, Google Chrome.
›› 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.

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Valentine's Day Heart Sweets - Free Stationery, E-Card

It's the day for long thin things in boxes, slim sticks of cookie covered in chocolate: November 11, in South Korea, is Pepero Day, a kind of Valentine's Day with young people gifting each other pepero sticks and other sweets.
Speaking of sweets and Valentine's Day, how about chocolate-brown round things in a heart-shaped box?
›› Heart-shaped sweets for the sweetest hearts this Valentine's Day. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

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How to Send Any E-Card to a Facebook Friend

When Charles M. Burns, owner and chief executive of a power plant, picks up his phone, he turns into a sailor hailing a sloop. Instead of saying "Hello", Mr. Burns answers the phone with "Ahoy-hoy!"
"Ahoy" was also Alexander G. Bell's favored greeting for that occasion, of course; Mr. Bell was one of the telephone's earliest champions after all.
Now, how about greeting your Facebook friends over some kind of electro-magnetic telegraph with "Ahoy-hoy" and a card?
›› Found the perfect e-card only to see your cheer-sharing glee shattered by only having your friend's Facebook handle on hand while the card asks for an email address? Here's how to send just about any e-card you can send online to a Facebook friend.

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Find People, Email Addresses with Six Degrees of Separation

The horse was miffed, of course, an Arabian not used to seeing its breed belittled in a crossword puzzle. Just as irritated, Jerry Grossman — mathematician, horse lover and husband of the horse's owner — composed an angry letter to the editors of the bridge magazine that had published the puzzle. He signed the letter "Smarty".
This is how Smarty the horse is connected to Paul Erdős, another mathematician who had co-authored a paper with Grossman. Erdős, of course, put the horse within easy reach of just about every living mathematician — and, who knows, maybe you:
›› Five people or less, in theory if not in practice, separate you from anybody else on earth. In practice, find people and their email addresses by asking smartly.

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Jan 31, 2011

About Email: Save Time with Outlook, Greet New Year with China

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Here's to a red-lucky week (and golden rabbit year)!

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Time-Saving Tips for Outlook

His shiny head blinks in bright magenta, stretched towards the sun. Now, the male Anna's hummingbird starts his dive.
Faster and faster, he descends. The shiny head has turned into a daring fireball. The female birds look impressed: in relation to body length, Calypte anna is the fastest flying creature.
Want to impress colleagues and self with your speed, too? How about being the fastest flying Outlook?
›› You spend time aplenty in Outlook. Don't waste it. Change defaults to what you prefer; use a keyboard shortcut or two; employ filters; make sure Outlook itself runs at maximum speed, and more.

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Valentine's Day Dance - Free Email Stationery and E-Card

Think Bavaria. Saw Lederhosen?
Now, there's a special kind of Lederhose, old and oily overall, called "Schloghosn" made expressly for Schuhplatteln. You may know the dance as groups patting their thighs, knees and soles in sync.
More traditionally, though, Schuhplattler had the girl twist in a ¾ time while the boy danced around her bound by rhythm but not by rules. He free-styled, stomped, jumped, clapped his hands and, yes, patted thighs, knees and soles — all to impress and charm her, and to win her admiration if not her heart:
›› I just want to dance with you this Valentine's Day. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

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Send Chinese New Year's Greeting Cards

To transfer big sums, say between banks or large merchants, Ming and Qing Dynasty Chinese shipped little ships of silver or maybe gold; to accumulate wealth, they stored those silver ingots (which also look a bit like smiling mouths) in a safe place.
To attract wealth, they ate dumplings.
To this day, jiǎozi are the perfect New Year's food. Delicious like ravioli, they make mouths smile. Shaped like little ships, they're bound to attract those other little ships, the silver ingots. So, let's grab a bite — and an e-card, too, if you fancy:
›› In the time-tested Chinese calendar, the new year (February 3, 2011, is the year of the rabbit's first day) usually begins with the second new moon after the winter solstice — and with 15 days of celebrations. Join the abundance of joy with greetings chanted out loud and sent via email. Here are Chinese New Year email greeting cards for all these days and more.

Find and Open Your Windows Live Mail Stationery Folder

The more syllables, the more ornate:
Doric (2) columns are plain and massive, shafts with a circle and then a square on top;
Ionic (3) columns are tall and curly, poles crowned by scrolls on two sides;
Corinthian (4) columns, finally, are decorative and flowery, stems with leaves and blooms and scrolls on top to boot.
Now that we have identified the classical orders of architecture, how about identifying the contemporary folder of stationery?
›› Where to put all that stationery? Start with the folder where Windows Live Mail looks for it by default.

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Jan 24, 2011

About Email: Inbox Escape with iPhone Push and Gmail Add-On

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Here's to an easy week!

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AwayFind - Inbox Escape with iPhone Push and Gmail Add-On

AwayFind, the service for checking email at your leisure and still let people reach you with urgent issues, has become a bit more complicated and a lot more powerful. AwayFind can now watch your IMAP and Exchange email accounts for messages your rules tell it are important and notify you via iPhone app, voice call, SMS, etc.
The iPhone app and a Gmail add-on make it easy to set up simple rules, and the AwayFind page lets you build quite refined ones to boot.
›› AwayFind lets you use email normally — checking maybe twice a day — while urgent messages are still rushed to you, via iPhone notification or SMS even.

Dreams - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

"To make this trivial world sublime," Aldous Huxley wrote to the psychiatrist who had handed him a pinch of a peyote cactus's juicy bits, "take half a gram of phanerothyme."
The word the poet coined there at the end for perception-altering drugs, alas, did not stick; Humphrey Osmond, the psychiatrist, wrote back: "To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic."
Speaking of angelic soars, how about dreamy phanorethymic background for your emails?
›› Send emails destined to evoke sweet dreams. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

Hide Ads and Make More Room for a Message You View in Yahoo!

Electronically!
For "less than 1¢ a day," General Electric promised, you'll "get rid of unpleasant odors electronically."
It was a new lamp they advertised, shining not only visible but also ultraviolet light. That light turned some of the oxygen in the air around into ozone — a highly reactive gas that keeps swimming pools clean, of course, and burns up odors in the air fast, too. Nursery, bed- or bathroom, the ozone lamp keeps "every room fresh and sweet-smelling."
The ozone itself is poisonous, of course, if the lamp is on too long; the ultraviolet light is dangerous, too, if you look directly into it. Luckily, you don't need an ozone lamp to keep Yahoo! Mail fresh and make room for your emails' full width, getting rid of the advertising space for a while — electronically!
›› Don't like to scroll sideways to see the full message? In Yahoo! Mail, you can hide the ad on the side easily to see more of the email.

How to Post Messages and Photos to Google Buzz via Email

View not unique enough for a photo worth sharing? A coke bottle or martini glass in sight, you can render the light in your image intriguing: send it through the bottle and maybe the liquid to boot.
Browser not close enough to share your image with Buzz on the spot? A messaging program in reach, you can make your post instantaneous: send it through email, attaching the photo to boot:
›› Want to share photos and post updates on Google Buzz with but email available? Here's where to send your message to update Google Buzz via email.

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