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Gmail’s undo send feature finally gets multiple delay options

Posted by admin at 22 August 2010

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Undo send is one Gmail Labs feature I don’t think I’d ever disable. The brief delay has never caused me any grief, and I can’t recall how many times I’ve noticed something that really needed changing after I’d already clicked the send button. The only downside: you’re locked into Google’s time delay.

At least, you were. Head to your Gmail settings tab and you can now choose 5,10, 20, or 30 seconds as your undo window. 30 seconds should be more than enough time for even the most gut-wrenching email trigger pulls — like telling your boss off or breaking up with a significant other.

If 30 seconds doesn’t seem long enough, you’ll probably best off leaving messages to ferment in the drafts folder anyway. Dang, I’ve got some in there from three years ago… I wonder why I started writing them…

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Gmail’s undo send feature finally gets multiple delay options originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Prowl extension for Google Chrome lets you send websites to your iPhone

Posted by admin at 11 August 2010

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Looking for a simple way to push websites from your desktop browser to your iPhone? If you’re using Google Chrome (or Chromium), you might want to take a look at the Prowl extension.

You’ll need to sign up on the official Prowl website first and generate an API key for yourself. Once you’ve got that, grab the extension and add your key in its options screen. After that, simply click the cat icon in your browser actions area to send a push notification to your iPhone of iPod touch via the Prowl app ($2.99 in the App Store). Prowl is a nice alternative for users who don’t need to push items frequently — if you do, you’re probably better off with an app/extension combination like ReadItLater.

If you’re not familiar with Prowl, you might be asking why it costs $2.99. It’s actually a very powerful little app and can redirect notifications from a ton of other sources — including Adium, Transmission, Google Voice, Twitter, Drupal, WordPress, and many others — so it’s well worth the price if you like being kept in-the-know while you’re out.

Prowl extension for Google Chrome lets you send websites to your iPhone originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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1HRmail lets you send inexpensive snail mail anywhere in the world

Posted by admin at 10 August 2010

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1HRmail is a beautiful, slick, and modern website, which lets you do something that is very old school: send a snail mail letter.

You start off by specifying the addresses (both yours and the destination). You then click “Write Letter,” and an in-page Rich Text editor “slides” out from under the envelope, where you can write your letter.

The only language supported is English, but you can upload image attachments, so you can write your letter on actual paper, scan it, and upload it (in case there’s no post office nearby). But really, the most common use of the site would be to write down a note in English, and send it off to somewhere in the States; this costs US $0.99, and it’s payable through Amazon’s micropayment framework (Amazon Payments). So, you don’t need to give out your credit card details.

International snail mail is also supported. Sending a letter to Canada only costs $1.53 (the $0.99 for a basic two-page letter plus $0.54 in extra postage). The site seems to use cookies to autosave your text and addresses, so if your browser crashes mid-letter, you can always continue where you left off.

The whole thing feels very modern and solid. It’s not something I would use every day, and it’s not very romantic (i.e., I’d rather actually write out a love letter than have the service send it for me), but it’s good to know it exists. I have a strong feeling that it may come in handy some day.

1HRmail lets you send inexpensive snail mail anywhere in the world originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Send To Dropbox is a beautiful, simple way to email files to your Dropbox

Posted by admin at 3 August 2010

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When you register to Send To Dropbox, it doesn’t require your Dropbox username and password. It simply asks permission to hook into Dropbox’s API. Once you agree, you get an email address that ends with @sendtodropbox.com. Anything sent to that email address ends up in your Dropbox, sorted according to date, subject, or From address.

You can either give this address to people that you trust, or you can save it for yourself so that you can email things into your own Dropbox. I wish I could create a Gmail filter that would forward emails from a particular person (who always sends me files) so that they would pop right into my Dropbox. Currently, this doesn’t seem to be possible because Gmail sends out a confirmation email when you create a filter that forwards email. Since this email doesn’t have an attachment, it doesn’t show up in your Dropbox, so you have no way to read it and feed Gmail the confirmation code. That’s too bad; that could have been a killer feature.

You can also have the service put all of the files under a folder called Attachments, which makes a lot of sense. It can also unzip any ZIP files for you automatically.

When I tested the service, it worked as advertised. This really should have been a Dropbox feature from the get-go, but as things stand now, it’s a great demo for what a good coder can do with a worthy API.

The service is totally free. I don’t know if there are any size limitations, but I assume that you should be fine as long as you’re working in the megabytes (say, up to 20). Kudos, Ralph Holzmann! (And if you could fix that Gmail thing somehow, that would rock.)

Send To Dropbox is a beautiful, simple way to email files to your Dropbox originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Send to SYNC enables BT phones to beam Google Maps to Ford navigation systems

Posted by admin at 8 June 2010

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Be still our hearts. Google Maps integration, in a factory-installed navigation system? Break out the fans and funny hats, ’cause this is for real. As Ford’s SYNC system continues along the path of perpetual improvement, the latest breakout addition may make those who swear by third-party routing systems think twice. At long last, one automaker has figured out how to merge Google Maps with its own in-car solution, with ‘Send To SYNC’ allowing Bluetooth handset owners to dial up a route on their mobile and then beam that to their SYNC system once they’ve arrived in the vehicle. Once sent, the information is processed into audible turn-by-turn directions, and the driver can opt to have the route adjusted based on their SYNC driving preferences. Best of all, the feature’s being added completely free of charge on existing 2010 and 2011 models equipped with SYNC TDI (“later this month,” we’re told), and there’s no additional hardware or software to fret over. Ford’s obviously the first to make such a bold move, but those other guys would be silly to simply sit around on the sidelines without playing copycat.

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Send to SYNC enables BT phones to beam Google Maps to Ford navigation systems originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ford, U-M students send socially-connected Fiestas on cross-country roadtrip, aim to become Mayor of the USA

Posted by admin at 16 May 2010

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Ford is certainly no stranger to internet-connected cars, but it looks like it’s now truly stepped up its game with a little help from some University of Michigan students, who have teamed up to send two Fiestas on a socially-networked, cross-country road trip. The two cars (part of the American Journey 2.0 project) apparently each pack a similar trunk-full of gear — including both WiMAX and EV-DO modems, and a 2.6 GHz PC with an 80GB SSD hard drive — and they’ll each be testing out a number of different applications developed by Ford and the students. Those include the UMich-developed Caravan app, which allows the two cars to communicate with each other during the trip, and three different Ford-developed social networking apps, which will let the cars blog and tweet their progress and, yes, even check in on Foursquare each time they make a stop. Head on past the break for the complete press release, and be sure to hit up the Autoblog link below for a closer look at the cars themselves.

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Ford, U-M students send socially-connected Fiestas on cross-country roadtrip, aim to become Mayor of the USA originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 May 2010 14:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tout lets you send out targeted emails with analytics

Posted by admin at 4 May 2010

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Using email as a promotional tool is tricky. Yes, there are great tools, a la MailChimp, for sending out emails in bulk and managing huge campaigns. What if you have just a handful of emails to send out every day, though? “Personalized bulk mail,” if you will?

Tout is a service created to exactly this end. It’s very simple (too simple, perhaps). It lets you set up a bunch of templates and quickly shoot a template to someone else.

So far, it’s nothing you couldn’t do with Gmail’s Canned Responses feature. What makes it interesting are the “analytics” features; these are only available on the paid version which costs a very steep $30 per month. Still, if you do decide to pay, you’ll get to see whether or not a particular person read your email, whether they clicked a link from that email, and also compute aggregate stats per template.

While the service seems kind of interesting, my biggest beef with it is the price tag. Come on … $30 per month? That’s completely out of proportion for a cute email application, even if it does integrate with 37signals’ Highrise.

You can see the demo video for the service after the jump.

Tout lets you send out targeted emails with analytics originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 04 May 2010 17:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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msmtp, a free tool to send email from Terminal

Posted by admin at 4 May 2010

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I fully expected that my article on mailsend would lead to several “Why don’t you use use XYZ instead?” replies, and it did. Suggestions included Ruby, Python, iPhone push notifications, and configuring postfix/sendmail.

But one suggestion was to use msmtp, and that turned out to be the golden nugget.

What makes msmtp so great, especially compared to mailsend, is that it completely eliminates the need to store your Gmail password in a plain text file on your computer. msmtp uses the Mac OS X Keychain instead. The other big advantage is that mailsend required several command line arguments every time, which makes it very likely that someone (i.e. “me”) is going to screw it up. Once msmtp is configured, I can use the venerable “/usr/bin/Mail” to send email from the command line, and /usr/bin/Mail is nearly idiot proof. (Note I said “nearly” — this is not a challenge!)

In short: msmtp was what I was looking for when I found mailsend.

Although configuring msmtp took about 30 minutes, it was well worth it, and now that you have these handy instructions, it should take you even less time than it took me. (You can also get mstmp from Rudix or MacPorts but I still like building my own whenever possible. You might not share my neuroses, however.)

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TUAWmsmtp, a free tool to send email from Terminal originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 04 May 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Use mailsend to send email from the Terminal

Posted by admin at 3 May 2010

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There are times that I want my iMac to be able to email me: when certain scripts run via cron or launchd, when certain events happen (a backup has been completed), etc. I’ve found that none of the included command-line programs work.

The good news is that, with a UNIX foundation, it was fairly easy to find a free program which would do just that.

A little searching turned up a free program called mailsend, which will work. For this example I will be using a Gmail account, which requires OpenSSL. Your mail server may not require OpenSSL support, but if it’s possible, I encourage you to use it.

The short version of the instructions are as follows:

1) Download and install OpenSSL to /usr/local/ssl/

2) Download and install mailsend to somewhere in your path such as /usr/local/bin/

3) Use mailsend -h to learn how to use it on the commandline

4) (Optional) Use TextExpander 3 to fill in some of the variable fields, such as To, Subject, and Message.

Read on for more of a step by step walk-through.

TUAWUse mailsend to send email from the Terminal originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 03 May 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPad hacksugar: iPad 3G hacked to send native SMS

Posted by admin at 2 May 2010

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Here’s a cool little find for a quiet Sunday. MuscleNerd of the iPhone dev team has managed to allow his jailbroken 3G iPad to send command-line SMS text messages. This hack only works with SIM cards that have already paid for an SMS plan, in this case a T-Mobile SIM that was downsized to microSIM dimensions. (More about using T-Mobile SIMs here.) The 3G iPad was jailbroken using Spirit.

The hack works by communicating directly with the iPad baseband, using standard AT commands. As of yet, Apple’s MobileSMS application, the SMS application that normally appears on iPhone home screens, has not worked on the iPad.

Will standard phone call service be next? Using minutes from a downsized SIM? Wait and see.

[via RedmondPie] Thanks, Steven Kappler.

TUAWiPad hacksugar: iPad 3G hacked to send native SMS originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 02 May 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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