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Heinz's Email Blog August 2006 Archive

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email since 1997

How to Block a Sender in Mac OS X Mail

Thursday August 31, 2006
Zebras have stripes to camouflage, of course, and to recognize each other, but the stripes might also keep tsetse flies away. Glossina, the tsetse fly, does not like to land on ... Read More

NestedQuote Remover 0.7.12 - Makes Clean Replies in Thunderbird Easy and Automatic

Wednesday August 30, 2006
Binary search is simple — you'll see in a minute just how simple — yet surprisingly difficult to get right. According to Donald Knuth's seminal Art of Computer Programming, John ... Read More

How to Make Attensa Clean up Old Items Automatically

Tuesday August 29, 2006
To shine shoes, nothing is better than a hearty dose of saliva, skillfully applied from not too far a distance. What we have all learned when trusted elders let us ... Read More

The Last Unicorn - Free IncrediMail Letter and E-Card

Monday August 28, 2006
When Ctesias of Cnidus, a Greek physician who had long served at the court of Persian king Artaxerxes II, began his work on Persian history, he wanted to correct the ... Read More

How to Remove Margins From Emails You Compose in Outlook Express

Monday August 28, 2006
It is not every day, I realize this, that you wake up to the thought "Geez! I wish somebody would approach me today, seemingly out of the blue, and suggest ... Read More

SpamExperts Home 1.1.1 - Filters Spam, Just So

Sunday August 27, 2006
Picture a peasant who, cheerful to see the first spikes of the corn she has sown pierce through the early-summery soil, starts to grab the young plants and pulls with ... Read More

How to Set up an Address Book Group for List Mailing in Gmail

Saturday August 26, 2006
Flocks of birds can change direction in seconds and in admirable style. Clearly, they have no single leader that would orchestrate the movements from the top (whenever the direction changes, ... Read More

Send Birthday E-Cards

Friday August 25, 2006
If today is your birthday, you share it with Arnold Neustadter, the inventor of, appropriately, the Rolodex, and Joshua Lionel Cowen, the charismatic inventor and producer of model railroads, for ... Read More

Google Notifier for Mac OS X 1.9.61 - New Gmail Email Preview

Thursday August 24, 2006
Google's Gmail Notifier is joined by a Google Calendar Notifier (that does little but ask for your password; and ask for your password; and ask for your password again) on ... Read More

How to Set the Default Signature per Email Account in Outlook Express

Wednesday August 23, 2006
As soon as the sun gained some power in late May, the minuscule physalis in my garden, a lovely gift, started growing vigorously. Physalis, children of the Andes, love lots ... Read More

How to Send a Message Quickly in Mac OS X Mail

Tuesday August 22, 2006
Dirty, wild mice are healthier, a recent study showed. This again confirms the theory (and, for some, experience) that all too sanitary an environment confuses the immune system. An unchallenged ... Read More

NapTime - Free IncrediMail Letter and E-Card

Monday August 21, 2006
Cats always sleep. They also manage to be wide awake when something interesting happens, no matter the time of day or night, however. While cats do sleep some 16 hours every ... Read More

ReminderFox 0.9.8 - Now Connects Reminders to Emails

Monday August 21, 2006
ReminderFox, the smart fox that remembers so you don't have to and reminds so you do, now lets you attach emails to reminders or, as it were, reminders to emails. ... Read More

Where Attachments Opened from Mac OS X Mail Are Stored

Sunday August 20, 2006
Bread is delicious, nutritious and not by mistake the "bread" in "bread and butter." For it to epitomize the best of all these attributes, bread needs to be stored appropriately. ... Read More

How to Wrap Long Lines Automatically in Outlook Express

Saturday August 19, 2006
Austria loves its bread. Bread must be available in a huge variety of shapes, forms and tastes, from dark to white, from large to small, with or without whole grain, ... Read More

Sage 1.3.6 - The RSS Feed Reader Is in Mozilla Firefox

Friday August 18, 2006
Flatten veal cutlets, lay a leaf of sage on each and top with a slice of prosciutto. Roll up and fix with a toothpick. Sauté in a bit of olive ... Read More

How to Insert a Graphic or Animation in Your Outlook Email Signature

Thursday August 17, 2006
Let's say you share with the Pierre de Fermat, the great genius, a passion for mathematics and, you think, the joy you derive from proposing to your friends numerical conundrums ... Read More

NewzCrawler - Crawls to a Feature-Packed News Reader

Wednesday August 16, 2006
Maybe it's just me. I sincerely hope it's only me, because when I see the name NewzCrawler, I hear in my ears an anonymous song that, through rampant repetition, hammers ... Read More

Must-Have Outlook Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

Tuesday August 15, 2006
"Our motto," a memorable ad once quipped, "is to give our customers the lowest possible prices and workmanship." If you are reading this on or around August 15, you have ... Read More

Whispering Waters - Free Stationery and E-Card

Monday August 14, 2006
Enter the comfort zone! The blinding glare of a sickish, blue-white August sun turns into pleasant lighting spread and scented by translucent leaves. The scorching heat gives way to ever ... Read More

How to Insert an Image Inline in an Email with Mozilla Thunderbird

Monday August 14, 2006
If you want to know what "white" is, you invariably, conspicuously, fast and often stumble upon an ominous entity called the black-body radiator. Black? Wasn't it white we wanted? Hang ... Read More

How to Forward an Email with Outlook Express

Sunday August 13, 2006
When bees want to get ahead, they extend their legs. The dangling hind legs stabilize a bee flying at top speed (its body would roll like an unfortunately folded paper ... Read More

mbx2eml 0.55 - Makes Outlook Express Read mbox Email Files

Saturday August 12, 2006
If you put two of those ice cube trays in the freezer at the same time, one of them filled with (not too cold) water taken directly from the faucet, ... Read More

How to Prevent Eudora from Changing Your Default Internet Explorer Text Size

Friday August 11, 2006
Angry male faces: what sounds like the name of a Finish grindcore band was also the subject of a recent study. Researchers from the MIT and the University of Melbourne ... Read More

How to Change Fonts Quickly in Mac OS X Mail

Thursday August 10, 2006
Stationery, much like the templates you know from iWeb or Pages and customizable with photos or extended by your own creations, is one of the features Mac OS X 10.5 ... Read More

Mail Unread Menu 1.1 - Counts the Number of Unread Mail in the Menu

Wednesday August 9, 2006
As you send your gaze through the underground station in the business-like and nonchalant manner you have adopted to avoid, as far as you can tell, garnering too much attention, ... Read More

How to Set up a Vacation Auto-Response in Gmail

Tuesday August 8, 2006
When a young lad called Ibn Battuta left his home town of Tangier it was, reluctantly, for his first Ḥajj to Mecca. When he returned, he had grown 24 years ... Read More

Turtle Dreams - Free Stationery Download and E-Card

Monday August 7, 2006
Turtles, notoriously short-sighted (it might be the way their eyes are drawn, but for me turtles always wear glasses in cartoons) and long-lived, have lungs and need to breathe like ... Read More

How to Add a Sender to the Outlook Express Address Book Quickly

Monday August 7, 2006
Of all the unsung virtues of the small kitchen and bathroom or the average mobile home and yacht — the short distances covered by two or three medium steps! how ... Read More

Gmail Notifier Firefox Extension - See New Gmail Email Instantly

Sunday August 6, 2006
If Firefox can employ a fine extension to let me know about the weather right now and as foretold — "Now in Vienna: Mostly Sunny, 27° C | Monday in ... Read More

Know When Mac OS X Mail Will Show PDF Inline, When as an Icon

Saturday August 5, 2006
I will roll five dice. You guess the score, which can be either 0 or an even number. The only other hint is the name of the game: Petals Around ... Read More

ABC Amber Outlook Express Converter - Exports Outlook Express Mail

Friday August 4, 2006
What's corn to do when it is threatened to become a caterpillar's meal? It calls for help — or, more precisely, it transpires for help. Subtle scents emitted by the ... Read More

Inbox.com - Free Email Service Now with 5 GB Space, POP Access

Thursday August 3, 2006
Inbox.com, the free email service for any age, has grown in size and sport commendable mailboxes 5 GB large. You can now also send messages (including attachments) up to 50 ... Read More

How to Import Your IncrediMail Contacts Into the Outlook Express Address Book

Wednesday August 2, 2006
Trade statistics reveal more than mere deficits or surpluses. The most important item exported from the U.S. to Austria, for example, are car parts. The biggest-ticket item shipped the other ... Read More

How to Address Messages with Quicknames in Hotmail

Tuesday August 1, 2006
If you are in the U.S. and call a Hotmail account your own, you can now participate in public beta testing of Windows Live Mail Desktop, a new email program ... Read More

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