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How to Post Updates and Upload Photos by Email in Facebook

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:07:18 +0000

Ancient India. Arabia. Spain. Italy. Germany. Serbia. Poland. Russia. Facebook.
All these express their sweetness in similar terms: from sukkar over sakhar and cukar to cukier and shaker and azucar and zucchero and Zucker, the Sanskrit sharkara has traveled the world as the word for, yes, sugar.
Now, take a look at an email from Facebook. In its source code, you will find as the sender a peculiar, sweet email program: ZuckMail. If you write back, ZuckMail can put your words and photos on a wall:
�� Want to update your status or share a photo or video without all the distractions of Facebook? Here's how to post to your wall and upload images and videos by email.

Vote Now for the Best in Email - The About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Awards

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:17:24 +0000

The mighty Cassia family struck a coin. On one side was Vesta, and on the other the letter V.
The letter on the coin from roughly 100 B.C. appears written on a tablet. At the end of the tablet is a hand, which leads to a toga and Roman about to cast his vote (tabella) in a ballot.
From the voter's perspective, the V (for "veto" or "volo"?) could also be Λ or A, of course, say for "absolvo".
Either way, it's time, again, to take out the tablets:
�� Vote now on the best email products 2012. Best
› Free email service
› Windows email program
› E-card site
› Mobile email experience
› Email innovation 2011
› Outlook add-on
› Social network messaging
› Linux email program
› Mac email program
› Mozilla Thunderbird add-on
› Spam filtering
› Email service add-on.

Carnival Mask - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:10:32 +0000

"Am I not mask enough for them?"
It's October 4, 1786. Goethe, the German poet traveling Italy, scribbles in his diary. He has seen people wearing masks already in Venice, and their long black cloaks — the tabarri — looked alluring. Goethe convinces himself that his money is better spent on something that will last longer than Carnival and his stay in Venice, though: Galiani's edition of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture. The Goethian face must be masquerade enough!
(In the end, Goethe did get the Vitruvius, of course, and a mask and a hat but, compromising, no tabarro.)
Now, you can decide yourself whether this IncrediMail letter will be masquerade enough for Mardi Gras — and beyond:
�� A bit mysterious, and lots of fun: cover your email in a colorful Mardi Gras mask. (IncrediMail)

How to Validate Email Addresses with Perl

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:23:35 +0000

Having trouble? "Send e-mail to osu-cis!uucp."
Must we imagine Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz at the kitchen table with sheepish grins on their faces and gestures worthy of Mr. Burns on their hands as they write this into their book Programming Perl — knowing, of course, that the scathed reader's troubles would only just begin trying to email such an address?
We do not. Who says it was a kitchen table? In 1991, "osu-cis!uucp" was a also usable email address at Ohio State's computer department (reachable via Unix-to-Unix Copy or UUCP).
Is it valid today? You can find out by, of course, programming Perl:
�� Don't want to capture obviously mistyped email addresses or try to send them mail? Here's how to validate email addresses conveniently with Perl.

How to Insert Straight, Non-Curly Quotes in Windows Live Mail

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:33:55 +0000

Quoting was marginal for centuries. When larger-scale printing put an end to marginal notes, quoting as a (numerical) reference to another verse, chapter or work disappeared as well.
Printed books were still full of quotations, of course, and various new ways of marking them were adapted, including quotation marks both curly and — straight:
�� Want to get rid of Windows Live Mail's “smart” quotation marks? Here's how to insert standard "straight" quotes instead of the curly ones in Windows Live Mail.

Herald 2.1 - Announce, Don't Annoy - OS X Mail Notifier

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:08:19 +0000

Herald, the Chariovalda among Mac OS X Mail notifiers, has been updated with most considerate a function: it can now hold back announcements and show them collected at your favorite interval, say 317 minutes. Once the notification is up, Herald 2.1 lets you archive mail (in addition to starting a reply, deleting, opening and marking it as junk).
�� Herald adds pretty and functional new mail announcements to Mac OS X Mail that let you read, delete, reply and mark as spam. (Mac)

How to Find (and Reset) Your Secret Facebook Upload Email Address

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:35:59 +0000

Your phone may see more than you think (and do).
Pick up a random remote, for instance, point it at your phone's camera — and press the on/off button. If the phone is on, too, and the camera app open, you might see the infrared light from the remote flicker across the screen.
Now, from your phone's somewhat secret abilities (maybe you can send covert messages across the room with them) to adding abilities to your phone with a secret email address (you can send photos across the world with it, of secret messages maybe):
�� Your Facebook account has a secret email address. Keep it a secret, and use it to post to your wall or share media. Here's how to find your secret Facebook upload address, and how to reset it if it gets lost.

Valentine Card - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:34:00 +0000

Caps, calendars, cards, cabs or cars: he was everywhere. More flowers than he could hope to carry in his arms, the man with the big grin on his face carried Phil Bosman's message into 1970s Flanders: Menslief ik hou van je — "Sweet being, I hold you dear."
Valentine's Day is about slightly different a kind of affection, of course; its message, though, is just as worthy of delivery:
�� Send a lovely Valentine card this Valentine's Day. (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)

How to Recover Opera Mail Accounts and Settings from a Backup Copy

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:42:04 +0000

If it ain't baroque, fix it.
If your music does not sparkle with emotion only just — but still — kept in check, for instance; if it is not imbued with the steady beat of a dance and lacks a basso continuo; if it does not take advantage of new instruments and is in no way inspired by Italian opera: then baroquisation should be considered.
Speaking of operatic fixes:
�� Lost your Opera email and account settings? If a backup copy is around, restoring data is easy.

1 Week Left: Nominate Now - The About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Awards

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:41:40 +0000

The coldest place in the universe, until very recently, was probably some 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth and opposite the sun. Now, it may be 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth and opposite the sun.
To look at crisp cosmic background radiation, the Planck space telescope's instruments were about 0.1 K (-273.05 °C or -459.49 °F) warm. Their coolant has run out at the beginning of 2012; the Herschel space telescope's instruments (which look at regions of star formation, asteroids and dust) nearby are still cooled to 0.3 K.
Now, before the nomination period runs out, what do you think are the coolest instruments for email?
�� Nominate the best email products 2012 for the About.com Readers' Choice Awards.