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Tag archive for 'email'

Google should rename to Geogle

Published by Bruce on February 12, 2009 in Quicklinks. 3 responses

Google seems to be in a geo-frenzy, with the recent release of Google Latitude, and a Google Earth update that supports GPS receivers (formerly a 'Plus' feature; works with my NMEA-compatible GlobalSat BT-335) plus historical imagery, ocean floor topography, Martian and annotated virtual Earth tours. Now Google Labs offer Location in Signature, the IP-based auto-detection of your Gmail posting location. Not without potential downsides for the dishonest (see example) although it can't tell if you're in the bathroom or lounge; in my testing it had a 16km inaccuracy—making cell signal triangulation on my iPhone 2G seem useful.

Apple Mail To Do folder killed at last

Published by Bruce on January 22, 2009 in Quicklinks. 4 responses

Apple Mail in OS X 10.5 insists on adding 'Apple Mail To Do' folders to your IMAP accounts such as Gmail; delete them and they're back on the next sync. Finally someone has figured out a solution that works. Quit Mail and open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist in BBEdit or similar and search for LocalAccount (as AccountType). Copy the string under the uniqueId key. Now search for the NewNoteToDoAccount key and paste over the LocalAccountId string. You can now delete those pesky folders on the server so they won't show up again in Gmail (as Labels) or in Mail on your iPhone when you relaunch desktop Mail.

Setting up Gmail IMAP on iPhone + Mail

Published by Bruce on October 24, 2007 in Quicklinks. 0 responses

Gmail have begun offering IMAP on some accounts, providing a number of advantages. Derek at 5ThirtyOne offers advice for configuring the service to work better with Apple Mail and iPhone.

Moving from .Mac to Google

Published by Bruce on November 3, 2006 in Quicklinks. 1 response

MacDevCenter have published a great article entitled Making a Smooth Move from .Mac to Google. Intend to ditch .Mac? The article covers forwarding to Gmail, importing your Address Book (not an issue if using Gmail via POP), iCal to Google Calendar (synch is sadly one way), Google Notifier, using gDisk for online file storage, .Mac Groups to Google Groups, iWeb to Blogger, iPhoto to Picasa, and Google Browser Sync for synchronizing Firefox bookmarks, etc.

An Automator workflow for batch resizing

Published by Bruce on May 28, 2006 in Mac. 5 responses

In the pre-Intel era I used the PhotoToolCM contextual menu plugin to take a selection of JPEG images in the Finder from our digital cameras and quickly resize them to send as e-mail attachments. Here's a way to do the same with Automator.
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Custom CSS signatures in Mail

Published by Bruce on April 15, 2006 in Quicklinks. 1 response

Custom CSS signatures in Mail: The default interface for Mail signatures allows you to do rich text signatures using the fonts and colors palette. You can even drag an image into the compose signature window and it will be included in every email as an attachment... here's an easy guide on how to do CSS signatures referencing images on an outside server and not as an attachment.