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Firefox email
Email on the internet has been both fun and exciting while at the same time a bit frustrating. Often times I wonder how I could make the process a little bit easier. Without discussing spam at great lengths, what other ways can I make it more enjoyable? Many websites on the net have email links on them. They are called mailto links… and in the html code they typically look like this:
<a href=”mailto://username@domain.com”>Click here to email</a>
In the early days of my internet-ting I would just click on the link and my favorite email program of the time would load up. The email address would conveniently be placed inside of the “to:” text area. I would select a subject and away I would type my email.
This ease of use was typical of a pop3 email account. I received mine free with the web service I had while at Mason High School. Shortly after the powers that be, deemed it not the schools business to be a community isp, my pop3 account was lost. I was forever “doomed” to webmail.
Or at least I thought I was doomed. For the longest time when I clicked on an email link, eudora, netscape mail, or outlook express would pop up asking me to set up an account… I thought to myself “ahhhhh! I don’t have pop3 anymore!” So for years I haven’t clicked on an email address. I would copy the link, and paste the, “mailto://username@domain.com” into my Yahoo! webmail account, then delete the “mailto://” nonsense.
Now there is a better way. Recently I have discovered a Firefox extension called WebmailCompose, that allows me to just click the email link, log into my Yahoo email account (this works for Hotmail, Gmail, and a host of others) notice the email address conveniently in the “to:” text area, and start typing away. Moments later I am sending the email.
Convenience is back, with a browser named Mozilla Firefox.
Posted by Karl Herrick on September 25th, 2004 in Firefox, Email | No Comments »
Tera-GMail
Here’s a picture of Gmail. Today I learned that the storage had jumped from 1,000 MB to 1,000,000 MB. Yeah, that’s from a gigabyte to a terabyte. Some have said that their storage didn’t go up… but mine sure did. I wonder if it will stick around…
I greyed out my email address and a person’s name that I emailed. I also put a box around the storage limit, and copied it to the same photo after I resized it so you could see clearly the full terabyte in all its glory.
Anything else in the image is original and non doctored.
Posted by Karl Herrick on May 19th, 2004 in Google, Email | 6 Comments »