MsgFiler 1.0 - Files Mail, Makes Things Better
Sunday December 31, 2006
You have read me lament about things that, slowly and barely noticeably but steadily and frighteningly, get worse and worse. These things, say your fluency in Thai or the ... Read More
How to Close Your AIM Mail Account
Saturday December 30, 2006
Coffee kicks the mind into action, oh yeah. And at least according to one study, it makes you more open to arguments and agree more easily, even with views not ... Read More
Top Anti-Spam Plugins for Outlook
Friday December 29, 2006
If the soup is seasoned a bit too heavily with salt, the cook is in love. That is, at least, what they say in Germany. When you're in love, of ... Read More
Delete Duplicates for Eudora 5.3 - Removes Duplicate Emails and Attachments
Thursday December 28, 2006
Deep into belated post-production of your summer holiday photos, you find seventeen snaps of that pristine beach, none without palm trees in the fore- and white, rakish sailing yachts in ... Read More
How to Insert an Image Inline in an Email with Hotmail
Wednesday December 27, 2006
If you are a small piece of a tea leaf in a bag, maybe you don't care whether hot water meets you directly or in a more roundabout way. But ... Read More
How to Send Fireworks via Email
Tuesday December 26, 2006
A simple aerial firework shell consists of lots of tightly packed black (or flash) powder and stars that act like wedding sparklers. When the fuse sets off the bursting charge ... Read More
Big Happy New Year - Free Stationery Download and E-Card
Monday December 25, 2006
In Cantonese, "eight" reads Fa, which means "to get rich". This is why 8 is now considered a lucky number by many Chinese. But it's still a bit more than ... Read More
Maximize Message Pane 0.8 - See More of Your Mail in Mozilla Thunderbird
Monday December 25, 2006
"Pane" is a wonderful old word from the Middle Ages. It used to mean "garment" or "part of a garment", which later was transferred to houses and walls ("part of ... Read More
How to Log Receiving and Sending Activity in IncrediMail for Troubleshooting
Sunday December 24, 2006
On a sailing ship with no wind in sight, time is no issue. It just won't pass. Bored, you may start to throw things in the water.
Of course, this just ... Read More
Scribe 1.88 - Fine Alternative Email Program, Also Available Free
Saturday December 23, 2006
Only the outermost four feathers of a goose's wing are apt to serve as a quill. Lost naturally in Spring, the feathers are craftfully shaped and sharpened to a writing ... Read More
Attachments Forget 2.7 - Be Reminded to Attach Files You Talk About
Friday December 22, 2006
"As I was leaving this morning," Rowan Atkinson, the British author, actor and comedian known for hilarious embodiment of the hapless Mr. Bean, reports, "I said to myself 'the last ... Read More
How to Receive Mail Sorted by Account in Outlook
Thursday December 21, 2006
Fabric softener: yes or no? Good or evil?
Embracing fibers warmly, the fabric softener prevents them from stiffening and freezing in the dry, static air. It poses a threat to every ... Read More
How to Associate IncrediMail with EML Files
Wednesday December 20, 2006
File name extensions (like "txt", which indicates a plain text file) have been with us since some 40 years, together with an editor that makes love, not war.
Typically 39 characters ... Read More
Google Reader - Update Lets You Read Stories in Order
Tuesday December 19, 2006
Google Reader, the web-based formula for reading news, can now display stories and posts in chronological order, oldest first. You can specify for each feed or label what sorting you ... Read More
Christmas Eve - Free Stationery Download and E-Card
Monday December 18, 2006
"Snow lies on the blooms of the shore reeds; it's difficult to tell where the latter begin and where the former ends," says The Blue Cliff Record.
The snow reveals how ... Read More
How to Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients in Mac OS X Mail
Monday December 18, 2006
Its stripes may be responsible for a zebra's amazing immunity to the tsetse fly, but even more important is hiding from lions. The pattern blends, to some degree, with the ... Read More
Inbox100 4.0 - Aggressive Spam Filter
Sunday December 17, 2006
As you chop, slice mince and cube experimenting for the grand Christmas meal, the cutting board refuses to stay in place, vibrating away like a washing machine in full throttle?
Two ... Read More
Most Popular IncrediMail Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Saturday December 16, 2006
Remember You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'? Of course you do. You must. The Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Phil Spector creation is the only song that was played more than ... Read More
How to Create Email Stationery Easily in Outlook Express
Friday December 15, 2006
In the Middle Ages, when most craftsmen and sellers were roaming, merchants operating at a fixed location were the exception. Sellers of books, paper, pens and other writing paraphernalia could ... Read More
Mailbox Verifier - Any New Mail Waiting?
Thursday December 14, 2006
Some time ago I told you about my plans to turn an empty old bottle of champagne into a new mail announcer. Whether or not these attempts will prove of ... Read More
Email Scheduler 2.7 - How Time Preference Makes You Email Smarter
Wednesday December 13, 2006
Present satisfaction is, all else being equal, more valuable than future satisfaction. This is, in a way, why $ 100 now will have become maybe $ 122 in five years. ... Read More
How to Prevent Gmail from Revealing Your Online Status Automatically
Tuesday December 12, 2006
On the occasion of discussing whether Thomas Edison invented "hello" (which, of course, he did not), Evan Morris mentions a friend who used to answer his phone by saying "telephone".
In ... Read More
Xmas Tag - Free Christmas Stationery Download and E-Card
Monday December 11, 2006
While the idea of wrapping gifts in sheets of paper guarding both the present and the surprise is probably as old as paper itself, modern wallpaper has been used only ... Read More
Top Free Email Programs for the Mac
Monday December 11, 2006
Recently — when we took a look at the best Mac RSS feed readers —, we established Mauna Kea as the Earth's purportedly highest mountain from base to top.
Mauna Loa, ... Read More
Most Popular AIM Mail Tips, Tricks and Secrets
Sunday December 10, 2006
Scared the daughter might become a poet like her notorious father, Lady Byron, after breaking up with her husband, brought up Augusta Ada Byron to appreciate the sciences and mathematics, ... Read More
How to Import or Recover Your IncrediMail Letter Collection
Saturday December 9, 2006
Holding up a piece of wire about a foot (30,5 cm) long, Grace Murray Hopper would say: "This is a nanosecond." It takes an electric impulse about that long to ... Read More
How Public Key Encryption Works
Friday December 8, 2006
It was around 1900 B.C. that a scribe in the old Egyptian town of Menet Khufu painted the life of his master Khnumhotep II, who had built monuments for pharaoh ... Read More
Attachment Scanner Plugin for Mail 0.9.2 - If You Ever Forget to Attach Files
Thursday December 7, 2006
Benjamin Franklin famously kept a little book in his pocket at all times. It contained thirteen cards for thirteen weeks. Each card had columns for each day, and thirteen rows ... Read More
How to Associate .EML Files and Attachments with Outlook Express
Wednesday December 6, 2006
The TOPS-10 operating system, developed at DEC for the PDP-10 computers in the 1960s, not only reacted to the command "make love" in a way that played with conventions, its ... Read More
How to Check the Spelling of Every Message Automatically in Mozilla Thunderbird
Tuesday December 5, 2006
Having a spelling checker underline words it deems misspelled as you finish typing them is certainly entertaining, possibly educating, and maybe enervating. Inline checking of spelling might, as it were, ... Read More
Christmas Glass Bells - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card
Monday December 4, 2006
Are you afraid of bells? Well, you're no evil spirit.
Apparently, the noise of bells was (or is) used to drive away these spirits during winter celebrations of nature religions. That ... Read More
SimplyHeadlines - Delivers Your News Feeds to Your Inbox in Digestible Format
Monday December 4, 2006
"If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you are to rise," Sir Walter Scott noted in his journal, "it is all over." Seeing a little ... Read More
How to Make Outlook Ignore the Font Specified in Stationery
Sunday December 3, 2006
Have you ever noticed how band-aids that otherwise stick to your skin as if applied with super-glue seem to lose all their grip and fall off willfully during a shower? ... Read More
Hotbar - Enriches Your Emails
Saturday December 2, 2006
The man who introduced to the world the 33⅓ rpm LP microgroove vinyl disc --- today would be Peter Carl Goldmark's 100th birthday --- was also instrumental in developing an ... Read More
Quotes 2006 2.1.4 - End Your Emails With Wisdom or Wit
Friday December 1, 2006
An email without a signature is a bit like a book without a preface. A signature without a quotation is a bit like a preface without, well, the good old ... Read More