Halloween is coming! Do not miss the opportunity to send unique Halloween greeting cards to your friends, family members, colleagues or others. These free Stationery templates from iPresentee are designed to be used with Apple Mail and include five awesome templates: Happy Pumpkins, Bloody Letter, Halloween Coffee, Skeleton and Hot Pumpkins. If there is ever a time for the beauty of ugliness and the delight of terror, Halloween must be it! Mail Stationery templates require any Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.

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With all the junk mail running around out there, having a good management system in place is a must. While most ISP’s have some pretty good filters as a first line of defense (check with your ISP for more info), Apple Mail has it’s own built in filtering which must be set up. Here we’ll take a look at enabling it and explore some of the customizable options……

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Musical Notations and Mathematical Symbols. Currency, Geometrical Shapes, Special Punctuation and Braille Patterns. The list goes on and on. Symbols and Special Characters. We know what they are and we know our computer has the capability to present them, but how??

With the built in Character Palette in OS X, inserting any one of an incredible collection of these special characters is a snap, but you’ve got to know where to get them. Here’s how…..

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coconutBattery is a tool that shows you the current maximum capacity of your laptop’s battery in relation to the original capacity your battery had when it left the factory. You also get information about the battery: loadcycles (how often did you fully load your battery), the current charger (coconutBattery warns you if you plugged in a wrong charger for your laptop) and information about the age of your Mac. coconutBattery is not something you’ll necessarily use on a regular basis, but it’s a great tool to periodically check the condition of you battery.

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Here is a screen shot of what coconutBattery shows you. Notice the Current Battery Capacity section. This battery is capable of holding a charge that is 91% in relation to when it was new:

System requirements: iBook, Powerbook, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air. Works with both PPC and Intel based Macintosh computers running OS X 10.4 and higher.

Sometimes Windows users may experience problems opening and viewing attachments sent to them via Apple Mail. While there are various reasons as to why this happens, our focus here will be on tips to help correct any issues…
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More and more of us are relying on email as a primary form of communication. From business use to personal entertainment and interaction, we send and receive a lot of email. As internet speeds increase, the quantity and size of our email also increases, especially the funny videos we get like the one where the cat is smacking the paper coming out of the printer! Have you seen that one?? It’s hysterical! Anyway……

If you have ever received a notification from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) stating that your mailbox is almost full, you are not alone. Here we’ll explore how and why this happens and what to do about it.

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Email transfer protocols can be confusing to say the least. A lot of acronyms and seemingly meaningless jargon can confuse the most adept individual. Here we’ll attempt to shed some light on what all of this means. I must apologize in advance for the dryness of the subject. Not a lot of pictures to this.

You may want to grab a pillow…..

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As we rely more and more on email as a primary form of communication, learning to be more proficient with Mail is a must. Customizing Mail’s Toolbar to better suit your individual needs by adding or deleting function buttons is a great way to save time.

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You may have heard about some recent high profile email accounts that were broken into by hackers. Although the term ‘hacker’ generally denotes a high level of computer expertise, the recent break-ins were about as low tech as it gets, but incredibly effective nonetheless.

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I posted My Mac Cheat Sheet a while back, a great tool from Apple used to record information about your computer and it’s settings. With ISPs periodically changing their email systems to keep up with the ever growing need for greater security, email settings are becoming more complex. This complexity translates directly into more data to keep track of. Subsequently, Apple has developed My Mail Cheat Sheet, a companion to My Mac Cheat Sheet. Simply download, print, and fill it out.

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