August 15, 2009
Among desktop Mail clients, Mozilla Thunderbird is still a popular choice. Although more than 50% of our readers check their eMail online, 15% use Thunderbird, followed by Outlook and other desktop clients. Source: MUO Poll Thunderbird unites many advantages, including the flexibility we all know from Firefox. And if you have to rely on eMail [...]
August 12, 2009
Our habits, workflows and computing environment has changed a lot since 1973, when the encoding for ‘electronic mail’ was drafted and first transmitted over modems that measured speed in bauds. But email didn’t evolve much. Sure, we can attach files, sort and store more emails. If you’re using Gmail, you’re probably in love with the [...]
August 3, 2009
Isn’t timing everything? In the business (and also the personal) world, schedules are something to stick by. In communication, selecting the right time to communicate is sometimes the difference between a sizzle and a fizzle. For instance, I need to send forth an email to a different time zone at 6 AM in the morning. [...]
July 21, 2009
I have been using Outlook as my email client for many many moons now. It is not just because I am required to for my job ““ I really like it and I have got it to the point where it is a help to my work and not a hindrance. Today I am going [...]
July 7, 2009
In my previous post, I covered how to move all your emails to one email account so you can easily check all your emails online without having to log in and log out individual email accounts all the time. We are now at the stage on how we can access these emails offline. Since all [...]
June 30, 2009
“Is there a way to send personalized bulk emails using Mozilla’s Thunderbird? That is sending mails to a group of people without each of them knowing about each other’s email address (without using BCC). Also, with each person having only his own mail address in the “˜To’ field.” I expected this question after my previous [...]
June 28, 2009
I could have also titled this ““ Mail merge from Outlook. Because that’s exactly what this process is about. Mail merge is a powerful productivity feature of MS Word. Before I leap ahead, mail merge is used when we want to create several documents that are basically the same but where each document contains unique [...]
June 19, 2009
Time”¦ this single four letter word is our biggest contradiction. Today, more than ever it is synonymous with productivity. The internet may have erased distances, but it hasn’t erased the clock. Time zones remain a constant. An email sent by me to a recipient across the globe takes a second to land in his inbox, but [...]
June 15, 2009
If you have several different webmail accounts, you’ll know how painful it is to manage them in Windows. When clicking a “mailto” URL on a website, Windows will gladly launch your default desktop mail program. How about tweaking it to make Windows log in to your webmail? Affixa integrates your Google Mail and Yahoo! Mail [...]
June 10, 2009
If you are running a website that supports PHP and MySQL, and you are sick of using the SquirrelMail to access your email account, then RoundCube Webmail would be the best solution to ease your pain. RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client packed with plenty of AJAX goodness. It comes with an application-like [...]
