What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Decem­ber 30th through February 2nd:

Send a FAX by E-mail –

Yes, thats right. SEND a FAX by EMAIL! No reg­is­tra­tion, no cost. Just fol­low the easy instruc­tions on the page. I love this, it’s like the blu-ray ver­sion of […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Octo­ber 16th through November 10th:

Mock­Flow: Online Wire­frame Tool for Soft­ware and Websites –

Rapid pro­to­typ­ing, col­lab­o­ra­tive, web­site wire-framing.

Yes, web­sites cre­at­ing web­sites is get­ting pretty “meta”. Deal with it!

I Love Local Com­mer­cials — Spon­sored by Micro­Bilt Corporation –

Nom­i­nate your favorite busi­ness to get a […]

Gmail Labs: Undo Send! TGFU (thank goodness for undo)

undo send

The peo­ple behind Gmail are con­stantly work­ing to add fea­tures to their already kick-ass email client web appli­ca­tion.  Google Labs is sort of like a toy chest for Gmail, con­tain­ing dozens of major and minor plug ins for the Gmail client.  Some of these […]

Gmail tip: Mute a discussion thread

gmail mute

gmail mute

Sub­scribe to a lot of mail­ing lists do you?  Receive a lot of email about stuff you don’t really care about?

Reclaim con­trol over your inbox!  Behold, the “Mute” fea­ture in Gmail.  Found in the “More Actions” menu of Gmail, mute […]

Inbox Zero: a new email frontier

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y!kes

I spent the entirety of last week upload­ing mail from user accounts into the Google.  and what i saw in the process shocked and fright­ened me!  i saw mas­sive, bloated inboxes, over­flow­ing with unread mes­sages and one-off memos that should’ve been deleted the moment their message […]

Advice for Controlling Email Onslaught

How do you do it?!
Inquir­ing minds want to know!

A top 5 list from the web­site of my per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity guru Mr. Mer­lin Mann.  These are some easy and quick tips for improv­ing the qual­ity of our email com­mu­ni­ca­tion.  Humankind has had roughly 10,000 years to mas­ter the writ­ten word, and we’ve had maybe 20 years to […]

[SPAM] Easily mark messages as junk

junk iconNeil asks:

Hey Joel,
Would it be pos­si­ble to set up another key (spam) that we can
click on and the checked items, or the item we are read­ing
and they go into the spam folder, prob­a­bly along the top with
the, Expunge,Read, etc. Might be a lit­tle eas­ier for some
folx ?.…Thanx/Neil

Yeah, def­i­nitely! I […]

[SPAM] Even MORE junk filtering!

junkmail1One added sug­ges­tion for improved spam fil­ter­ing on your inbox. Remem­ber in the pre­vi­ous tuto­r­ial where i had you go into your Mail Pref­er­ences and edit that junk mail rule? We are going to do some­thing sim­i­lar to that.

There is a spam fil­ter on the mail server which […]

Email: Making hyperlinks actually work in emails

Links in emails are tricky cuz some­times you want the recip­i­ent to be able to click the link in your mes­sage but when they receive the mes­sage half the URL is blue and click­able but half isn’t! What gives?! Here’s a trick: put a long URL string in between the greater-than/less-than signs […]