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Monday, February 10, 2014

About Email: How to Choose the Tabs Shown in Your Gmail Inbox

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How to Choose the Tabs Shown in Your Gmail Inbox

A fox in summer eats berries and fruit (as long as they are easy to reach).
In Gmail, you can make sure the most delicious emails are within the easiest of reaches (and sorted into food groups, too, if you like):
›› Have certain messages—social updates, offers or emails from mailing lists—broken out of your primary inbox automatically. Here's how to pick the inbox tabs you want Gmail to show and populate (without your having to set up filters).

How to Address Messages with Nicknames in Yahoo! Mail

If "eke" means "to increase", make longer and add, what does "eke name" mean? A longer name? Increase name? An added name?
It is the latter, and—when "eke" had fallen mostly out of favor and become ill recognized on its own (outside "eke out")—"an eke name" became the equally obscure but slightly more regular-seeming "a neke name". Obscurity to be reduced, that turned into "a nickname".
Now, that looks familiar, and Yahoo! Mail is familiar with nicknames, too, which you have assigned:
›› Just call me Fred in Yahoo! Mail, and address your emails to me quickly using this nickname.

How to Save an Attached File to Dropbox from Zoho Mail

The rice was thrown away before the fish was eaten.
Sushi, it is told, began as a means of storing and preserving fish with the help of starchy rice (which, alas, became inedible through the process and time).
Want to preserve and store an attached file easily and with near-ubiquitous access? Zoho Mail can save them to your Dropbox. (You can throw away the email, of course.)
›› Instead of downloading attachments and uploading them to Dropbox, have Zoho Mail save them to your Dropbox directly.

Change or Reverse the Mail Sorting Order in Mac OS X Mail (From the Archives)

Bous, the ox, what does he do with his plow at the field's end? Does he schlepp the tool back to the other side, working the soil only in one direction?
Of course not. Bous, the ox, plows on the way back, too. He covers the field turning (strophein in Greek) like — like an ox plowing a field: boustrophedon style.
The Ancient Greeks not only invented the term; they sometimes wrote in boustrophedon fashion, too, reversing the writing direction with every line.
You cannot, as far as I see, easily make Mac OS X Mail write folder listings boustrophedonically. You can, however, make other changes to read and find mail more economically — easily:
›› Want the most recent emails on top or sort by message size? Here's how to change a folder's sort order in Mac OS X Mail.

About Email: Protect Yahoo! Mail and Outlook.com with Two-Step Authentication

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How to Protect Your Outlook.com Account with Two-Step Verification

Four digits were not enough in 1967. You needed radioactivity, too.
To get money out of the first automated teller machines, one punched in a four-digit code just as one still does today; one also had to deposit a cheque, though, doted with carbon-14 (the isotope also used for radiocarbon dating) to match the code.
With Outlook.com, you can get two-factor authentication similar to this, too. Then, a password is not enough to get to your emails and account; it takes a phone, too, for example, or another email address you can access:
›› Render your Outlook.com email account more secure: two-step verification requires you—and, more importantly, potential hackers—to enter not only your password but a second code generated just for the occasion and received by email at another address, phone, SMS text message or app.

How to Protect Your Yahoo! Mail Account with Two-Step Authentication

Porcelain on wooden sticks dots the landscape next to steel on beams also made of wood. Especially outside, porcelain is a magnificent electrical insulator—still working, say, inside an early electrified railway's installations.
That's porcelain. Amber, actually used in electric machinery only rarely, is 1,000 times as good an insulator.
Now, a strong password is porcelain; add to that some amber and you get strong insulation from hackings—insulation you can actually use:
›› When Yahoo! Mail encounters a suspicious log-in attempt (from a new country, say, and computer), it can put up a second authentication hurdle after the password: two-step verification demands a code received via mobile phone or answering security questions.

How to Block a Sender by Email Address in Outlook.com

The zoo in the street at the corner includes a pelican, of course, and—one of the newer additions—the puffin. Where bicyclists roam, the toucan, too, cannot be far.
While zebra, pelican and puffin crossing are for pedestrians alone, at the toucan crossing ("two can..."), both pedestrians and bicyclists can cross the street—or not, when the red light is on.
Want to turn the red light, too, on certain senders? Outlook.com lets you block emails from crossing into your inbox by email address:
›› Block senders in Outlook.com and ban their messages from your inbox. When you have a message at hand, blocking (and deleting) is particularly easy. You can also block any address or domain manually, though.

Add Links to Signatures in Mac OS X Mail (From the Archives)

Vienna's Zentralfriedhof, the central cemetery, is anything but: hearses got stuck in the snow on the long road to Simmering; people living on the road got depressed. For the better part of the day, they saw processions of coffins pass by.
Franz Ritter von Felbinger, a civil engineer, and the architect Josef Hudetz knew the solution: a pneumatic underground. Oversized Lamson tubes would transport in minutes what previously took hours — preferably early in the morning to disturb no one.
The pneumatic coffin tube from 1874 was, alas, never realized. To this day, Vienna's Zentralfriedhof is almost as far from the city center as the airport — and a bit more difficult to reach.
Now, speaking of airports: you don't want a web site or blog as difficult to reach as an airport from downtown, do you? Fortunately, you don't have to build Hanson tubes to establish a fast and easy link from your email signature:
›› Insert a text link to your site into your Mac OS X Mail signature — or link images even.

Monday, February 10, 2014

About Email: How to Choose the Tabs Shown in Your Gmail Inbox

Monday, February 3, 2014

About Email: Protect Yahoo! Mail and Outlook.com with Two-Step Authentication