Emoticons Mail 2.0 - Valentine's Emoticons
Saturday January 31, 2004
EmoMail comes with a new and nicer (though a bit gory?) interface, you can add your personal favorites to the "Favorites" category -- from the new Valentine's Day emoticons, maybe, ... Read More
Use Your Business Card (vCard) in Outlook Express
Saturday January 31, 2004
If a business card is only the size of an iPod mini, but contains a fraction of its data, what can you do with a vCard that has no size ... Read More
Customize the PocoMail Toolbar
Saturday January 31, 2004
When you move into a new house or apartment, the most sacred room — the kitchen — is the first to be stuffed, but the dictate of the hurry that ... Read More
RSS-News 1.1 - News By, For and About RSS
Friday January 30, 2004
"The real news of the day," writes J. Lileks in the introductory notes to his classy collection of classical newspaper ads, "as it pertains to the lives of the people ... Read More
Save a Copy of a Sent Message in Hotmail
Friday January 30, 2004
Researchers at Stanford University using fMRI have recently shown a neurobiological basis to (what they think is) repressing memories. Hotmail lacks this essential human capacity. Which proofs it is not ... Read More
Sort Mail by Status in MailWasher
Friday January 30, 2004
Is social standing universal? Does your status show everywhere? Are people sorted neatly by prestige wherever they happen (or -- if that's indeed the case -- rather not happen) to ... Read More
Mail.appetizer 0.9 - Mail d'Oeuvre
Thursday January 29, 2004
"Thrushes made of pastry and stuffed with nuts and raisins, quinces with spines sticking out so that they looked like sea-urchins. All this would have been endurable enough had ... Read More
Compress Folders Now and Then in The Bat!
Thursday January 29, 2004
Isn't it fascinating how hard disks work like boxes that open to an ever vaster area inside but get increasingly smaller outside? Still, space is limited, so it matters what ... Read More
Request a Return Receipt in Eudora
Thursday January 29, 2004
I'd love to find out just what gravity, the mystery force, is. Or, if that doesn't work, I'd like to know if you got my mail, at least:
›› Want to ... Read More
Happy Valentine's Day Stationery
Wednesday January 28, 2004
If we try to get the really big picture, it becomes meticulously small. It's the important people we remember, some special moments, more precisely, with some special people:
›› For Valentine's ... Read More
Traylook 1.5.0 - Look! New Mail!
Wednesday January 28, 2004
If you know that you forgot something, what is it that you forgot? How paradoxical is it to say: "Ah, I forgot that!"? To make sure you don't forget to ... Read More
Send Email from a PHP Script
Wednesday January 28, 2004
If you're not doing Lisp just now:
›› One function is all you need to send an email from a PHP script.
Enable Message Threading Globally in KMail
Wednesday January 28, 2004
sure you lie
thin conversation
and a
dark flying when tale landscapes together
of gleaming pattern
and
again was
This poem has not been blessed with a long life at Darwinian Poetry, but I like it much ... Read More
SlashDock 2.3.7 - SlashDocking Usenet News
Tuesday January 27, 2004
SlashDock, the news dock, is updated with a few less spectacular fixes and the cool ability to read Usenet newsgroups via Google Groups as RSS feeds:
SlashDock is a nice way ... Read More
Set the Page Title of Stationery in Scrippy
Tuesday January 27, 2004
The rightful use of the names/terms (which refer to relationships before anything else), that's one of the core problems for confucianism. Now name your stationery properly:
Even stationery needs a name, ... Read More
Find Feeds that Interest You in NewsGator
Tuesday January 27, 2004
You know they must be out there. Somewhere.
But it's all wrong.
The good feeds are in NewsGator.
Looking for a few good feeds? Here's how to search NewsGator's vast directory of channels ... Read More
Mulberry 3.1.1 - Berry-colored Labels
Monday January 26, 2004
Mulberry, the IMAP client unfortunately still lacking the interface, has been updated with useful message labels and just as useful S/MIME cryptography.
Manage your email with Mulberry, an incredibly powerful and ... Read More
Wondering "How to Put That in Writing", Write "That"
Monday January 26, 2004
"Ah, yes, I've understood!" - "Great, can you tell me?" - "No."
Obviously, this doesn't work. But if you can tell it, you can write it, too:
Tell it like it is. ... Read More
Block Images in Emails with My Way Mail
Monday January 26, 2004
While chocolate can be good for your painting, pictures can be bad for your privacy:
Images in emails can be nice, but they can also be slow, offensive and a privacy ... Read More
Scribe 1.86 - Learned Email Client
Sunday January 25, 2004
i.Scribe and InScribe, the unexpected email champs, have seen many updates lately. Most prominently, you can now share calendars and schedule events, request and return read receipts, thread messages logically ... Read More
Becky! Internet Mail - Email Kicks
Sunday January 25, 2004
Japan has an intensive relation with Becks (soccer player). Becky!, in return, really kicks email like Beckham (good film, they say).
Becky! Internet Mail is one of the best email clients ... Read More
Valentine's Day Heart Stationery
Sunday January 25, 2004
How do you find out whether an animal is self-aware? Mark it with a dye above their eyebrow and let it see the reflection in a mirror, argued Gordon Gallup. ... Read More
Sort Your Subscriptions Alphabetically in Bloglines
Sunday January 25, 2004
Deadkeys, which produce no character on their own but only if followed by another key (like '´' and '^', which you'd usually use to type 'é' or 'ô') offer a ... Read More
Mail Overseer 1.3.2 - Uberfilter?
Saturday January 24, 2004
2004 is the "International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition".
Can this overseer help you get spam-free?
Mail Overseer is a basic spam filter that uses Bayesian analysis ... Read More
Add a File Attachment to a Message in Pegasus Mail
Saturday January 24, 2004
Does anybody have an idea why (on earth) apples often come with little stickers on them, attached with a glue that is super-glued to the peeling (the part of apples ... Read More
Make Sure HTML and Plain Text Parts Have Corresponding Content
Saturday January 24, 2004
Why "your email client does not support HTML, please upgrade" can backfire:
To make it more difficult for spam to fool them, spam filters check that the plain text and HTML ... Read More
Merak Mail Server 7.0.1 - More Spam Challenges
Friday January 23, 2004
Merak Mail Server, the uberserver is ever more becoming an uberdruberserver. The latest version update brings many enhancements to the Bayesian spam filtering, which can challenge unknown senders of emails ... Read More
Insert a Picture in an IncrediMail Message
Friday January 23, 2004
I've recently talked to a friend about how Freud might have imagined the censor that keeps forbidden memories and thoughts from entering the conscious. Must have a pretty good (though ... Read More
Read All Mail in Plain Text in Outlook
Friday January 23, 2004
Hi-fi purists are a funny lot, and if they're after the enlightening experience of music in which there is nothing but music they have a worthy goal -- a goal ... Read More
Popcorn 1.60 - Address Muncher
Thursday January 22, 2004
Popcorn, the email client that will survive the floppy disk (Sony introduced the 3 1/2" floppy in 1981) that it fits on, is updated with a bare bones address book ... Read More
AOL Doesn't Want Spammers to Use @AOL.COM Addresses
Thursday January 22, 2004
AOL has started implementing SPF, Sender Permitted From.
Under this new extension of SMTP, a domain owner specifies which IP addresses mail using the domain name in the From: address can ... Read More
Create a Message Template in Eudora
Thursday January 22, 2004
Lending routine messages a creative touch that they often lack, message templates are called "stationery" (from "stationer", by the way, which referred to a bookshop in the Middle Ages when ... Read More
Associate IncrediMail with EML Files
Thursday January 22, 2004
"Let him [man] with the utmost power of his discourse make me understand upon what foundation he hath built," says Michel de Montaigne in a famous essai, "those great advantages ... Read More
Valentine's Day Message Stationery
Wednesday January 21, 2004
The medium is the message? Nah, can't be. The word starts with an 'l'. But then which year was it that "The Medium is the Message" originally published in? It ... Read More
MailBell - Lord of the Ring
Wednesday January 21, 2004
I'm sure some of you remember (or use?) OS/2. If you do, you probably also remember ZOC (and, of course, EDM/2 including the ground-breaking series "Introduction to PM Programming" by ... Read More
PostSmile 2.1 - PermaSmile
Wednesday January 21, 2004
After post-prae-neo-modern Kanto-Lao-tsean anti-structuralism, are we ready for postsmilism?
›› PostSmile comes with a solid collection of smileys, and expanding it with either your own graphics or additional packs is just ... Read More
Insert a Favorite Place Easily in an Email with AOL
Wednesday January 21, 2004
The shareholder who owns part of a corporation with limited risk and no immediate responsibility can be a problem, not necessarily personally, but as an institution, because it does not ... Read More
NewsGator 2.0 - It's the Services!
Tuesday January 20, 2004
NewsGator, the news-getter for Outlook is updated -- a lot under the hood, but most visibly with a bright new NewsPage and great integration with NGOS for automatic subscription synchronization. ... Read More
Create a Signature in PocoMail
Tuesday January 20, 2004
I think everybody should have a special winter signature. When it's cold outside and all the blood concentrates on keeping my inner organs at a temperature above the freezing point, ... Read More
Find out What POPFile is Thinking about a Word
Tuesday January 20, 2004
I just misread the title above as "...is thinking about the world."
Of course, there's truth to every Freudian slip, and here it may be on a more superficial -- thus ... Read More
NewsGator Online Services
Monday January 19, 2004
"Chicken, cow, grass. Which of these terms go together?"
This is one of the problems used by Richard Nisbett and others to investigate how thought patterns and styles differ between cultures. ... Read More
Watch Out for Those Checkboxes
Monday January 19, 2004
One of Freud's most compelling texts is Negation, a short essay on how things that usually were not allowed into your conscious can pass the censor if they are negated ... Read More
Mark a Message for Deletion Quickly in MailWasher
Monday January 19, 2004
Since the late 70s of the 19th century, keyboard layout has not changed much. Allegedly, the Qwerty layout we still use today (well, I'm using the German Qwerz layout, of ... Read More
MailMonitor 1.13 - Read my SMTP
Sunday January 18, 2004
As a kid, I was fascinated by the earth-satellite telecommunications station in Aflenz. Not only is it beautifully designed by Gustav Peichl, it also has this exciting appeal of capturing ... Read More
Highlight Messages with Attachments in Outlook Express
Sunday January 18, 2004
After you have removed a fish's backbone, don't you wish the few nasty bones that always seem to remain wouldn't only stand out but carry a flashing orange mark, too?
Attachments ... Read More
Cat IncrediMail Letter
Sunday January 18, 2004
Do you know what your cat is doing at night? I'm not 100% sure, but I've long suspected they are either writing books on yoga or secretly ordering gallons of ... Read More
Use Filters to Label Messages in Netscape or Mozilla
Sunday January 18, 2004
Does your Inbox look a bit like an ad for Apple's 1984 ad, with some Information Purification Directives applied that make one email look like the other?
While it won't have ... Read More
Mailblocks - Ads are Better than Spam
Saturday January 17, 2004
Mailblocks, the slick and spam-blocking email service, is now available in a free ad-supported version, too, and sees a few enhancements as well: the address book is more capable, filters ... Read More
Move Messages via Drag and Drop in IncrediMail
Saturday January 17, 2004
Body movin' sang the Beastie Boys. What they really meant, of course, was...
Message movin', message movin'! Moving messages is easy in IncrediMail if you use your mouse to drag and ... Read More
Report Spam to Improve the Hotmail Junk Mail Filter
Saturday January 17, 2004
Microsoft's plan is this: Get all the spam in the world at Hotmail. Collect the data, find patterns, compute statistics. Use the data to filter spam in Exchange, Outlook -- ... Read More
Mozilla 1.6 - Morezilla
Friday January 16, 2004
Mozilla, the email client which you can also use for browsing the web (and chatting on IRC), learns to handle vCards in its 1.6th installment, and gains the as-yet oft-missed ... Read More
View the Source of a Message with IncrediMail
Friday January 16, 2004
If you've always wanted to be an archaeologist (and who has not), you can try to become a field assistant, or you try to disclose an email message's source in ... Read More
Add a Background Image to an Email in Evolution
Friday January 16, 2004
Do you think a background image would be cool? Fun to add? But bad for your image? Psst... you can always remove it before sending the message.
Get creative with your ... Read More
Mailsmith 2.1 - Signaturesmith, Attachmentsmith, SMTPSsmith,...
Thursday January 15, 2004
Mailsmith, well-renowned for helping you forge (not headers but) email messages already, now also comes with better tools for managing signatures and attachments as well as a faster move-message command. ... Read More
Set up an Autoresponder in Mac OS X Mail
Thursday January 15, 2004
If you have an artistic cat, rodent or gourami, you don't need this:
Reply without moving a finger. Here's how to set up an auto-responder in Mac OS X Mail that ... Read More
Making Good Use of Mailblocks Trackers
Thursday January 15, 2004
Using a charming way of not being able to play an instrument or sing, the Ramones produced, for example, something called "I want you around" (including the remarkable line "I'll ... Read More
Spirit of the Forest Stationery
Wednesday January 14, 2004
I've always loved the meditative, ruminant view up to and through the tree tops into the sky:
›› The forest has a great green spirit. (Outlook, Outlook Express)
Spam CSI 5.0.7 - Sherlock Hormel
Wednesday January 14, 2004
Do you think spammers are criminals? Disregarding the law, that is. Spam CSI ("Crime Scene Investigator") certainly does:
Spam CSI analyzes emails using scoring filters, source tracking and by looking up ... Read More
Forward a Message with Eudora
Wednesday January 14, 2004
From now, you will always have been giving
"Forward thinking" a new meaning:
Good emails want to be shared, and here's how to do it with Eudora.
Pin Your Favorite Mailboxes in PocoMail
Wednesday January 14, 2004
There aren't many things as easy to pin down (and as happy about it) as PocoMail folders:
Have your favorite PocoMail folders readily available by keeping them open in their own ... Read More
eMail2Pop 2.0 - AOeLverywhere
Tuesday January 13, 2004
Is AOL 9.0 Optimized too AOL for you, and AOL Communicator too Netscape? Is the latte notoriously late, and the broccoli broken? eMail2Pop doesn't help with the latter two, but ... Read More
Change the Account Used to Send a Message in The Bat!
Tuesday January 13, 2004
You're a different person for different persons. You talk in a different voice about different things in a different mood with different gestures in a different context. Interesting things happen ... Read More
Configure how K9 Marks Spam
Tuesday January 13, 2004
After K9 has branded it, spam becomes a particular, though not particularly delicious, make of email.
Make K9 mark the spam it detects in the Subject line, or unobtrusively using a ... Read More
Poppy 5.2.0 - Blacklist Checker
Monday January 12, 2004
Poppy, the proto-Darwinian mail checker, gains another ability. This time it's DNS blacklist checking so you can remove mail from known sources of spam easily.
Poppy is a tiny and efficient ... Read More
Talking E-mail - The Sound of Email
Monday January 12, 2004
Silence seems to be a forgotten, though secretly missed, virtue. If you don't miss it, here's how to get even your emails talking:
Listen to your emails with Talking E-mail, and ... Read More
Mark All Items Read in a NetNewsWire Feed or Folder
Monday January 12, 2004
Talking about the ever increasing speed of our times, Konrad Paul Liessmann recently made the point that not much has changed in the last 200 years: whether it is 3,000 ... Read More
Outlook Express Password Revealer 1.1 - Spying Yourself
Sunday January 11, 2004
One of the many interesting aspects or applications of quantum physics is quantum cryptography, another interesting chapter in the gripping story of secrecy. More annoying than fascinating is Outlook Express' ... Read More
Customize the PocoMail Pane Layout
Sunday January 11, 2004
Serving meals à la carte takes quite a bit of organization, and principles of sanitation must be followed, too, when a kitchen is laid out. With the layout of your ... Read More
Happy Birthday Stationery
Sunday January 11, 2004
Do you like celebrating your own birthday? I don't, but I love celebrating, and I love celebrating other people's birthdays. One way to give birthdays a decidedly happy spin is ... Read More
Make "Not Spam" Whitelist the Sender in Spam Inspector
Sunday January 11, 2004
It's not good to have mail from your friends and other known senders filtered as spam by Spam Inspector.
If it happens once, at least it's easy to make sure it ... Read More
The Unread 1.0 - Read the Unread
Saturday January 10, 2004
Forget the Pickwick Papers; put aside the Seducer's Diary:
The Unread inserts a concise and useful display of all your unread emails in your Mac OS X menu bar. (Mac)
Redirect Email Messages
Saturday January 10, 2004
Have you ever tried to reply to an email that has been forwarded to you -- reply to the author of the original message, not the forwarder? With redirecting (or ... Read More
Recover a Message from the Outlook Junk E-mail Folder
Saturday January 10, 2004
I've heard a story about two university teachers who — this is where they socialize, I guess — frequent the same fitness center. One of them is from the U.S., ... Read More
G-Lock SpamCombat 1.10 - Background Agent
Friday January 9, 2004
G-Lock SpamCombat, not a WOMBAT, receives a small, but potentially helpful, update and can now check for and delete spam on its own.
G-Lock SpamCombat is a comprehensive and competent Bayesian ... Read More
Delete a Message Bypassing the Trash in Outlook Express
Friday January 9, 2004
Vae victis (woe to the conquered), that's what legend has it Brennus, chief of the Celtic Gauls, said when they plundered Rome in 390 B.c.. In a way, you can ... Read More
Hide Read Items in FeedDemon
Friday January 9, 2004
Yesterday's news
Read al-read-y
Paid their dues
Unread read-y
If you don't like to read news two times or more, here's how to have FeedDemon hide all items you have already looked at.
InboxShield 3.0 - Outlook Express Armor
Thursday January 8, 2004
InboxShield, the pre-trained Bayesian spam filter for Outlook, is now compatible with Outlook Express as well, and a few other updates are in 3.0, too.
InboxShield is a relatively competent, easy ... Read More
Reply to Requests Within 1 Day
Thursday January 8, 2004
Sure, speed is an illusion, grounded on the pace of things we take for granted, but which is itself ungrounded. Still, you should answer email inquiries at the right time, ... Read More
Use the AOL Email QuickView for Fast Email Access
Thursday January 8, 2004
I've recently seen a sloth. They're lovely animals, but by certain standards their behavior can indeed be only described as lazy, lazy, lazy -- just like mine. Fortunately, there's AOL:
Browse ... Read More
Animated Rat Stationery
Wednesday January 7, 2004
Rodents of all countries, unite! Our time has come. We have launched an huge image campaign that will put us in the minds and hearts of humans. We will deconstruct ... Read More
Atomic Mail Sender 2.35 - Uncut
Wednesday January 7, 2004
I don't know how Atomic Kitten got their name (or whether they will be remembered for long), and this is what they have in common with Atomic Mail Sender. "A-tomos" ... Read More
Make IncrediMail Hang Up Automatically After Exchanging Mail
Wednesday January 7, 2004
When I talk to somebody on the tram, it's usually difficult for me to disconnect and I end up wherever they leave the train. While this helps me get to ... Read More
Add a Sender to a Pegasus Mail Mailing List Easily
Wednesday January 7, 2004
Email is a wonderful tool for spontaneous and instantaneous group formation. Mailing lists are a bit more formal and, as entities, permanent, but forming them is just as easy in ... Read More
ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter 1.23 - Frozen
Tuesday January 6, 2004
The frozen history that is amber is not only fascinating but also beautiful. Beauty and fascination of email archives may be debatable, but they're frozen history no less:
ABC Amber Outlook ... Read More
Instruments of Email Marketing
Tuesday January 6, 2004
The right tool in the right hands at the right time. That's Bob the Builder. Or solid email marketing:
There is more to email marketing than personalized mass mails and newsletters. ... Read More
Filter Foreign Language Spam with MailFrontier Matador
Tuesday January 6, 2004
Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely that I'll ever learn much Chinese (beyond ren2 and tian1). But I'm still hoping, and so Chinese is not on the list of languages I ... Read More
MaxBulk Mailer 3.0.1 - Add-resses
Monday January 5, 2004
MaxBulk Mailer, the what-you-see-is-what-you-mail bulk email tool, is updated with address import from a number of email clients and MySQL databases as well as a great deal of bug fixes ... Read More
MailCall - Can You Hear the MailCall?
Monday January 5, 2004
I'm not sure whether an email account can be receptive to the call of nature, but it should definitely hear the call of MailCall:
Get alerted of new mail, preview and ... Read More
Turn off the IncrediMail Welcome Sound
Monday January 5, 2004
One of the apparently inevitable disturbances that make the daily shopping such a dreadful and stressing experience is the omnipresent sound. IncrediMail is a bit like shopping in this respect...
If ... Read More
NetNewsWire 1.0.7 - NetNewsWider
Sunday January 4, 2004
NetNewsWire, the RSS reader and blog editor, is updated not only with a spectacular (and now built-in) widescreen view perfect for the 17-inch PowerBooks in WLAN-equipped classrooms but also comes ... Read More
NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7 - Favicons Lite
Sunday January 4, 2004
Like its big brother, NetNewsWire Lite, everybody's darling free RSS feed reader for Mac OS X, gets a number of performance and bug fixes, plus support for favicons and the ... Read More
Hide Bcc Recipients with Pegasus Mail
Sunday January 4, 2004
If we play hide-and-seek and I shut my eyes, you can't see me, right? If I send an email using Bcc:, the recipient can't be seen, right? Make the latter ... Read More
Ophelia Stationery
Sunday January 4, 2004
While I think there's a lot of truth to Shakespeare's Ophelia, I'm not sure I'd wish her fate for myself — or for anyone.
›› This stationery's painting expresses — at ... Read More
Make The Bat! Remind You about an Email Later
Sunday January 4, 2004
As more and more emails come in and demand to be read, the question is not so much to which you reply and which you merely file as which you ... Read More
K9 1.19 - K9 and the Art of Regex
Saturday January 3, 2004
If support for the fine art of regular expressions in K9's white and black lists is what you have been waiting for, K9 1.19 is for you. But even if ... Read More
Bounce a Message to the Sender with Mac OS X Mail
Saturday January 3, 2004
Here's one of those features that are not usually very useful but good to have if one needs them:
Make it look as if a mail to you could not be ... Read More
Print an Email in Outlook Express
Saturday January 3, 2004
Typesetting is a venerable craft, and together with the printing press it has a fascinating history (just think of the Linotype). Printing an email is considerably less fascinating, but easier:
If ... Read More
KillSpam 6.0.3 - BrowseSpam
Friday January 2, 2004
If you thought Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill (1) was about killing Bill, you were right, downright. If you think KillSpam is about killing spam, that, umm, depends on the definitions:
KillSpam ... Read More
Add an Address to the PocoMail Address Book Quickly
Friday January 2, 2004
1. Premise: Full address books increase social standing. 2. Premise: PocoMail allows you to fill your email address book easily and quickly. 3. Conclusion: PocoMail increases your social standing easily ... Read More
Edit the HTML Source of a Yahoo! Mail Email You are Composing
Friday January 2, 2004
The modern world -- at least part of it -- is divided in two parts: functionalism and ornamentalism. Hacking crude code into an email in a web-based form that sends ... Read More
Bloglines - A Line from Email to RSS
Thursday January 1, 2004
Bloglines, the web interface to RSS feeds, is now also a web interface to email newsletters. If your favorite web site or email publication sends newsletters via email but doesn't ... Read More
Purge Messages from The Bat!'s Trash Automatically
Thursday January 1, 2004
It's important to remember (to have a trash folder that keeps emails you have just deleted and allows you to recover them easily in case of a mistake), but -- ... Read More
Report Spammers with Spam Inspector
Thursday January 1, 2004
It starts in your Inbox on New Year's Day. But soon, soon it will rid your town, state, your country, continent -- the world of spam. Presque.
Spam Inspector not only ... Read More