Good Morning Daisy IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday June 30, 2004
It will be interesting to see what can explain the correlation between relative longevity and no more than an average of seven hours of sleep per night. But no matter ... Read More
Access a Hotmail Account with Outlook
Wednesday June 30, 2004
As we have learned, octopuses have a preferred arm. When they reach for something new, they regularly use a particular limb. When you reach for new mail in your Hotmail ... Read More
Use Multiple Identities with an Email Account in Mozilla
Wednesday June 30, 2004
Identity is an impossible concept to understand already. But multiple identities (of a super-identity?), what are we to think of that?
Fortunately, we don't have to think anything. It's enough that ... Read More
Add a Sender to the IncrediMail Address Book Quickly
Tuesday June 29, 2004
"Can you guess what is added to Crunchy Fudge to make it crunchy?" (I sincerely hope you have not been exposed to Monty Python before you answer.) To make your ... Read More
MacBiff 1.1.7 - Mail Menu
Tuesday June 29, 2004
The wonderfully inspirational medieval pleasure gardens have been lost. MacBiff can help you making sure you neither lose important mail in the labyrinth of incoming mail folders nor lose yourself ... Read More
Create a Folder to Organize Messages in Eudora
Monday June 28, 2004
As a child, I sometimes wondered why we eat food in separate dishes if it will all end up thrown together in the same gastrointestinal tract. Emails are not food, ... Read More
Write an Email Using Rich HTML Formatting in FastMail
Monday June 28, 2004
If you've always wanted to indulge in the rich language of James Joyce but never had enough time, you can now make a promising fresh attempt by reading one page ... Read More
Check Other Replies Before Replying on a Mailing List
Sunday June 27, 2004
If I think something and think what I think is something new, I always find out later that somebody else has thought the very same some three hundred years ago. ... Read More
4th of July 1776 Stationery
Sunday June 27, 2004
After the Continental Congress, a meeting of the British colonies in America first called together in 1774 in response to the "Intolerable Acts", legislation placing restrictions on the freedom of ... Read More
Sauce Reader 1.5.1 - Instant Sauce
Sunday June 27, 2004
Sauce Reader, the Cayenne pepper sauce with lobster among RSS feed readers, has seen a number of updates recently. Most interestingly, it now integrates with Windows Messenger in a way ... Read More
Edit the HTML Source of a Message in Outlook Express
Saturday June 26, 2004
The Mozilla source code is big, and a big mystery to me. When I look at it, I understand nothing, and possibly not even that. The HTML source of an ... Read More
Increase the Text Size When Reading Mail in IncrediMail
Saturday June 26, 2004
At a time that allows fungi to grow to measure 1m (a bit more than a yard) and bridges to be built 270m (885ft) high, do the letters in your ... Read More
Create a New Message Using EML Outlook Express Stationery
Friday June 25, 2004
It takes 30 seconds to sketch the posture and movement of a human figure. Can you beat this time creating a new email with your favorite drawing or picture or ... Read More
Mozilla 1.7 - Still Thriving
Friday June 25, 2004
Upon the heels of Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7, Mozilla the suite gets another update before getting phased out (if it is not continued). Mozilla 1.7 is another great, fine-tuning release that ... Read More
Scrippy - Creative Explosion
Thursday June 24, 2004
If you're playing the violin, wouldn't it be interesting to build one? If you're using staggering stationery, wouldn't it be interesting to build your own:
Everybody can create wonderful stationery for ... Read More
Train the PocoMail Spam Filter as You Use It
Thursday June 24, 2004
I've heard that you should position your monitor not only at arm's length from your eyes but also slightly below them. Having to look down apparently makes it a little ... Read More
Green Gingham Tile IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday June 23, 2004
Have you always wanted to write on the tablecloths in restaurants? Now you can:
Write your letters on beautiful fabric. (IncrediMail)
How Spammers Get Your Email Address
Wednesday June 23, 2004
We may feel lonely, stressed and isolated. But there's a friend online that never lets you down: spam.
Why spam finds you everywhere. The techniques employed by spammers.
FastMail Free Guest Account - The Fast and the Formatting
Wednesday June 23, 2004
FastMail, the fast, free and fabulous email service, gets a comfortable and powerful editor that allows you to write emails using rich HTML formatting (works in Internet Explorer, Netscape and ... Read More
Minimize The Bat! to the System Tray
Tuesday June 22, 2004
Oranges swim because a lot of air is comprised in the peeling. The same air in the orange wonder package also works as a great shock absorber when the fruit ... Read More
See Only Important Mail in a Yahoo! Mail Folder
Tuesday June 22, 2004
Through a cat's eyes, the world is divided in partes tres: things to eat, things to sleep on, and the rest. For a taste of how useful this segmentation can ... Read More
MailPictures - See Who's Mailing
Monday June 21, 2004
Hans Holbein the Younger, son of, yes, Hans Holbein the Elder, moved to Basel after receiving first painting lessons from his father. In Basel, Holbein became a friend of Erasmus ... Read More
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 - Faster, Smaller, Portable
Monday June 21, 2004
Mozilla Thunderbird, the email client on mythic wings, has been updated. Among the refinements in Thunderbird 0.7 are faster speed, smaller downloads and managers for themes and extensions. Thunderbird 0.7 ... Read More
Add Bcc Recipients in Outlook
Sunday June 20, 2004
Nanotubes from carbon form the toughest material known today.
The threads spun using Bcc -- blind carbon copy -- are comparatively fugacious. They cannot even be seen by anyone but their ... Read More
Smile Bug Stationery
Sunday June 20, 2004
Sheep prefer people to have friendly, relaxed faces. They'll love this smile-spreading stationery where a funny bug emanates cheer:
›› If a friend is bugged, make their day by sending them ... Read More
Enable or Disable the New Mail Sound in Outlook Express
Sunday June 20, 2004
I have already mentioned one of the two things that allow you to spot an Austrian chemistry teacher in a large crowd with a failure rate of less than 0.1 ... Read More
Add a Background Image to a Message in Outlook
Saturday June 19, 2004
We wanted a change of background. So we recently removed the wallpaper (it was an illustrious piece of something seriously outdated, thus hip, in the 1970s) in a room to ... Read More
Jyte 1.0 - It's the Search
Saturday June 19, 2004
Crochet, chemistry, chess or China -- whatever your fancy, chances are Jyte will suggest a few good feeds. And if no dedicated channel is available, you can set up your ... Read More
Turn Off the Send Progress Dialog in Mozilla or Netscape
Friday June 18, 2004
When Charles Darwin received an essay from Alfred Russel Wallace concerning a theory of evolution very similar to his own on June 18 1858, he was prompted to publish his ... Read More
Prevent Bulk Mail from Showing up in Your NEO Active Mail Folder
Friday June 18, 2004
You have this wonderfully smart Outlook add-on called Nelson Email Organizer. It automatically analyzes, cleans, sorts, files, folders, categorizes and organizes your new emails. Then it throws them all in ... Read More
EudoraGPG - Pretty Secure Eudora
Thursday June 17, 2004
The IETF's marid working group is currently shaping an addition to the SMTP protocol that implements sender authentication on the domain level. If only authorized sources can send mail with ... Read More
Yahoo! Mail - One Hundred Mega Two Giga Mail
Thursday June 17, 2004
Thanks to the up-and-coming Gmail, the free email offering from Google that will offer 1 GB of storage space, users of Yahoo! Mail get tons more storage as well, and ... Read More
Happy Father's Day IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday June 16, 2004
Queen Elisabeth II of Great Britain and Ireland celebrates her birthday on April 21; and on the second Saturday in June. The Brits are hoping for good (or at least ... Read More
Send the Current Message Quickly in Opera
Wednesday June 16, 2004
Faster is better, isn't it? Everything always has to be faster (while you can still overtake everything thinking, says Deleuze). But even if you have the fastest and biggest computer ... Read More
Forward a Message with Outlook
Wednesday June 16, 2004
Isn't it interesting that backward and left are no verbs? Up, down, right and forward are all perfect verbs, but you can't backward a joke you did not want to ... Read More
Set Up Your Yahoo! Mail Signature
Tuesday June 15, 2004
Philosophers do not discuss problems with each other all that much. Among the notable exceptions are probably the countless letters exchanged by Pascal and his contemporaries. Near the end of ... Read More
Sylpheed 0.9.11 - IMAP Nymph
Tuesday June 15, 2004
Sylpheed, the sylphid email client for Unix, has seen a round of nice updates recently. If you have found its IMAP support to be not good enough or good enough, ... Read More
Attach Files via Drag and Drop in Opera
Monday June 14, 2004
Drag and drop, that sounds a bit like lugging a 16 ton cement bag for some precious centimeters, finally allowing the bag to drop and fall like nothing before. Certainly ... Read More
Maximize the Reading and Browsing Pane in FeedDemon
Monday June 14, 2004
Do you remember the time when your browser was destined to become your operating system? Nowadays, if you don't pay attention (and hit the wrong key), your RSS feed reader ... Read More
DimichSoft Mail List Receiver - Sweeping Clean
Sunday June 13, 2004
With Father's Day but one week away, this might be the right time to reflect on a quality common to males: they don't listen. While mother seabird brings only as ... Read More
Oh, Dad IncrediMail Letter
Sunday June 13, 2004
"Dad" is an almost universal word, derived from child's speak. Dads are just as universal, of course. They bake, they teach, they are sailors and they are happy, they are ... Read More
Nelson Email Organizer Pro 3.0 - The Better Got Better
Sunday June 13, 2004
NEO, the amazing tool that makes Outlook better, faster, more organized, more effective and.. no, not prettier, but better, sees a round of very nice updates.
New in Nelson Email Organizer ... Read More
Annotate Messages in PocoMail
Saturday June 12, 2004
When 3M experimented with Post-it ® notes, invented to serve as a bookmark in Art Fry's church hymnal, in test markets, consumers -- showed no interest. I'm not sure whether ... Read More
Build a Filter from a Message in Pegasus Mail
Saturday June 12, 2004
When a dog finds and chooses you, it does so by using itself as an example. Surely, dogs wants their owners to resemble their first-class qualities.
If you want to set ... Read More
When in Doubt, End Emails with "Thanks"
Friday June 11, 2004
Do you know these people who always seem to know the right thing to say? I am not one of them, so it's good to have something to say that ... Read More
FeedDemon 1.10 - Demonic Search
Friday June 11, 2004
FeedDemon, the RSS feed reader whose superior power does not stem from a pact with an evil spirit, meets, greets and reads Atom feeds. FeedDemon 1.10 also brings many other ... Read More
Check the Spelling Only Upon Request in Eudora
Thursday June 10, 2004
To the connaisseur of today's French, the English connoisseur looks (and sounds) like a mistake. But it seems when the word was borrowed from French in the 18th century, it ... Read More
Approve a Domain in IncrediMail
Thursday June 10, 2004
The mathematics, sense, order, power and oddity of election procedures has always fascinated and bothered legislators and those electing them. Approval voting is a particularly attractive "alternative" voting method. It ... Read More
Happy Father's Day! Stationery
Wednesday June 9, 2004
My father has not really taught me how to cook (with the notable exception of Frankfurter sausages, of course). He showed me what the end result should taste like, though, ... Read More
MailTap - Tapping New Mail
Wednesday June 9, 2004
Cats eat... mice, right? So why is there cat food with chicken, salmon, rabbit, vegetables, cheese and beef, but no mouse-flavored cat food? At least MailTap knows how to announce ... Read More
The Bat! 2.11 - Babbling Bat
Wednesday June 9, 2004
The Bat!, the nocturnal email client, is really picking up pace. Result of the recent activity is an interesting feature called Mail Chat.
If you ever exchanged emails with somebody in ... Read More
What to Do When Outlook Express Stationery Does Not Work
Tuesday June 8, 2004
135 years ago today, Ives McGaffey was granted a patent for a "sweeping machine", the first patent for a vacuum cleaner.
I'm not sure whether it worked, but selling vacuum cleaners ... Read More
Use Only Bayesian Spam Filtering in PocoMail for Best Results
Tuesday June 8, 2004
If you try to speak in palindromes alone, I'm not sure you won't run into existential problems. At least you can buy soap in Finland at a Saippuakauppias.
If you try ... Read More
Review Your Yahoo! Mail "Bulk" Folder Periodically
Monday June 7, 2004
A transit of Venus, when Venus is exactly between the sun and earth for a short period, does not occur often, but it is a significant event by all measures. ... Read More
YahooPOPs! 0.6 - POP Only the TOP
Monday June 7, 2004
YahooPOPs!, the tool that POPs Yahoo! Mail, learns a new trick: YahooPOPs! 0.6 lets you preview the headers of new mail in your Yahoo! Mail account before you download the ... Read More
There's a Size Limit when Sending Attachments with Hotmail
Sunday June 6, 2004
Aristotle claimed that the place of a thing is the inside of the next-bigger encompassing (possibly not moving) thing. It's a bit hard to grasp, but Aristotle had good reasons ... Read More
Golfing Father's Day Stationery
Sunday June 6, 2004
Crucial to a prospering monarchy, the ravens at the Tower of London have their wings clipped so they can't fly too far away. Still, after 21 years of service, raven ... Read More
Change the Name From Which Your Emails are Sent in Outlook Express
Sunday June 6, 2004
People in Korea love pseudonyms. Whoever writes poems in their spare time — and from what I've heard that's about 99% of the population older than 5 — has a ... Read More
Fine-Tune the Eudora Spell Checking Suggestions
Saturday June 5, 2004
I'm sure you have all seen the short text that doarnesttmes how, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, the order of letters does not necessarily influence or impair ... Read More
Pegasus Mail 4.21a - Flying IMAP
Saturday June 5, 2004
Pegasus Mail, the email horse with wings, had an Achilles' heel. Now the IMAP support is more complete, much faster and finally usable. Pegasus Mail 4.21a also greets you with ... Read More
GoPOP - Work Away from Work
Friday June 4, 2004
Does your workplace not only have the better coffee but also all your emails, seemingly captured in Outlook? Here's some help:
GoPOP is a smart Outlook add-on that makes it possible ... Read More
Train a Smart Email Filter in Opera
Friday June 4, 2004
So you want to learn Japanese? I haven't tried it yet, but teaching yourself Japanese sounds like a lot of fun, and like a lot of work.
Also a lot of ... Read More
Display all Header Lines in Outlook Express
Thursday June 3, 2004
She who sees more is always right, says Edmund Husserl, and seeing more always also means looking closer, paying more attention and making more distinctions. If you want to be ... Read More
Yahoo! Messenger 6.0 - IMpersonator
Thursday June 3, 2004
Yahoo! is getting serious with instant messaging. While encryption and advanced spim protection are still not part of the show, this means serious fun. In Yahoo! Messenger 6.0 (available for ... Read More
Night Reflections IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday June 2, 2004
How many theories does it take to dim the earth for two centuries, then turn it up again? We don't know yet. The cloud cover may play a role in ... Read More
Emailias - Hot Potatoes
Wednesday June 2, 2004
There is this century-old meme (I want to contribute to the meme meme, too, at least once) that ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends must not be seen again. It has something to ... Read More
Hide Messages Marked for Deletion in Outlook
Wednesday June 2, 2004
"IMAP is just not a very rich protocol, " said the Exchange Server product manager. This is just not very true. But Outlook could really do better. For a small ... Read More
Use Multiple From: Addresses with a Mac OS X Mail Account
Tuesday June 1, 2004
To grow your self-esteem, it seems you have to adopt patterns of thought that help you associate yourself with positive expression from others (and you can train this ability by ... Read More
PocoMail 3.1 - Poco Goes Bayes
Tuesday June 1, 2004
PocoMail, email allegro con brio, now comes with an easy to use and effective Bayesian spam filter built in. PocoMail 3.1 also brings a throng of fixes, both large and ... Read More