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Download: Firefox Add-on – AutoPager

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Firefox is an Internet browser that keeps it’s popularity by it’s extensibility and every once in a while you find one of the those extensions/add-ons that need to be integrated in to the browser itself.

How many times have you been browsing the web, searching through page after page, hitting NEXT for the next page, over and over?

Here’s the solution for that…

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eMclient v2: An Instant Message Enigma

eMclient Instant Message how toIt’s true the guys over an eMclient are making some serious progress. In my email exchanges they have indicated they’re ‘…seriously busy’ and kudos for all the efforts and their accomplishments.

I’m a big fan of eMclient; I really want to see it succeed and flourish, but one thing about it has in common with other free and open source projects, the programmers usually can’t produce documentation was well as they can write the code.

And you know these guys are using eMclient right now, they’re coding it and they know every inch of how it works, but releasing it in to the wild with average users…

You might as well have released a $50 special jigsaw puzzle, of rock garden, to a 3yr old…

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eMclient: How to Setup Hotmail POP Access

eMclient v2 was released a little while back and how to eMclient Hotmail popI’ve been having some issues with eMclient on their Hotmail access and after a little while of tinkering I got it working.

It’s not without a few issues, but since the account wizard doesn’t handle this completely yet, I thought I’d share a small piece of information.

Here’s what I did to get it working…

 

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Sun Puts Crap-Ware in your Java Updates

Sun Java Crap-wareI was unpleasantly surprised when I got my latest Java update.

Sun has decided to move to the dark side and start putting crap-ware in the Java installation. Why do these guys do this; it’s just sucky and no one wants to see it.

It’s just what no one wants to see is a company that used to be respectable trying to squeeze in crap-ware in to a products automatic updates.

 

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Bing vs Google – It’s about the quality, not quantity.

image The common Internet community has known that Microsoft LIVE search sucked hard; it couldn’t find water if it was under it.

Now that Yahoo! has been taken over by Microsoft, it’s like combining to search engine websites and only one lack luster search engine, but does this mean it’s going to be better or more widely accepted? I think not.

In my eyes, Microsoft is comical. They are advertising Bing on TV with these silly commercials with people that have apparently searched and found a bunch of information they don’t need. And with Bing you will. –No I don’t think so.

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YAHOO! Endorsing Fraud

image I’ve been seeing these ads for making tons of money with Google. And apparently all you’ve to do is submit some links to Google from Google; sounds odd.

Why does Google need users to submit links to Google.. and then pay people for it. Doesn’t make sense, but yet people are buying in to this scam- they’re all over the place.

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Thunderbird: Must have Extensions

thunderbird-logoBy now, everyone should know about Thunderbird; it’s a free email client from the Mozilla Foundation. The program itself is very extensible. By default the e-mail application is pretty much just a basic e-mail client, but by adding extensions to the application you can make it do or perform to your preference.

One of the things that makes Thunderbird so popular is the ability to add extensions. extensions add all kinds of functionality to Thunderbird, such as a calendar, tasks, reminders and lots of other things that make it extremely useful.

This article will cover just a few things that will enhance your experience with Thunderbird as well as manage your e-mail accounts.

Here’s 6 that I think should be standard with Thunderbird…

Thunderbird Extensions:


  • Display mail user agent
    this displays the e-mail client from which the e-mail that you received was written. Such as Outlook, Outlook express, Thunderbird and many others.
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  • Google contacts
    Google contacts is an extension that allows you to synchronize your contacts with Thunderbird. This enables you to have your contacts in two different places.
  • Lightning
    lightning is a calendar interface for Thunderbird. It works in conjunction with provider for Google calendar OR Sunbird [Mozilla]. This adds the functionality of a calendar, tasks and reminders.
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  • Message faces
    Message faces uses the Gravatar service to try to identify the person that sent you the e-mail and then show a picture of the individual in the heading of the e-mail; it makes the activity of reading e-mail a little more personal.
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  • Provider for Google calendar
    this extension allows you to connect directly with Google and your Google calendar. The activities on your Google calendar are synchronized to your local Thunderbird calendar or vice versa. If an appointment is placed on your calendar and convert it carried over to your Google calendar so you can have your information anywhere you want to go.
  • Webmail
    Webmail is an extension that allows you to connect to Web e-mail portals such as Yahoo, Hotmail, MailDotCom, Gmail, Libero, and AOL. without this extension access to these e-mail portals through a typical e-mail client would not be possible.

Thunderbird Image Tweak:


I send a lot of instructional e-mails to family friends and to other users and being able to copy and paste images or screenshots directly into e-mails is very important for the composition of the e-mails; to know that the images and pasting are actually there and are going to be received by the recipient.

By default Thunderbird blocks some images from being pasted into an e-mail and the result is simply a placeholder with a red X. in a box.

The following information will correct that problem:

Thunderbird has code used to prevent downloading content from untrusted locations. One example is if you view message from mailbox, Thunderbird will not download any images from remote (http) URL. This code affect new message editing.

But there is another catch: if you start writing new message using “Write” button, it gets internal security id 0, and all security checks are skipped, but for mailto: messages, they are internally checked as new, but mailto (nsIMsgCompType::MailToUrl), and security is taken into account.

Now, another funny thing: new message have url “about:blank”, new image from file (clipboard image is a temp file) have url “file:…” => protocols does not match and security prevents displaying image. But recipient will get and see them.

To override this, you may use “about:config” to add new ‘boolean’ preference *network.protocol-handler.expose.file*, with value *true*. This will make TB to trust “file:” protocol.

Thunderbird Email Filters/Rules


imageOne of the most important things that you can do with any e-mail client is to organize the information that’s being sent to you.

You should consider your e-mail inbox like a file and folder/cabinet. Information needs to be organized or if you find it in an efficient way.

Failure to do this will cause you problems with finding or losing information all together. So, it’s important to categorize your information into folders that can be recognized and searched quickly. Try not to create too many folders inside your inbox; you don’t have to over organize.

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Thunderbird as a very simplistic e-mail filter system.

you start by selecting your e-mail account that you want to apply a filter to and then you choose the option to create a NEW filter.

Using the options choose how to filter out your incoming emails.

Now when emails come in from various places they can be filtered to Family, Friends, Junk, forums and so on.

Here’s a youtube video on how to create a filter.

Hope this helps.

This is a living document so expect it to get updated later.

Thanks for reading!
Enjoy.

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Why you shouldn’t use your ISP Email Account

image WHY?! Are you serious?

First, your ISP is going to use this as a hook tactic.

If you get an email account with them, get established, telling everyone [friends and family] what your email address is and you sign up on every website you run across using that address, it’s going to be a show stopper when you want to switch ISP’s; AND YOU WILL.

You need to be looking at web-based email [Google, yahoo, Hotmail and many others] accounts as your default account. They are global, they’ll have your address book. You can get to it from any place that has Internet service. It makes perfect sense.

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