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While more and more people (including most of the staff at DLS) are starting to keep all of their e-mail online, using services like GMail, Windows Live Mail or an Exchange hosted account, there are still plenty of people who prefer using an offline mail client. 
If you've ever wanted to sign up for a website just to check it out, but were hesitant to surrender your e-mail address for the fear of worthless e-mails filling your inbox to the brim, there is a solution as elegant as disposable tissues - and it's called Guerrilla Mail.
It's a problem we've all faced before: We venture away from web based email programs to try those cool-looking desktop email clients everyone's raving about. After getting through the hassle of making sure everything syncs properly, one of the problems many seem to face is duplicate messages. Well, open source Thunderbird users don't stand around letting problems be; They face them with Thunderbird customizations like the Remove Duplicate Messages add-on. 
Google's Blogger platform makes blogging about as simple as it gets. You can start writing your blog a few seconds after signing up for an account and choosing a template. But Blogger has long been a few steps behind other popular blog clients like WordPress and TypePad when it comes to enabling new features.
The newest version of Mozilla's open-source email client Thunderbird was released today. Thunderbird 2 has a number of enhancements from the previous 1.5 version making it easier to organize messages and keep your inbox secure. Some of the enhancements include:
Today, Ryan Kennedy demonstrated why he's the right guy to be the Yahoo! Mail Beta evangelist. One of the best-kept secrets within the new Yahoo! Mail Beta have been the search shortcuts. We've learned a little about them from Josh here and in Ryan's post today at the Y! Mail Updates blog. But the frosting on the cake is the complete reference page provided here.
One of Gmail's handiest features has long been its ability to open a large variety of attachments with its "View as HTML" option. Now Google has taken it one logical step futher with an "Open in Google Spreadsheets" option when you receive an Excel file as an attachment. I checked it out and found it to be pretty convenient. While Gmail's HTML view is occasionally lacking, Google Spreadsheets is somewhat more faithful to the original, though charts are still lost in the process. Though like Google Blogoscoped's Philipp Lenssen I'm wary of lock-in, this is the sort of integration "Google Office" needs to compete against other desktop and web-based offerings.
To be honest, I'm starting to
get confused. It's been known for some time that the next version of Outlook Express, the one that will ship with
Windows Vista, is going to be called Windows Mail. Windows Live Mail, on the other hand, is Microsoft's
web-based successor to Hotmail. We've got the web and the desktop covered, right? But now here comes Windows Live Mail Desktop. Uh.. wuh? Fortunately the
product has its own blog which gives us some
hints, in particular this
post that has a handy chart comparing Mail and Live Mail Desktop. Here's what (I think) I know: Windows Live Mail
Desktop is going to be a free desktop e-mail client that will sort of be the missing link between Windows Mail and
Windows Live, offering support for multiple e-mail accounts in separate folders (including webmail from AOL and Gmail,
they say), a new contacts interface that has something to do with Live Messenger, RSS and blogging features, emoticons
and inline spell-checking, and a UI that matches Windows Live. And it's currently in a very small managed beta.
Awhile back Google started beta-testing Gmail For Your Domain,
a hosted e-mail service that lets you use Gmail's slick webmail interface for e-mail addresses from your own domain
name. It's still a closed beta, but a blogger at Science Addiction managed to get his domain on the list (go here to try for yourself) and has written a review of the
service (if the site is down from Slashdotting,
the author has a mirror here). Beta
testers get 25 free 2GB e-mail accounts with all of Gmail's standard features including spam blocking and Gmail chat,
plus an easy administration panel, e-mail lists (i.e. alias addresses for whole groups of users), color scheme and logo
customization, and a few more bits and bobs. The author says that setting it up is painless and the experience is
satisfying. He also says that the interface hints that Gmail For Your Domain will include some form of paid service. No
word yet on when it will be available to the general public.
One of the
Mozilla foundation's lower-profile projects is SeaMonkey, the
modern incarnation of the old Mozilla Suite. SeaMonkey is an all-in-one bundle consisting of a modern web browser,
e-mail and newsgroup client, an IRC client, and an HTML editor. Today its first major release--1.0--hit the streets.
You can download it for all major platforms from the SeaMonkey web site or check out the release notes to see what's new.
Since its debut, people have been scratching their heads over Gmail's mysterious lack of a one-click Delete button, and went to great lengths to make it easier to send messages to the trash. Finally Google gave in and this week Gmail got a wee tiny update, and now there's finally a real Delete button right next to "Report Spam." We knew you'd come around, Google.
Thunderbird 1.5, a big update to the open source cross-platform e-mail clent from Mozilla Corp., was released today. New features include automatic updates as-you-type spell
check, saved search folders that work across accounts, a phishing detector, a redesigned options dialog, and more. I've
been using Thunderbird 1.5 RC1 for awhile and it's a big step above the previous version. Check out the release notes for a full list of changes or go straight
to the download site.
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| 1 | Brad Linder | 101 | 8 |
| 2 | Joey Celis | 60 | 1 |
| 3 | Jay Hathaway | 53 | 13 |
| 4 | Lee Mathews | 35 | 35 |
| 5 | Drew Olanoff | 13 | 8 |
| 6 | Christina Warren | 10 | 2 |
| 7 | Nancy Messieh | 9 | 0 |
| 8 | Kristin Shoemaker | 9 | 5 |
| 9 | Christina Clark | 9 | 6 |
| 10 | Danny Mendez | 7 | 0 |
| 11 | Adam Maras | 4 | 1 |
| 12 | Emily Price | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | Todd Ritter | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | Dolores Parker | 3 | 2 |
| 15 | Ian Dumych | 3 | 1 |
| 16 | Nik Fletcher | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | Alan Silcott | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | Jason Clarke | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | Sue Polinsky | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | Victor Agreda, Jr. | 1 | 3 |
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