About Email

Thanksgiving Cornucopia - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card

2009-11-02T02:32:46Z

Zeus, father of the Greek gods but still a kid, was fostered by Amalthaea, who lovingly fed him goat's milk. When one of the goat's horns broke off, Amalthaea filled it with fruits and flowers and brought it to Zeus. Zeus in return placed both Amalthaea and the horn among the stars. The horn became a horn of plenty or cornucopia, always filled with whatever the owner wished for:
›› Send a hornful of plenty for Thanksgiving with this lovely IncrediMail letter. (IncrediMail)

Thanksgiving Cornucopia - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card originally appeared on About.com Email on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 02:32:46.

Permalink | Comment | Email this

How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in Gmail

2009-11-02T01:24:13Z

Hot, loud, dark and full of people. This is a nightclub.
Looking down from one of the pedestals with two scientists, you observe all kinds of odd behavior. When people try to talk, for example, they will put their mouth to the listener's right ear.
They do this because humans, like many animals, process meaningful sound with the left half of their brain � which is better connected to the body's right side.
Hot, live and full of mail: this is your Windows Live Hotmail account.
Want to connect it better with your other email accounts? Gmail is all ears, if you know the path to take:
�� Windows Live Hotmail plus Gmail: access messages arriving at your Hotmail address in Gmail and send messages using that address right from within Gmail, too.

How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in Gmail originally appeared on About.com Email on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 01:24:13.

Permalink | Comment | Email this

What is Unicode?

2009-10-31T01:13:37Z

Umbrella? Rainy weather.
What happens when rain drops appear and dot the brolly? That's showery weather, of course, and worse, I presume.
Thankfully, the very next symbol in Unicode's universal table of characters is just what we need now: a hot beverage, "tea or coffee, depending on locale". The steaming cup warms not just the hands, of course, but also the heart.
Let us, thus, warm to Unicode. It is a bag of wonders, as we have seen, and an assortment of weathers — but what else?
›› Unicode assigns a number to each character no matter the writing system, language or operating system, allowing information to be exchanged without obstruction between computers.

What is Unicode? originally appeared on About.com Email on Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at 01:13:37.

Permalink | Comment | Email this

How to Disable Yahoo! Connections (and Connection Suggestions) in Yahoo! Mail

2009-10-30T01:09:54Z

If, between Christmas and Women's Little Christmas, a wise old granny visits a farm and talks sweetly about a young man, the learned Irishman knows: it's matchmaking time. The young lad is interested in the farmers' daughter.
If, between a greeting and the latest headlines, good old Yahoo! Mail starts talking sweetly about all kinds of distant friends, it's Connections time.
You mean you're not interested?
�� Get rid of Yahoo! Mail's connection suggestions without clicking "Remove" all the time.

How to Disable Yahoo! Connections (and Connection Suggestions) in Yahoo! Mail originally appeared on About.com Email on Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 01:09:54.

Permalink | Comment | Email this

Free: Your Weekly Mac OS X Mail Tip

2009-10-28T01:01:07Z

As is proper for any respectable philosopher, Aristotle used to walk around while teaching. This is why his school is called the "peripatetic" or "wandering".
This etymology is, of course, wrong. It is true, though, that "peri-" means "around". Add to this "hodos", "going", and you get periodos, a going-around, a circle, a cycle of events, a period of time.
Sign up now for weekly Mac OS X Mail tips, and after seven days have gone around, the next installment will arrive:
›› Get the most out of Mac OS X Mail with tutorials delivered right to your Mail inbox. The tips come in weekly doses, to nurture and amuse without overwhelming stomach or attention span.

Free: Your Weekly Mac OS X Mail Tip originally appeared on About.com Email on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 01:01:07.

Permalink | Comment | Email this

How to Set Up Push Gmail in iPhone Mail

2009-10-27T01:25:50Z

Kaldi's goats were bright, hardy and stubborn; just the way goats are. This afternoon, one goat after the other started to move a bit faster, though, then to run and, finally, to dance with a glee look on its white, pointy face.
Kaldi investigated. He found all the dancing goats had nibbled from bean-sized, brightly red berries — which, roasted and black, we know today as coffee.
Now, how about your iPhone's Gmail moving a bit faster, dancing almost, on alkaloids?
›› Mail arriving in your Gmail Inbox pushed to your iPhone within seconds, and your iPhone Mail alway already populated with all the latest mail when you open it? Here's how to set up push Gmail in iPhone Mail.

How to Set Up Push Gmail in iPhone Mail originally appeared on About.com Email on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 01:25:50.

Permalink | Comment | Email this

Halloween Bat - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card

2009-10-26T02:43:03Z

Chiro-practors work with their hands. Helico-pters have spiraling wings.
Mix the two creatively and you get what the Ancient Greeks saw in bats: chiro-ptera or hand-wings, to date the order's scientific name.
Now, spiral your hands over to the keyboard and lend your Halloween emails wings that work:
�� A giant bat, what can it mean? Lest you forget: it's Halloween! (IncrediMail)

Halloween Bat - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card originally appeared on About.com Email on Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 02:43:03.

Permalink | Comment | Email this

How to Read Email Threads as Conversations in Zenbe

2009-10-24T01:53:04Z

To text, textere, is to weave, to weave together, com-, with other matching emails, together to form a com-text... context... thread:
›› Know instantly what was written previously: here's how to have Zenbe find all messages in an email thread and display them together in conversation view.

How to Read Email Threads as Conversations in Zenbe originally appeared on About.com Email on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at 01:53:04.

Permalink | Comment | Email this

How to Get Reminded to Reply to a Message in Outlook

2009-10-22T01:48:20Z

⇒ is a doubled rightwards arrow (⇒), U+2135 is Unicode for aleph (ℵ), and &zwnj; denotes the "zero-width non-joiner" (‌) — of course.
Fortunately, we don't have to remember that all; or at all: Left Logic's amazing HTML Entity Character Lookup does the remembering. Type a character that looks like what you seek (say, 'N' to find aleph) or maybe the character's name, and you get back HTML character entity names, Unicode code points and what not.
With Outlook, you don't have to remember to reply or follow up to emails either:
›› Outlook is my brain, and it helps me remember replying to emails with short reminders.

How to Get Reminded to Reply to a Message in Outlook originally appeared on About.com Email on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 01:48:20.

Permalink | Comment | Email this

How to Use Gmail as an IMAP Account (to Archive, Delete, Mark as Spam, etc.)

2009-10-21T01:12:51Z

Make a fist, thumb outside. Now lift the index finger a little so it looks like a hook.
You have just created a finger shadow puppet � and the number 9. In China and other East-Asian countries, it's easy to count to 10 with but one hand and be understood.
Now, if you don't need 10 fingers to count to 10, you also should not need the Gmail web interface to mark mail as spam or label it, should you?
›› You can read your new messages if you set up Gmail as an IMAP account in your email program or mobile device. Can you also mark messages as spam, though, archive, label them and, well, delete them for good? You can; here's how.

How to Use Gmail as an IMAP Account (to Archive, Delete, Mark as Spam, etc.) originally appeared on About.com Email on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 01:12:51.

Permalink | Comment | Email this