When I get a phonebook in the mail, I usually find the old phone book and toss it, and leave the new phonebook in its place. The only time I ever look at it is when I’m looking for a particular business or type of business — and these days I usually do that online.
Perhaps from sheer boredom, I decided to try something different with the phonebook that arrived this week. I decided to page through it — through the Yellow Pages section, at least. And, wow, did I find some cool stuff.
Some years ago I decided to pull my gloves on and take care of the clutter in my life once and for all. Now, older and wiser, I’ve come to see that years of bad organizational habits are not easily undone.
Occasionally I learn that someone has been trying to contact me through my old Shawneelink email address. Unfortunately sending friendly messages, your cousin’s baby pictures, forwarded spam, love letters, and YouTube links to that address is about as effective as printing them out, stuffing them in an old paper envelope, and burning it. To put it simply, that address is no more.
If you’re a Mac user, read on. Otherwise, please feel free to skip this one.
The second annual MacHeist promo is underway. This bundle includes more than $350 worth of applications, for only $49. Two of the three “locked” apps have already been unlocked in the first 3 days of the promo. And the third locked app is well past 3/4 of the way to being unlocked. And that’s with 10 days left … so it’s pretty much guaranteed that all 11 (there’s a chance a 12th will be added) apps will be unlocked and included in the bundle.
If you visit the MacHeist website, you will find a description of all the apps. Just click on their icons to learn more. The most useful ones in my estimation are 1password, Awaken, Speed Download, AppZapper, CSSEdit (if you edit websites), Snapz X Pro, and Pixelmator (which is not unlocked yet).
Today I noticed that someone had sent a message to my (old) Yahoo email address, and this prompted me to log in and check the status of it. I was shocked to see that Yahoo had both disabled my email account and deleted all messages, all without giving me so much as a hint that this would happen. I realize that Yahoo has the legal right to do this, but that does not mean it is any less rude and insulting. A simple courtesy email from Yahoo, stating that they are about to deactivate my account and erase all messages, would cost them nothing.
I have not been using Yahoo as a primary email account for years. However, I had given it out as a fall-back address for various online services. If you have my former Yahoo email address in your address book, please delete it and use my current michaelprewitt.com address only. If you don’t have that one, you can contact me through this website for details.