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How to View Email Headers in Gmail

February 4, 2010 By Matt 1 Comment

I have a few email accounts hosted at Gmail. I use it very often actually. Works great, tags/labels are awesome.

How to View Email Headers in Gmail

1. Login to Gmail
2. Open a message in Gmail
3. Click the down arrow next to Reply, at the top-right of the message window.
4. Select Show original.
5. You will be presented with the full headers in a new window.

Matt

Matt is a Systems Development Director for a multinational franchise. Matt has lived and worked in Hawaii, Chicago, South Florida and currently resides outside of Atlanta. He enjoys his hobbies including Technology, Gadgets/EDC, Fountain Pens, Wetshaving, Clocks, Antiques & Coffee. He even roasts his own coffee weekly.

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How to View Email Headers

February 4, 2010 By Matt Leave a Comment

In my day job, I work a lot with email. Many of the people I deal with, do not know how to view email headers correctly. So, I figured I would post a few ways to do so. I will be adding to the list as I encounter / resolve issues. I feel it best to separate these posts as to not to cause too much confusion in one long post.

How to View Email Headers

Matt

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Apple Snow Leopard Clean Install Mac Pro

August 31, 2009 By Matt Leave a Comment

This weekend I bit the bullet and did a clean install of Apples Snow Leopard new OS on my Mac Pro at home. The process is really simple, however me being who I am wanted to be completely anal about the whole thing. I made sure every app that could be backed up was, I also exported and wrote down many settings for various apps. I also have to note I love the price to upgrade – under $50 bucks for a Family pack! Beat that Uncle Bill!

Here was my procedure…

1. I backed everything up to another internal drive.
2. Took screen shots of my applications installed in my Apps folder (for reference later).
3. Backed up my old POP3 email acct to my Gmail acct. (More on this in a future post.)
4. Copied all my settings down for important Apps.
5. Backed up iCal, AddressBook, Jungle Disk, Transmit, Dreamweaver etc…
6. Backed up my Fonts collection (which is huge).
7. Backed ip ~/library/Application Support/Mail
8. Backed up ~/library/preference/com.apple.mail.plist
9. Backed up – CandyBar Icons
10. Backed up – MAMP settings and htdocs
11. Verified I didnt miss anything by going through each app and AppZapping as I went through them all.
12. Popped in Snow Leopard
13. Booted to CD/DVD (hold down “C” while booting).
14. Went through the prompts
15. Went to the Disk Utility and reformatted my main drive.
16. Installed Snow Leopard – I definitely noticed a quicker time to install.
17. Started to reinstall most of my apps.

The only two problems I seemed to encounter:

1. Firefox hated me, I think it was the Xmarks extension really.
2. AddressBook seems to take forever to open now.

I will be looking into a solution for AddressBook, but Firefox finally sorted itself out. Other than that I am loving the new Apples new Operating System – Snow Leopard.

Matt

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Gmail Improves Contact Importing & Syncing Options

June 17, 2009 By Matt Leave a Comment

Google has fixed what I always thought was a rather huge PITA. Previously when you imported contacts into Gmail from OSX Address Book, MS Outlook etc… it would put fields it didn’t understand into the notes section. Now it keeps track of them as it should. Yay, much cleaner contacts prevail!

Link to Google Blog post: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-fields-for-gmail-contacts-and.html

Matt

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How To Access Your To-To List from Anywhere

February 27, 2009 By Matt Leave a Comment

I am always looking for ways to become more productive. One thing that has plagued me is syncing important data between devices. I have my iCal syncing with my gCal, addressbook syncs with mobile me, gmail, and my iphone. Until recently i didn’t have an easy way to sync my to-do lists.

Enter Toodledo

Toodledo, is a website that allows you to sync your to-do list in many ways. The site has both free and pay for service plans. for now i am using the free plan and it suits me just fine.

How To Access Your To-Do List from Anywhere

1. Signup for a free account at Toodledo
2. Inside Toodledo click “Connections”
3. Scroll down to the Firefox section
4. Click “More Details”
5. Install the Firefox plugin
6. For iPhones download either Ultimate Todos or the Toodledo app [I prefer the Ultimate Todos]
7. Optionally you can add additional connections via the “Connections” page on Toodeldo [iCal / gCal etc]
8. PC friends if you use outlook you can install a plugin from Chromadrake called ToodledoSync.
9. Non iPhone users can access Toodledo via:
http://www.toodledo.com/html
http://www.toodledo.com/wap2.php
http://www.toodledo.com/wap.php

How I Sync Toodledo:

1. From Toodledo to iCal
2. From Toodledo to gCal
3. From Toodledo to Firefox [on my 2 macs] – I personally use this method most often.
4. From Toodledo to my iPhone via Ultimate Todos [Paid iPhone app]

Matt

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