OS X: Pasting Text into Emails, Much Faster

So if you’ve gotta copy some text on your Mac and paste it into a new email, how do you typically do that? I’d say that most people select the text, press the keyboard shortcut for Copy (Command-C), go to Mail, open a new message, move their cursor to the body, and then press the shortcut for Paste (Command-V). There’s a way that’s just so much faster that I love it to bits, and I think you’ll like it too.

What you’ll do is select the text you’d like to email (or send through Messages, or tweet about, or add to Notes, etc.) and then right- or Control-click on it. When you do so, a contextual menu will appear, and one of the available options is “Share.” If you hover over that, you’ll see your choices.

Pick “Mail,” and the text you selected will be inserted right into the body of an email, ready for you to pass it along. That sure does make things faster! And if you select “Messages” or a few of the other options, you’ll instead get a little box overlay for you to compose and edit as you see fit.

This works in quite a few places around the operating system, including Safari and Mail, so if you need to forward only a bit of a message to someone else, for example, you can do so. That’s awesome. I just love step-skipping!

eMail Widget lets you view and manage your inbox from Notification Center.

When it comes to the daily task of rummaging through email messages, I spend the first 30-minutes of my workday just trying to get my inbox under control. I can quickly delete or archive more than half of them, which helps me feel like I’ve made some progress

eMail Widget is a Notification Center app that allows users, not only to see new messages in their inbox, but perform a few basic actions in order to keep things under control without having to open a dedicated app.

Once downloaded and opened, users will be asked to allow the app to give permission to access your Gmail account (currently, eMail Widget only supports Gmail and Google apps). Then, you are all set.

Go to the Today view of your Notification Center and tap the Edit tab at the bottom. Find eMail Widget and add it to your list. Then, you’ll be able to see all new emails in your inbox.

What makes this app stand out is that you can also perform basic actions, like archiving, starring, marking as read, tagging as spam, or throwing away emails. So, you can weed through a bunch of messages without even having to open up your email app.

Currently, this app is bare bones. It will eventually support other email services than Google. However, I’d like to see a few additional features, like the ability to send messages to specific folder, which users could customize.

At only $0.99, eMail Widget is a huge time saver for anyone that gets a large influx of emails that they don’t have time to read through all at once. It is available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Download it in the App Store today.

Launch Center Pro makers debut Group Text+ and Email+ for iOS.

Contrast, the makers of the popular iOS automation app Launch Center Pro, released two new apps today that hope to “speed up tedious tasks on iOS.” Group Text+ and Email+ each include features that make texting (iMessage and SMS) and emailing your favorite contacts or groups of contacts easier and quicker.

You can also send text snippets, images, videos, your current location, current playing song, and more quickly both from each app and from other apps with iOS 8 extensions.

While Launch Center Pro takes an approach that lets users see the under-the-hood details and offers the ability to tinker with complex actions, Group Text+ and Email+ are refined and polished with a straightforward user interface (Contact Center launched in August exists somewhere in between but closely resembling LCP).

Group Text+ is available today for $1.99 (launch sale pricing) and Email+ is available for $2.99. Both apps are available for both iPhone and iPad.

BlinkMail: Flash Through Your Email With Just The Arrow Keys.

BlinkMail  is a great new OS X mail app that lets you speed through your inbox using just the arrow keys. It also integrates with other services like Evernote, and Dropbox, Things and Omnifocus support is on the way.

Navigation is done with the arrow keys, plus return, space and escape. You can assign different functions to the arrow keys, but the default is to flip up and won through the list, then use the arrows to archive, flag or file messages. Filing brings up a list of IMAP folders/Gmail labels and you navigate these using – you guessed it – the arrow keys.

The app is in beta right now, and is missing a lot of features (the integrations with other apps and services for example) but it looks pretty good. It crashes when I try to set it up with my IMAP email, but my Gmail works fine. Sadly, all my Gmail is forwarded to my other address and immediately removed from my inbox, so I can’t carry out much testing. Still, it’s free and beta, so give it a whirl why dontcha?

Microsoft releases native Outlook Web App for iOS.

Microsoft has released its native Outlook Web App for both the iPhone and the iPad.

The app, titled OWA, brings Outlook email, calendar and contacts to subscribers of the dreaded Office 365 service.

The apps design is based on the Outlook web client, with some inevitable hints of Windows Phone in there too. The app features push notifications, voice commands, passcodes and remote wipes for security and more. There’s also conversation views, Mark as Junk, flagging and categories all standard of today’ email clients.

Outlook Web App for iOS promises to be a great addition to iOS for 365 users looking to strengthen their iOS synchronization with Microsoft.

Outlook Web App is available free on iOS, both for iPad and iPhone: App Store

Source: TodaysiPhone.

Apple’s Deleting iCloud Emails That Contain The Phrase ‘Barely Legal Teens’.

Apple has a well documented history of banning everything that has anything to do with pornography, even if it’s only remotely related. It’s nice that Apple wants to keep the App Store clean, but their obsession with eliminating porn from computing has a lot of collateral damage.

In its latest push to get porn off your computer, Apple now deletes all iCloud emails that contain the phrase ‘barely legal teens.’ It doesn’t send the messages to spam, or flag them, it just straight up deletes them, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

It sounds like Apple’s just trying to help you avoid child pornography, but the iCloud censorship was actually discovered by an Academy Award -winning screenwriter named Steven G., who has nothing to do with child porn.

Steven G. wrote to InfoWorld that his software was trying to send a script to a director by emailing it from an iCloud account. The director never got the script, so Steven sent it multiple times as he tried to figure out why the email was getting blocked.

Eventually, Steven started cutting the script down into pieces to see which sections of the attached script were getting flagged and blocked.

“AND THEN I SAW IT — a line in the script, describing a character viewing an advertisement for a pornographic site on his computer screen. Upon modifying this line, the entire document was delivered with no problem.”

Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but Steven took his testing even farther. He created a PDF containing the line: “All my children are barely legal teens — why would I want to let them drive by themselves?” And yep, Apple’s servers sent the attachment straight to hell. Then he just typed that phrase in a regular email and it was blocked too.

After more research, Steven found that under the iCloud terms of service, Apple reserves the right to remove any content at any time that it feels is objectionable, without telling you that they’re going to delete it. Apparently, ‘barely legal teens’ falls into that ‘objectionable content’ category, along with other phrases we’re probably not aware of.

We ran our own quick tests that seemed to back up Stevens claims. Apple was asked to confirm whether it’s actively scanning files in iCloud and deleting them if they have keyword phrases like “barely legal,” but they haven’t responded.

Is Apple overstepping its bounds here, or did Steven miss something else that might have caused the emails to get deleted? Let us hear your thoughts in the comments.

Source:Cult of Mac.

Suspect found guilty in 2010 iPad user info leak.

Andrew Auernheimer, one of two people charged last year with leaking the email addresses of 114,000 iPad users with AT&T data plans, has been found guilty on two felony counts by a federal court in New Jersey. Auernheimer is facing 10 years for fraud and conspiracy to access a computer without authorization. The other defendant in the case, Daniel Spitler, accepted a plea deal last year.

Auernheimer and Spitler, part of a group calling itself Goatse Security, discovered a method for getting AT&T’s website to provide them with iPad customer email addresses by inputting a legitimate SIM card ID number. Prosecutors in the case used extensive IRC chat transcripts to convince a jury that the two released the email addresses in an attempt to harm AT&T. For its part, the company fixed the flaw after it was exposed to the public.

In a tweet, Auernheimer said that he intends to appeal the verdict.

Source:TUAW