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April 25, 2013
Use This Chart To Find the Right Fastener for Your Next DIY Project
Make Parking a Cinch with This Parking Guide Infographic
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A few simple guidelines for when to turn and what to use for reference points when parking may be all you need to perfect your parking abilities. This infographic illustrates exactly how to parallel park and pull in quickly (backwards or forwards) into a parking lot spot.
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April 23, 2013
eM Client: Worthy Alternative to Microsoft Outlook and Thunderbird
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via Instant Fundas by Kaushik on 4/19/13
If you are looking for an email program that is uncomplicated, yet rich in features, skip Microsoft Outlook or even Thunderbird and give eM Client a try. eM Client is an email program that is identical to Microsoft Outlook, but with one key difference. While Microsoft Outlook loves Microsoft services, like Microsoft exchange services, eM Client adopts Google services. EM Client has tight integration with Gmail, Google contacts, tasks, and calendars. If you use Google services a lot, I believe you will like eM Client.
Setting up accounts on eM Client consist of simply entering your email address and password and the rest is taken care by eM Client. The program recognizes all the major providers such as Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail and possibly a lot more, and automatically configures incoming and outgoing servers based on the service provider you use. If the email provider supports both POP and IMAP, the better of the two protocol, i.e. IMAP is selected. The ports and other settings can be changed either during the initial setup or after the accounts has been created.
Once your email account is created, the email program connects to the server, and swiftly downloads all your messages. Depending on how large your inbox is, this can take from a few seconds to a couple of minutes. Because IMAP downloads only the email headers rather than the entire email, this should rarely take more than a minute or two, for most users.
During setup, you will be asked to choose a theme. There is a plain, white Modern theme, a Classic theme with a bit more contrast and a blue Arctic theme. Additional themes are available once you have completed the setup, but these three are by far the best.
eM Client has the same basic layout as all email programs do: a folder panel on the left, an inbox panel in the center and a large message panel occupying all the space on the right. On the right of the message panel, is another panel in collapsed condition. This panel shows details about the contact like email address, phone number, instant messaging handle and so on. You can also see all past communication with this contact and all attachments this person has send you. You don't even have open the email, simply hover over it and a readable preview pops up.
There is also "Agendas" which are nothing but your starred emails, and the Chat window. The Chat window is similar to the Chat box in your Gmail window. In addition to GTalk, eM Client supports ICQ, Jabber, AIM, MSN, GaduGadu and Yahoo chat.
Underneath the folder panel, also in collapsed condition, are the Calendar panel, the Tasks panel and Contacts panel. These applications are fully synchronized with the respective Google applications - calendar, tasks and contacts enabling you to enjoy these services right from your desktop.
eM Client offers excellent contact management features. You can search your contacts by name, email, phone number, address and any other information that may be associated with them. You can also sort the list of contacts by phone number, company and location. eM Client also offers the ability to combine/pair contacts. Basically, if you have multiple accounts and you have the same contacts, or similar contacts in each one of those email accounts, eM Client can look at those accounts and combine the contact information to be more comprehensive. There is another option to download missing contacts' avatar/picture from Facebook.
Other features include a spam filter, spell checker, forgotten attachment warning, signatures and email templates, tagging of individual messages with color coded categories, email rules or filters, Skype integration, RSS reader, weather reports in calendar, and the ability to import accounts from other email clients directly into eM Client, facilitating easy migration.
The free license for eM Client is for personal use and supports only two email accounts. If you require more than 2 accounts you have to fork out $50.
Drawbacks:
- Clicking an email in the inbox to read it, doesn't mark the message read. You have to manually mark it as read using the mouse or the keyboard hotkey. This appears to be a "feature" intended to prevent accidental marking of messages as read.
- No conversation mode. Multiple email exchanges with one contact are listed as separate messages. However, this drawback is compensated by the "Contacts" sidebar which displays all past messages exchanged with the contact.
- No quick way to create rules based on a single message. In Outlook 2010, you can quickly create rules by right-clicking on an e-mail. No such shortcut is available in eM Client making the process of creating rules laborious.
- Cannot customize the toolbar to add or remove buttons from it. The toolbar is sparse, which I like, but I miss the ability to add my own buttons.
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April 10, 2013
How Popular Tourist Destinations Will Look Submerged In 25 Feet Of Water
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via Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now by Shaunacy Ferro on 4/9/13
Bring a bathing suit, kids, we're going to the Jefferson Memorial.
Climate change is going to ruin our vacations. Not only will it likely make our flights more uncomfortable, but our favorite destinations could be underwater--in a few hundred years anyway. Inspired by The New York Times's interactive project on sea level rise, Nickolay Lamm, a 24-year-old researcher and artist based in Pittsburgh, created this series of photo illustrations of the watery tourist traps of the future.
Currently, global sea levels are rising even faster than we've projected, according to recent studies. The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change estimates that seas will rise an average of 6.6 feet by 2100. Over the coming centuries, as temperatures rise and ice sheets melt, our oceans could rise as much as 20 or 30 feet.
This is what the Boston Harbor Hotel would look like under 25 feet of water:
Using sea level rise maps from Climate Central graphic wiz Remik Ziemlinksi, Lamm illustrated what iconic destinations like the Washington Monument and Miami's South Beach could look like under 5 feet, 12 feet (the potential level in about 300 years), and 25 feet (the potential level in a few centuries) of water. We made them into GIFs so you can see the change over time.
Lamm compared stock photos of the locations to Google Earth data and topographical maps to figure in how rising seas would affect different places at different tide levels. The illustrations show low or medium tide sea levels.
More like Statue of Watery, right?
South Beach: closer than ever.
Lamm hopes the illustrations will help raise public awareness about the impact of climate climate change -- the change you really should believe in. No one wants to sink the Statue of Liberty, right?
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