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Filed under 'email'

April 12, 2012

NextDraft: The Day's Most Fascinating News by Dave Pell

I highly recommend NextDraft, a short daily email with links and microcommentary on a varied bunch of news and what-passes-for-news.

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September 1, 2010

“The Social Network would like to be your friend on myspace.”

“The Social Network would like to be your friend on myspace.”

(Sent to a development account with zero friends. Thanks, MySpace)

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October 21, 2009

Free hint to spamming recruiters

Free hint to spamming recruiters

If you can't even be arsed to write an email to me, instead cramming your entire message in piss-poor English into the subject line of the email, I'm not interested in any "opptnys" you may have.

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January 4, 2009

Sen:te - GPGMail

The plugin for OS X’s Mail app which makes cryptography easily manageable.

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Quick cryptogeek note

I’m stopping using my old PGP key (0×8C80C35F). It’s been active for 12 years, and I had set it to expire later this year, so I’m retiring it now.

In its place is 0×1A5FFE23 which I will use for personal purposes for the next five years. It has been signed by 0×8C80C35F (as well as the CACert root key), so should be considered trustworthy. Almost all personal mail from me shall be signed with this key.

PS. I am not being rubber-hosed as I type this.

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March 25, 2008

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.

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February 14, 2008

TrackMyShipments

Forward your shipping confirmation emails to this site, and they’ll ping you as the packages move across the US.

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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.

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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.

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June 25, 2007

OliveToast MiniMail

Lovely little email floater for Apple Mail.

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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.

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April 12, 2007

Correo - a new mail client for OS X

An attempt to mould Thunderbird into a more Mac-like mail client.

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April 4, 2007

Free Mobile Push Email - Consilient Push

IMAP or POP mail pushed to your cellphone for free. Works with S60 phones.

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December 11, 2006

Threadless: ‘An item in your cart is running out!’ email

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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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November 7, 2005

The E-Mail Time Capsule - Forbes.com

Email the yourself of the future. My email to my 49-year-old self ponders on SMTP, spam and the likelihood of me still getting emails at begbie.com.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.