Mail Snoop Pro 1.02 - Searching Email Truffles
Sunday February 29, 2004
I'm a fan of snoop pigs (sniffing out truffles for truffes à l'Orange), even more than I am a fan of Snoop Dogg, and more than I am a fan ... Read More
Mark a Message Unread in Yahoo! Mail
Sunday February 29, 2004
With undo buttons around every corner ("This is undoable..."), unread buttons can't be far.
That? No, I never read that! Here's how to mark a message you have already opened unread ... Read More
St. Patrick's Day Clover IncrediMail Letter
Sunday February 29, 2004
Three has always been a magic number, and shamrocks, the three-leaved clovers native to Ireland symbolized the rebirth of nature in Spring, too. This makes them perfect for the holiday ... Read More
Set up a Virtual Folder in KMail
Sunday February 29, 2004
I think the question is not how "real" virtual reality has to be to match the reality of the real world but how virtual it has to be to match ... Read More
KMail 1.6 - Establishing Kontact
Saturday February 28, 2004
KMail, the email klient, is now part of KDE 3.2's new kdepim package and integrates with Kontact, a multi-groupware client, but it still is the same good old KMail -- ... Read More
Install Zipped IncrediMail Letters
Saturday February 28, 2004
Lossless compression is a fantastic spectacle. You put in a lot of something and get out considerably less of it, but you lose nothing in the process. The whole lovely ... Read More
Change the Name of an Email Subscription in Bloglines
Saturday February 28, 2004
Is the Kiwi a bird? Yes, but. Do you know which email newsletter you will get to see when you click "melissas.3222093@bloglines.com"? No, but:
Give your email newsletter subscriptions proper, distinctive ... Read More
PopMan 1.2 - Portable, Man
Friday February 27, 2004
PopMan, the fast way to see the contents of your mailbox, steps up to version 1.2 and gets improved new mail notification options, it now supports attachments, and you can ... Read More
Access a Hotmail Account with Outlook Express
Friday February 27, 2004
Like scrambled eggs and brown bread, Outlook Express and Hotmail are better together:
Use Hotmail with the power and comfort of Outlook Express. Here's how to access your Hotmail account from ... Read More
Delete a Message Permanently in FastMail, Bypassing the Trash
Friday February 27, 2004
Do you use a trash can often to recover something you threw away inadvertently? I once mistook my keys for something I wanted to dispose of, and I was happy ... Read More
Ella for Spam Control 1.5.6.0 - Ella, elle a OE
Thursday February 26, 2004
Ella, the -- as Steve Jobs would put it -- "amazing" spam filtering and email classifying tool, is not for Outlook users only any more. No, Ella for Spam Control ... Read More
FastMail Free Guest Account - Web! Mail!
Thursday February 26, 2004
I only score 74 on the kissometer. But I'm no teen, and this quiz is for teens, right? And I have FastMail, which scores 95 on the freemailometer. Oh well.
FastMail ... Read More
Resend a Message in Evolution
Thursday February 26, 2004
Due to a bouncing address
Or did-i-cc-her stress;
From a year ago or recent,
Here's how to resend:
It's easy to send the same (or a very similar) message again in Ximian Evolution.
Wood Nymph Stationery
Wednesday February 25, 2004
"I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Hope floods my heart with delight!
Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling,
Upward I mount, — faith is sight, life is feeling,
Hope ... Read More
Outlook Express Key 6.1 - Unturn the Key
Wednesday February 25, 2004
Choosing a password that is fast to type and difficult to guess, without reference to you and easy to remember, short enough and long enough, and secure is not for ... Read More
Delete Attachments with Their Messages in Eudora
Wednesday February 25, 2004
In a historic discovery, archaeologists have recently uncovered the tomb of an Anglo-Saxon king from the 7th century in Prittlewell, Essex (complete with his sword and shield, glass vessels and ... Read More
Yahoo!, Microsoft, Sendmail,... Everybody Wants to Stop Spam
Wednesday February 25, 2004
The "Coordinated Spam Reduction Initiative" (CSRI) is Microsoft's sexy name for spam-free email.
Things to be coordinated include email caller-IDs (along the lines of Sender Permitted From currently tested by AOL ... Read More
Remove a Feed from your NewsGator Subscriptions
Wednesday February 25, 2004
Some gremlin "lurking within the dark corners, nooks and crannies" may be responsible for my computer's crashes, but now I've searched the hidden corners, nooks and crannies of my Outlook ... Read More
Pluck 0.8.1 - Plucked in
Tuesday February 24, 2004
First Plucky and Shrook, now this... Go Pluck the news in Internet Explorer:
Pluck offers a friendly way to follow news and web site updates by turning IE into a comfortable ... Read More
Express Archiver
Tuesday February 24, 2004
Expect to be an export expert. Achieve and archive an email apparatus.
Export and archive emails and attachments from Outlook Express easily with Express Archiver. (Windows)
Save an Email to a Folder in AOL
Tuesday February 24, 2004
"Daylight saving time" is a cute name for making the sun rise "later". As if you could save daylight... which reminds me of the story about the inhabitants of Schilda(u), ... Read More
MenuMail 1.5 - Email for Dessert
Monday February 23, 2004
At one of my favorite hotel's restaurants, the Hotel Goldenes Kreuz (the "Scherfler"), the computers are put aside every day at half past ten. A good old typewriter replaces them, ... Read More
Save an Embedded Image with Outlook Express
Monday February 23, 2004
I have a huge pile of magazines. I don't collect them, I just save them for later reading. I really plan to read them some day, and I really plan ... Read More
See the Size of Your Outlook Folders
Monday February 23, 2004
Windows does not ship with a tool like FolderSizes that lets you see how your hard disk is used and where lots of space is wasted. Outlook does something similar ... Read More
Broadc@st HTML 4.5.1 - Mail and Track
Sunday February 22, 2004
Broadc@st, the em@il bro@dc@sting tool, is updated with better list management and live open/click-through tracking by ezTrackZ among other improvements.
An excellent and complete choice for any bulk email effort, the ... Read More
Nisus Email - Classycal
Sunday February 22, 2004
Nisus is not just an effort and a king of Megara (on the Isthmus of Corinth). Nisus is also a writing tool, and an email reader:
Mail different with Nisus Mail, ... Read More
Ceramic Tulips Stationery
Sunday February 22, 2004
Have you planted tulips (the lovely flowers that "drive men mad", by the way) last Fall? If not, you can still buy pre-potted bulbs, or send an email using this ... Read More
File or Move a Message Quickly in Hotmail
Sunday February 22, 2004
Sorry for this tip's title. No, there is no s-l-o-w way to to move messages in Hotmail. I tried, but I couldn't find one. (My Latin teacher in high school ... Read More
Cloudmark SpamNet 2.4 - SpamNet Express
Saturday February 21, 2004
Cloudmark SpamNet, the spam filtering community, is now available for Outlook Express, too, and gets accuracy updates to catch the latest wave of sophisticated junk.
Cloudmark SpamNet is a great and ... Read More
How to Send a Simple Email with ASP.NET
Saturday February 21, 2004
Water : humans = light : flies.
Researchers at the University of Vienna have observed the behavior of some 30,000 people passing by a fountain in a shopping center. When the ... Read More
How to Edit the Spam Threshold of K9
Saturday February 21, 2004
It's like a trip to Paris in Spring. Or Winter. Or Fall. Or Summer. And the churches of Arnaud Frich are maybe even better.
Now that the threshold for panoramic photography ... Read More
The Bat! 2.04.4 - Chiroptera Exchange
Friday February 20, 2004
Always looking for new connections to make, The Bat! now talks to MS Exchange, too (using MAPI). The Bat! 2.04.4 also installs the BayesIt! Bayesian spam filtering plug-in by default ... Read More
Create a Filter From an Email in The Bat!
Friday February 20, 2004
Contrary to what Socrates/Plato wants to make us believe, it doesn't seem to be mandatory to be able to define what something (say, virtue) is substantially. It's very much okay ... Read More
Read all News in a Group Comfortably in FeedDemon
Friday February 20, 2004
I've always wanted to go hiking (or maybe herding sheep) in New Zealand, and the enticing Tourism NZ site doesn't help much to tame this desire. But hiking and herding ... Read More
POP Peeper 2.3 - Peep and Peek
Thursday February 19, 2004
I've just bought a new alarm clock. It is radio controlled, shows me the time in big letters and the temperature, too, has all kinds of settings and what not. ... Read More
Pay Attention When Extracting Outlook Express Stationery
Thursday February 19, 2004
Only now have I found out that the InstallShield installer may hang and report a "broken self-extracting file" if said file happens to be rather big and placed in many ... Read More
Prevent Pegasus Mail from Marking Previewed Mail as Read
Thursday February 19, 2004
Don't ask me what the difference is (if there is one) between viewing and previewing. But there is a differentia specifica that lets you tell apart previewing and reading, and ... Read More
Throttling Up Stationery
Wednesday February 18, 2004
With unsurpassed elegance and sheer power, the black steam engine guides the long train with its relaxed passengers in comfy seats (nipping tea) through the snowy mountains.
›› Steam locomotive nostalgia ... Read More
OE Quick Tools 4.0 - Quick and Dirty Fix
Wednesday February 18, 2004
Valerian gets its sedative and soothing effect from a previously unknown lignan, it seems, that has about the opposite effect of caffeine on the adenosine receptors in the brain.
If the ... Read More
What IMAP Can Do for You
Wednesday February 18, 2004
It won't help you climb Mount Kilimanjaro, and it won't help you find your way through Neverwinter Nights either, yet IMAP is really useful. Here's how:
Have you ever wished you ... Read More
Log SMTP Traffic to Troubleshoot Outlook Express Sending Problems
Wednesday February 18, 2004
If something suddenly stops working and you have no idea why, where do you turn? To a log file, of course (because it's usually something about a computer that suddenly ... Read More
IncrediMail Xe Build 1358 - Golden Galleries
Tuesday February 17, 2004
If you thirst for great, surprising, fine quality and most of all new IncrediMail Letters is never ending, IncrediMail now has a $25.95/year subscription "Gold Gallery" for you. There are ... Read More
Email Magician - Emerlin
Tuesday February 17, 2004
There are a number of reasons for relying on and preferring Mac OS 9 ("Classic") over OS X, and not all of them are nostalgic. Email Magician, for example, is ... Read More
Read Email Newsletters in Bloglines
Tuesday February 17, 2004
I read my newspaper every morning while drying my hair, the best place for me to read non-fiction is in a train through the mountains, I try to follow Proust's ... Read More
MegaMailScript 1.0a1 - File, Folder, Filter
Monday February 16, 2004
I wonder what the music composed of (or by?) the frequencies of mail from your friends might sound like. MegaMailScrit takes a different, more prosaic approach to making use of ... Read More
What You Need to Know About Disposable Email Address Service
Monday February 16, 2004
You can remove red wine with white wine, you can remove troubling thoughts late at night with thinking them through, and -- you can remove spam at your email address ... Read More
Hide POPFile on Windows
Monday February 16, 2004
Spam, red wine and troubling thoughts late at night are difficult to remove, but there are still things easily let go:
Don't like POPFile opening a console window when you start ... Read More
Mail Password Recovery 1.1 - Passwords to User Names
Sunday February 15, 2004
Pavarotti loves elephants. And he has not forgotten his text ("e di pensiero"). Have you forgotten your email account's password? What was it I wanted to say?
Mail Password Recovery can ... Read More
MailSense - Making Sense of Mail
Sunday February 15, 2004
When you sense something (mail, for example), where does the "outside" world start and where does the "inside" you end?
MailSense is a simple, but nice and useful anti-spam mail checker. ... Read More
Daffodil Simplicity Stationery
Sunday February 15, 2004
I adore daffodils, be it one or many. If you like these bright, happy flowers, too, I might have the right stationery for your emails:
›› The bright yellow daffodil breaks ... Read More
View a Message Using a Fixed Font in KMail
Sunday February 15, 2004
"Can't you be a bit more flexible?" The next time you hear that, point to an email with ASCII art in it and say: "Yes, I can. But do you ... Read More
NewsPiper 2.3.1 - News Appeal
Saturday February 14, 2004
The pied piper of Hamelin lured a rat plague out of town into a river. The piper of news lures headlines out of RSS feeds and web sites into a ... Read More
Spammers Track Usage, Too
Saturday February 14, 2004
Do you know how nervous people get when you watch their left ear closely? I know you feel tempted to try it with me now, but I already know how ... Read More
Bookmark 'Compose Message' in Yahoo! Mail
Saturday February 14, 2004
How fast do you have to be so you can afford some slowness? If I start typing earlier, am I allowed more time for writing?
With a nifty shortcut to Yahoo! ... Read More
AOL Instant Messenger 5.5 - Buddy Video
Friday February 13, 2004
AIM, the instant messaging buddy, is updated with video chat in addition to text and voice messages. AOL Instant Messenger 5.5 also lets you play games with your friends (which ... Read More
Install an IncrediMail Letter
Friday February 13, 2004
Want to pep up your emails? Think your message can need some salty, humorous background? Your mail is not complete without some stationery spice?
Import great letter content into IncrediMail.
Create Folders to Organize Your Mail in AOL
Friday February 13, 2004
When I heard The Zombies lament "She's Not There" and couldn't locate an email in AOL's "Saved Mail" folder at the very same time, I knew it was time to ... Read More
Mutt 1.4.2 - Spam-Caused-Crash Fix
Thursday February 12, 2004
It's not the best of reasons to announce a program update, but it is a good reason to update: the developers of mutt, bare console turned rich email client, have ... Read More
Insert the Default Signature in a PocoMail Message
Thursday February 12, 2004
Do you use a signature in your emails sometimes, but not always; on occasion, but not frequently; sporadically, but not regularly; opportunistically, but not on principle? If the signature is ... Read More
Emails Don't Lie
Thursday February 12, 2004
Do you believe every word you read in an email? And how about phone conversations? Researchers at Cornell University have found out that people are twice as likely to tell ... Read More
Using FastMail Securely from a Public Computer
Thursday February 12, 2004
Caravaggio's Thomas, one of his most touching paintings is a painful display of disbelief and curiosity.
A different kind of curiosity may put your email privacy at risk if you access ... Read More
Valentine Hearts IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday February 11, 2004
If you heart is overflowing with love in the most Neoplatonic ways, as it should be, I have an IncrediMail letter for you:
›› Send lots of hearts and lots of ... Read More
CheckP3 4.4 - Inside Out
Wednesday February 11, 2004
P1, a dance club in Vienna, is better than its current web presence will make you believe (though, admittedly, this does not promise too much). Why I think CheckP3 is ... Read More
What Email Headers can Tell You About the Origin of Spam
Wednesday February 11, 2004
Researchers at Oxford University have found that pigeons follow roads and railways on their way around Britain to make the journeys as simple as possible. Spam takes a different route, ... Read More
Add a Domain to the White List in Chrysanth Mail Manager
Wednesday February 11, 2004
There is no black chrysanthemum, is there? There is The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum by Charles Olson, though, and there are black lists in Chrysanth Mail Manager, as there ... Read More
Chrysanth Mail Manager 1.8 - Ornamental Anti-Spam
Tuesday February 10, 2004
Native to Japan, China, Africa and Europe and among my grandfather's most loved flowers (he was a florist), chrysanthemum is the star of Japanese kiku festivals.
Can Chrysanth Mail Manager be ... Read More
Keep a Copy of a Sent Message in Pegasus Mail
Tuesday February 10, 2004
Goethe has written more than 13,000 letters, and just about all of them have been kept, saved and restored.
Don't keep every unnecessary message indiscriminately, but keep a copy of a ... Read More
Keep Mail at the Server for Some Time with Mac OS X Mail
Tuesday February 10, 2004
Isn't the Nebra sky disk beautiful? One could hardly guess its age of more than 3500 years. Mac OS X Mail can make sure your mails won't reach this age ... Read More
Aliencamel - Statistically Spam Free
Monday February 9, 2004
Statistically, camels travel about 40 km per day. Statistically, Aliencamel will be an even better spam-filtering email service now that it uses Bayesian statistics to suggest which emails to keep, ... Read More
nPOP - Email Bebop
Monday February 9, 2004
Just like Bebop emerged as a lean alternative to big band jazz (helped by World War II drafting), nPOP is a lean alternative to any other program accessing your email ... Read More
Print Part of an Email in IncrediMail
Monday February 9, 2004
If you ask five chefs how much salt to apply for seasoning, you will get not five, not four, no, you will not even get two different answers. Unanimously (and ... Read More
RSS Captor 1.0 - News Net
Sunday February 8, 2004
After what cannot adequately be described as a difficult and enervating struggle, RSS Captor gets hold of... but now is not quite sure what to do with the fugitive RSS.
RSS ... Read More
Defining Opt-In Email Marketing
Sunday February 8, 2004
The Devil's Dictionary refuses to define "definition". The Devil's Dictionary X informs us that email is a mirror and a torture device (and that stating the latter is a tautology).
›› ... Read More
Doily Valentine Heart IncrediMail Letter
Sunday February 8, 2004
Every word is too much, every thought is dissociating. Start love letter mailing.
›› Stop thinking. (IncrediMail)
Save and Use a Message as a Template in Evolution
Sunday February 8, 2004
How does July write five essays about five very different subjects in three days and go skiing, too? She creates a template (about how everything is an illusion and how ... Read More
Spartacus Spam-Filter 1.3.2 - Fighting Spam
Saturday February 7, 2004
It took the Romans three armies under Pompey and Crassus to defeat Spartacus and his well-organized slave revolt.
All it takes for you — I know this suggested picture is unfortunate ... Read More
What Can be Misunderstood Will be Misunderstood
Saturday February 7, 2004
Help, Ms. Understanding!
The problem that whatever can be misinterpreted will indeed be misunderstood is not unique to email, but with email it is uniquely severe.
Get the Full News on the NewsGator NewsPage
Saturday February 7, 2004
If you don't know what to say about something, say something about the history of its name.
"Headline" was first formed from "head" and "line" in 1676, some sources say, and ... Read More
FastCheck 0.0.1.9 - Fast Mail Check
Friday February 6, 2004
Let's open a spectrum of media with orality on the left and the book on the right. Then we have, from left to right with a growing degree of sloppiness ... Read More
Add an Icon to a Contact in Opera
Friday February 6, 2004
Who doesn't want to have an iconic face? Not necessarily in the sense of icon painting (though not necessarily excluding it either) but certainly in the sense of pop ... Read More
Display Blocked Images in an Email in My Way Mail
Friday February 6, 2004
All text and no images makes Jack a dull email:
It's great how My Way Mail keeps you safe from harm by blocking images in emails. Now here's how to read ... Read More
OE Tweaker 1.0.1 - Hide and Tweak
Thursday February 5, 2004
Ah, the hidden settings! Car manufacturers, makers of heating systems (we've just spent several weeks trying to get the new one at my parent's house to heat it; the thick ... Read More
SpamStopper - Hieroglyphs
Thursday February 5, 2004
How and when do we know that something is a language, even if we don't speak or recognize it? How do you make sure a spammer's email address harvesting robot ... Read More
Make Bloglines Show Items You Have Already Read
Thursday February 5, 2004
I'm seeing a film for at least the second time just now, and I've read a few books more than once, too (though not all of them consciously). So why ... Read More
Be Mine Valentine Stationery
Wednesday February 4, 2004
Tempting and alienating at the same time: who could (dare to) resist?
›› Be mine this Valentine's Day. I'm yours. (Outlook, Outlook Express)
What You Need to Know About Bayesian Spam Filtering
Wednesday February 4, 2004
If a Bayesian filter is so smart figuring out what junk emails look like, can't a spammer use it to figure out which words to include in her messages to ... Read More
Identify Your Outlook Express Stationery Folder
Wednesday February 4, 2004
In the organized and organizing structure of a church, nothing is arbitrary. Think of what it meant for Roman Catholics when the altar moved away from the wall into the ... Read More
Print Part of an Email Message in Outlook Express
Wednesday February 4, 2004
My printer once refused to print complete pictures (it thought a white stripe starting somewhere down the middle was okay), now Outlook Express refuses to print anything but complete emails. ... Read More
Favorite Valentine's Day Stationery for Outlook Express
Tuesday February 3, 2004
If the message is love and the day is Valentine's, you can't go wrong with lovely stationery. Here are my favorites for Outlook Express and truly unforgettable Valentine's Day messages.
Mail Watch 1.5 - Not a Watch
Tuesday February 3, 2004
If you buy a Swatch, you don't buy a watch. If you buy a Nike sweater, you don't buy a sweatshirt. The actual products are free.
What you buy is the ... Read More
Search for a Subject Quickly in The Bat!
Tuesday February 3, 2004
I need a subject for my essay about Lacan and how sublimation creates (creates, not implements) social values via instituting something as Das Ding... so... please...
Give me all messages ... Read More
Whitelist a Sender or Domain in Inbox100
Tuesday February 3, 2004
I still want to become a manufacturer of packaged food and sell my convenience products as "good food" made of "good stuff".
That's what people want, not "beef with garlic mashed ... Read More
OmniWeb Bookmarks RSS
Monday February 2, 2004
If you think your browser should read RSS and do something useful with it, take a look at the freshly released and typically brilliant (though still buggy) OmniWeb 5.0 beta.
OmniWeb ... Read More
Inbox100 4.0 - 99 per centum
Monday February 2, 2004
It's an interesting debate how much Bayesian analysis resembles human decision-making. Whatever, fortunately we don't work the way Inbox100 does:
Inbox100 applies an aggressive strategy to achieve a 100 percent spam-free ... Read More
Create a Business Card (vCard) in Outlook Express
Monday February 2, 2004
If you think the vCard will get you on the gondola starting a great day of skiing: no, sorry. If you think the vCard will net you shopping discounts: dommage. ... Read More
Read All Nonsecure Mail in Plain Text in Outlook 2002
Monday February 2, 2004
Some Service Packs to Microsoft products are necessary evils, some have no clear raison d'être, some are dangers to avoid, and some bring interesting new features -- if you know ... Read More
RSSConnect 1.0 - Get Yourself Connected
Sunday February 1, 2004
Connect the dots, and you'll get a surprise. Connect the .NETs and you'll get a somewhat edgy RSS feed reader:
RSSConnect is a flexible RSS feed reader that shows considerable power ... Read More
Construct Complex Message Searches in Eudora
Sunday February 1, 2004
An Aberdeen bus driver has recently found what is believed to be the oldest (about 420 million years old) fossil of a land animal, a new species named Pneumodesmus newmani.
You ... Read More
Tatty Teddy Valentine's Day Stationery
Sunday February 1, 2004
In the cartoon that is believed to have triggered the teddy bear mania in the U.S., the teddy looks a lot like Mickey Mouse. The teddy in this stationery may ... Read More
Perform Folder Maintenance in The Bat!
Sunday February 1, 2004
Things that get worse slowly but steadily make me really nervous. In the beginning, you don't notice the deterioration (you know it is inevitable, though), so how could you notice ... Read More