Tag: Email

A tiny box doesn’t just limit length. It lowers expectations.

Tired of going back to your inbox after every time you delete an email in Gmail? Try turning on “Auto-advance” to skip straight to the next email instead. Game-changer!

If you keep your gmail filters under 1,469 characters, you'll be ok.

Telling someone how you discovered their work online (and then sharing your own work too)

The photo printing service Snapfish sent me an email saying that if I don’t order any prints, they will delete my photos. Which is completely fair. They shouldn’t have to host my photos if I’m not ordering any prints. To…

Just in case you were wondering, if you tried to make an emoji really big in Outlook, the maximum size is 466 point. If you set the emoji at 467 point, it will disappear. Almost like it explodes from being…

Good ol’ Earthlink. Back in the late 1990’s Earthlink was one of the top internet service providers. Chances are you or someone you know used Earthlink to connect to the internet. Today most people use Comcast or AT&T. Blah. Such…

For an extra touch of fun, use people’s middle names in emails. Whenever I find someone’s middle name, I like to put it in my address book. Then whenever I email that person, the “to” field shows their full name.…

Quiznos emailed me a coupon today. I was happy. Thus I emailed Quiznos with my thanks. Here’s the email: ============== My dear quiznos rock star, Perfect timing. My friend and I were just talking about expanding our lunch horizons. Quiznos…

if you got a goodreads invite from me, you can ignore it. That was a total mistake on my part. I thought I was adding friends that were on goodreads already. I didn’t mean to send it out to my…

Everyone loves Trader Joes–the grocery store with fun food and delightful employees. Trader Joes even has a location request form on their website. Here’s my location request that I sent to them today: =================== Want to know the best new…

When you want to separate a bunch of information on one line, what do you use? Let us look at some options. The pipe Your Name | Fancypants Title | Acme Widgets Classic, although it’s essential to use two spaces…

You want a president that will keep communication lines open. Of all the 2008 Presidential candidates, Dennis Kucinich and John McCain both sent out the most emails in October 2007. They sent out 16 emails each. The most secretive candidates…

(Photo courtesy of Jurica) If i had a dog, i would give him an email address. People could email my dog and then i would read the email to him. I’m thinking about giving my pet rock an email address.…

Here’s my away message for my email today at work: I’m out of the office Friday July 13. Did you know that it’s National Embrace Your Geekness Day. It’s true! I’m not just a geek telling you this! Well, I…

I love getting emails from people. It’s so nice. There’s just a couple things that would make it even more pleasant… 1) use http:// in links When emailing a link to someone, please PLEASE PLEASE include the “http://” in the…

There’s a group of people that want to make “jigga” be the 11th letter in the alphabet. Not a word, but an actual letter. ======================= To: [email protected] Subject: jigga in the dictionary I want jiggabuns to the a letter in…

As Gapers Block pointed out, the Democratic National Party still has not updated their website to reflect that Barak Obama is one of Illinois’s senators, not Peter Fitzgerald. It’s been four months since Obama was elected in. Gapers Block is…

Here’s an example: Hi there Bob, I hope all is well. When do you think I could get my yellow matter transmuter back? -matt It’s kinda funny when people put hypens before their name when signing an email. Why is…

Here’s an email I sent to Quark: Subject: Quark’s events hey yo I’ma lookin at yo events page at: http://www.quark.com/about/events/ How come you don’t have no events for Quark in Chicago? Shy Town wants Quark conferences. Adobe InDesign is totally…

I’m looking for some software or service that would notify me via email (or RSS feed) whenever there is a new site linking to my site. And that’s just it, i only want new sites. I don’t want to be…

Cerulean Studios makes the wildy popular instant message program called Trillian. However they do not have a version for Mac OS X. Here is my email requesting it. ——————- Subject: Trillian for Mac OS X and ewoks! Dear Cerulean Studios,…

I’m collecting those confidentiality footers put at the bottom of emails by corporations and organizations. If you have ever received any confidentiality footers, please post it in the comments here. Thanks!

lunch.com is available the deal of a price: $125,000.00. While I can’t quite afford that much money, I am currently in negotiations with them. Here’s an email that I sent to them: I’ll give you my lunch of a reuben…

I’m happy to announce that now when you add a comment and click the “Notify me when someone replies to this post” box, the notification emails you recieve will now have the body of the comment. Hooray! It was a…

FluentMedia, the content solution from Tribune Company, delivers strategic information from the world’s premier news organizations directly to your intranet, extranet and public websites. This example is smaller than the real newsletter. View the full newsletter. Client: FluentMedia

Balloons have been used for decades to conduct scientific studies. NASA balloons are constructed of thin, 0.002-centimeter (0.8 mil), polyethylene film, about the same thickness as ordinary sandwich wrap and are as big as the Louisana Superdome. In order to…

Trickly little article that tells you the secrets behind how to read those confusing cryptic email headershttp://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html