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Chat (Using Facebook, Google Talk, IRC, etc.) in Thunderbird

"Where from? Where to? I have no time right now
From there! To there! Nice having met you here"
In Johann Strauss Jr.'s Tritsch-Tratsch (chit-chat) polka, people have but little time for idle chat. Fortunately, one can chat right in Mozilla Thunderbird — in fast and easy a manner:
›› Exchange chat messages (using Facebook Chat, Google Talk, IRC and XMPP) right in Mozilla Thunderbird. Here's how to set up chat accounts and Twitter to converse rapidly with chat transcripts saved — and found again easily — in Mozilla Thunderbird.

How to View Text with Larger Type in iOS Mail

If it's not the heat that tells you where you are, it's the thermometer.
Sadly, Baker's thermometer has little to say about the heat nowadays, but you can still, I gather, visit the remnants of what for much of the past 20 years was the world's tallest thermometer, on the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, just past the point where State Route 127 heads north towards famously hot death valley.
Now, want maybe not the world's largest type — but at least some taller letters in iOS Mail?
›› Text, even in emails, is best read at large enough a size. You can set up iOS to show all text in Mail (as well as some other applications) on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch using big type.

Be Careful with Punctuation Around URLs

Brewster Kahle put a slide on the overhead projector. It was his second that day and the first real one.
"What," read the audience at Xerox's PARC forum early in the summer of 1991, "I really want..." together with the things Kahle really wanted. Second on the list: "Published information should find me".
The engineer from Thinking Machines Corporation went on describing how Wide Area Information Servers — WAIS — did, of course, work diligently to make this wish (and more) reality by connecting machines and information with clever search protocols and software.
Now, whether the published information you want to share is accessible via http:, gopher: or wais:, ideally it does find the recipient in intact and clickable a manner:
›› Make sure the links in your emails work. Punctuation around URLs can interfere with that.

From the Archives: The DAT File and the Weasels

A DAT fell on the floor.
Caught by a weasel, it pleaded for its life. The weasel refused. "I'm all attachments' natural enemy," it said.
"Ah," the DAT countered, "I'm not an attachment at all. I'm an entire email!" The weasel let the DAT go.
A DAT (the same DAT) fell on the floor again.
Caught by another weasel, it pleaded for its life. The weasel refused: "I detest emails, entire emails, above all."
"Oh," the DAT said calmly, "what a coincidence! I'm no email at all. I'm but an attachment." The second weasel let the DAT go.
WMDecode, too, will treat the slick and enigmatic DAT file well — after it has handed over all its attachments:
›› WMDecode efficiently and very simply gets documents out of mysterious winmail.dat attachments. (Windows)

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