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How to Get VIP Email Alerts in iOS Mail

The seas are deep and dark. Alexander the Great should know. He was there, and not alone.
He had a cock with him in the diving bell, for starters. It's hard to tell the time — or day —, of course, at the sea's bottom without sunlight. The chicken did cock-a-doodle-doo, though, to greet each morning, naturally.
So Alexander, in the Alexander Romance, was alerted to at least the passing of days. If you want to learn about messages from, say, Alexander and other V.I.P.s practically in passing, iOS Mail can alert you:
›› Learn (only) about emails from VIP senders, and learn about them right away by setting up special iPhone Mail (or iPad Mail) alerts for key messages.


Fuchsia Hummer - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-Card

Fuchsia Hummer - Free IncrediMail Letter Download and E-CardWhat was long thought to be Colombia turned out Santo Domingo.
Charles Plumier found a flower in 1695 (and went on to describe it in a 1703 publication). It was believed he had seen the plant in Colombia. Similar specimen had been found originating there.
Similar, ah, but not the same: the fuchsia described by Plumier comes from Santo Domingo, as discovered in 1873 by Thomas Hogg.
Colombia, Santo Domingo or Hispaniola (another possibility, it seems): wherever the originally described fuchsia stems, its family is sure to grace gardens, terraces and — emails just about everywhere:
›› Two beautiful hummingbirds visit a fuchsia — and deliver your message. (IncrediMail)


How to Change the Mac OS X Mail Spelling Checker Language

OS X Mail uses HunSpell to watch over spellings. HunSpell began, in 1998 and under Németh László's hands, as a version of MySpell (itself based on Ispell, a descendant of SPELL) called Misspell (or Magyar Ispell).
"Magyar" is, of course, the name for "Hungarian" (as in HunSpell) in the Hungarian language. So, you can type both "Hungrian" and "Maygar" and have OS X Mail check the spelling — with the right dictionaries enabled:
›› Mac OS X Mail does not seem to agree with your suggesting the theatre (suggesting the "theater" in its stead) and prefers not to recognize "recognise"? You can pick not only the languages for OS X Mail's spelling checker and their order but some language variants (British, say, viz-à-viz U.S.-American spelling), too.


From the Archives: Chat in Yahoo! Mail
If you, at times, think of the perfect riposte or remark — a few minutes too late, you are not alone. The French even have an expression for the experience: esprit de l'escalier.
Coined by Denis Diderot in the late 18th century, esprit de l'escalier refers to afflatus striking half way down the stairs from the salon where it would have earned you admiration. (Of course, you can, with Max Beerbohm and me, hope for staircase wit leaving after that person you have been admiring upstairs...)
In Yahoo! Mail, you can always appeal to network problems for the witty remark arriving a bit late. Yahoo! Mail chat will then deliver it instantaneously, though:
›› Exchanging instant messages is not much different from sending an email in Yahoo! Mail.

 


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