Starfish Family Mail - Safe for (from?) Kids
Saturday December 31, 2005
In a way, Monopoly, the game, turns 70 today. On December 31, 1935, Charles B. Darrow was awarded US Patent 2026082 for a "board game apparatus", complete with a beautiful ... Read More
Favorite Outlook Express Stationery for New Year's
Friday December 30, 2005
Looking for things suitable for a New Year's resolution, I found a lovely list of things to do when you're bored. There's a lot you can do with very little. ... Read More
Remove an Email Account in Outlook Express
Thursday December 29, 2005
Aldrovanda vesiculosa, the waterwheel plant, is a species to look out for. Originally named Aldrovandia in honor of Ulisse Aldrovandi, it lost an 'i' due to a spelling mistake, but ... Read More
Restore Outlook Mail, Contacts and Other Data from a Backup
Wednesday December 28, 2005
Like clothes, some musical instruments infallibly make the player look good (in addition to sounding good, of course). Take the violoncello, for example, which interestingly was shortened by 5 cm ... Read More
Sparkling Stationery
Tuesday December 27, 2005
How do the (preferably small) bubbles get into sparkling wine? It's the additives, of course: yeast fungi fermenting sugar to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
The bubbles in this New Year's stationery ... Read More
Repair Tool for Outlook Express 1.4 - Bring It Back
Tuesday December 27, 2005
When I talked about Freddie Mercury's artistic life earlier, I had to listen to the entire A Night at the Opera recording, of course. Now I can't help hearing Farrokh ... Read More
Import Mail from Outlook Express in Mozilla Thunderbird
Monday December 26, 2005
The principle of the first day of Kwanzaa is Umoja, unity. No one and no thing can survive on their or its own, but together we thrive.
Even Outlook Express and ... Read More
Forward a Message as an Attachment with Mozilla Thunderbird, Netscape
Sunday December 25, 2005
Today's birthday of the great Sir Isaac Newton is possibly not the right occasion to examine gravitation, its historic roots and strange results, is it? Let's look at the laws ... Read More
PostSmile 4.0 - Post-It Quotes
Saturday December 24, 2005
PostSmile, the post-prae-neo-structurally-modern smiley tool, has been updated not only with a bigger, better and more emotional default set of emoticons but includes a collection of quotations, too, and new ... Read More
Import Mail from Mozilla Thunderbird in Gmail
Friday December 23, 2005
Are you planning to travel for joy, relaxation, excitement and Christmas? You may be able to bring your skis (though I have learned to appreciate renting the latest and greatest ... Read More
Favorite Outlook Express Stationery for Christmas
Thursday December 22, 2005
Dong Zhi, the Winter Solstice is one of the main festivals of the Chinese calendar. The happy moment when days start to get longer again brings with it many a ... Read More
Pegasus Mail 4.31 - Security, Search, Internationalization and Images
Wednesday December 21, 2005
Pegasus Mail, the email client with both wing- and horsepower, has received an update that is interesting not only for the new features it brings but also — atypical for ... Read More
Red X-Mas IncrediMail Letter
Tuesday December 20, 2005
Who's afraid of red, white and — a Merry X-Mas?
Let the eldest of the colors add new zest and vigor to your anticipation of Christmas, and spill it into as ... Read More
Create an Email Signature in AIM Mail
Tuesday December 20, 2005
Some 30 or 40 km (20 miles) south of Novosibirsk, the beautiful Siberian nature is interrupted by a curious assembly of impressively plain buildings: Akademgorodok. Set up in the 1950s ... Read More
Send Christmas Greeting Cards
Monday December 19, 2005
"Early to bed and early to rise," you all know the age-old proverb, "makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." It was through Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, whose first ... Read More
Print Tools for Outlook 1.7 - Fit to Print
Sunday December 18, 2005
The invention of the bound book may have looked like an insignificant event, but it changed the portability and accessibility of information profoundly. No longer was it necessary to roll ... Read More
Prevent Winmail.dat Attachments from Being Sent in Outlook
Saturday December 17, 2005
If water, the ever-surprising water, finds it easy — or at least easier than you'd assume — to freeze at room temperature, it cannot be impossible for Outlook to avoid ... Read More
Send a Virtual Present via Email
Friday December 16, 2005
Next to lovely gifts home-made after instructions from Cassell's Household Guide, a commonly found and practically fun Christmas present around 1890 was the quintessential wooden sled.
I have not examined my ... Read More
The Obfuscator 1.0.1 - Email Address Cipher
Thursday December 15, 2005
Saying something openly while only a few insiders can understand the true meaning has motivated people to cryptography since the times of Egypt's Old Kingdom at least. One of the ... Read More
Whitelist a Domain in Mac OS X Mail
Wednesday December 14, 2005
2005 was, is and will have been the year of remembering Einstein, of course. But for this day, let's go back 5 years from Einstein's annus mirabilis 1905 to the ... Read More
Merry Olde-Fashioned Christmas IncrediMail Letter
Tuesday December 13, 2005
What a spectacular ride, literally breathtaking but all the more joyful and beaming with expectation! Do you know what the girl in this stunning Christmas letter is so happily and ... Read More
Find Somebody's Email Address by Searching the Web
Tuesday December 13, 2005
Today, in the morning, unexpectedly and right after brushing my teeth, I found two lashes in my right eye — what a nice surprise! And I had not even been ... Read More
Gmail - Virus-Proof Attachment-Viewing Without Downloads
Monday December 12, 2005
Gmail, the ever-growing inbox, has been stuffed not only with emails but also with new features lately. Attachments are now inspected for being viruses and emails for the presence of ... Read More
Collect and Filter Mail from a POP Account in Aliencamel
Sunday December 11, 2005
Unfortunately, I still don't speak or understand any Chinese. But I think I understand among the many wonderful Chinese stories and proverbs is one that goes along the lines of ... Read More
Mac RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators
Saturday December 10, 2005
Contrarian thinkers, those who think different, do depend on the mainstream, of course. Unless they are made and marked contrarian and different by the mainstream. Like Mac users. Macs and ... Read More
Spam Reader 2.0 - Junk Advisor
Friday December 9, 2005
Were English not a unique language in this respect, it would be easy to deduce that, since "to read" is derived from "to pick up", it is Spam Reader that ... Read More
Add All Recipients of an Email to Your Outlook Express Address Book
Thursday December 8, 2005
If you do not not knit or drink tea too agitatedly at the same time, you can learn to play, say, cricket better by merely watching the fine cricketers of, ... Read More
Automatic Email Address Enkoder - Out of the Spammer's Eye
Wednesday December 7, 2005
Riding his tricycle over the streets of Belfast, a ten year old boy complained about the roughness of his ride. The boy was lucky to have a father equipped with ... Read More
Puppy Xmas Stationery
Tuesday December 6, 2005
Dogs young and old alike, while they might not talk like we do (which does not mean they do not understand), express their preferences with their behavior. They visibly (and ... Read More
NetMailBot - Robota
Tuesday December 6, 2005
In wonderful South Africa, a "Robot" can and often will be a traffic light (and as far as I know that does not mean a robotic police is swinging colorful ... Read More
Where to Put Your Signature
Monday December 5, 2005
Have you ever wondered where to put knife, spoon and lobster fork? Where to put your umbrella? Where to put orchids? Where to put money you might need in half ... Read More
Continue Editing a Draft Message in IncrediMail
Sunday December 4, 2005
One of one of my teacher's teachers loves to say, in the beginning: "Start from where you are." Ask not what has been holding you back, ponder not why you ... Read More
TabView Organizer 1.02 - Let's Search and Discover
Saturday December 3, 2005
"Organize just enough," say David Teten and Scott Allen, "but organize around action, not data" if you want to keep your inbox tidy.
"Filter, don't sort," says TabView Organizer, and helps ... Read More
Send a Message from a Specific Email Account in Outlook
Friday December 2, 2005
In this heroic household, for no apparent reason (I gather it must be something "historical"), super glue is kept right next to soup cubes (which might be used less often ... Read More
Sneakemail - Tell Spammers Not to Speak to You
Thursday December 1, 2005
On December 1st, 170 short years ago, H.C. Andersen published the first collection of fairy tales. Many more installments followed, among them priceless instructions how to see all of Europe ... Read More