
Ring in the holiday season with emails and e-cards.
The early American settlers had no ovens. Their pumpkin pie, if they had one, was a pumpkin stew.
In this email background and e-card, the pumpkin is neither cake nor stew, of course, but still delicious and beautiful:
›› Send Victorian Thanksgiving greetings for a better world. (IncrediMail)
It was an ordinary morning in Holmby Hills. Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra returned from some four nights in Vegas with a few friends; Lauren Bacall, Bogart's wife, greeted them — with apocryphal words that stuck: "You look like a goddamn rat pack!"
When, later that day, Bogart, Sinatra and friends set out for another four or five nights in Vegas, the rat pack, of course, again looked like a handsomely groomed stationery pack:
›› equinux Stationery Pack makes it easy to add hundreds of gorgeous stationery designs to Mac OS X Mail — and helps you find the perfect template for the occasion, too. (Mac)
Overnight, a snow storm has covered Eagle County, Colorado, thick in white. The overabundance of snow makes the track unfair and unsafe. The world cup ski race has to be cancelled: unfortunate, but not uncommon.
What made this morning special was a reporter explaining the situation: "It was a real wizard!"
Chances are I misheard; maybe it was a real wizard. In any event: Windows Mobile was once a wizard, code named "Merlin". Today, Gmail messages can arrive overnight or during the day at any moment instantly -- as if by magic:
›› Take Gmail with you on your Windows Mobile device — and have it push new messages the moment they arrive with ActiveSync.
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