SPECIAL: PDO'd

Last week, I wrote about deleting unwanted email addresses from Apple Mail–totally helpful if you find yourself clicking through defunct autofill suggestions constantly. I heard back from a number of you, and I wanted to pass along some further info to help with the deletion process.

* One thing to note is that some email addresses will register with the “Remove from Previous Recipients” command, while others will only show “Remove Address” when you go to click on them. This depends on whether or not the recipient is in your Address Book. If he/she is not, “Remove from Previous Recipients” will show (along with the option “Add to Address Book”); if he/she is in your Address Book, only “Remove Address” will show and the option “Show Contact Card” will appear.

* If you’d like to see everyone that you’ve ever sent an email to, select Window from the Menu Bar in Mail and click “Previous Recipients” there. It will bring up a new window where you can scroll through and edit.

* Finally, this does not work in any version of the iOS, to my knowledge. So, one thing to try is to manage your addresses in Apple Mail on your Mac and then see if the edits/omissions carry over to your devices. *If you try this, let me know!*

Adobe CS6 is coming out soon, but you don’t have to wait if you need an upgrade now. If you purchase a Creative Suite 5.5 full license or upgrade by May 6th, 2012, you’ll receive an upgrade to CS6 free.

(This is the way ALL upgrades should be–don’t get punished for buying something a few weeks before a new version comes out!)

When you register your version of CS5.5, the license for CS6 will be provided to you when available.

“*View all Adobe CS products here.*”:http://www.smalldog.com/search?x=0&y=0&search=adobe+cs5.5
“*Read more here.*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/article/buy-adobe-cs55-get-adobe-cs6-free/

_Dear Friends,_

It’s Kali writing for Don this week–he’s still off frolicking in the Far East, and as much as I thought that he was going to rush back in time to address our readers this week, he’ll in fact be back this weekend. In his absence, we’ve noticed that it’s a bit quieter in the big room as the rest of us tend not to play the music as loud! We’ve missed his quips in the corner, too, so we’re looking forward to his return in a big way.

We’ve been very busy with our wholesale brands recently, and are happy to announce that not only are all of our Hammerhead cases for the new iPad (3rd Gen) shipping in all colors, but we’ve revamped both the Hammerhead and Chill Pill Audio websites, too! The biggest change is that we’ve streamlined them to exist as sister sites within the same website–each brand is accessible in a tab at the top of page. The best part about this is that they now share a shopping cart, a unified look and feel, and a brand new layout designed to make shopping easier.

So, if you visit “*Hammerheadcase.com,*”:http://www.hammerheadcase.com you’ll see a tab for Chill Pill Audio (“*Chillpillaudio.com*”:http://www.chillpillaudio.com), and vice versa.

“*View the new cases and accessories for iPad (3rd Gen) on Smalldog.com here.*”:http://www.smalldog.com/category/Hammerhead/iPad_2_and_iPad_3rd_Gen/
“*View the new cases on Hammerheadcase.com here.*”:https://www.hammerheadcase.com/category/4

Let us know what you think of our new cases and the new websites!

It’s fast-approaching: MobileMe service ends on June 6th, so if you haven’t yet transitioned to iCloud, you might want to start. Next week, we’ll offer a step-by-step for how to do this yourself (it can seem daunting if you use a bunch of the MobileMe services currently).

In the meantime, “*send us any questions*”:mailto:kali@smalldog.com you may have about iCloud and what the transition means. We’ll answer them in the upcoming article!

__Note that if you’re local to the New England area, we have consultants trained to help ease the transition to iCloud for you! Stop in to “*any of our locations*”:http://www.smalldog.com/retail for details.__

Last week, I wrote about my romance with MailTags 3. Since then, I’ve been slowly convincing my workmates to download the free trial. It was through this that I found the coolest thing about MailTags.

Because you can set specific MailTags for a sent message, you can see all of the tags come back to you when the person replies. So if I send the email to Joe who doesn’t have MailTags and he responds, his response has my MailTags already set. But here’s what’s even cooler: If you send the message to someone who __does__ have MailTags 3 installed, they see all of the same tags!

As I mentioned last week, MailTags 3 has a much improved interface over MailTags 2 and I didn’t realize how nice it was until I used it straight for over a week. What I also found incredibly helpful was that I can tag multiple email messages. This made tagging groups of email super easy.

For example, I receive emails with receipts attached that I want to go through and add to an Excel spreadsheet, but I want to save them up and do them all at once at the end of the week. So, as they start to pile up, I select a bunch at once using Command-click and then just click Tag Messages. I can set a “tickle date” for Friday, and using Smart Mailboxes, I can create a wealth of search criteria based on the tags.

In Lion Mail, there is a Favorites bar, which I didn’t realize. Just drag your most often-used Smart Mailbox for easy access to it!

And lastly, if you are a fan of creating rules in Mail, MailTags is fully integrated into Mail’s rule engine. I created a rule “Radio tag” where IF the sender is a member of my AddressBook group “Radio,” then I can set my keyword to __radio.__ This way, all of my mail is marked with one tag without my having to do anything. I believe that this is how MS Entourage (and now MS Outlook) deals with marking messages with Projects or Groups. This was one aspect of Entourage that I really missed when I moved to Mail.

There are other features that I probably won’t use, however, such as integration with OmniFocus* or Things, but for what I need, MailTags does fabulously.

As a reminder, MailTags 3 is on sale through the end of April for an introductory price of $19.95. They also have a demo so that you can try the product for 10 days (which was enough to get me hooked).

“*Click here to go to Indev.ca.*”:http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html

__*Editor’s Note: We’ll have a review of OmniFocus in an upcoming issue; it’s an incredibly powerful application, and now has an added bonus of compatibility with MailTags! -KH__

*Save $20* on the 27-inch iMac plus Photoshop! Purchase this bundle with Photoshop v.12 and you’ll be eligible for the Photoshop v.13 upgrade when it starts shipping on May 7th.