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Why Doesn’t My Email Program Have This Button?
2:00PM Rosa Golijan | I get a lot of emails from cruel, annoying, persistent individuals and I sometimes don’t know how to deal with them. If I had this little extra button in my email program though, boy-oh-boy-oh-boy. I’d be even more passive aggressive. More »
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Anti-Spam Warriors Fight Botnet With Botnet
9:00AM Brian Barrett | Researchers at the International Computer Science Institute and UC-San Diego have achieved 100 per cent success rates in filtering spam from a specific botnet. The strategy? Capture the enemy, and make him talk. More »
Random Stuff
“Re: Re: Iraq”: 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
9:40AM Joel Johnson | According to the AP, soon-to-be-heroic technicians have uncovered 22 million email messages from the George W. Bush administration – the same email messages the Bush White House denied losing. More »
Software
You Can Blame The French Military For Any Thunderbird 3 Issues
9:00PM Kat Hannaford | If you use Mozilla Thunderbird as your email client, you’re in good company, as not only does the military use it, but they also contributed code to the latest Thunderbird 3. Alright, so it’s the French military… More »
Peripherals
Gboard Is The Colourful Gmail Keyboard For Shortcuts You Need Now
9:52PM Kat Hannaford | While all 69 Gmail shortcuts aren’t represented on this Gboard keyboard, the 19 that do feature on the mini-keyboard are bound to be your most-used. Search, star, archives, trash—all the majors are represented in fun Google colours. More »
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Email Is Dead? Oh Really?
6:01AM Jason Chen | The WSJ is making the call — email on its way out. Dying. Dead. It’s an interesting conclusion, derived from the fact that both growth and absolute numbers are on the side of social networking this year. But we disagree. More »
Random Stuff
Woman Fired For Causing Disharmony At Work By Using Angry Fonts
11:20AM Rosa Golijan | Time Bananas and awkward statements aside, Jason Chen’s a pretty cool guy to work for. I’m sure that unlike Vicki Walker’s boss, he wouldn’t fire me for going nuts with bold or colourful fonts in emails. RIGHT? More »
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Reminder: Don’t Forward that Funny Email (Or Tweet or Digg or Facebook)
11:40PM Jesus Diaz | Dear friends, foes, and relatives. Please, don’t send that funny email. OK, actually, as a last exception, please forward this post to everyone you know. Thank you! Much love, J. Updated
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WikiLeaks Leaks its Own
4:30PM Elaine Chow | WikiLeaks, that controversial whistleblowing site that exposes confidential documents hinting at corporate or government malfeasance, was forced into a conundrum recently when somebody submitted their own secret mailing list as a leak. Updated
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WikiLeaks Leaks its Own Sources Donors Due to Email Mishap
4:30PM Elaine Chow | WikiLeaks, that controversial whistleblowing site that exposes confidential documents hinting at corporate or government malfeasance, was forced into a conundrum recently when somebody submitted their own secret mailing list as a leak. Updated
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