Knowspam.net - Doesn't Challenge Who You Know
Thursday July 31, 2003
If you email somebody (or a company) and they reply, should they be confronted with your (effective, but in this case impertinent) challenge/response spam filter?
No, and that's why Knowspam.net now ... Read More
Plucky 1.0.3 - Aggregating News, not Just RSS
Thursday July 31, 2003
Plucky and Shrook -- The children's book? -- Nah, the Mac RSS feed readers [what kind of book would that be?]:
Plucky is a simple newsreader that can not only display ... Read More
Compose a New Message from the System Tray with IncrediMail
Thursday July 31, 2003
IncrediMail likes to keep its system tray icon available no matter what. That's a bit annoying, but it is also useful:
If you need to start composing a new message quickly ... Read More
NewsMonster 1.2.1 - The Beast Gains Speed
Thursday July 31, 2003
A lot of work on details, highly welcome speed improvements and a few new features make NewsMonster PRO/FREE the best Mozilla-based news beasts so far:
NewsMonster PRO is a powerful RSS ... Read More
Add Nicknames to Contacts in My Way Mail
Thursday July 31, 2003
I think I never had a nickname... oh, wait a minute: during a short, but glorious period I was called like a brand of dog food. I'm not sure why, ... Read More
Pirate Stationery
Wednesday July 30, 2003
I don't know what it is about pirate stories that makes them so... gripping. When I was a child, I read a lot, but only one pirate novel.
It was a ... Read More
Find Out About Your Email Usage with Eudora
Wednesday July 30, 2003
If it's not revealing at least it is great fun:
How many emails do you receive? How many of them do you read? How many do you send? Eudora knows it ... Read More
Mail Beacon 2.1 - Now Checks Hotmail, Too
Wednesday July 30, 2003
Mail Beacon, the Mac mail checker that is even more useful that stylish, gets an update and even more useful with Hotmail support.
Check for new mail with Mail Beacon, a ... Read More
Move a Message Quickly in KMail
Wednesday July 30, 2003
Keyboard shortcuts are called "shortcuts" because of the short time it takes to tell your computer to do something when employing the keyboard (as opposed to the long ways your ... Read More
marlin 1.0 - No Wizards, High Security
Tuesday July 29, 2003
marlin is no wizard, and has no magic fix for spam. It is a really nice email client, though:
›› marlin is a nice email client with convincing security focus and ... Read More
Text-Only Newsletters
Tuesday July 29, 2003
For some reason, I prefer to read newsletters with HTML formatting. But, hmm, going through the list of arguments, I really begin to wonder why:
Should you choose the text-only version ... Read More
Mailblocks - Now Less of a Challenge
Tuesday July 29, 2003
Challenge/response systems of spam filtering are effective for the recipient, but they can be quite a challenge for the sender, especially if what the sender delivers is a newsletter and ... Read More
Prevent Privacy Infringement by HTML Images in Hotmail
Tuesday July 29, 2003
O tempora, or mores! If you're automatically photographed buying razor blades, you should at least be able to read your emails (and your spam) in privacy:
Remote images in emails (downloaded ... Read More
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 - Starting Thunder
Monday July 28, 2003
The first milestone release of Mozilla Thunderbird, the standalone email application split off Mozilla is now available for download.
Mozilla Thunderbird is great to
play with and it comes with most of ... Read More
TickerMyMail - Email +0.46 Spam +231.83
Monday July 28, 2003
There's something nervous (of the irrationally exuberant type) to stock tickers. For emails, the stock ticker approach is surprisingly useful, though:
Get new mail announced to you in a stock ticker ... Read More
Mailinator - Disposing of Spam
Monday July 28, 2003
I'll be back. Or maybe not. But Mailinator will take the risk of getting spam out of of using your email address to register for web sites or forums, that's ... Read More
Calculating the Cost of Spam
Monday July 28, 2003
The New York Times has an interesting article on the diverging estimates of the costs of spam.
The really interesting part is not the more or less wild guesses by various ... Read More
Check for New Mail Quickly in Netscape
Monday July 28, 2003
For a fast way to have Netscape or Mozilla fetch new mail in all your accounts, try this keyboard shortcut.
jetMailMonitor 6.1 - Tame the Jet of Email
Sunday July 27, 2003
Email jets from one place to another in no time. With jetMailMonitor you can jet from one mail to the next quickly, too, as they get announced (and as you ... Read More
Import Animations from the Web in IncrediMail
Sunday July 27, 2003
Dan's emails are never boring. He doesn't like dead letters and prefers animations. He's downloading any IncrediMai letter he comes across, and when he sees an animation somewhere on the ... Read More
Hearts Stationery
Sunday July 27, 2003
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point" (the heart has its reasons; reasons that reasoning can't understand), that's what the French have been saying since Blaise ... Read More
Reply to an Email in Yahoo! Mail
Sunday July 27, 2003
You have received a nice email at your Yahoo! Mail account, and now you want to reply. Here's how to do it (it's really easy!).
Sendmail Enabler 1.1.1 - 1 Click for a Free Local SMTP Server
Saturday July 26, 2003
Apparently, Apple doesn't want us to turn on the sendmail mail server that ships with OS X and send mail easily from everywhere -- or they'd include a tool that ... Read More
Change the New Mail Notification Sound for Outlook
Saturday July 26, 2003
I think I've heard everything from "You've got mail" to "Oooh". Yes, getting new spam can be fun:
›› Make your Outlook new mail announcements sound any way you like.
PocoMail 3.0.1 - Now Even Better, and with a Smiley
Saturday July 26, 2003
That's the fate of all x.0 releases. Not soon after PocoMail 3.0, you get to manage your mail with PocoMail 3.0.1, which includes a great number of minor fixes, improved ... Read More
Include an Easy to Use Unsubscription Link in Newsletters
Saturday July 26, 2003
You know what they say: if you don't let go, you lose...
Unhappy subscribers are worse than no subscribers. An easy and fail-safe way to unsubscribe is a way to make ... Read More
How to Fight Spam with Mozilla or Netscape
Friday July 25, 2003
You have to train it to believe it. The detecion rate is near 100 percent for me, and spam is hardly a problem any more:
Mozilla and Netscape offer fabulous spam ... Read More
Spam Manager 0.86 - Spam Bureaucracy
Friday July 25, 2003
So many anti-spam tools, so little time. Will we ever see anti-anti-spam-tools-tools? But first, another mediocre tool (it can look up blackhole lists, though):
Spam Manager can tag or remove spam ... Read More
Color-Code Mail from a Certain Account in IncrediMail
Friday July 25, 2003
IncrediMail doesn't put mail from different accounts in different folders automatically. But it has another feature that can somewhat make up for that:
Do you want to know which account the ... Read More
Save Sent Messages Automatically in Yahoo! Mail
Thursday July 24, 2003
I didn't do that. (But there's a mail in your Sent folder.) I didn't say that. (Let's open it.) I didn't mean that.
As you can see, having a record of ... Read More
SpamSlam 1.1.0 - Flexibly Filtered Spam Challenge
Thursday July 24, 2003
SpamSlam, the simple yet problematic challenge/response anti-spam tool gets an update that brings a lot of good things in one feature.
SpamSlam implements a simple, yet effective challenge-response system as a ... Read More
Fix Red 'X's in Place of Images in Emails Sent with Windows Mail or Outlook Express
Thursday July 24, 2003
The case of the missing image... We can only guess about its motives, and nobody knows where it has gone (though everybody has a theory). While Hercule Poirot and Sherlock ... Read More
Wet Daisies IncrediMail Letter
Thursday July 24, 2003
Rumor has it that there are people who don't love daisies. Now, after extensive and utterly scientific research, we can only conclude that they have not yet seen the daisies ... Read More
Beatles Stationery
Wednesday July 23, 2003
When others exchanged old Beatles albums in high school I'd be a somewhat puzzled bystander. Wasn't my thing then. I liked the music, though, and I like the Beatles cover ... Read More
Mark All Messages Read Quickly in Netscape
Wednesday July 23, 2003
If you are overwhelmed by the amount of unread mail that has piled up in your mailing lists, there's an easy fix...
Read everything (or, at least, make it look like ... Read More
Top 9 Mac RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators
Wednesday July 23, 2003
It's true, the Mac OS X world of newsfeed aggregators is not yet as densely populated* as the Windows part of the software universe. But there's still plenty to choose ... Read More
Eudora for Windows 6.0.0.14 Beta Fixes Spam Filtering
Wednesday July 23, 2003
The fix for a "heinous" bug makes Eudora for Windows reach Beta 6.0.0.14 and makes the Bayesian spam filtering work a lot more precisely.
To get the most
out of the much ... Read More
Hide Read Messages Temporarily in Evolution
Wednesday July 23, 2003
My Inbox: tons of messages, some to be answered later, some unread, some to be trashed, a few forgotten ones, many repressed emails, it's a chaotic place. How I manage ... Read More
MailTemplate 1.2 - Message Templates for Mac OS X Mail
Tuesday July 22, 2003
If you do something persistently and highly concentrated, the duhka (discomfort, unhappiness) that comes with it can turn into suhka (joy, ease). You're in a flow, and whatever you do ... Read More
AOL - You Haven't Got Much
Tuesday July 22, 2003
AOL's email has always been friendly and easy to use. AOL 8.0 adds some fun and filtering. But is this enough?
AOL email is friendly and particularly easy to use, and ... Read More
Create an OpenPGP Key in The Bat!
Tuesday July 22, 2003
Emails can be intercepted and read by anybody, not just the intended recipient -- unless they have been encrypted. If you use The Bat!, getting ready to start encrypting your ... Read More
Use Small Buttons in the Eudora Toolbar
Monday July 21, 2003
Half the button size means twice the space for more toolbar functionality in Eudora.
HotApoc 1.0 - Hotmail Meets Your Email Program
Monday July 21, 2003
I like to read important-looking books in trains (making sure — inconspicuously — everybody can see it). Maybe you like to read Hotmail in your favorite email client?
HotApoc is a ... Read More
Address Messages Quickly with Nicknames in My Way Mail
Monday July 21, 2003
Remembering and typing email addresses is cumbersome. Fortunately, it is also often not necessary:
Type short nicknames instead of long email addresses to insert recipients in emails you compose in My ... Read More
Shrook 1.1 - Honey, I Shrook the News
Sunday July 20, 2003
The classy NetNewsWire has no competitor as a useable desktop RSS feed reader for Mac OS X? I thought so too, but then I tried the clever Shrook:
Shrook is a ... Read More
HTML or Plain Text: Let Your Recipients Decide
Sunday July 20, 2003
If you can't decide whether you should publish your newsletter as HTML or plain text (and I think you shouldn't), do both and let your recipients decide individually which they ... Read More
Find Labelled Messages Fast in Opera
Sunday July 20, 2003
Take a look at Marc
Who'd make knots in cables
To remember what must not be forgotten.
He soon forgot the meanings of the knotten.
But thanks to Opera and its labels
He's no longer ... Read More
Coca Stationery
Sunday July 20, 2003
It's almost like the real thing:
›› This stationery is softer than the softest drink. Cheers! (Outlook, Outlook Express)
AllegroMail - For a Cheerful Email Experience?
Saturday July 19, 2003
"Allegro" is a lively musical tempo. The association with Allegra, the allergy medication, doesn't fit that picture well. But AllegroMail does, to some extent:
Can AllegroMail, a promising email client, set ... Read More
Awasu Personal Edition 1.1 - All News Come Together
Saturday July 19, 2003
I think I've mentioned the parallel Japanese software universe before.
Awasu (Japanese for "coming together", "uniting" and "connecting") is true to that universe's spirit. It comes with tons of useful and ... Read More
Use Any Text Editor with KMail
Saturday July 19, 2003
I really like KMail for reading, organizing and searching my emails, but using its built-in editor for composing messages is a pain. I much prefer emacs. Or vim (on uneven ... Read More
Want to Email the White House?
Friday July 18, 2003
It's not so simple any more. Gone are the days when you could send an email (any email) to president@whitehouse.gov. Reaching the White House by email has become a lot ... Read More
Search a Mailbox Quickly in The Bat!
Friday July 18, 2003
You won't find this tip if you search for it in your emails in The Bat! (but you'll find everything else faster than ever before):
Type what you are looking for, ... Read More
Water IncrediMail Letter
Friday July 18, 2003
Do you know what my roommate's cats do during the dog days of summer? They show no respect (I wonder what Sirius, the dog star and eponym of the "dog ... Read More
SpamBayes Outlook Addin 0.3 - Bay Bay, Spam!
Friday July 18, 2003
If you have both Outlook and a spam problem, rejoice! The list of the best spam filtering plug-ins for Outlook gets a new entry, and it is well deserved. Don't ... Read More
Print Message Summaries in Mac OS X Mail
Friday July 18, 2003
Save paper. Get overview. Print summaries. Mac OS X Mail.
In addition to printing full messages, Mac OS X Mail lets you print summaries (sender, subject, date) of multiple emails in ... Read More
Block a Sender in Outlook Express
Thursday July 17, 2003
Some people can't stop sending emails. But no matter how persistent they are, Outlook Express will be more persistent:
Have Outlook Express send messages from certain senders to the trash automatically.
Is Spam Not So Annoying Any More?
Thursday July 17, 2003
According to a Harris poll reported by Internet Advertising Report, there are now fewer people who find spam "very" annoying while the overall number of respondents annoyed with spam has ... Read More
G-Lock EasyMail Pro 4.40 - Respecting User Preferences
Thursday July 17, 2003
G-Lock EasyMail Professional, the email marketing tool whose power reaches for the length of its name, gets an update. Among other improvements, G-Lock EasyMail Pro 4.40 can automatically send plain ... Read More
SpamSlam 1.0 - Challenge/Responding Times
Thursday July 17, 2003
Do you find it challenging to find the fraction of good mail in all the deluge of junk in your Inbox? A challenge/response system that allows only mail from known ... Read More
Add Bcc Recipients in Eudora
Thursday July 17, 2003
Do you know these emails that have nothing short of 200 email addresses in the To: field? Here's how to avoid this in Eudora:
Send a message to Bcc recipients with ... Read More
Celebrate! IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday July 16, 2003
I've never liked planned happiness that gives you the reason why you should celebrate before you "celebrate". But sending an email using this rejoicing IncrediMail letter — spontaneously —, that's ... Read More
CheetahMail - Turn Here for All Email Marketing Needs
Wednesday July 16, 2003
The name was probably chosen to make you think "fast!", "agile!" and "elegant!". It works perfectly. The good thing is that all these connotations are not unjustified with CheetahMail:
CheetahMail is ... Read More
Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 - Bugs Fixed
Wednesday July 16, 2003
Ximian Evolution, the venerable Outlook clone for Linux/BSD/Unix (getting new clothes soon, though?), jumps to version 1.4.3, and has more than a handful of bug fixes in its pocket.
If Linux ... Read More
POPFile 0.19.1 - Now Working with/around Norton Internet Security
Wednesday July 16, 2003
POPFile, the much beloved Bayesian spam filtering tool, gets an update. Both the cutting-edge POPFile 0.19.1 and the rock-solid POPFile 0.18.2 now
work with Norton Internet Security
and continue to be proof ... Read More
Put Unread Mail Before Read Messages in Pegasus Mail
Wednesday July 16, 2003
Here in Austria, "redmail" (a postal service) put their shiny red envelopes everywhere. In Pegasus Mail, you can have "unreadmail" put all mail that has not yet been opened on ... Read More
Spam, the EU, the U.S., and China (and Spam)
Tuesday July 15, 2003
It's a multilateral world we live in, and spam is emerging as a strong force.
In the European Union, member states must have strict opt-in based anti-spam laws in place by ... Read More
Block a Sender Quickly in Hotmail
Tuesday July 15, 2003
If I tell you how to block a sender easily in Hotmail, will you block me instantly? Oh, this thought must be repressed...
It's easy to block somebody — and have ... Read More
MailRelayer 1.32 - IMAP for the Rest of Us
Tuesday July 15, 2003
If you send me an email, I might read it at home, or I might have packed my knapsack, tied my hiking boots and gone on a week-long trip. With ... Read More
SpamWeed 1.3.7 - For a Spam-Free Past and Future
Tuesday July 15, 2003
SpamWeed gets an update. Version 1.3.7 is relatively unspectacular, if it was not for an item near the end of the list of updates: "Eudora Lite 3.0 supported".
The installation went ... Read More
Create Folders to Organize Mail in FastMail
Tuesday July 15, 2003
People who have everything organized are a suspicious lot (and, probably, happy). Now here's how to become one of those, too (and, probably, happy):
If your FastMail Inbox threatens to burst ... Read More
Sylpheed 0.9.3 - One More Linux Client to Like
Monday July 14, 2003
Linux users are never short of email clients to try. Sylpheed is one of the better -- and better hidden -- ones:
Sylpheed is a friendly and simple, but surprisingly versatile ... Read More
Find Messages in Hotmail
Monday July 14, 2003
Looking for something can be uplifting (if I find what I'm looking for) or knocking-down (if I don't). In Hotmail, you can find anything:
Don't play hide and seek with email ... Read More
Wildgrape NewsDesk 1.1 - More Juicy News and Newsy Juice
Monday July 14, 2003
After Pears, the fruity newsreader, here's the next RSS feed reader straight from the fruit bowl. The Windows system tray icon of Wildgrape NewsDesk in particular tastes good. But degust ... Read More
SpamGunner 1.11 - Now SobigGunner, Too
Monday July 14, 2003
SpamGunner, the anti-spam tool with the cruel name gets an update with
bug fixes, and it now
can block Sobig variants, too.
SpamGunner is a solid anti-spam tool for POP accounts. Unfortunately, SpamGunner's ... Read More
SlashDock 2.3.4 - A Dock for News
Monday July 14, 2003
Ready for a /review? Here come the headlines, docking to your Mac OS X sidebar:
SlashDock is a nice way to keep up with the latest headlines via the Mac OS ... Read More
Display the Message Source in Outlook Express
Monday July 14, 2003
If you're like me, you probably want things to -- simply -- work. But you're also curious and want to know what's happening behind the scenes (or you have to ... Read More
The Odyssey of Spam by JAMES_JOYCE
Sunday July 13, 2003
Apparently, it's true that nobody reads world literature any more (I've bought Ulysses, at least; currently and literally -- literally -- in search of lost time, though, so I'll probably ... Read More
Use Your Inbox as a To Do List
Sunday July 13, 2003
My Inbox is always fuller than full, and it's not because of spam. It's because I use it as a to-do list:
On the very top of your to do list, ... Read More
SharpReader 0.9.2.0 - The Gentleperson's Choice
Sunday July 13, 2003
They say gentlemen prefer SharpReader. Of course, there's no reason why ladies shouldn't enjoy it as well. Quite to the contrary, there's so much to like about SharpReader it's comfortably ... Read More
Pears 1.0.4 - The Fruity Taste of RSS Feeds
Sunday July 13, 2003
Desserts/Baking Guide Carroll Pellegrinelli has some great recipes with pears that have always made me envious. Now, finally, I can bring you something fruity, too: Pears, the RSS feed reader. ... Read More
Continue Editing a Message Draft in Hotmail
Sunday July 13, 2003
What if Mahler had used Hotmail to write his tenth symphony? Would he been able to finish it? Probably not. But here's how you can finish your unfinished email symphonies:
Finishing ... Read More
Block Messages from a Domain in Outlook Express
Saturday July 12, 2003
I'm not a fan of protectionism, but it's good to know how to block a domain in Outlook Express (just in case):
Put a ban on whole domains in Outlook Express ... Read More
Top 9 Windows RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators
Saturday July 12, 2003
Strike! BlogStreet Info Aggregator, NewsMonster PRO and Feedreader make the top... nine come full circle.
RSS feeds are a spam-free, quick and efficient way to read news and weblogs. To get ... Read More
Feedreader 2.5 Alpha
Saturday July 12, 2003
The news are hardly ever nice and clean, but an RSS feed reader should be so the path through the articles is a quick and easy hike:
Feedreader is a clean ... Read More
Find Somebody's Email Address Using soc.net-people
Saturday July 12, 2003
The email address is in the news, maybe. I know how frustrating it can be if you can't find the email address (or any other means of communication) of somebody ... Read More
Change a Message's Priority in PocoMail
Friday July 11, 2003
For some reason nobody ever seems to use message priorities. Does anybody have a theory what this reason is?
From poco to high priority. Here's how to change the priority of ... Read More
Emoticons Mail 1.16
Friday July 11, 2003
Emoticons don't just share most letters with emotions. Like these, smileys often evoke the wrong associations. But that can be amusing, too, and while I prefer ,-) and its plain ... Read More
Popcorn 1.45
Friday July 11, 2003
Popcorn, the tastiest email clients that fits on a floppy, gets an update and now
supports secure APOP log-ins and
lets you call an online spell checker easily.
Of course, there are also ... Read More
Eudora 6 Betas 6.0.0.12 and 6.0 b26
Friday July 11, 2003
The next round of Eudora 6 betas is available with some interesting new features to try and fixes to bugs from earlier beta releases.
Eudora 6.0.0.12 for Windows now includes:
A "Relay ... Read More
Make a Scrippy Container Adapt to the Window Size
Friday July 11, 2003
I love scalability. I want everything to work under all circumstances, adapting to new situations in a smart way. Of course, I never achieve this. Safe for containers in stationery ... Read More
Check Email on the Road with Mail2Web
Thursday July 10, 2003
While you are away from your computer, you don't have to be without email, and sure you don't want to?!
Mail2web provides secure and anonymous access to your POP or IMAP ... Read More
K9 1.0.9
Thursday July 10, 2003
K9 reaches version 1.0.9, and the very attention to details and useful improvements (there's APOP support, for example) that made K9 one of the very best anti-spam tools also make ... Read More
Getting Spammers off the Net
Thursday July 10, 2003
If ISPs, credit card companies and others enforced their acceptable usage policies and unplug spammers, spam would quickly end, writes Thomas Leavitt.
To be fair,
most ISPs do have and enforce AUPs ... Read More
NewsMonster PRO 1.0
Thursday July 10, 2003
NewsMonster, the RSS feed aggregator beast, is now available as a solid 1.0.
While I still think making Mozilla/Netscape Mail read RSS would have been the smarter path... if you have ... Read More
SpamGunner 1.10
Thursday July 10, 2003
Spam may be a nuisance, but gunning it down? With a tool that sometimes misses? SpamGunner asks first and shoots then, though. Usually.
SpamGunner is a solid anti-spam tool for POP ... Read More
Add a Sender to Your My Way Mail Address Book Quickly
Thursday July 10, 2003
Full address books are scary, but empty address books are even scarier. Here's how easy My Way Mail makes it to ensure yours is not empty:
In My Way Mail, you ... Read More
Dreams Stationery
Wednesday July 9, 2003
I've been reading a lot of Lacan lately, and what's Lacan without Freud? What's Freud without dreams? So:
›› Send emails destined to evoke sweet dreams. (Outlook, Outlook Express)
Choose ISPs by Their Spam Policy
Wednesday July 9, 2003
Another (very important) piece of the puzzle that getting rid of spam is:
Don't support spam-friendly Internet service providers.
Consumer Report's Top Anti-Spam Tools
Wednesday July 9, 2003
If you are still looking for the perfect solution to spam, or not satisfied with your current spam filtering tool, here's the Consumer Report's take.
Notably missing from the test
are Cloudmark ... Read More
The Perfect Solution. Including (but not Limited to) Spam, Viruses and Hoaxes
Wednesday July 9, 2003
Spam's consequences are manifold, and most of them are negative, annoying and dangerous. Or at least boring. But today The Register reports on the perfect solution to spam (and a ... Read More
PocoMail 3.0
Wednesday July 9, 2003
PocoMail 3.0 is available for download, and, as we've come to expect from the PocoMail team, it comes with lots of well thought-out new features and great enhancements (and a ... Read More
Label Messages Quickly in Opera
Wednesday July 9, 2003
We inadvertently put labels on everything ("interesting" - "cute" - "smart" - "too expensive") all the time. Why not make it official?
In Opera, you can mark messages important, for follow-up ... Read More
Forward Yahoo! Mail to Another Email Address
Tuesday July 8, 2003
I like Yahoo! Mail's web interface when I'm on the road, but at home I like to collect all mail in one account (I may have many email addresses but ... Read More
httpmail for Mac OS X Mail 1.21
Tuesday July 8, 2003
With this update, httpmail, the wonderful Mac OS X Mail plug-in that lets you access Hotmail, doesn't require you to restart any more after adding a new account:
Integrating well with ... Read More
Oddpost
Tuesday July 8, 2003
Now this is Oddpost! Did you know this great spam-free email service lets you read
RSS feeds, too?
Boasting a rich Web interface, superior Bayesian spam filters and support for RSS feeds, ... Read More
Print Only Part of a Message in PocoMail
Tuesday July 8, 2003
Do you print emails often? I've found that one of the reasons why I didn't do it was that I had not figured out how to print only part of ... Read More
BlogStreet Info Aggregator
Monday July 7, 2003
If you find RSS feed readers don't let you manage your news well enough, why not read it in your email client?
BlogStreet Info Aggregator is a great and highly recommended ... Read More
Sooner or Later, Everything Becomes Email
Monday July 7, 2003
Phill Wolff: Is your email program the ultimate microcontent manager?
Maybe it's not the "ultimate" tool to manage microcontent, but it's
the one everybody is using and
still getting better at allowing you ... Read More
How to Forward Emails Correctly
Monday July 7, 2003
Here's something to forward ;-)
Forwarding emails is a wonderful — and easy! — way of sharing thoughts, words, ideas, images and much more. Make sure your forwards arrive in a ... Read More
Specify a Default Stationery in Eudora
Monday July 7, 2003
"Stationery" stands for "message template" in Eudora, not for an Outlook-Express-like kind of stationery that can sing and dance. This Eudora stationery is very useful, though:
Set up a message template ... Read More
The Law, and the Tragedy, of Spam
Sunday July 6, 2003
Gary Turner, trying to figure out the (mathematical/economic) law of spam, writes:
Just because it doesn't cost you a bean to send 5 bajillion emails out every half hour doesn't mean ... Read More
Repeat Important Subject Information in the Body
Sunday July 6, 2003
I must confess, I hardly ever read the Subject of an email. If the message is from somebody I know I read it anway, if it's something from somebody I ... Read More
InboxShield 2.0.2
Sunday July 6, 2003
InboxShield gets a minor update, and is worth a look anyway (also check other great anti-spam plugins for Outlook):
InboxShield is a relatively competent, easy to use and feature-rich anti-spam tool. ... Read More
FeedDemon 1.0 Beta 2
Sunday July 6, 2003
In the second public beta of FeedDemon, you'll find
a memory leak fixed,
an easy(er) way to organize feeds in listings,
more flexible display options,
more bug fixes and
your settings reset (but your feeds ... Read More
Top 6 Windows RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators
Sunday July 6, 2003
Email clients should be taught to read RSS, that would solve many problems. Need further proof? The best RSS feed readers behave like (or are) email clients:
RSS feeds are a ... Read More
RSS Feeds are the Better Email Newsletters
Sunday July 6, 2003
Yeah, I know. Following the news via email has become a somewhat frustrating experience. Fortunately, there's help:
Have your favorite email newsletters stopped arriving because your ISP filters spam (and newsletters)? ... Read More
FeedDemon 1.0 Beta 1a
Sunday July 6, 2003
Nick Bradbury knows his stuff. And I'm happy to see further proof of the theory that a good RSS feed reader is, in fact, an email client. What does Nick ... Read More
AmphetaDesk 0.93.1
Sunday July 6, 2003
Will AmphetaDesk have a stimulating effect on your news reading with no adverse effects? Here's my review:
AmphetaDesk is a solid aggregator of RSS feeds and displays them in a highly ... Read More
Radio UserLand 8.0
Sunday July 6, 2003
I still remember when I first downloaded an early version of Radio UserLand. I was seriously confused. Now Radio UserLand is at version 8.0.8, and here's how it fares as ... Read More
NewsMonster FREE 1.0
Sunday July 6, 2003
If you like the power and versatility of Netscape and Mozilla, you may be disappointed (like me) to see NewsMonster makes no use of it. NewsMonster FREE has other qualities, ... Read More
Blago RSS Newsreader 0.92
Sunday July 6, 2003
Do you use a mail checker? Then you'll probably like the Blago RSS Newsreader, a mail checker for RSS feeds:
Blago RSS Newsreader is a tiny aggregator of RSS feeds. It ... Read More
NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.3
Sunday July 6, 2003
I love Mac OS X, and now I can read my RSS feeds on it in a useful way, too. I want more power, though:
NetNewsWire Lite is a simple way ... Read More
Waterfall Stationery
Sunday July 6, 2003
Waterfalls are perfect. They are usually embedded in breathtaking scenery, they are exciting, and they are relaxing. Taking photographs and eating is wonderful next to a waterfall, not to speak ... Read More
Move a Message to a Different Folder in Yahoo! Mail
Sunday July 6, 2003
In order to keep your Yahoo! Mail Inbox tidy, you've got to know how to move mail:
Here's a swift way to move one or even multiple messages at once from ... Read More
NewsGator 1.2
Saturday July 5, 2003
RSS feed readers either suck or try to duplicate the functionality of email clients. So the right thing should be making email clients read news via RSS (and maybe let ... Read More
Sort Your Filters in Yahoo! Mail
Saturday July 5, 2003
Filter order is always a tricky matter, and it's easy to lose control — filters not moving mail where it is supposed to go, and no explanation at hand. Here's ... Read More
Forward a Message as an Attachment with Outlook Express
Saturday July 5, 2003
It's really a pity that some email clients (still) seem confused by emails that are forwarded as attachments. But don't let that keep you from using it:
Use a clean and ... Read More
Find Messages in IncrediMail
Friday July 4, 2003
What was I looking for? Sometimes I start searching for something, forget what I've been looking for and forget to stop searching, too. Really!
Search your archive of email messages efficiently ... Read More
There, You Opted In! I've Seen It!
Friday July 4, 2003
Bill Allison found a funny quote about existing business relationships (which should permit you to send commercial emails until the customer opts out):
"some companies, like psycho ex-boyfriends, tend to see ... Read More
Disruptor OL 1.0.4.5
Friday July 4, 2003
Looking for a really thorough (if I were bitchy — or a curious Italian prime minister — I'd possibly say "German") approach to filtering spam? Then try Disruptor OL, a ... Read More
Use Current Antivirus Software, Keep it Up to Date
Friday July 4, 2003
Now with BitDefender AntiVirus, one of the best (albeit a bit slow) free online virus scanners:
Make sure you're not spreading worms and viruses via email or act as a vehicle ... Read More
Email is Dead
Friday July 4, 2003
Chris Pirillo, fed up by AOL blocking his Lockergnome newsletters (another good reason to kiss AOL good-bye: they're routinely censoring your email), again predicted — no: said — that email ... Read More
Don't: Do-Not-Spam List
Friday July 4, 2003
After the launch of the national do-not-call list, it is clear that many now want a do-not-spam list, too.
But apart from most probably being utterly useless, a do-not-spam list is ... Read More
Send a Plain Text Message with Netscape
Friday July 4, 2003
Mozilla prefers plain text emails, but Netscape leans towards the HTML version. Anyway:
Make sure you're not confusing older email programs or alienate recipients who don't like HTML messages by sending ... Read More
Reminder: McAfee SpamKiller for Free
Thursday July 3, 2003
Just a quick reminder:
If declaring July 4 the "Independence from Spam Day" doesn't turn you off and away, you can get a free copy of McAfee SpamKiller (which isn't the ... Read More
"A Simple Guide to Email" by Chris Shevlin
Thursday July 3, 2003
I enjoyed reading this book a lot, and I still enjoy referring to it now and then. It's always a pleasure:
Let an easy to read booklet show you how to ... Read More
SpamEater Pro 4.0.0
Thursday July 3, 2003
With version 4.0, SpamEater Pro gets a thorough overhaul and a new application emerges, built around the filters known from earlier versions. Time for a completely overhauled review:
SpamEater Pro is ... Read More
SpamWeed 1.3.6
Thursday July 3, 2003
Weeding through the list of updates for SpamWeed 1.3.6 I found
bug fixes
a revamped setup wizard
automatic db backups
a message preview pane
and still a capable, easy and solid anti-spam tool:
SpamWeed is a ... Read More
Send a Plain Text Only Email in Evolution
Thursday July 3, 2003
Ximian Evolution is getting better and better (though the recent switch to Gnome 2 has reduces the number of new features considerably). One of the things you get, for example, ... Read More
The Californian Anti-Spam Bill Race
Wednesday July 2, 2003
SB 186 by Sen. Kevin Murray has been endorsed by the Californian Assembly Business & Professions Committee yesterday while it canned SB 12 by Sen. Debra Bowen.
Both proposals are reasonable ... Read More
Survey: Spam is $874 per Employee and Year
Wednesday July 2, 2003
According to a report by Nucleus Research, spam costs about $874 per year per employee in lost productivity. The actual numbers may be higher (the time spent per person ranges ... Read More
Give a Sender Top Priority in Netscape
Wednesday July 2, 2003
Wouldn't it be nice if you could say the following to your friends? (You can:)
All your mail deserves highest priority, and that's why I have programmed Netscape (and Mozilla) to ... Read More
NapTime IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday July 2, 2003
Cats bet so much (tons of bowled down stuff and lots of cheese gone the way of catfood) on their cuteness — and it always works. Is this fair? Time ... Read More
Send a Plain Text Message in Outlook
Wednesday July 2, 2003
Do your friends use HTML emails when it's not necessary and don't even know they do? Here's a tip you can show them to help them send plain-text-only emails in ... Read More
Sending Email is Not Trespassing, After All
Tuesday July 1, 2003
The Supreme Court of California has decided (4-3) that Ken Hamidi, an Intel ex-employee cannot be barred from emailing his former co-workers.
Wired News, Ars Technica, CNN and The New York ... Read More
AllSpamGone 1.4.7
Tuesday July 1, 2003
Where has AllSpamGone? It has gone to version 1.4.7, which brings
bug fixes and
should work for users of EarthLink and Comcast.
Not the best anti-spam tool around, AllSpamGone is still worth a ... Read More
KidzMail 1.0.1
Tuesday July 1, 2003
An update to KidzMail has been released, bringing a number of
bug fixes.
What has not been fixed since 1.0 is how addictive it is to draw in this otherwise simple ... Read More
The World-Wide Spam Show (Stoppers)
Tuesday July 1, 2003
Reporting from the U.K. "spam summit", Reuters and the New Scientist note that
global legislation and
global technical solutions
both seem to be necessary conditions to stopping spam.
Indeed,
the type of legislation passed in ... Read More
Nine Strategies for Smart Email Marketing
Tuesday July 1, 2003
Let's not only talk about spam. There is also another side to commercial email, one that (just about) everybody can profit from:
Why you should never put "$$$" in your subject ... Read More
Knowspam.net
Tuesday July 1, 2003
Challenge-response seems to be the answer to spam du jour. Knowspam.net is another easy to use and (for now) effective service:
Knowspam.net is a particularly easy to use spam filtering service. ... Read More
Spammer: I'll Gladly Play by the Rules (if They're Mine)
Tuesday July 1, 2003
It's always interesting to see spammers talk about spam. I'm not sure he believes this himself, but Ronnie Scelson would like to bulk email in a legitimate way. Unfortunately, existing ... Read More
When in Doubt, Send Plain Text Email, Not HTML
Tuesday July 1, 2003
I'm not a huge fan of HTML emails, at least not if the power of formatting and design is used to render the email illegible. I have no problem with ... Read More
Mozilla 1.4
Tuesday July 1, 2003
Not long after Netscape 7.1, Mozilla 1.4 is released. Bug fixes aside, not too much is new on the mail/news front:
Better junk mail filtering interface.
You can specify a default font ... Read More