Remove an Address from Your Hotmail Safe List
Friday December 31, 2004
If the year has twelve months, why should a calendar have no more than two dimensions? Even without considering whether there is just one dimension of time or many, or ... Read More
Hiveware Enkoder - Kryptik
Thursday December 30, 2004
Just in time for the new year, professor Richard Conn Henry of Johns Hopkins University is trying to reinvigorate interest in Bob McClenon's reformed weekly calendar. This calendar's main advantage, ... Read More
Here's a toast... (Happy New Year) Stationery
Wednesday December 29, 2004
In spite of producers of sparkling wine all around the world bringing up the euphonious name of Dom Pérignon, a French monk, when they are asked how the bubbles get ... Read More
Bells and Whistles for Outlook 2.0 - Ournementis and Billis
Wednesday December 29, 2004
Bells have added ornamental decoration, audible alarm and happy enjoyment to means of transportation since at least the 14th century. Whistles — larger whistles, think of a locomotive, for example ... Read More
Report Spam if You Access AOL via IMAP in Any Email Client
Tuesday December 28, 2004
If you know that Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is more than 2,100 meters (7,000 feet) higher than Mount Everest (if measured from the earth's center instead of from sea level; the ... Read More
Restore Outlook Express Mail Folders from a Backup Copy
Monday December 27, 2004
Important comes from import, because, in 1444, when the word was first used, they imported (brought in) only the good things and what they needed from elsewhere. And this etymology ... Read More
Happy New Year Glitter Stationery
Sunday December 26, 2004
It is a lapsus linguae with a strong factual backing if, instead of wishing a "Happy New Year!", you enunciate a "Happy New York!" On December 31, 2004, the 100th ... Read More
InBoxer 2.0 - The New Music
Sunday December 26, 2004
InBoxer, the Outlook spam filter better than any metaphor involving sports or automobilism, has been updated recently. Alongside filtering improvements come Mailtones, ringtones for your email if you wish, and ... Read More
Protect Your Email in Outlook Express with a Password
Saturday December 25, 2004
Do you remember? In a then widely publicized and discussed but now, it seems, forgotten, incident part of the source code to Windows 2000 leaked to the web.
If you have ... Read More
Mail PassView - I View It All
Friday December 24, 2004
All set for a quiet Christmas? Are all the emails and greeting cards on their way?
Good. Do you have your email account's server addresses, user name and password ready to ... Read More
MailFisher 1.56 - Net Work
Thursday December 23, 2004
I grew up in a house that was built over a creek and next to another creek. Fishing in the oxygen-rich waters was a favorite pastime, of course. One of ... Read More
Dashing Through the Snow Stationery
Wednesday December 22, 2004
I made some of my favorite Christmas cookies yesterday. (They are called Rauhnigel, and you can find an attempt of a version of a recipe below.) As I was stirring ... Read More
Access an AOL Email Account with Outlook
Wednesday December 22, 2004
I'm wondering what I'll be cooking for my sweet little Christmas. Tori-no-Kara-age is good, but so are potatoes grand-mère. Maybe... maybe they're even better together? Like AOL and Outlook?
Use your ... Read More
Email Cleaner - Cleaner Email
Tuesday December 21, 2004
With their microstructured coating of wax crystals, many plant leaves are immune to dirt. They cannot be wetted and nothing sticks to them. Dust is simply washed away with water.
While ... Read More
blinkx 2.0.5 - The <blinkz> Tag
Monday December 20, 2004
If you like how Thinkmap's Visual Thesaurus represents the sense relationships between words in a graphical way or how theyrule does the same for the relationships of the people it ... Read More
Santa Wish List IncrediMail Letter
Sunday December 19, 2004
Get the snow out of your hair and put the chair next to the fireplace. It's time for a good cup of tea, and for a lovely Christmas tradition:
›› Write ... Read More
Go to the Next or Previous Message Quickly in Gmail
Sunday December 19, 2004
Why knot? Why not knot? Knot not! Why? Watch the Why Knot? tie knot knotting machine helpfully tie and untie a necktie instead. And while you do that (562 steps!), ... Read More
Back Up Mail, Contacts and Other Data from The Bat!
Saturday December 18, 2004
If you know how to hit a tennis ball correctly and try hard, chances are the ball will not make it to the other side (correctly). Concentration hampers the ability ... Read More
MaxBulk Mailer 4.0 - Inline Image Included
Friday December 17, 2004
MaxBulk Mailer, the bulk email magnate has received a major upgrade recently and now sends inline images, too, or takes any web page and turns it into an email campaign. ... Read More
Access a Gmail Account with Mozilla Thunderbird
Thursday December 16, 2004
The myths and tales of Thunderbird are those of a massive and powerful, but also helpful bird. It feeds on the whales of the sea, and when a whale resists ... Read More
Snow Hearts Stationery
Wednesday December 15, 2004
Love songs often employ interesting similes and metaphors (your love is like the Arizona sun? love is as big as a horse?). So a snowman expressing his love for Christmas ... Read More
Add a Pegasus Mail Icon to Your System Tray
Wednesday December 15, 2004
If you have Google Desktop Search (whose search engine is code-named Total Recall, incidentally also the code name of an IBM project's outcome that does about the same thing) recording ... Read More
MSN Desktop Search 02.00.0000.1180 - Searchbar
Tuesday December 14, 2004
If your computer is a bit like the genealogical relationships of and between European monarchies to you — extremely interesting but at the same time extremely big, extremely confusing and ... Read More
How to Create a Hierarchy of ClearContext Topic Folders
Monday December 13, 2004
When we made an apple pie yesterday, I thought about those wonderfully asymmetric but well-proportioned fruits: an apple (tree) is an apple (tree), but it is also a malus domestica, ... Read More
Here Comes Santa Claus! Stationery
Sunday December 12, 2004
Invigorated through the roof (by soup and scones, apparently),
here comes Santa Claus, and he'll put you into a cozy-celebrating Christmas mood in no time. (Outlook, Outlook Express)
"Re:" is for Replies
Sunday December 12, 2004
AAAAA" at the beginning of an email is non-random, but contains little information while "ONOMA" constains lots of information. You cannot predict the next character easily. Using this example, University ... Read More
Spam Filter Express 1.0 - Toot Toot!
Saturday December 11, 2004
Lycos tried to make spam unprofitable by overloading web sites advertised in junk email with a screen saver you could download so that people willing to buy cannot do so. ... Read More
How to Access a Gmail Account with Eudora
Friday December 10, 2004
Over the course of the last few weeks, I have observed and examined the different ways to pour boiling water over tea. Is it better to pour all the water ... Read More
Search the Current Mailbox Fast in Mac OS X Mail
Thursday December 9, 2004
Searching for a country on a map of the world can be an extremely rewarding experience. If you look for Zanzibar, the small island off the Eastern coast of Africa ... Read More
Santa Cat IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday December 8, 2004
Santa Claus is not what the centuries, a trip from the Netherlands to New Amsterdam (New York) around 1773, a poem allegedly by Clement Clarke Moore, a cartoon by Thomas ... Read More
SpamArrow 1.0 - Slow Enough to Move
Wednesday December 8, 2004
If you watch a phone it will not ring, if you watch a pot it will not boil, and if you watch a quantum state it will not change. That ... Read More
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 - Thunder and Polishing
Tuesday December 7, 2004
All polishing and no new bugs make Mozilla Thunderbird, the email client that (re)turns not only Thursdays into Thunderdays, a final 1.0. Many fixes went into this release, but there ... Read More
Download Remote Images in an Email in Outlook Express
Tuesday December 7, 2004
The keys most difficult to reach on any keyboard are the function keys F1 through F12. Which is why the F3 shortcut to continue searching in Outlook Express and the ... Read More
Compose a Yahoo! Mail Message Quickly with a Shortcut
Monday December 6, 2004
Since chewing on a few mouthfuls of grapefruit for what seems very close to eternity shortly after brushing my teeth, I cannot help but ponder promoting the "clean-teeth diet", which ... Read More
Snow Scene Stationery
Sunday December 5, 2004
Can you see the snowflakes falling gently, cozying together to make the scenery glitter? No? Not yet:
›› It's a fabulous winter wonderland, covered thick in snow and anticipating Christmas with ... Read More
Backup E-mail 1.7 - Copy Everything
Sunday December 5, 2004
House dust mites, the interesting creatures feeding on the dead skin found in dust and, most prominently, in mattresses, are also the cause for allergic reactions in many people, unfortunately. ... Read More
Save the Text of a Message to a File in Yahoo! Mail
Saturday December 4, 2004
"All fins have to be killed at a temperature of 80° celsius."
Before you heat your Finnish sauna (while hoping no real Fin comes around), I think you should know that ... Read More
NewsFire 0.31 - Fire and Nice
Friday December 3, 2004
NewsFire, the great application that you recognize when you see it, is now even greater with searches saved to smart folders and item flagging:
›› NewsFire is an RSS reader designed ... Read More
Top 10 Top Free Windows RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators
Friday December 3, 2004
If basilisk lizards can walk on water (and how they do that not only looks great but also involves interesting physics), some of the best RSS feed readers can be ... Read More
FreePOPs 0.0.21 - Makes Your Email Program Speak Webmail
Thursday December 2, 2004
Tone languages such as Chinese, where words have completely different meanings depending on how they are pronounced, can be difficult to understand for speakers of languages that do not place ... Read More
Delete Attachments from Messages in Outlook
Wednesday December 1, 2004
People who lived in the early Middle Ages were several centimeters taller than their descendants in the 17th century, for example, says Richard H. Steckel, professor of economics at Ohio ... Read More
Christmas Snow IncrediMail Letter
Wednesday December 1, 2004
Snow comes in so many, often picturesque, forms that the International Commission on Snow and Ice issued a classification system in 1951. While the flakes usually prefer temperatures around the ... Read More