March 25, 2008
mail-trends
Analyzes your email corpus and displays nice graphs. Currently only works with GMail, but support for all IMAP servers is planned.
March 19, 2008
Do Not Reply
The owner of donotreply.com blogs emails that have bounced to him when corporations (and government agencies) have sent email “from” @donotreply.com.
February 14, 2008
TrackMyShipments
Forward your shipping confirmation emails to this site, and they’ll ping you as the packages move across the US.
September 18, 2007
Xobni - Email organization, search, and navigation (it’s inbox backwards)
Now launched. Tool to help you track people, emails, appointments and attachments. Sadly Outlook-only, currently. Initial prodding on my work email looks promising — I’m mildly tempted to install Outlook and point it at my home email accounts to see how well it does over a big (4+ years) dataset.
July 18, 2007
3D Mailbox: Worst. App. Ever.
Holy flaming crap! This is just spectacularly awesomely awful. Your email represented as human avatars hanging around a beach. The trailer has to be seen to be believed.
June 25, 2007
May 6, 2007
MailActOn
Plugin for Apple Mail which allows you to quickly tag/file/act-on your emails with a couple of keystrokes. I’d been looking for something like this for a while.
April 12, 2007
Correo - a new mail client for OS X
An attempt to mould Thunderbird into a more Mac-like mail client.
April 4, 2007
Free Mobile Push Email - Consilient Push
IMAP or POP mail pushed to your cellphone for free. Works with S60 phones.
December 11, 2006
Threadless: ‘An item in your cart is running out!’ email
What a brilliant piece of customer service from Threadless.
As their 30-day $10-a-shirt sale has been going on, I've been occasionally chucking shirts I fancy into my cart, with an intent to go back on the last day of the sale and buy in bulk to save on shipping costs.
This evening, I got an email that one of the shirts in my cart was close to selling out. That gave me enough time to go back to their site and checkout.
A win-win all round, then. I got my shirt, and they got a sale. Nice work Threadless chaps!
December 7, 2006
Technical Revenue: The Architecture of Mailinator
Interesting article on the architecture and design decisions behind mailinator.com, your local friendly low-hassle disposable email address site.
November 28, 2006
Presto – Send email and photos to people who don’t have a computer
Another bubblicious startup — Email photos and letters to “people who don’t have a computer” *cough*old people*cough*, and have them print out on their hooked-up-to-the-phoneline HP inkjet printer. I can’t imagine that the old-person-without-a-computer market is going to stay large much longer, but it’s an interesting idea.
June 6, 2006
Gallows humor from inside Enron
When Enrorn was investigated, the contents of their Exchange server was made public. Here’s some of the more amusing things found inside.
November 11, 2005
see shy jo: thread patterns
How to recognize, at a glance, whether it’s worth opening emails on a busy mailing list.
November 9, 2005
Five email tics I’d love for you to lose
Today at work, an email memo about the fact that we’re changing the paper in our copiers to a shiner brand was sent with Outlook’s High Priority flag set. I weep for humanity.
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