Wednesday May 18, 2011
Search all your Gmail emails and contacts off the line and without Gmail open? CloudMagic now works offline, from the Google Chrome address bar and, also new recently, for your Google Docs files, too.
›› CloudMagic finds mail, contacts and documents instantly as you type across Gmail accounts and with handy message previews.
Tuesday May 17, 2011
In Germany and Austria, 3:45 p.m. is "three quarters four" or "quarter to four"; 3:15 p.m. is "quarter past three" or "quarter four" — all depending on where you grew up. Depending on where you end up, you may do so confused and appointments missed.
Now, iPhone Mail does not get confused. It recognizes none of these "quarter" times; it does understand "3:45 p.m.", though, "May 18" and, say, "tomorrow at 5" for appointments to be made:
›› The invitation is in the mail. With iPhone Mail, it's easy to get it out, too, turning date and time mentioned in an email into calendar events with verve and swift finger.
Monday May 16, 2011
You see rocks lush with moss. You see a fallen tree, overgrown and brightly green. You see, between the rocks, turquoise water. You see white gushes sprinkling the moss.
You see all this with your eyes closed, of course, and your ears open to Bedřich Smetana's Vltava part of Má vlast, when the Cold and Warm Vltava begin as small springs.
If you listen closely, you can also see two butterflies dancing about the rocks and water, one blue and one red, right? (Speaking of it, what other curious connection does Smetana have to butterflies?)
›› Butterflies full of color and beauty. (IncrediMail)
Saturday May 14, 2011
The rare and spiny argan tree's pits are impossible to digest for the goats that climb the trees to eat the yellow fruit. The pits are so hard that, collected from the goats' manure, it takes an ingenious process and a rugged rock's beating to get to the kernels. Roasted, the kernels meet the rock and grindstone, too, and later water, to separate the treasured argan oil from the argan kernel mash.
Now, to get to an email's hidden and maybe thorny parents is usually not quite so hard; Outlook can do all the searching, climbing, collecting, cracking and grinding:
›› Tired of searching for related messages to put the latest reply to a thread in context? Here's how to have Outlook collect all emails in a conversation — even from different folders — and show them in order.