Posted by karooch on
June 30, 2008
How to White List your Emails
Today we’re going to look at how you can ensure that you receive the email newsletters that you sign up for.
Have you ever signed up to receive a newsletter and then found that nothing happens?
Well you might have typed in your email address incorrectly, and that’s a whole other story. But if you did type your email address correctly then chances are it’s because your email system think that it is unsolicited, unwanted advertising email and in its efforts to protect you, it has tossed your newsletter confirmation email in the junk mail. Let’s face it most of us never think to regularly check our junk mail, so there it will sit until your junk box does its regular clean out.
And all the time you’re thinking “What a dodgy newsletter that was. They didn’t even bother sending me one copy.”
Frustration for you and frustration for the newsletter producer. And I speak from personal experience here. I could weep when I see all the would be subscribers to my Word Art Newsletter who are listed as Unconfirmed because my email to them requesting confirmation of their subscription has been considered spam by their email system.
So here’s a tip if you sign up for anything and you want to receive their emails:
White List the email addresses of the Newsletters you want to receive.
What does that mean?
Well most email systems have a way that you can identify an email address as a ‘good guy’ so that they will allow emails from that address to get through.
First add the email address that you want to White List to your address book. For example,
karooch(at)scrapsofmind(dot)com if you want to receive the Weekly Word Art Newsletter.
Unfortunately all email systems are different (wouldn’t you know it?) so it might take a bit of checking in your menu bar to find the way it works for yours. But here are some instructions for some of the more popular ones.
Yahoo
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Open your Yahoo mailbox.
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Click Mail Options.
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Click Filters.
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Next, click Add Filter.
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In the top row, labeled From header: make sure contains is selected in the pull-down menu.
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Click in the text box next to that pull-down menu, then enter the address in the “From” line of the most recent email from the site you want to white list.
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At the bottom, where it says Move the message to:, select Inbox from the pull-down menu.
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Click the Add Filter button again.
Hotmail
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Click the Options tab.
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Select Safe List. (It’s under the heading Mail Handling.)
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In the space provided, enter the address in the “From” line of the most recent email from the site you want to white list.
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Click Add.
- When you see the address you entered in the Safe List box, click OK.
Gmail
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Add the email address of the site you want to white list to your contacts list by choosing Add Contact from the list of options on the left.
AOL
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Go to Keyword Mail Controls.
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Select the screen name that your emails are being sent to.
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Click Customize Mail Controls For This Screen Name.
For AOL version 9.0: You need to add the sending address to your “People I Know” list.
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Open your latest email from from the site you wish to white list.
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Click the Add Address button (over on the right) to add
to your “People I Know” list.
AOL version8.0: Select Allow email from all AOL members, email addresses and domains.
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Click Next until the Save button shows up at the bottom.
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Click Save.
For AOL version7.0: In the section for “exclusion and inclusion parameters”, include the site you wish to white list.
So I hope that has helped some of you who might be feeling a bit annoyed with newsletters that never arrive.
And if you’re someone who has signed up to the Scraps of Mind Word Art Newsletter and not received one, then please try again and white list my email address to I can break thought your email protection shield.
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Posted by karooch on
June 28, 2008
Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas
Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #15
Use up your older scrap supplies by mixing them with your new purchases.
You always end up with left over letters from alpha sets and rub-ons. Mix and match the letters on a layout for a funky effect.
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Posted by karooch on
June 27, 2008
Five Freebies on Friday - 27 June 2008
And it’s time once again for this week’s Five Freebies on Friday. There are some terrific Scrapbooking Freebie goodies here so enjoy.
Just don’t forget to leave some love when you download your freebie. Remember a simple thank you comment makes all the difference to the designer who will have put a lot of time and effort into creating your freebie.
- Philsboo has a gorgeous pink sparkly alpha at Our little Scrap World. Just perfect for those girly girl scrapbook layouts
- And you’ll love these glitter filled charms from Scrappin’ Obsession.
- Hustle over to My Digital Life where Kylie has made some very cute flowery cardboard frames for you.
- And to celebrate her first birthday, Lorri’s Scraps has a very cute template for you.
- And finally Nore’s Nicities has a cute little Spring mini kit for you.
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Posted by karooch on
June 26, 2008
How to Use Scanned Objects in Hybrid and Digital Scrapbooking
We have a new Guest Writer on Scraps of Mind this week.
June is a traditional and hybrid scrapbooker who enjoys sharing tips and techniques with her readers on her blog Scrapping by Design where she makes some cool scrapbooking videos to demonstrate her projects. So when you’ve finished reading her article, why not click over and check out June’s blog?
Don’t forget, you too can join the Journalist Team at Scraps of Mind and showcase your work to other Scrapbookers by writing a Guest Post and getting published on Scraps of Mind.
Many of us use our scanners to digitize photographs, greeting cards and other paper products. And certainly, these scanned images are great enhancements to digital, hybrid and traditional paper scrapbooking layouts.
However, with a little imagination, you can expand the use of your scanner to incorporate various other items into your projects.
If it’s flat enough to fit in your scanner, you can digitize a picture of it. Simply place the item face down in the scanner and scan.
You might experiment a bit to see if covering it with a sheet of white printer paper improves the quality. In some cases, it will make a difference. In other cases, it may not.
In the picture shown, I have incorporated scanned images of a piece of lace, a spray of artificial flowers, a leaf from a house plant and a gold elephant shaped brooch with a black cord.
Other possible items that come to mind include earrings, pearls, buttons, candy bar wrappers, decorative wrapping paper, book covers, ribbon, coasters, seashells, twigs, flat rocks and pebbles, flat food like cookies, gum, tea bags, dried fruit or mushrooms or even small items of clothing like gloves, baby bootees or bibs.
These scanned images can play several roles in your scrapbooking activities.
Scanned Items as Mementoes
If the item you scanned played a role in the memory you’re scrapbooking about, why not include it as a picture?
If it’s a baby shower layout, scan in the booties that you knitted for the new addition.
If it’s a gardening theme, scan in some leaves and flowers picked from your garden.
Spent a day at the beach? Scan in a seashell that you collected.
Scanned Items as Buttons, Borders and Backgrounds
Your scanned images have multiple uses beyond displaying the pictures in your layouts. If you have photo editing software, you can edit or combine your images in any number of ways to create custom borders, backgrounds, buttons and embellishments.
Software applications vary in terms of features. I used Adobe Photoshop CS to make the button shown, but you could do it with Adobe Photoshop Elements and probably many other applications as well.
To make the button,
- I selected a square of the scanned lace, then copied it and pasted it into a new file.
- Next, I used the Magnetic Lasso Tool to select the elephant from the elephant pin picture.
- Once selected, I copied and pasted it into a new layer in the new button file, and moved the layer so the elephant is centered.
- Lastly I used a filter to create the 3D button effect.
That’s just one example of the myriad possibilities that open up when you’re working digitally.
Getting the Resolution Right
When working with scanned images, resolution plays an important role.
If you are planning to print your images, you need a resolution of at least 300 dpi, or dots per inch.
Set the scanner to scan at the highest resolution possible if printing is your goal.
If you plan on displaying the image on a computer or web site only, then the resolution requirements are much less. 72 dpi is considered the ideal resolution for Web viewing.
Remember that a 72 dpi image will look great on the computer - but if you print it, it will be blurry and lack definition. What you see is definitely not what you get when we are talking about digital images and printing.
Why not give this a try?
Post a comment and let us know how you incorporate scanned objects into your scrapbooking or paper craft projects.
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Posted by karooch on
June 25, 2008
Scrapbooking in Silhouette
Silhouettes can make a great scrapbook layout technique.
Here’s a cool scrapbook idea which you should try. Removing your subject from the background of the photo lets you position them with whatever backdrop you want in order to tell your story.
I don’t mean like those TV reporters who stand in front of a blue screen with a fan ruffling their hair whilst they report on some news story that the TV station didn’t have an on-the-spot-reporter attending. Although you could do a terrific over-the-top and funky layout with a silhouette of your children in some totally unreal setting.
I’m mostly talking about creating a design incorporating your subject without putting them in the context of their background.
For example, in this hybrid scrapbook layout of my daughter’s University graduation I wanted to feature her on the cover of a book. So I didn’t want to keep the photo background as that would have defeated the purpose.
So I used the lasso tool in Photoshop Elements to extract her out of the background and then I could use her in my design. And don’t worry too much about getting your selection perfect. You can always clean up the edges after you’ve got rid of most of the background.
Once I had got rid of the background I was free to use her silhouette on the cover of the ‘book’ which I made for my scrapbook layout (thanks to Erica Hite’s Bookworm Collection and also Hot off the Press for the background paper). And because I did this digitally I was able to change the size to fit the layout design.
And paper scrapbookers can also jump on the silhouette band wagon. Get out your scissors and start snipping. Just make sure you have a copy of the original photo to work on. You don’t want to ruin your original.
And if your photo isn’t large enough for the silhouette feature that you want for your layout, just scan it into your computer at a high resolution (say 600-800 dpi and you can print out a larger version.
Silhouettes can be a lot of fun and you can make some very funky scrapbook layouts using them.
So why not give it a go?
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