Aliencamel - Address Nomads
Wednesday December 31, 2003
An old year end with a new camel: Aliencamel, the desert-proof and spam-free email service, gets a number of interesting updates, among them web-based access to your emails, disposable email ... Read More
Munite - Saving Cord
Wednesday December 31, 2003
It's easy to get lost in the dark woods of email. A newsletter here, a personal reply there, new threads everywhere -- it takes some email client wit (a bit ... Read More
Happy New Year Stationery
Wednesday December 31, 2003
Like Champaign when it's sparkling; like laughter when it's bursting; like fireworks when they fire confetti displays the countless happy faces of joy:
›› Wish a Happy New Year and throw ... Read More
Create an Email Signature in FastMail
Wednesday December 31, 2003
Do you have a new-year's-signature for your new-year's-emails? In FastMail, you can't use stationery or letters, but you can set up a special signature for your special greetings and wishes:
Signatures ... Read More
MailPriority 1.4 - Color Me Important
Tuesday December 30, 2003
With the latest update, MailPriority, the Mac OS X Mail plug-in that shows a certain urgency, gets the power to color-code messages according to their priority.
MailPriority adds support for message ... Read More
SentThere - OpenedToo?
Tuesday December 30, 2003
Have I turned off the iron? Did I lock the door?
Of course, these obsessive-compulsive-neurotic questions are the right ones. You can never be sure of anything. But you don't need ... Read More
New Year's Festoon IncrediMail Letter
Tuesday December 30, 2003
Mars may be an attractive destination, but our closest neighbor has always been the moon. He or she visits us every night, has seen many a loving couple, causes tides, ... Read More
Add Members to a Distribution List in Outlook
Tuesday December 30, 2003
Nothing is not nothing. Or, at least it is what it is when it is nothing. A list without members is a lot less than that. Fortunately, it's easy to ... Read More
Spam Manager 1.0.2 - New Management Ideas
Monday December 29, 2003
Spam Manager, the bureaucratic spam filter, has been updated a few times with, for example, Hotmail support and custom filters. It's still not a particularly convincing anti-spam tool:
Spam Manager can ... Read More
Send a File Attachment with IncrediMail
Monday December 29, 2003
It's the cyanoacrylate that makes super glue so super and attach to anything that has a minimum amount of water.
To attach any file to any email in IncrediMail you need ... Read More
Classify the Unclassified in POPFile
Monday December 29, 2003
Isn't it fascinating that a rule that says: "when in doubt, do this" works? How do we know when we are -- or, rather, when we are not -- in ... Read More
Mercury/32 4.01a - Winged Messenger
Sunday December 28, 2003
What David Harris has created over the years is not only still free but, most of all, really impressive: a powerful messaging package with one of the best email clients ... Read More
Calypso - Do the Email Dance
Sunday December 28, 2003
Calypso, a Greek nymph has inspired -- at least -- a music style and dance and a swinging email program:
Calypso is a powerful and versatile email client, a great alternative ... Read More
Happy New Year IncrediMail Letter
Sunday December 28, 2003
When old turns new, when one turns two, then we are aware of what we usually don't pay attention to: life is always in between yesterday and tomorrow, between separation ... Read More
Subscribe to an RSS Feed in FeedDemon
Sunday December 28, 2003
Your favorite food? Color? Island? Season? Spice? Showing lots of social intelligence, FeedDemon doesn't query for these. It loves to check your favorite RSS feeds, though.
While FeedDemon comes with a ... Read More
POPMonitor 2.1.3 - Better Monitoring
Saturday December 27, 2003
POPMonitor, plus-qu'un-moniteur, is updated. Now, it comes with even more smart (spam) filter examples, handles encoded characters better (to better detect spam...) and supports Mac OS X Mail 1.3 and ... Read More
The mbox Format
Saturday December 27, 2003
Have you ever seen a line starting with ">From" in an email and wondered why on earth the sender put that there? This is one of the cases that make ... Read More
Adjust Matador's Filtering Sensitivity to your Tastes
Saturday December 27, 2003
All spam is equal. But is your spam necessarily my spam, too?
If you hate Casino ads but don't want to miss any get-rich-quick schemes while you fully trust the Matador ... Read More
New Year Mice Stationery
Friday December 26, 2003
Even if you can't dance, you can. At least that's what I tell myself before I jump (and shake; and swing; and links-waltz; and jump; and fall) into the night ... Read More
Kerio MailServer 5.7.4 - SendmailServer
Friday December 26, 2003
Kerio MailServer, the fully featured mail server that also does faxes, gets an update. Together with a few bug fixes version 5.7.4 brings a sendmail-like command-line tool for Mac OS ... Read More
Confimax - Confimaxed Delivery
Friday December 26, 2003
We always want to know for sure... or (because we know -- for sure -- there's not much we can ever know -- for sure) well enough, at least:
Receive a ... Read More
Summarize a Long Email Message in Mac OS X Mail
Friday December 26, 2003
Monty-Pythonites know the man who says things in a roundabout way. Of course, we all know the people who email things in a roundabout way:
This email is long but seems ... Read More
Fastbuzz News - I'm in the News Buzzness!
Thursday December 25, 2003
"Buzz" is an onomatopoetic word, coined from, I don't know, the buzzing of bees maybe. But then onomatopoios, the Greek root of onomatopoetic means "maker of names", so the slick ... Read More
Change the Yahoo! Mail Interface Color
Thursday December 25, 2003
What's hot and alta moda for next summer? What's cool and prête-à-porter for next winter? Following fashion trends is easier in Yahoo! Mail than it is with your wardrobe (though ... Read More
Compose and Send an Email Message in Outlook Express
Thursday December 25, 2003
Solving the Black-Scholes equation, reading Homer in ancient Greek or installing a new floor: you'll find somebody who'll say "this is easy!" to any of these activities.
Not so with sending ... Read More
Christmas Eve IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday December 24, 2003
There are songs about summer nights, and everybody seems to hate it when it gets dark so early in winter. Yet, winter nights, especially the one before Christmas are wonderful ... Read More
Advanced Spam Defense 1.0 - Zahlen Sie!
Wednesday December 24, 2003
What I'm trying to do here is telling you stories that add some aura, a cultural surplus value to, let's face it, rather boring, stale and uninspiring communication software. As ... Read More
Send a Message to a Group of Recipients with Hotmail
Wednesday December 24, 2003
According to systems theory, every system has a number of attractors -- (temporarily) stable states. Transition from one attractor to another happens by chance, as each individual performs lots of ... Read More
Add a Sender or Domain to the ASD Clean List
Wednesday December 24, 2003
Use Advanced Spam Defense's advanced spam filters on junk mailers, but not on friends and newsletters.
SpamSieve 2.1 - Sieve Me, I am Spam
Tuesday December 23, 2003
Advent has brought an update to SpamSieve, which, in turn, has brought more power to its black/white lists (they support regexps now and can look everywhere), an instructive "Training Tip" ... Read More
textSOAP for Mac - Tidy up
Tuesday December 23, 2003
Sure, "clean" is just one form of organization. "Jumbled" is another. Still, I prefer emails clean and easy to read:
If you want your emails, replies and forwards to look clean ... Read More
Compose a Message in The Bat! with a System-Wide Shortcut
Tuesday December 23, 2003
The shortest distance between two points doesn't have to be a straight line, not in Einstein's theory of relativity, and not in The Bat!:
Discover the shortest distance between anywhere and ... Read More
mailMaker 1.1.1 - Make it or Mail it
Monday December 22, 2003
Mail you later -- much later maybe, because mailMaker is an interesting bulk email tool that manages to send emails in bulk, but separately.
mailMaker is a simple and easy to ... Read More
Toggle Remote Image Downloading in PocoMail
Monday December 22, 2003
If somebody strives to have a "good image", they want you to believe in an artificial layer that is not their true self. Of course, the self is not more ... Read More
Whitelist a Domain in G-Lock SpamCombat
Monday December 22, 2003
Do you get newsletters that look a lot like spam? Or any other kind of mail that you want receive no matter what?
Here's how to whitelist a domain in G-Lock ... Read More
Poppy 5.0.0 - Selexion Rulez
Sunday December 21, 2003
No, I don't want to maintain a Darwinian perspective on software, email, spam or anything. Rather, the latest update of Poppy, introduces selection rules, which let you select certain types ... Read More
Exclude a Folder from The Bat!'s MailTicker
Sunday December 21, 2003
If The Bat! is a news wire, having the MailTicker run all mail from all folders is like trying to read all press releases. I need a filter:
Stop The Bat! ... Read More
Snow Window Stationery
Sunday December 21, 2003
Looking out of the window, what can you see? Is it snow? Look closer! I bet there's also deer... and isn't that Santa hiding in that corner?
›› This stationery opens ... Read More
Remove the Spam Inspector Email Signature
Sunday December 21, 2003
Apple sticker yay. Spam Inspector signature nay. Errorwear t-shirt yay. Spam Inspector signature nay.
If you like Spam Inspector, but not so much that you want to advertise for it in ... Read More
Favorite IncrediMail Letters for Christmas
Saturday December 20, 2003
Have yourself an incredible little Christmas! And if you use one of the many wonderful IncrediMail letters for Christmas, you can easily share it even with those far away.
›› Here ... Read More
Send a Christmas Tree via Email
Saturday December 20, 2003
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum,
How are thy leaves so verdant!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
Much ASCII art doth thou bring me!
Add a small Christmas tree to your emails.
Set up a Distribution List in Outlook
Saturday December 20, 2003
Have you just (successfully) made a quiche Lorraine? Have you developed your first photo? Have you found a ground-breaking formula for disposable socks?
How good you've set up a mailing list ... Read More
eMail Verifier 1.3 - Analyze This Quickly!
Friday December 19, 2003
eMail Verifier, the comprehensive I-check-every-address-till-it's-valid Mac address verification tool, gets an update that makes it not only faster but also more flexible and configurable:
eMail Verifier checks email addresses reliably, precisely ... Read More
Group Mail Free - Mass Mail for the Masses
Friday December 19, 2003
The dynamics of groups and teams: difficult. Sending mail to a group of people: easy.
›› If you want to send personalized emails to a (not too large) group of people, ... Read More
Compose Replies Efficiently with the PocoMail Quote Bar
Friday December 19, 2003
Trying to cite internet resources correctly isn't always easy, and neither is quoting original messages in email replies. Never? No, the fearless PocoMail "Quote Bar" tackles the quotation monster with ... Read More
G-Lock SpamCombat 1.0 - Combayes
Thursday December 18, 2003
Spam combat a WOMBAT? Far from it!
G-Lock SpamCombat is a comprehensive and competent Bayesian spam filter that can make use of DNS blacklists, too. (Windows)
Send a Mail to All Address Book Entries in Outlook Express
Thursday December 18, 2003
If you mail everybody you know, and those mailed by you mail everybody they know, and if those mailed by those you know mail everybody they know, and so on ... Read More
Xmas Winter Village Stationery
Thursday December 18, 2003
Kitsch. Kitsch it is. Yet the kitsch in this stationery coincides with my experience of Christmas as a child (only the church and the houses looked a bit different), and ... Read More
Print Emails Including Header Information from IncrediMail
Thursday December 18, 2003
Dear IncrediMail,
similar to the weather forecast, which is not so useful without a date (though the difference may be marginal), an email's body is not so useful without some meta-info:
›› ... Read More
Santa and Reindeer Stationery
Wednesday December 17, 2003
Because he knows that worldly fame can never fill the void it is supposed to fill — he knows how all his marketing-example-making imitations fare and he knows the story ... Read More
Mark All Messages Read Quickly in The Bat!
Wednesday December 17, 2003
I read at an incredibly slow pace -- with the exception of emails, of course, which I read without even blinking:
Discover the most rapid reading technique in The Bat!, which ... Read More
Favorite Outlook Express Stationery for Christmas
Wednesday December 17, 2003
Christmas, that's lots of crunching snow beneath your feet and the clear sky; that's cold air that smells like — Christmas; that's cookies and hot chocolate. Christmas, that's also a ... Read More
Make Matador Learn from the Spam and Good Mail You Get
Wednesday December 17, 2003
Spinoza says: "omnis determinatio est negatio" - all definition is differentiation. Matador says: "show me your good mail and I'll know your spam."
Boost MailFrontier Matador's spam detection rate for you ... Read More
Create Attachments via Drag-and-Drop in Outlook
Tuesday December 16, 2003
To convey a file, dispatch it on Outlook for it to be shipped in an email.
Create a new email with an attachment the easy way in Outlook.
Outlook 2003 Spam Filter Update: KB832333
Tuesday December 16, 2003
The (surprisingly capable) spam filter built into Outlook 2003 gets updated junk mail definitions/patterns to further increase its accuracy. The update carries the distinctive name "KB832333" and can be downloaded ... Read More
Joyeux Noël IncrediMail Letter
Tuesday December 16, 2003
How about a French Christmas? Christmas with bûche de Noël, much more great food, Reveillon and, of course, Papa Noël:
›› Wish Merry Christmas with a French appeal, and a really ... Read More
Allow a Domain in Eliminate Spam!
Tuesday December 16, 2003
That which is not allowed is forbidden.
To make sure Eliminate Spam! does not eliminate your favorite newsletters or mail from known senders from your Outlook Inbox, here's how to whitelist ... Read More
RSS Bandit 1.2.0.61 - Find Me if You Can
Monday December 15, 2003
Never shy of accumulating feature wealth, RSS Bandit now lets you search your feeds easily, is more security-conscious by default, supports the feed:// URI scheme, has an updated interface and ... Read More
Forward a Message Quickly in Mac OS X Mail
Monday December 15, 2003
I'm.. I must... Forwarding! Sorry, I'm a bit hysterical. This is so fast!
Keyboard! Fast forward! Mac OS X Mail! Quick!
Add an Animation to Your Signature in Outlook Express
Monday December 15, 2003
I love short films just as I love short stories. I also write short (in the sense of too short, unshortunally) papers. And, of course, I'll have a short animation ... Read More
SpamCop for Mail 1.3.1 - Install
Sunday December 14, 2003
The latest update to SpamCop for Mail, the Mail bundle that makes life so difficult for spammers, brings the option to delete junk emails after they have been reported and, ... Read More
Thread Message Lists in The Bat!
Sunday December 14, 2003
Subject line changes when the topic has not changed, emails that have been sent 5 minutes ago and claim to be from 2143 or 1985 and multiple email discussions all ... Read More
Merry Clickmas Stationery
Sunday December 14, 2003
I've never seen a mouse eat one of those delicious Christmas cookies (not even my beloved Rauhnigel), but I'm sure they love them, too. Cats adore them, and cats like ... Read More
Select Multiple Messages Easily in Mac OS X Mail
Sunday December 14, 2003
We measure time using motion, and we measure speed using time (and chocolate in a microwave, of course). Notwithstanding such circularities, Mac OS X Mail lets you select messages fast ... Read More
Serial Mail 2.1 - Bulk Mail
Saturday December 13, 2003
An ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is not required to send serial mail with Mac OS X Mail and the Mac OS X Address Book, but Serial Mail is:
Serial Mail ... Read More
See What Mac OS X Mail is Doing in the Background
Saturday December 13, 2003
Who wouldn't want to hear and see what's going on behind one's back? ... Yes, me too.
See what Mac OS X Mail is doing when it thinks you're not looking ... Read More
Add a Sender or Domain to the SpamDrop Whitelist
Saturday December 13, 2003
For some reason I cannot pin down, "SpamDrop" reminds me of that Babybird song "You're Gorgeous" (to be found on "Ugly Beautiful") -- and I don't even remember if I ... Read More
Lockergnome News Feeder - Really Simple
Friday December 12, 2003
Does "RSS" mean "rich site summary" or "really simple syndication"? In this struggle between simple and rich, Lockergnome News Feeder is positioned on one side, pronouncedly:
Lockergnome News Feeder makes it ... Read More
Print a Message You Are Composing in Outlook Express
Friday December 12, 2003
I'd Bcc the email to myself and then print it. But there's also a more subtle, honest and complicated way to print an email you're just composing in Outlook Express:
Outlook ... Read More
Add an Email Address or Domain to Your Spam Sleuth Friends
Friday December 12, 2003
Know your friends (like yourself), and make Spam Sleuth know them, too.
Here's how to add individual email address or complete domains to Spam Sleuth's white list of senders whose messages ... Read More
No Spam Today! for Workstations 1.0 - A Better Tomorrow, Today
Thursday December 11, 2003
Spam-stalled station?
No-spam stallion.
Work!
No Spam Today! for Workstations provides easy to set up and use yet precise and transparent junk mail filtering for POP email accounts. (Windows)
Set Outlook as Your Default Email Program
Thursday December 11, 2003
Clicking on an email address in your browser, sending a file via email, sharing web sites through email messages,... If you use Outlook for email, all this should -- and ... Read More
Add a Sender or Domain to the Friends List in Spam Inspector
Thursday December 11, 2003
True, lasting friendship, according to Aristotle, is grounded in virtue. It has its end in itself, each friend desires what is best for the friend -- like their emails not ... Read More
Winter Wonderland Stationery
Wednesday December 10, 2003
Can't you help humming Felix Bernard's Winter Wonderland whenever you read "winter wonderland"? I had to perform this song in elementary school with my teachers, and it has been haunting ... Read More
KidzMail 1.2 - What a Lovely Preview!
Wednesday December 10, 2003
With version 1.2, KidzMail, the lovely email client for young and old kids, comes to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and thumbnails of pictures in received emails can now be ... Read More
SweetMail - Email Sweetie
Wednesday December 10, 2003
Sweet tooth or Marvin Gaye? Both can be combined wonderfully with each other, and with this nice lovely little sweet email client:
SweetMail is a sweet and small email client that ... Read More
Can Spam Effectively with the Outlook Junk Mail Filter
Wednesday December 10, 2003
Say, who wants to bring out the junk? I'd love some help preparing the champignons, too.
Have Outlook make up your Inbox. Here's how to get the most out of Outlook's ... Read More
The Bat! 2.02 Christmas Edition - Red-Nosed Folder
Tuesday December 9, 2003
You know it's Christmas when the cinnamon-rich aroma of Christmas cookies fills the air -- and when Rodica, the red-capped bat, starts to deliver Christmas goodies to email users. In ... Read More
Navigate Through Messages Quickly in Opera
Tuesday December 9, 2003
Fast and faster, quick and quicker
While my mailbox still gets thicker.
Race through your Opera mailbox in 15 seconds or less.
Add a Sender or Domain to the Lockspam Whitelist
Tuesday December 9, 2003
It was a really bizarre campaign run by Transport for London last year that showed pride in Orwellian surveillance. Apparently, it was not satire, though, at least not throughout. Or ... Read More
Get Mail 2.2 - Get Your Mail Together
Monday December 8, 2003
Bridge building is a fascinating part of architecture, and easily exploitable for metaphors. I'm sure you have seen this (or a similar) photo of the (over-constructed) Forth railway bridge in ... Read More
Make it Easy for Web Site Visitors to Email You
Monday December 8, 2003
With your web site, you can find customers, old friends, a job or new love. What you need in any case is a way that makes it easy for visitors ... Read More
Prevent Qurb from Showing a Window When You Open its Folder
Monday December 8, 2003
Do you find it annoying that Qurb pops up a window when you visit the "Qurb" folder?
Here's how to turn that off.
Bloglines - Internacia
Sunday December 7, 2003
Another round of Bloglines updates, another round of nice ideas. Now you can sort bookmarked news items in folders, too -- don't you wish, just a bit, there were more ... Read More
Get Fast Access to the Netscape or Mozilla Mail Window
Sunday December 7, 2003
Imagine operating a harpsichord (to play one of those wonderful Italian dances, for example) by pointing to the keys with a mouse-like device. That doesn't sound good? Fortunately, we have ... Read More
Presents -- Presents IncrediMail Letter
Sunday December 7, 2003
Presents should really be just that: presents. Not bribery, not compensation, not routine and not obligation.
And if you are agonizing over what to give, there is always the old golden ... Read More
Add People to a Group Easily in PocoMail
Sunday December 7, 2003
The relationships of human beings and (their) things are manifold and complex, oscillating between ads that either tell you that cheap is good or that expensive is good, between a ... Read More
Enigmail 0.82.3 - Easy Encryption
Saturday December 6, 2003
Enigmail, the enigmatic email plug-in for Mozilla and Thunderbird, is updated. With the same robust encryption, Enigmail is now easier to use and mimics the (built-in) S/MIME support much better:
Enigmail ... Read More
AK-Mail - Small, Secure, Superb
Saturday December 6, 2003
The "AK" in AK-Mail has nothing to do with the beautiful U.S. state of Alaska, and it doesn't refer to firearms either. A and K are the initials of the ... Read More
Use Rich HTML Formatting in Your Outlook Express Signature
Saturday December 6, 2003
My home is not too far from the "shocking" Goldman and Salatsch Building (which everybody here knows only as "Loos Haus"). I like its functionalism and its simplicity (Adolf Loos, ... Read More
Yahoo! Messenger 5.6 - IMVironmentalist
Friday December 5, 2003
Instant coffee, instant replay, instant gratification, instant messaging. Which out of these is Yahoo! Messenger up to?
›› Yahoo! Messenger is a complete messaging solution that integrates text and voice messages, ... Read More
Make Outlook Dial Your ISP Automatically
Friday December 5, 2003
Are contact lenses a flirt-inducing tool? Why are there no contact glasses? What a great outlook for establishing contact:
Connect your Outlook automatically whenever it needs an Internet connection — to ... Read More
Exclude an Account from Automatic Checking in Eudora
Friday December 5, 2003
I like to save the best for last. When I was a child, my mom thought I loved the spinach and broccoli most because I ate them first -- and ... Read More
eVerify 1.0 - Verify Before You Mail
Thursday December 4, 2003
In the past, I've urged you to take a look at surreal films and Buddhist art.
Now, I want you to verify that Danko Jones are (is!) worth being looked at, ... Read More
View All Headers in IncrediMail
Thursday December 4, 2003
Even if a message's body is not interesting, email headers can tell you a lot. About spam, for example.
Ah, those boring lines! See them all in IncrediMail.
PocoMail 3.0.3 - Happy Nuances
Thursday December 4, 2003
Don't let the version number fool you. But then, of course, you can't be fooled because you know it is the little things that make or break an application.
There are ... Read More
Find Your Reply to an Email Fast in Mac OS X Mail
Thursday December 4, 2003
Was my reply diplomatically correct? Have I made my point clear? Did I exaggerate? I guess I'd rather not find out. Alas, if it wasn't so easy!
To find out whether ... Read More
Night Before Christmas Stationery
Wednesday December 3, 2003
It's only three weeks before...
›› ...'tis the night before Christmas, and the presents are as neatly wrapped as this stationery looks. (Outlook, Outlook Express)
MacSignify - Pretty Significant
Wednesday December 3, 2003
Your signature doesn't profit much if it varies a lot -- unless it is your email signature, of course:
MacSignify is a nice utility that constructs a random signature for use ... Read More
MSN Hotmail - Not Junk
Wednesday December 3, 2003
MSN Hotmail, the email service whose second name is "Ubiquity" (everybody has a Hotmail address, right?), gets an update that is part cosmetic -- Hotmail now looks a lot like ... Read More
Make Hotmail Indent Original Text in Replies with '>'
Wednesday December 3, 2003
It's a matter of good manners to include the original text when you compose a reply. It's also a matter of good manners to indent this text with '>' characters.
Here's ... Read More
MrPostman 1.0.2 - Webmail Collector
Tuesday December 2, 2003
Please MrPostman look and see
If there's a Hotmail, a Yahoo!Mail for me:
MrPostman offers a simple and useful interface to a number of webmail services (including Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail) that ... Read More
Thread Messages in Eudora
Tuesday December 2, 2003
"You will need sharp scissors, a sewing needle and thread" to thread a needle. To display emails in threads with Eudora, you just need this tip. Now "slip the thread ... Read More
Make NewsGator Check for News Periodically, Automatically
Tuesday December 2, 2003
Here's the feature that makes using an RSS feed reader like NewsGator so useful:
Let NewsGator check for new news (periodically and all automatically, all on its own) so you don't ... Read More
Start The Bat! in a Specific Folder
Monday December 1, 2003
When I grab my newspaper in the morning, I head straight to the op-ed section. If you open a certain folder every time you start The Bat!, this is for ... Read More
Protect Your IncrediMail Identity with a Password
Monday December 1, 2003
The household member who fetches the mail holds a position of incredible power. Letters that will have never arrived or unscrupulous use of insider info from steam opened envelopes are ... Read More