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How to Export Mac OS X Mail Messages and Folders to Mbox FilesWhen Abbas Ibn Firnas was 65 years old, he stepped off a cliff. The inhabitants of Cordoba in today's Spain watched him fall — very elegantly and quite a distance, it seems.
In a safe but bumpy landing, Ibn Firnas injured his back slightly, but he had demonstrated the possibly first successful flying machine to carry a human.
That was in the year 875. Today, launch your emails off Mac OS X Mail and have them land safely as mbox files:
Want to save a folder in Mac OS X Mail or just some messages in a format that many another email program can import? Here's how to export from Mac OS X Mail to mbox files.
about.com | 17-May-2012 03:00
Mozilla Thunderbird 12.0 - Search Results Less
When you search your mail for text, you're interested less in the resulting emails' beginnings than in their relevant passages?
Mozilla Thunderbird in twelfth iteration now shows you where sought words appear in messages and highlights them in Firefox inline search-style:
Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure and very functional email client and RSS feed reader. It lets you handle mail efficiently and with style, and Mozilla Thunderbird filters away junk mail too. (Windows, Mac, Linux)
about.com | 15-May-2012 03:16
Red Trio - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card
Exploding grain flower, by another name, is also just popping corn. The Chinese 爆米花 (bào mĭ huā) is also just as exciting, of course, and ubiquitous at movie theaters, sweetened.
Exploding grain flower, by another name, could also be an enviably red poppy in a wheat field, maybe, or in an email, I'd say:
The very red and very beautiful trio is: poppy, poppy, and poppy. (IncrediMail)
about.com | 14-May-2012 04:58
How to Make the "Delete" Key Delete in Sparrow
A few red giants inhabit this universe, and quite many dwarfs. The bigger dwarfs are white. These white dwarfs are no "white dwarfs", though, which are a smaller, different kind altogether.
Such is stellar nomenclature. If, in Sparrow, you find you operate a "delete" key that is no delete-key, you can change the alignment, though, instead of the naming:
To delete an email, you pressed "Delete"; later, you found the message merely archived? Here's how to set up Sparrow so that the "Delete" key will delete emails while "Command-Delete" does the archiving.
about.com | 14-May-2012 03:57
Shortmail - Connects to Gmail and Puts Mail on the Back Burner for You
Short mail, too, can be in one's way. For messages you need in your inbox only later and to set up reminders for emails you've sent, Shortmail now lets you put mail on the back burner ("chilling" it) for a while.
With or without a reminder, you can relaxedly know whether mail you've sent has been opened in Shortmail for iPhone; sent mail or inbox, Shortmail for iPhone now also keeps messages available offline for reading, sending and search.
Back at Shortmail overall, "Shortmail Connect" continuously watches a Gmail account and automatically imports mail short enough while forwarding exceedingly long mail from your Shortmail address to the Gmail account.
Shortmail emphasizes easy, fast and effective communication with an email service limited, essentially, to 500 characters per message.
about.com | 12-May-2012 03:22
How to Save Multiple Emails to One File in Mac OS X Mail
If there's an island called Great Britain, shouldn't there, amongst the British isles, also be one called Little Britain?
I went through some dozens of islands with as many names. Few of these included "Little" (all far away and part of the Virgin Islands). None included "Britain".
It dawned on me: there is no "Little Britain" — except, of course (the realization came late), profuse with pink coasts, graced with grey megaliths and dotted with now almost black parish closes across the Channel and a bit to the south.
Now, when you want to gather both great email and Bailiwick of email and the Channel emails and little email,Mac OS X Mail gets them all in one file:
More than one email but just a single file on your Mac. Here's how to save multiple messages to one combined text file in Mac OS X Mail.
about.com | 11-May-2012 03:58
How to Block or Enable Remote Images by Sender, Folder and More in The Bat!
In March 1760, Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste le Gentil de la Galaisière embarked a ship for India to see venus in front of the sun. Through no fault of his, he missed the transit and, alas, the next one as well. His odyssey home is a different story altogether — about which he wrote a book.
In "A Voyage in the Indian Ocean", le Gentil also discusses saros, and why the name might not be quite correct (an error he had previously pointed out in 1756). "Sar" is the Babylonian word for a number, most probably 3,600; Edmond Halley (through no fault of his) used "sar" for the period of nearly identical solar and lunar eclipses, though, which takes about 18 years. The Babylonians, it seems, called this cycle "18 years".
Now, if you want The Bat! to eclipse remote images in certain emails, you can pick the period for blocking yourself:
Stay safe and undetected while seeing images in choice mail. Here's how to enable and block remote images automatically using rules in The Bat!.
about.com | 08-May-2012 03:43
For Mom - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card
Only 8 percent of all directions interest you. If you measure 1 watt there divided by 683, and the radiation waves with a frequency of 540,000 gigahertz, you do have 1.6 mm² (not quite a pinhead) of platinum at the center, don't you, freezing under the pressure of, roughly, one Airbus A318 (a 100-seat jetliner) engine's thrust; or, of course, you're looking at an average candle burning.
In either of the three cases, the luminosity is about one candela or candle. An aircraft's engine could well illustrate a child's love for her or his mother, as could, naturally, a black body and platinum. Let's go with a candle, though, today:
Show your gratitude, and your love for mom. (IncrediMail)
about.com | 07-May-2012 04:24
How to Use Rich Formatting in Your Windows Live Hotmail Signature
She twirls it in her left hand; now she puts it in her right and moves it up to cover the face up to the tip of her nose.
Such is the secret language of fans, found in books and handouts destined to sell — more fans. ("They're watching us," she indicates, and "follow me!")
Now, whatever your email signature is designed to sell, design it well in Windows Live Hotmail with the secret language of boldening, italicization and raising a font's height up to your nose:
In Windows Live Hotmail, you can beef up your signature with custom fonts, with bold face and italics, with graphical smileys even.
about.com | 06-May-2012 03:05
How to Pick Reply or Reply All After You've Started Replying in Mac OS X Mail
Satellites have wheels. Like gears in a clock, they turn inside precisely. Outside, the satellite turns, too — its solar panels, for instance, into the sun.
The metaphorical wheels inside Mac OS X Mail turn at the flick of your wrist — emails that start as replies, for instance, into answers to all:
Hit "Reply" when you meant "Reply All"? You don't have to retype anything or copy and paste: here's how to turn a reply into a reply to all easily in Mac OS X Mail (and vice versa).
about.com | 05-May-2012 03:33
Send Graduation E-Cards
In June a little less than 35 years ago, a bearded man stood up in robes no 30 miles (50 km) north of Chicago and began to talk of his uncle.
The uncle had gone to a restaurant and ordered dangerous food. When the popovers arrived, he made sure everybody knew to swallow the solid and spit out the hollow.
This, of course, was Ted Geisel's advice to Lake Forest College's newly graduated:
"Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.
And be careful what you swallow."
From graduand to graduate: graduation brings a new title and a new degree. It may also bring gadgets, apparel, jewelry, prints and — e-cards.
about.com | 03-May-2012 03:02
How to Create an Email Template in Zoho Mail
In August 1882, a Chicago iron foundry got a new, unlikely neighbor: O.J. Smith, R.W. Nelson and G.W. Cummings founded the American Press Association.
What started as a readyprint shop — selling local newspapers sheets already printed on one side with stories and adverts — soon turned into a plate service selling local newspapers ready-made printing plates with stories and adverts.
The American Press Association's heads brooding over iron plates for printing next to plates wrought noisily, perhaps, for iron boilers soon had newsmakers joke about those "boiler plates" coming from Chicago.
That's but one story, of course, about the origins of "boilerplate"; whatever snippet or story you want to work now for later, ready use, Zoho Mail has plates aplenty:
Write once, send anytime: with Zoho Mail message templates, you can save entire emails or just text snippets for easy re-use.
about.com | 02-May-2012 03:43
Mother's Day Tulip Butterfly - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card
Smetana is a sweet composer, of course, and sour cream. The crème fraîche-like cream has been popular in Germany, of course, and with butterflies.
So, the butterflies came to be known as Schmetterlinge in German, "animal that hovers around Schmetten" (Smetana had turned into Schmetten before). That's one story, at least.
In any event, how about a Muttertagstulpling, a "butterfly that hovers around tulips to celebrate Mother's Day"?
Mother's Day is on the second Sunday in May so we can send beautiful Mother's Day greetings with flowers and butterflies. (IncrediMail)
about.com | 30-Apr-2012 04:13
How to Open Links in the Background from Sparrow
They "are getting desperate for food," the Gettysburg Times reported on a chilly Monday morning, the 18th of February, 1918. A Waynesboro resident had found his garden broken into and a milk bottle at the back door "raided".
The bottle cap was cut open with a sharp and pointy tool. No milk was missing — but probably only because it was frozen.
This is just one of the things smart sparrows can do unseen in the backyard and -ground:
Don't want to wait for pages to load before your eyes? Don't want to go back between browser and Sparrow? Here's how to open links in the background from Sparrow.
about.com | 29-Apr-2012 03:38
How to Append Your Signature Automatically in IncrediMail
You're in an elevator, and the inevitable happens: a sudden thud; something is going on; you feel heavy.
Now, since the cabin has a large mirror but no window and the door is closed, you do and can not know whether you're feeling heavier than before because the elevator has just accelerated upwards or whether somebody place a truly heavy weight and mass to the lift right below you.
It was this thought experiment that led Albert Einstein to the realization that acceleration cannot be distinguished from gravity and, eventually, to the concept of space-time curvature.
Now, you want to accelerate your completing emails in IncrediMail, I gather. How about having the program place a heavy-duty signature right below your written text automatically?
Sign by the piece with IncrediMail, which can append your signature to all outgoing emails automatically.
about.com | 27-Apr-2012 03:07
How to Set Up Email Signatures in Zoho Mail
On August 18, 1868, a Frenchman looked at the sun in India. Pointing a spectroscope at the eclipsed sun from Guntur in central India near the Bay of Bengal's coasts, Jules Janssen noticed a brightly yellow line. Sodium produced a similar pattern, but Janssen was unsure and continued to study the line, which was so strong it remained visible even after the eclipse in his custom-built spectrohelioscope.
On October 20, a Brit from a region in central England uncharacteristically far from the sea (who would go on to found of the magazine Nature) saw the same brightly yellow line in the sun's spectrogram. Unable to explain the spectrum with any known element, Norman Lockyer declared a new one and, with chemist Edward Frankland, named it Helium — from Greek helios, sun.
So, the visible universe's second most common element was discovered on Earth because of its signature emission lines sent from the sun. If you send from Zoho Mail, you can include signature lines in your emissions, too:
Send all emails and replies with panache and appropriate ending: here's how to set up one or more email signatures in Zoho Mail and specify defaults per email address.
about.com | 26-Apr-2012 03:23
Spamfence - Free Spam Filtering Service and the Flies of May
Beware the flies of May!
For, what's really annoying in Japanese — "urusay" ("loud") — is, it turns out, sometimes written using Kanji that mean "fifth month flies-i". As annoying as the flies may be in May, this connection is possibly mere happenstance.
If all the really annoying spam is easier avoided than a cloud of flies, that's no coincidence, however. It may be a service's doing:
Spamfence is an effortless but highly effective spam (and virus) filtering service.
about.com | 24-Apr-2012 03:27
Mother's Day: Precious Moments - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card
Like a comfortable train's compartment, the "snug" sits inside the bigger public house. Inside the snug sit women, gayly gulping stout on a January 6 — Epiphany — in mid-20th-century Ireland.
Next winter, the day may not be spent in a pub and snug, but Little Christmas can still be a day for women to have a ball in Ireland.
Even before that, you can join a mother and daughter's comfortable compartment for a snug and precious moment:
Share precious emails this Mother's Day. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
about.com | 23-Apr-2012 04:54
How to Search for Mail Using Regular Expressions in The Bat!
Your editor is quick; so quick it's called "quick editor" — "QED" more quickly.
QED is quick, in part, because its commands are short. To search a document, e.g., you'd typically type "g/" (for global search) followed by your query followed by "/p" (for printing out the lines with matches).
Now, that query: it is not a mere string of letters to appear in the document one after the other; it is a formula written in a special language that finds both "grey" and "gray" in one go, for example, needlessly repeated phrases and many a complex pattern. What these regular expressions have been doing in QED since the late 1960s they also do in many other programs today — including The Bat!:
Find just about anything in your emails (sets of repeating characters, strings followed by some numbers but not others, all email addresses that occur in emails from a friend,...) with The Bat!'s regular expression matching.
about.com | 23-Apr-2012 03:24
How to Get Desktop Notifications for New Zoho Mail Emails in Google Chrome
Wild boars roam Vienna famously in a walled garden called "Lainzer Tiergarten". They've done so since 1103, when Leopold III, Margrave of Austria, went hunting in the area with an emissary of Bolesław I, duke of Poland, who had brought with him as a gift for Leopold a marvelous spear.
When the margrave spotted a wild boar in the brushwood, he signaled the emissary: "After you!". The emissary, of course, returned the gesture. Leopold threw the marvelous spear — and missed. The boar escaped. The lance, inexplicably, had disappeared as well.
Hour upon hour was spent searching, the emissary's forehead grew more and more wrinkles, and Ferdinand, well aware of the diplomatic irritations a lost spear would cause, ordered all the nobles and hundreds of beaters, foresters, farmers and servants to roam the area and recover the gift.
When the sun's rays had grown scarcer and came from very low in the sky, Leopold had almost accepted the loss. He did not call the search off just yet, though, and just minutes before total darkness set in, the youngest and lowest among the servants spotted the spear. In his Lower Austrian dialect, he excitedly screamed: "Do lainz! Do lainz!" — "There it leans!"
Margrave Leopold was relieved and overjoyed. He had a big feast set up to celebrate on nearby meadows. Raising his cup, he promised to make the place where the spear had been recovered a park. Since a commoner had spared him diplomatic vexation, the park was to be enjoyed by everybody and especially the common folk. "How shall the park be called?" somebody asked. Leopold was prepared: "Remember what the boy screamed! Let's call the area 'Lainz'." (The area around the meadows where the feast took place are to this day called "Speising", by the way, from German speisen — to dine; the wall around the preserve in Lainz was built in the 1780s because deer had persistently damaged the vineyards nearby.)
A few years later, Leopold III, Margrave of Austria, went hunting again. An emissary of Stephen I, King of Hungary, had heard about the margrave's passion for hunting and brought a gift: a marvelous spear. Well, you know the story: a stag this time, a spear's throw, and the loss of both; a prolonged search; "Do lainz! Do lainz!" at the very last hour; a celebration at Speising and Leopold promising to build something where the spear had finally been recovered — a lance's throw to the south of Lainz this time. "How shall the place be called?" somebody asked. Leopold was prepared: "Remember what the boy screamed! Let's call the place 'L... well, we've already had 'Lainz', so let's call it 'Perchtoldsdorf'."
This is a joke, of course. You can laugh now.
Whether or not you found the story how Perchtoldsdorf got its name funny, you do not have to spend hour upon hour looking for new emails from Lainz, Speising or even elsewhere; Zoho Mail can make your Google Chrome shout when it found one:
You don't have to watch the Zoho Mail inbox in your browser at all times to learn about new mail the instant it arrives. You just have to watch your desktop for notifications; no downloads and separate programs are needed.
about.com | 20-Apr-2012 03:41
What Does Spam Filter Accuracy of 98 Percent Mean?
Famously, the lady sipped tea. In quick succession, algologist B. Muriel Bristol tasted from eight identical cups filled with the same milk and tea using the same ratio on one afternoon at Rothamstead.
To the lady, of course, things were different. She had, in the presence of statistician Ronald Fisher and her soon-to-be husband William Roach, claimed that, naturally, she preferred a cup into which the milk had been poured first to one where the milk had been added to the tea. "Let's test her!" had sounded Roach.
Fisher did the test. Purportedly, Bristol got all eight cups — four of each pouring variety presented to her in random order — right: a streak to be expected one time out of 70 by chance. The lady tasted with a p-value of <0.015.
Now, from Fisher's exact test to examining the exactness of a spam taster:
Find out why your inbox is littered with spam even when your spam filter is highly accurate.
about.com | 18-Apr-2012 03:37
How to Generate QR Codes with The Bat!'s QR Code Generator
In Japan, people take pictures of the ubiquitous vending machines every day with their cell phones. Every day, some vending machines, in return, take pictures of people's ubiquitous cell phones.
The vending machines look for many black squares arranged in a matrix, of course. These QR (quick response) codes let them charge the cell phone's owner for iced tea and bananas.
"Iced tea", "bananas" or an email address: The Bat! turns any string into a QR code for you.
Want to generate your own QR codes with links, email addresses, locations or entire emails for scanning and use in mobile phones? Here's how to make and send QR codes easily with The Bat!.
about.com | 17-Apr-2012 03:02
Turtle Dreams - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card
Around March or April, turtles in southeastern Montana turn to their clothes chests, and the Cheyenne can be heard saying énêhpoése ma'eno: the turtle is shrouded.
When the turtle has put on its cloak, we see the world only through a veil of fog and mist (énêhpoése ma'eno does mean "it's foggy", after all) — like, after waking, we perceive a dream:
Are your dreams turtle dreams? May well be... (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
about.com | 16-Apr-2012 04:19
Sparrow for iPhone 1.1 - Joyous iOS Mail
Marvin Minsky had drawn something. Waiving, I guess, the picture around, he said: "This looks like a bird, but no bird looks like this."
Now, Sparrow may be called like a bird, but few birds call for email like this:
Sparrow for iPhone makes accessing multiple IMAP accounts a fast and convenient joy with many an intelligent user interface shortcut. (iOS)
about.com | 15-Apr-2012 03:34
How to Move and Label Messages by Drag-and-Drop in Zoho Mail
What makes spearmint smell like spearmint is what makes caraway smell like caraway.
As is the custom for scents, caravone comes in two forms that are mirror images of each other. Most molecules such mirrored (called enantiomers) differ in the scent's strength; some, like caravone (in spearmint and caraway) and limonene (in oranges and lemons), smell to us distinctly different.
Now, what lets you file messages to folders in Zoho Mail is what lets you apply labels to emails in Zoho Mail. Pick spearmint or caraway; or both:
It's easy to label a message in Zoho Mail, and it's just as easy to move it to a folder — both by conveniently propelling the mouse cursor around on the screen.
about.com | 14-Apr-2012 03:24
How to Secure Your Gmail Account with a Password and Your Phone
At every hour, night and day, four windows open for about a minute in central Krakow, and you will feel safe.
When the windows, one after the other, open to the west, east, south and north near the top of the bigger of St. Mary's two towers, a golden trumpet appears sounding the famous hejnał signal. Somebody's watching the city's safety.
Want to feel safer about the emails in your Gmail account, too? Using 2-step authentication, in addition to your password, you'll open a text message or app on your mobile phone to log in:
› Want to protect your Gmail account with a second security layer after the password? Here's how to set up Gmail so it requires a code for login that comes through your phone and is valid only for a short time.
about.com | 11-Apr-2012 03:48
Spring Walk - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card
When the days were long last summer and getting shorter, dark green leaves antsily built sugar. They also synthesized abscisin II, which kept the buds all that sugar helped build in check during the warm and shorter days of autumn.
Now that it's spring and the days are just as long and comfy, the abscisin II — also, understandably, known as dormin — is gone; so the buds explode into bright-green leaves and line your walks:
Send a walk through the wonderful springlike woods. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
about.com | 09-Apr-2012 04:50
POP - How Your Email Program Gets the Mail
It's 1984. Two fingers suffice to count the commands available after logging on to your email account using the very new Post Office Protocol: RETR sets up the server to send all mail, and RDEL sets the server up to send all mail before deleting it.
In 2012, RDEL is no longer available. While other commands have been added (and one can now retrieve individual messages, for instance, or keep track of what's already been fetched), the Post Office Protocol is still simple and reliable a way to download mail:
The Post Office Protocol is what enables your email program to fetch new mail. Find out more about its purpose and its scope.
about.com | 09-Apr-2012 03:09
How to Import Mac OS X Address Book Contacts into Outlook for Mac
Here's Georges-Louis. He's a Frenchman at the time of Louis XVI.
Georges-Louis has a baguette in his hand. He throws it over his shoulder on the tiled floor. After picking it up, he throws the baguette again.
Maybe it was also a wooden stick that Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon threw; most probably, he threw coins, too, and needles. The Count had realized a curious relationship: the angle between a needle on the floor and grout between the tiles is clearly related to π; the angle, in turn, is clearly related to the chance that the needle will touch one of the joints; so, the chance that a haphazardly thrown stick will cross parallel lines on a floor is related to π — and one can determine π by throwing enough baguettes.
Now, the time it takes to copy your Mac OS X Address Book contacts to Outlook for Mac is clearly related to the number of entries. If you throw them in the right manner onto your desk, though, chances are the difference between copying 3 and 3,000 is barely perceptible:
You're in Outlook for Mac, everybody else in your Mac OS X Address Book? Here's how to import your Address Book into Outlook for Mac Contacts.
about.com | 08-Apr-2012 03:40
GMX Mail - Free Email, Now with a PDF Attachment Viewer
An email service should open not only emails but also attachments — at least of the PDF kind?
GMX Mail now comes with a Portable Document Format viewer that lets you open attached PDF files right in your browser without separate download or plug-in:
GMX Mail is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose unlimited online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program.
about.com | 06-Apr-2012 03:41
How to Configure Gmail SmartLabels
2 meters or 7 feet high and resembling nothing in appearance (a metronome the size of a person perhaps), the tromba marina sports a single string played with a bow and, thanks to a bridge shaped like a shoe, sounds like an old trumpet. This is why the instrument is also known as Nonnentrompete (nuns' trumpet): those not allowed to play the prestigious trumpet used the tromba marina as a stand-in in church.
That the tromba is called "marina" because it has been used for signaling on ships is probably not true. "Marina" may refer to the Virgin Mary, a Polish word for viol or a French trumpeter instead.
Now, thanks to a bridge to filters, Gmail SmartLabels can sound like rules and assign stars or labels (which you can call whatever suits your fancy), for instance, or forward an entire category of mail:
Want newsletters sorted from promotions or mailing lists filed away from your Gmail inbox? Here's how to configure Gmail SmartLabels to identify new categories, label, archive and more.
about.com | 05-Apr-2012 03:16
Bunny Parade - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card
Black on the upside and white underneath, the crossword puzzle favorite blinks rhythmically as its owner dashes through the field. In Scotland, that scut — a hare's tail — was once called bun (or bunn).
"Bun" could, of course, be why it is not a hare or rabbit parading for Easter in this stationery with a blue umbrella blinking in the Spring sun but a — bunny:
Join Ms Easter Bunny on her fabulous Easter Parade. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
about.com | 02-Apr-2012 04:43
How to Access Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook for Mac
"You can't do that on a computer."
The manual for this particular computer (released in 1984 by a Californian company based in Cupertino) is a bit apologetic but also adamantly clear. Typists, we learn following lines from O and L on the keyboard printed large and white in the manual, tend to use these keys for the numbers 0 and 1 respectively. You still can't really do that on a computer.
What you can do with a different line of computers (first released in 1984 by the same Cupertino-based company) is use the O, L, 1 and 0 keys to draw metaphorical lines from Windows Live Hotmail to Outlook:
Adding Windows Live Hotmail to Outlook for Mac as a free POP account (to download and send new mail) is easy; as an alternative, you can also get IMAP access (to access all online folders) via a third-party tool.
about.com | 02-Apr-2012 03:44
How to Teach Gmail SmartLabels Filtering
In one of two extensions to the castle at Kassel in central Europe — shaped like little towers, three stories high and with terraces on top —, people first experienced something "equivalent in duration to the shortest note in a moderately slow song": the second.
Jost Bürgi had built a clock for court astronomer Christoph Rothmann, who made the musical comparison, and landgrave William IV. The landgrave, an astronomer himself, would write an ecstatic letter to Tycho Brahe on April 14, 1586, and compare Bürgi to Archimedes.
For minutes and seconds to make any sense on a clock, it had to be far more accurate than was customary at the, well, time. Bürgi achieved an error of no more than a minute per 24 hours with his newly invented cross beat escapement.
Now, if you want Gmail's SmartLabels to make even more sense, you can help improve their accuracy in as little as a short note or two:
Gmail's SmartFilters labeled a message wrongly? Here's how to report it for review and help improve the rules' accuracy.
about.com | 31-Mar-2012 03:59
The Best in Email - Winners of the 2012 Readers' Choice Awards
Strength, utility and beauty: smack in the middle of his first book on architecture, Vitruvius famously calls for everything to be built with a sense for firmitas utilitas venustas.
Some 2,000 years later, software and services are, of course, constructed with the Vitruvian triad in mind. The email products you've found to epitomize these qualities (or others?) most are worthy of the About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Awards:
Find the best email products 2012, winners of the About.com Readers' Choice Awards.
about.com | 30-Mar-2012 03:26
MailMate 1.4.1 - Swipe to Navigate
Swipe left for the next email.
MailMate now comes with trackpad gestures to navigate between messages. This is MailMate, of course, so you can change what any directional swipe accomplishes and — this is MailMate, after all — combine gestures with Command, Control and other shifting keys.
Speaking of hidden options, MailMate 1.4.1 can automatically store copies of your replies in the original messages' folders and then pick a folder other than Sent Messages from which to draw address suggestions when you start a new email.
New message, reply or forward, you can now set up custom names (or, say, titles) for account aliases, too:
MailMate is a refreshingly efficient way to deal with mail in IMAP accounts, all with handy keyboard shortcuts, superior search and precise smart folders. (Mac)
about.com | 28-Mar-2012 03:43
How to Set Up an Out of Office Vacation Auto-Reply in Outlook for Mac
When the desert has called, the office is empty.
Before Sergey and Larry left for a nebulous entity, they put up a message for all the 5,000 or so visitors a day to their home page on the web to see.
As befit the occasion, the message was artistic: a yellow 'o' homing in on a bony figure's belly went up at google.stanford.edu on August 30, 1998. Incidentally, Brin and Page never returned to the office from Burning Man. A mere five days later, they incorporated "Google, Inc." at new offices — a friend's garage — to cash Andy Bechtolsheim's check.
In any event, whether you're leaving for a bone fire or temporary office, Outlook for Mac can let the visitors to your inbox know:
Whether you use Exchange, POP or IMAP, Outlook for Mac lets you set up an out-of-office auto-respnder that replies to incoming emails automatically on your behalf.
about.com | 27-Mar-2012 03:35
Easter Chicks - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card
The male has not survived; fortunately, the female counts for two (and more): "hen" is originally the feminine form of what in German is still the Hahn (rooster). Hahn means as much as "the singer" — think "to chant", for instance.
The rooster sings, or crows, early in the morning, of course, to cause the sun to rise — and wake the chickens to an early Easter morning:
These chicks say "Happy Easter!" with every feather. (IncrediMail)
about.com | 26-Mar-2012 04:19
How to Have Gmail Sort Out Notifications, Lists, Promotions, More Automatically
Remember the mysterious wheat yield fluctuations at a field not far from a girls' school in England?
The downward trend throughout the 1880s and early 1890s was caused by more children in school and fewer out in the field pulling weeds. When yields suddenly increased in 1894, the laws keeping pupils in school had not changed.
What had changed, though, was the headmaster's thinking at that girls' school: he now believed physical exercise necessary — and pulling weeds good physical exercise. So, the girls helped the wheat grow unfettered until 1901, when a new headmaster thought less of weed pulling's merits and the field's wheat production dropped to early 1890 levels.
Now, with that sorted out, how about having Gmail sort out leek, wheat, weed, and reed?
Like to have newsletters, mailing lists, ads and more sorted out of your mail automatically? With Gmail, you don't have to set up the filters yourself; you can use SmartLabels instead.
about.com | 24-Mar-2012 02:03
Gmail - Text Labels for Buttons, Color Labels for Outgoing Mail
A picture is w... and so on.
If you're never quite sure which of those one hundred words the pictogram in a Gmail toolbar button is meant to represent, you can now opt for still terse but comparably precise text labels (Archive, Spam, Delete,...). No matter the label decor, Gmail now offers more or less precise explanations about how any message got into the Spam folder, too.
Finally, if you compose an email and click the Label button, you will, hopefully, be excited to find that Gmail allows you to label (and star) outgoing messages as you write them:
Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail's simple but very smart interface lets you find mail precisely and see it in context without effort.
about.com | 22-Mar-2012 02:57
How to Insert an Image into Your Outlook for Mac Signature
Twice every year, people at the North and South poles see something they should not be seeing; they see it at the same time, too, looking in the same direction; it is, of course, the same thing they see: the sun just above the horizon.
When the sun finally rises at the South Pole around September 21, it sets at the North Pole. (Today — six months later —, roles are reversed.) At both ends, the earth's atmosphere bends the (orange and yellow) light a bit, and a glance at the very low sun is a peek behind the horizon. So, residents of the poles both see more of the sun than, in one sense, they should be seeing.
Now, if people look even further down at their laptops and phones at both poles and in between, do you want them all to see the same image at your email's horizon?
Fancy a logo in your signature or something handwriting perhaps? Here's how to add an image to your email signature in Outlook for Mac.
about.com | 21-Mar-2012 02:14
Primavera - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card
A fortnight and a day before the sun crosses planes with earth's equator, it startles the sleeping.
Now, 惊蛰 (Jīngzhé, the traditional Chinese calendar's spring month that runs from about March 5 to March 20 and begins with said startling) is usually translated as "waking of the insects"; who, though, says that 惊 (to alarm) from 蛰 (hibernation) does not include mollusks, say, and worms?
Send the joy of spring. (IncrediMail)
about.com | 19-Mar-2012 03:58
Shortmail - A Free Email Service That Improves the Email You Get and Send?
Maybe not all renga have been finished. All, possibly, have been begun.
The often several hundred lines of Japanese poetry begin with a set of three. These include seasoning and some cutting, and they're known as hokku — or as haiku, of course.
Part of a haiku's charm is that not one syllable or sound is wasted. Shortmail, now, wants to encourage charming thriftiness for emails, too, and one or the other season word, of course:
Shortmail emphasizes easy, fast and effective communication with an email service limited, essentially, to 500 characters per message.
about.com | 19-Mar-2012 02:33
How to Add Recipients to a Gmail Group Fast
"4 miles north of Littlehampton and midway between Chichester and Worthing," you'll find Morglay inside a Medieval castle. Morglay, of course, is the 5 feet and 9 inches-tall sword Bevis of Hampton brandished during many an adventure in 14th-century Britain.
The castle itself is called like Bevis's horse. "Arundel" seems a name more fit for horse, though, as its Old French source, arondel, means "little swallow" and hints at lightning speed.
Now, do you want lists of recipients turned into groups in Gmail with the swiftness of a swallow and horse?
Got a list of people — say, from an email's Cc: line — you want to add to a group for swift addressing in Gmail? Here's how to add them all to the group in one fast go.
about.com | 18-Mar-2012 02:45
1 Week Left: Vote Now - The About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Awards
You can win points in more than one way.
First, somebody has to scour the dictionary, though, for a word that baffles everybody in the room — say, "kench". Now, everybody thinks of a probable definition for the word (say, "kench, from obs. Urdu ke é'nče—vb: to erect the wooden post that holds the roof of a Bhonga building; n: a logical premise") and writes it on an index card. The game master, who looked up the word, writes down the dictionary's definition instead and collects all cards.
After shuffling, she or he reads all definitions aloud twice. The other players each vote for the definition they deem best, and the round is scored: the game master gets a point if nobody voted for the dictionary definition; the other players get a point for each vote in their definition's favor, and another if they themselves voted for the dictionary definition.
This is "fictionary". Before you invent a definition explaining that word, here's another chance to vote — for the very real email products you deem best:
Vote now on the best email products 2012 in the About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Awards. Best
› Free email service
› Windows email program
› E-card site
› Mobile email experience
› Email innovation 2011
› Outlook add-on
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› Mozilla Thunderbird add-on
› Spam filtering
› Email service add-on.
about.com | 15-Mar-2012 02:22
How to Export Your Mac OS X Mail Address Book Contacts to a CSV File
Johann Caspar Goethe was interested in everything. It was no surprise, then, to find a book called Conversation des dents (A Conversation Among Teeth) by some Frenchman listed in the detailed catalogue Catharina Elisabeth, Johann Caspar's wife, commissioned when she sold their house and library in 1794.
Since 1937, efforts to restore the Goethe library are under way in Frankfurt. One of the books still missing is, yes, Conversation des dents. No trace or mention could be found of the mysterious tome during all these decades.
In time, a different books has taken its place. It seems a slight transcription error turned into "Conversation des dents" what should have been Conservation des dents — "Preserving Teeth", a book on dentistry.
If you don't want to risk any errors transcribing your library of contacts from one address book to another, you can read about exporting them there:
Need your contacts from Mac OS X Mail in CSV format? Here's how to export all your Mac OS X Address Book data to a CSV contacts file.
about.com | 13-Mar-2012 02:32