Winter breaks suddenly into Istanbul, and nipping. So abrupt is the advent of chilled winds that cats jumping from one roof's top to the next freeze mid-air.
Only in spring, lore has it, do they thaw in the resurgent sun and continue their leaps.
Whether you're freezing in Miklagard or elsewhere, follow the warm light — and thaw:
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You can see the same ball in various sizes on countless pages of a catalog popular with many, among them Steve Jobs, around 1970.
The ball, fitting snugly in a hand with its distinct stripes, gave shoppers an idea of product sizes in "The Whole Earth Catalog".
iCloud Mail, not in the catalog, can fit in your hand like the ball but is big enough to hold gigabyte upon gigabyte of email:
›› iCloud Mail is the free email service from Apple with ample storage, IMAP and POP access and an elegantly functional web application.

"Dear R.,"
Ludwig van Beethoven began a letter in the summer of 1815, after the Congress of Vienna had ended, to his friend Johann Baptist Rupprecht, "a long time ago I jotted down two melodies for your 'Merkenstein'" — a poem by Rupprecht expressing fondness for and longing after the ruins of Merkenstein castle near Baden; "Merkenstein", by the by, means "stone of remembering", literally.
"Both these compositions," the letter continued, "were, however, buried under a pile of papers. The day before yesterday, I found the one which I am enclosing."
Soon, Beethoven would find the other composition, too. If you want to spot your letters from R. or B. as quickly as Beethoven, IncrediMail can help:
›› Want to have not only new mail stand out but mail from certain contacts, too? Here's how to assign icons to senders in IncrediMail and have them appear next to their name in the message list.

Maybe you have one of those in a drawer or cupboard: predominantly black inside and out, about as thick as a brochure advertising cruises down the Chilean coast in a windjammer, a hole in the middle, square and some 5 and ¼ inches wide. Maybe Device Side Data have a tool for you on their shelves: the FC5025 USB 5.25" floppy controller lets you attach, via USB, a floppy disk drive to a computer that knows nothing about such disks and drives — and, maybe, recover some old and priceless data.
Speaking of priceless data: if your Gmail address book has gone awry, maybe Google have a floppy in a well-kept drawer for you:
›› Deleted a contact in Gmail without meaning to or saw synchronization keep your address book in a sorry state of limbo? Here's how to restore your Gmail contacts to any state within the last 30 days from backup snapshots Google has automatically created for you.