Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Although most of us would be hopelessly lost without our cell phones, capping the costs associated with their use is something most of us resolve to do with some regularity. Quick text messages, surfing the web, listening to voice mail, offers to download favorite tunes, ringtones, games, and cool screen savers are just a few of the things that lure us into escalating costs beyond the typical talk time charges.
In a world filled with features offering convenience, personalization, and great entertainment, it’s important to discover and capitalize on those few services which can actually help hold down the cost of our cell phone addiction.
International calls on the cheap
For those with business or loved ones outside of the country there is a service that allows users to make international calls for the cost of a typical domestic long distance call.
Futurephone.com allows users to access a domestic long distance line to connect to an access gateway number from which they can then call any of a growing list of countries without any additional charge. Once connected the user simply dials 011, the country code, and then the number they wish to reach. Simple. For those with unlimited nationwide long distance calling, the service makes international calling virtually free.
The service works using a cell phone or any other type of phone. It requires no sign up or commitment and, in fact, they don’t take any information from users making it entirely risk free.
Free voice mail while it lasts
YouMail.com provides cell phone users voice mail functions such as listening to messages from any phone or via the web, message forwarding via e-mail, disconnecting from unwanted callers, and the ability to create unique voice greetings for anyone who calls. For those who want the flexibility to record that cool message for their friends, the romantic or naughty greeting for their sweetie, and the smooth, professional introduction for work contacts this service may be the answer.
YouMail is compatible with Verizon, Cingular, and T-Mobile but may expand in the future. To use the application, the latest version of Java is needed.
The best news however is that it’s free: at least for as long as there are Beta accounts available.
Affordable Directory Assistance
Although 1-800-Free-411 won’t eliminate the talk time charges for directory assistance calls it will allow users to skip the $1.50-$2.00 charge for connecting to the service. By simply dialing the toll free number, users can access nationwide directory assistance without signing up or committing to any purchases. 1-800-Free-411 is sponsored by advertisers which means in turn that those using it may need to listen to a single 15 second promotional ad during their call, but the service indicates that the length of the call is no longer than any traditional directory assistance call.
Text Messaging Options
In the US, text messaging can cost around 10 cents to send and 2 cents to receive messages. Texting is convenient in many instances and some cell phone plans make it more affordable than others so shopping around can be wise. There are numerous services offered for texting beyond what cellular providers offer.
AOL and Yahoo both offer services. Online businesses such as textmessage.cc and onlinetextmessage.com offer users the ability to send messages without charge leaving only the fee for those receiving messages. In these instances, messages are sent from an internet connected PC.
Another option allows users to send messages from their cell phone or PC to people anywhere in the world who have a GSM/GPRS Java enabled phone. The service, i-text.it is ad supported thus users are not charged for messages but instead receive paid advertisements when using the service. To get started, users must register and download the i-text.it application but those receiving the messages do not have to be users of the service. As with any of the text messaging options, there would still be any data rate charges from the cellular provider for accessing their GPRS connection; usually no more than a penny.
Certainly for those who use text messaging a great deal, a trial of any of these services might help in discovering which option helps to limit the cost of their texting habit.
There are critical factors that consumers need to consider when signing up for cell phone services to help hold down costs. Careful selection of the most cost effective plan to match usage, monitoring and assuring minutes are not exceeded, and avoiding services that offer downloads “with a catch” are sure money savers but being a bit more adventurous in seeking out services that offer more cost efficient calling can also help in taming runaway cell phone expenses.
Christine Peppler
http://www.articlesbase.com/cell-phones-articles/taming-runaway-cell-phone-expenses-99074.html
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
When I compose an email message, the date is correct but not the time.
It is set off your probably that your Computer or the computers bios time is wrong as the e-mail time+date is usually set from one of these two
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
In this article we’ll continue talking about how to create a healthy email message and give a few tips how to survive anti-spam filters. Anti-spam filters catch every incoming email before it is delivered into the inbox and review it. They use a scoring system to classify an email as spam or legitimate. These filters (you might have heard about SpamAssassin, SpamProbe, or SpamCombat) look for certain patterns in the message, and assign “spam points” to it based on certain criteria: words, phrases, or even colors.
Depending on what these filters find or don’t find in the message, points are added to or taken away from a scoring system. If the message score is 5.0 or higher, the filters add the *SPAM* word to the subject line of the message and the email is redirected to a “bulk” or “junk” mailbox. The lesser the score the better.
So, one of the main concerns when writing an email newsletter is to ensure that it is structured in a way that will allow it “pass” this test. I’ll go to the point and give you a few tips you may follow:
1) Check what you put in the subject line
The subject line is one area of your e-mail that is carefully examined. For example, if you type a recipient’s name in the message subject like “To: [recipient's name]“, your message will get 2.86 points because of this. If there is a lot of white space in the subject line, the email gets 2.64 points added to the score. The word FREE written in caps “weighs” additional 1.10 points.
If you put a date into the subject line, you can take off 0.48 points. And you can take one full point off if your subject contains a newsletter header!
2) Keep your message size from 20K to 50K
The size of the message does matter for anti-spam filters. The majority of spam emails are less than 20K. So, you can actually get 0.71 taken from your score if your message in within the 20K to 50K range.
3) Be wise with CAPS
If you use too many capital letters in your message, you’ll get 0.21 points added to your score. So, use them wisely!
4) Use full hyperlinks
If you use a hyperlink in your email, make sure you put the http:// at the beginning. A spam filter will add 1.28 points to your emails if you don’t!
5) Be restrained with colors
Different colors do matter too. Blue adds 0.21 points, red 0.33 points, and Magenta 0.44. The background color other than white adds 0.317 points to the message score. The Black is optimum as it won’t add or take any points off.
6) Be a welcome guest
Send your recipients an e-mail after they have “opted in” at you site, and have them confirm that yes, you have permission to send the newsletters to them. This will help in the case if you need to prove you are not spamming, and that people want to receive the emails from you.
Have your recipients add you to their address books or white lists and your messages won’t have to pass through anti-spam filters.
7) Beware of Blacklists!
Blacklists are databases of known spammers that ISPs regularly check. You may be added to a blacklist without you knowing it if one of your recipients clicks on the “this is spam” button. If you are blacklisted, contact the server provider immediately.
Test your message
Use a spam checker to test your message before you send it out to the world. A message content checker can help locate potential problems prior to distribution. It runs your receiver and sender addresses, subject line, and message content past a collection of rules. It then reports the result and tells you whether your message is likely to be filtered. Most checkers suggest a score of 5.0 will get your email sent to the spam scrap heap. One of our favorite free checkers is the Lyris’ Content Checker. Lyris ContentChecker filters your message through several hundred Spam Assassin tests to determine if it has characteristics typical of unsolicited “spam” mail. Just fill in the blanks, including your email text or the full HTML coding, and submit it. You’ll get an instant score on the next screen and a more detailed report by return email. This report highlights the factors used to evaluate your message, and may help you to make further improvements to it.
9) Don’t use the “spammers” e-mail software
Anti-spam filtering systems are aware of some of the favorite email programs that professional spammers use and they add on as many as 3 points if you send the messages with those program. Be sure to check the ISP’s “hit list” to see what email software are on it. Remember that the anti-spam filters are not perfect and they often happen to be “over protective”. They can give the “false negatives” and “false positives” results after the message analysis. A false negative is when a pure spam email gets through the filter, and a false positive is when a legitimate email ends in the “junk” box flagged as spam.
Around 150 companies now offer spam filtering software. The number of anti-spam techniques is growing and anti-spam technology is getting “smarter” too. For example, some servers (challenge systems) send an email back to the original sender and require a reply before they forward the email to the recipient. The idea behind this is that only a human can reply to a request for specific information. America Online recently announced a new spam filter that can actually “learn” the preferences of each of their subscribers.
Julia Gulevich
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/tune-up-your-email-newsletter-to-be-compliant-with-antispam-filters-87246.html
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
I just started using Outlook 2007. The only problem I’ve been having with it lately is that every plain text email message I receive and compose uses the font color "white". This makes it impossible for me to read it so I have to change the message format to HTML, select the whole message, then change the font color. Is anyone else having this problem? I really need help on this one.
Just go into options and set your fonts and colors. That should do the trick for you.
Hey, this all worked very well in Outlook 2000. I have seen that it works correctly in Outlook 2003. I can’t imagine that the Microsoft Corporation screwed that up.
In the meantime, I will help to preserve the bandwidth and continue to send you PLAIN TEXT e-mail. Before you know it, they will blame the whole global warming thing on formatted e-mails. "Let’s save the planet, one e-mail at a time."
Good luck and Happy Computing!
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
READ* And for the email message to show the whole message you recieved on myspace?
PS- If your confused just let me know.
There is only a clickable link in the e-mail which takes you to the message. The message itself doesn’t appear in the e-mail
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
I want to Email a message that is in my note pad without retyping.
Highlight all the words (hold left mouse button and without letting go pull it down) Then click the right mouse button and select copy ( while the words are still highlighted) Then open up the E-mail you want to send. Click the right mouse button again and select paste. Then send the E-mail!
You can also do this by highlighting the words, typing "Ctrl" and "C" at the same time to copy, and "Ctrl" and "P" at the same time to paste.
Hope I helped! 
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
I want to add a file (Word, PDF, Excel, etc.) into the body of an email message using Outlook 2002. When I try to insert a file, it just gets added as an attachment.
From inside your document that you want to send, click on the File menu and then choose Send to. Choose Mail Recipient. This will send the document as the body of the e-mail in an Outlook format.
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
i want to know how to send a message from my email address to a cell phone?
1, send a message to your E-mail from your phone.
2, go onto your E-mail and reply to it or copy the address.
DONE.
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