View Richly Formatted Mail in Plain Text with Mac OS X Mail
Tuesday August 31, 2004
When Russian architect and painter Victor Hartmann died at the untimely age of 39, his friends were devastated. An exhibition was organized, and they all came to pay tribute to ... Read More
Import Addresses from Hotmail, Outlook, Yahoo!, Others into Gmail
Tuesday August 31, 2004
What we remember are usually the people we met. This should and can also be so if you get a new email account:
Your friends have not left you when you ... Read More
Gmail Notifier 1.0 - It's Gmail You've Got
Monday August 30, 2004
I have always liked cinnamon (recently, I rejoiced when the leftovers of last year's winter tea was sold where I usually go shopping), and it turns out cinnamon also reduces ... Read More
Submit Spam to SpamCop via Email
Sunday August 29, 2004
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." is one of Leroy Paige's famous rules for staying young.
If you look back, junk email might be gaining on you. It's ... Read More
Fairies Stationery
Sunday August 29, 2004
The fairies occupy a land somewhere between the earth and the sky. Their name derived from that Latin fatum (fate), they influence our lives with magical powers. Fairies like it ... Read More
Exclude Your Junk Mail Folders from NEO
Sunday August 29, 2004
If you have a glass that cleans itself (with only sun, rain and time), would you like a diligent cleaning robot go over it every 20 seconds with a squeegee ... Read More
Postmaster 2.7.1 - Too Many and Counting
Saturday August 28, 2004
Have you stopped counting the emails in your account because there are just "too many"? Behavioral scientist Peter Gordon believes he has proof for the language's power to shape mathematical ... Read More
Create a Mailing List in IncrediMail
Friday August 27, 2004
Like box offices at cinemas and supermarket checkout lines, roads are fabulous at building groups. Wherever many people are, more people will come. There must be a reason for all ... Read More
Add a New Identity to Outlook Express
Friday August 27, 2004
Do you like it when other people tell you to let even other people taste some of your Chou Dofu?
Like the food on your plate, email is usually a very ... Read More
IMAPSize 0.1.0 - Making IMAP Fly
Thursday August 26, 2004
It's the birthday of Joseph-Michel Montgolfier. Together with his brother, he developed the first practical hot air balloon, dubbed Montgolfière, which took off on June 5, 1783.
If your IMAP account ... Read More
Barques IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday August 25, 2004
The history of barques as ships without mast (not the modern barks, which have at least three masts) can probably be traced back to ancient Egypt. Interestingly (well, it is ... Read More
Send a Message to a Mailing List in Eudora
Wednesday August 25, 2004
If scientific research and what I guess is most people's experience are to be believed, trying to do multiple things at once does not even have the advantage of being ... Read More
Export Contacts from the Mozilla or Netscape Address Book
Wednesday August 25, 2004
Unfortunately, a Citroën CSV that I could refer to here does not exist. But 2 CV is close enough, I guess, and certainly legend enough. 16 PS! No dashboard, and ... Read More
psGmail 1.2.2 - Post Scriptum
Tuesday August 24, 2004
The difficulty with advice that tells you to "be who you are" (instead of trying to be someone or something "you are not") is that it's not clear what it ... Read More
iOpus Password Recovery XP - How Many Stars?
Monday August 23, 2004
In the same way that long and complicated email addresses prevent spammers from finding you, long and complicated passwords prevent intruders from breaking into your email account. If your long ... Read More
Create Multiple Email Identities in Pegasus Mail
Monday August 23, 2004
One way to address both the growing energy problem and the growing bananas problem is by feeding waste bananas to bacteria and generate energy from the methane thus created.
In Pegasus ... Read More
Grand Teton Stationery
Sunday August 22, 2004
Do you have a minute? A minute for a vacation? At quiet american, you can go on 60-second trips to the voice and sound of somewhere else. And with this ... Read More
Scientific Letter 1.10 - Email Dressed in \LaTeX{}
Sunday August 22, 2004
We have wholeheartedly embraced Galileo's notion that nature's great book is written in the language of mathematics (while you need more than mathematics to understand mathematics). Why then, is there ... Read More
Molly Mail - Your Email Where You Are
Saturday August 21, 2004
I once knew a cat called "Molly" -- one of the biggest misnomers in recent onomastic history. Or so I thought, because seeing how sleek, smart and witty a service ... Read More
Export Your Yahoo! Mail Address Book
Saturday August 21, 2004
It's not really a fact you have to know, I guess, but did you know that Pakistan is aspiring to become one of the largest exporting countries of fire-fighting equipment? ... Read More
Pennock's Email Notifier 2.1-0 - Pop-Ups from a Witty PEN
Friday August 20, 2004
Pennock's Email Notifier, the almost recursive backronym turned mail checker, learns a few more tricks in its latest incarnation. PEN 2.1 supports AOL, Excite and Netscape.net accounts, has rudimentary (though ... Read More
AOL for Mac OS X - AOL Dips Into Aqua
Thursday August 19, 2004
I guess I'm one of the few people who loved (and still love) the user interface and default colors of OS/2 2.1. Admiring and comparing graphical UIs in time and ... Read More
Download Remote Images in an Email in Outlook
Thursday August 19, 2004
Yes, I will always happily allow you to read my newspaper, but I don't want you to assume that I do that by default. I like saying "Yes, sure." I ... Read More
Ynis Witrin Stationery
Wednesday August 18, 2004
Not high, but highly visible raises a mountain known by the Celtic word for "conical hill" above the plains of Summerland meadows: Glastonbury Tor. Home to Gwyn ap Nudd, the ... Read More
eMail2Pop 3.1 - Gmail Everywhere
Wednesday August 18, 2004
eMail2Pop, which has already put AOL email aolvrywhere (as far as email clients go) before AOL did it, has received an update and now does the same for Gmail, too.
eMail2Pop ... Read More
Make a Contact a "Favourite" in PocoMail
Tuesday August 17, 2004
I think "ilunga" is going to be one of my favorite words. I'll devote a special set of attractors in my gray, gray matter to ilunga so I can quickly ... Read More
Back Up or Copy Your Mac OS X Mail Junk Mail Training Data
Tuesday August 17, 2004
Space and time and their absoluteness or relativity have always been a favorite subject of human thinking. It is not by chance or accident that Patanjali's Yoga Sutras recommend time ... Read More
Bloomba 2.0.1 - Calendar Germination
Monday August 16, 2004
Bloomba, the blooming email client that sorts your mail like you should sort your laundry, has recently been updated and now includes a straight forward and nicely integrated calendar. SAproxy ... Read More
Report a Message as Spam to Yahoo! Mail
Sunday August 15, 2004
It's a perennial dilemma. If something is not quite the way you'd like it to be and you say so, you feel like a nitpicking nag and the result is ... Read More
Happy Days IncrediMail Letter
Sunday August 15, 2004
You cannot call a day happy before it's over, and when the day is over calling it happy is pointless. Conclusion: there are no happy days.
Ha! Don't believe anybody telling ... Read More
The Ubiquitous 'Y' Key and How it Helps You Manage Mail in Gmail
Sunday August 15, 2004
How many programs does your washing machine have? And how many of them do you use?
In Gmail, this one-key-fits-all mentality is intentional, and it works (as does washing everything with ... Read More
Gmail Archiver 1.7 - Mail Dumping
Saturday August 14, 2004
Some of the most useful software is the direct result of a developer's problem which she set out to solve on a weekend. When Andy Harrison wanted to move some ... Read More
Use IncrediMail Letters with Outlook Express
Friday August 13, 2004
If an ornithopter ever takes off, it will allow one pilot to fly with flapping a pair of wings.
Using IncrediMail letters to write stylish emails in Outlook Express also suggests ... Read More
Move Mail from "Sent Messages" in Hotmail to Keep It
Friday August 13, 2004
"andra moi ennepe, mousa, polutropon, hos mala polla
planchthê, epei Troiês hieron ptoliethron epersen"
That's about all of Homer's Odyssey that I recognize if I see it. I don't think I can ... Read More
eXpurgate - Sauber, Sauber
Thursday August 12, 2004
I think the most beautiful German word is "Getreide" (grain), but I'm afraid it's too late now to nominate it for the German language council's quest for the greatest German ... Read More
Morning in Heaven IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday August 11, 2004
In the morning, when the grass is greener, the air fresher, the light warmer, the chi smoother, and the IncrediMail letter fresher:
Get up, it's a beautiful morning letter! (IncrediMail)
Apply Filters to the Hotmail Inbox Manually
Wednesday August 11, 2004
When the sun appeared for three minutes yesterday, I bet what it thought was: "Uhh... ahh... no, the weather's really not good here; I think I'll try elsewhere."
If your Hotmail ... Read More
Find Previous Correspondence With a Contact Quickly in NEO
Wednesday August 11, 2004
"You expect me to mind the nonsense I talked yesterday?" Konrad Adenauer once said. This quotation is a favorite, of course. But before you can declare what you said yesterday ... Read More
What Windows XP SP2 Means for Email in Outlook Express
Tuesday August 10, 2004
Windows XP Service Pack 2 has finally arrived. It brings a plethora of fixes to Windows XP but also updated functionality. Internet Explorer gets a pop-up blocker that will make ... Read More
Active Web Reader 2.01 - Infra-Active
Tuesday August 10, 2004
Psychological research can be useful. If you have to decide between a new TV set and a hiking trip, believe Leaf Van Boven from the University of Colorado and go ... Read More
Set the Stationery Background Color in Scrippy
Monday August 9, 2004
Is your desktop wallpaper too cold and blue sky? Reducing the color temperature of your monitor can make it more candlelight and warm. Now you're ready for colorful stationery background:
Want ... Read More
Secure Reading and Previewing Emails in Outlook Express
Monday August 9, 2004
Function is good. Security is better.
When I tried taking cheese out of the fridge so it could lose its tasteless frostiness and gain some flavor, this also meant the cats ... Read More
Little Swimmers Stationery
Sunday August 8, 2004
When somebody asks you whether the burning of caloric fuels in power plants should be banned, some suspicion might be called for. It could also be healthier not to ban ... Read More
Chrysanth Mail Manager 2.0 - Partial Spam Collisions
Sunday August 8, 2004
Chrysanth Mail Manager, the star of the kiku festival gone anti-spam tool, gets an update that makes it faster but most interestingly adds support for Hashcash. With Hashcash, the sender's ... Read More
Create a New Message Using Stationery in Outlook Express
Saturday August 7, 2004
Soon, magnets may power cool, silent and more environmentally friendly refrigerators. Until then, we have to get our share of cool from stationery. Here's how to use it:
Put all that ... Read More
Force a Message to be Sent in Plain Text in Pegasus Mail
Saturday August 7, 2004
One piece of advice I can't repeat often enough is not to give unsolicited advice. Something you really should not foist on somebody is formatting they don't want:
Don't force rich ... Read More
Kill Duplicate Messages in a Mailbox with The Bat!
Friday August 6, 2004
If something is good — like mocha ice cream —, it's nice to have a second piece. But there are exceptions: two copies of a good email is clearly one ... Read More
Lookout 1.2 - Look Out, Outlook!
Friday August 6, 2004
There are places where keeping everything tidy and in order makes a lot of sense. With other places, organizing is just wasted time.
The socks drawer and the email archive are ... Read More
Create Folders to Organize Messages in IncrediMail
Thursday August 5, 2004
Hun-tun, the ancient Chinese god-emperor, (I think) symbolizes chaos as pure potential -- it is open to be anything, but it is not yet any single thing. It is not ... Read More
Prevent Outlook from Downloading Images Automatically
Thursday August 5, 2004
"I really don't want to press you to come," is one of my favorite things to say when I invite somebody, "-- au contraire, quite to the contrary!"
And when I ... Read More
Stork Congratulations IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday August 4, 2004
Storks show particularly tender care for their children. This may be one of the origins for the legend that has the stork bring the babies. It is a legend, right?
›› ... Read More
SpamAssassin - Spam Hunter
Wednesday August 4, 2004
To keep a stout infantfish, you may not need a huge aquarium, but you should still have good eyes to spot it.
If you rely on your eyes to find spam ... Read More
AddressBookToCSV 1.1 - The Comma Machine
Wednesday August 4, 2004
Researchers at the University of Houston are developing cool "cool" fuel cells that are tiny but create plenty of electricity converting hydrogen and oxygen into water.
If you apply AddressBookToCSV to ... Read More
Add a Voice Message to an Email with IncrediMail
Tuesday August 3, 2004
It was Emile Berliner who invented the first sound recording system that offered both good quality and easy reproducibility, the gramophone, in 1887. Later, he founded Deutsche Grammophon together with ... Read More
File a Message Fast with a Keyboard Shortcut in FastMail
Tuesday August 3, 2004
While your keyboard was designed to slow you down, this FastMail keyboard shortcut is destined to make you mail fast:
If you're not content with moving messages using the mouse in ... Read More
File Messages Fast with Pegasus Mail "Quick Actions"
Monday August 2, 2004
Do you think it's possible to pick up a foreign language by reading spam diligently? Maybe I'll try this some day, but before I'll try to remember my Pegasus Mail ... Read More
Pop Goes the GMail 1.0 - Gmail Downloader
Monday August 2, 2004
You can pop a balloon (well, probably not such a balloon) or a few drinks, your eyes can pop wide open as a rhinoceros pops into view. You can pop ... Read More
How Reading an Email Can Compromise Your Privacy
Sunday August 1, 2004
Privacy is a product of modern technology, but not an achievement. Before telephone wiretapping, video cameras and most importantly databases, privacy was no issue. If you shut your door you ... Read More
Sunflower Field Stationery
Sunday August 1, 2004
Known by the mundane name of Helianthus annuus, the sunflower reflects a significant heavenly body in its bloom, spreading joy, even in emails:
›› Indulge in the happy, sunshiny mood of ... Read More
Prevent FeedDemon from Updating a Channel Group When You Select It
Sunday August 1, 2004
It was on a first of August (1981) that MTV made its debut. Whether it is a mere correlation or a causal link, the fast-paced cutting and switching of videos, ... Read More