"Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen,
On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem;"
That's 8 tiny reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh through Henry Livingston's magical air. Counting hoofs and heads in the Christmas stationery below, I make out but 6 animals. Can you spot the rest?
›› Wish a merry Christmas with Santa and his reindeer in the back of your email messages. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

While one talks of a "small step" and a "giant leap," the other may concoct plans of a spaceship with two doors...
Speaking of small steps leading to giant leaps:
›› Conquer your inbox, your tasks, yourself and the rest in single, simple steps. Here's how to create sub-tasks to tasks (and sub-sub-tasks) in Gmail Tasks.

Always searching for the right email? The new Mozilla Thunderbird 3 finds it faster.
Search results come in more polished a manner, too, and you can focus them on certain times or people easily. Under Windows and Mac OS X, you can also find Mozilla Thunderbird mail in Search and Spotlight respectively.
Back in Mozilla Thunderbird, searches as well as messages can be opened side by side in tabs. The address book does not come with tabs, but now works a bit like bookmarks — all with a star icon next to the contact and one-click adding or editing.
Also new in Mozilla Thunderbird 3: fast archiving to a single folder and, appropriately, better use of Gmail. Setting up Gmail and other web-based email accounts is easier, too.
›› Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure and very functional email client and RSS feed reader. It lets you handle mail efficiently and with style, and Mozilla Thunderbird filters away junk mail too. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Once every day, maybe twice, sharp motored edges cut through the blades on a putting green. Rigorous pruning keeps the grass pretty resilient and the ball rolling evenly.
To keep the mail rolling smoothly, you can have iPhone Mail trim messages on the server rigorously when you check your email — once a day or maybe twice:
›› If you delete an email in iPhone Mail, you want it gone from your server, too — and not showing up in webmail or your desktop email program? Here's how to make iPhone Mail delete messages from a POP account.