Mirage Labs has announced Video (&Photos) Email 1.0.0 for iPad, the first app that truly extends Email Sharing capability of the default Photos app. iPad users no longer would be frustrated with the message “Video Is Too Long” when trying to attach video larger than 54 seconds, because of the native Photos app’s own limitations. Continue reading »
This article by Kristin Burnham on the Australian Macworld web site list 10 tips for using Gmail. Continue reading »
Email archiver creates a hierarchy of PDFs of all your Mac OS X Mail, which allows for archival quality email storage, something that Apple’s Mail lacks. Filed Documents is a tool which simplifies the repetitive filing of incoming documents, such as downloads or scanned PDFs.
Don’t you hate it when you remember getting an attachment, but don’t remember who sent it, when, or the name. In previous OS, you could simply just create an alias of the “attachments” folder and keep it handy. The other day I had that problem, so did a search for “attachments” — amongst the 535-thousand files on my 10.6.5 OSX, there was ONE called “attachments.” It is empty, and belongs to Microsoft! Sometimes the lack of intelligence in OSX, or rather OSX programmers, amazes me.
This web page contains links to “Things eMail.” The web site itself seems to concentrate on Mac OS X and UNIX, but this particular page also talks about spam, anti-virus, mail on mobile phones, UCE Filtering, security, serving, hosting mailing lists and more.
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Robin Williams and John Tollett bring you this tip from Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series
With the popularity of YouTube, I’m surprised we haven’t seen more cyber crime like this before now. There have been pot shots, but through the week we’ve seen repeated cyber phishing attacks going after YouTube users.
Apple calls the iPad a “magical and revolutionary product,” and it certainly is. It’s cute, lovable, and fun to play with, but it’s also a bit mysterious. As with all Apple products, the iPad’s basics are easy to understand, but many of its best features are well beyond the basics, and many users will look for guidance to get the most out of their new toy.
Mailings is a full featured application for batch emailing that delivers any web page or plain text document with attachments to multiple recipients for marketing, news announcements, product updates etc.
Occasionally, we all need to transfer files that potentially won’t fit either through one server or the other. MailBigFile.com will act as middle man. And the good news is that it is free. Although there is a time limit of 5 days or 3 downloads. There is also a 512 MB size limit. However, if you need more, they do have a Pro version available for a fee.
Late last month, Google introduced their new product Wave. Wave will be open source and will be a communication and collaboration tool. It really looks interesting and unfortunately we won’t be able to experience it until later in the year. Continue reading »
nFinity Inc. last week announced the release of QuickVoice PRO Recorder 1.1, a new version of its popular recorder featuring high tech Voice-to-Text emailing. QuickVoice’s Voice-to-Text technology is powered by SpinVox, the world’s largest commercial speech platform. QuickVoice Pro users will be able to use their iPhones to record short voice messages, which are automatically converted to perfectly formatted text emails by SpinVox and sent to the email inbox of the user’s choice. Continue reading »
As we enter the new year, signs that cypercrime is on the rise increase. Here’s a line-up of developments since the first of the year:
* Spam Levels on the Rise, Again
* The IRS is not trying to e-mail you.
* Fake CNN site hides a Trojan
* Best Practices for Protecting yourself
* Twitter hack explained by hacker
* Hack forces Twitter into ‘full security review’ Continue reading »
I have just recently started using the signature part of Mail. In the past, I have had sig files on a number of different mail programs, but I just hadn’t gotten around to it in Mail or hadn’t quite figure out how it works. Continue reading »
This morning, I received an “email hoax” about illegal aliens and was more than a little peeved that my private email address had been included in such a mailing.
Unfortunately, many of the people on his list will simply forward to their list, and as the chain grows, all of the email addresses will continue to be embedded in the mailing. So 8 out of 10 Windows users on that list will undoubtedly have a zombie on their machines which will forward all the email addresses to spam harvesters.
