You have six hats. They're
in your head, thinking.
They have colors, too: red is for impulsive reactions and white for unadorned facts; the green hat spouts new perspectives, which the yellow one loves.
You have sixteen hats and then some. They're in your
Yahoo! Mail, decorating.
They have colors, too: red is for
Chinese New Year and white for the
clouds; the green hat sprouts
bamboo, which the yellow turns into a
savanna:
›› Enrich your emails with rich stationery to go with your groovy words: here's how to apply emails styles when composing in Yahoo! Mail.
Sostratos wanted one thing, the king another. Sostratos got his desire — and a good story to boot.
After two centuries of construction, the
Pharos, a gigantic tower at the mouth of
Alexandria's great harbor, was about to be finished. Proud Sostratos of Knidos had designed it and wanted his name to appear on the massive structure's foundation. Proud
Ptolemy II ruled Egypt at the time and wanted his name to be carved into the base.
Sostratos gave the ruler what he desired, of course: Ptolemy's name was chiseled into the foundation for everyone to see.
After a while, the plaster that bore the name started to come off, however, and,
the story goes, a different inscription became visible:
Sostratos, the Cnidian and son of Dexiphanes, to the Saviour gods on behalf of those who fare the seas
Since then, many lighthouses have guarded those who fare the seas and delighted landlubbers who visit — or email — them:
›› "What does one send to the Lighthouse?" An email using great lighthouse stationery, of course. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
Pegasus Mail has been updated with small changes to make life easier: you can now
reply with no questions asked, for example, and
have folders create their own filters when you drop messages on them.
Back at replies, Pegasus Mail 4.51 can
put the signature above quoted text and
check the spelling in the
Subject: line, which works in new messages as well, of course.
›› Pegasus Mail is one of the most powerful, secure and generally best email programs available for Windows. (Windows)
Now, where's that
mouse pointer arrow? The trackpad was easy enough to reach, but why is that cursor always hiding the
farthest possible distance from the
Save button?
In
Remember The Milk's
web interface, you can stop looking for the mouse and cursor to save a note. Try pressing
Ctrl-Enter instead.
In
Gmail, you can stop looking for a cursor and mouse to open a label:
›› Start typing your label's name and Gmail takes you there in an instant.