Scott Yang's Playground

Jason Freedman on how to email busy people, as we all know busy people don’t have time for all your emails and they do say “crap, Ctrl-A, Delete and let’s start again”. Subject Lines Matter Use Your Company Email Address Remind Him of Context Limit Your Entire Email to 5 sentences or Less Make Your [...]

Just received an email about an upcoming meeting. Then I noticed that date of the meeting is… Monday 22nd of November, which was yesterday. So I thought it must have been a typo. It should have been 29th, which is next Monday! Then I looked at the email more carefully, and noted that it was [...]

As previously reported, I have moved my main email from my own mail server to Gmail hosted on Google Apps. Signing up was easy. Moving DNS records was pretty straight-forward (a few clicks if your domain is with DreamHost). Getting IMAP up and running requires one simple setting inside Gmail, plus reconfiguring your MUA (Thunderbird, [...]

Meet my new email client. Yes, it’s Google Mail. Or to be more specific, Gmail part of Google Apps, and it is now hosting my (and Vivian’s) emails on this domain (yang.id.au).

An interesting article via Slashdot: Hoarders vs. Deleters: What your inbox says about you. The tagline is, “You are your inbox”, as your inbox reveals your personality, your mental health and even your up-brining. Because “inboxes are metaphors for our lives,” Dr. Greenfield says, there’s no cure-all solution to inbox management. We’re all too different. [...]

What will you write in that email, that is destined to loop all the way back to you in 20 years time? Forbes.com apparently provides this service. The E-Mail Time Capsule allows you to send an email back to yourself in up to 20 years time, and from its description, it seems to have a [...]

Aristotle Pagaltzis shared how he organised his mailboxes to make them efficient and effective. I quite like his approach and might give that a try myself, especially (1) reduce number of “filing folders” and rely on search to do the bulk of re-organisation (2) change the “sent folder” to inbox to create threaded view in [...]

Gmail was announced exactly one year ago, on the April Fool’s Day last year, and has forever changed the history of web mail. Well, at least in terms of mailbox size. I thought it was a joke last year, but no one is doubting its existence by now. It has became my secondary email account [...]

9:30pm at night and got an ICQ message from Wilson, asking whether I have noticed that Yahoo is now labeling my server as bulk mail sender. So immediately I tested sending different messasges (all legitimate with non-spammy content), originated from different domains to one of my Yahoo account, and everyone of them landed in the [...]

You use email? Then you will be considered old-fashion in South Korea, according to this report from Smart Mobs. Instead, email communication has been replaced with mobile phone and text messages. One advantage that snail mail has over email is that it encourages you to write thoughtfully, and now in the instant message era, your [...]

Slashdot reports Gmail has started adding DomainKey signature into out-going emails, even before Yahoo! I quickly wrote myself an email and verify that it is indeed the case. I wrote about DomainKeys 5 months ago, and I still doubt how successful it would be.

Just logged into my Gmail beta-testing account, and found a new feature they have added – contact management! You used to be able to only have names and email addresses for your contacts, but now you can add other contact “sections” like phone numbers and addresses. Here is a screen shot: Gmail has already been [...]

I briefly blogged about it over 3 months ago, about how AventureMail.com once offered a generous 2Gb email account for free. However, shortly after it broke the news, AventureMail suspended its registration process so that no more account can be created. I did get my 2Gb email account from them, however I have not been [...]

A nice Gmail hack – create an “Unread” label and Gmail will automatically gather all the unread mails there. Not that I do receive lots of mails in my Gmail account that I have difficulties to sort out the one that I haven’t read. But still a nifty trick.

“Earn $250 for each person you forward this email to!” When this appears in your INBOX, usually you will hit Delete straight away, if it has not yet been trashed by the spam filters. However, someone actually went all the way to track down the creator of this email hoax. Unbelievable (seriously).