Email Trick

While this blog post has nothing to do with ambient Music or Things That Occur In Nature,
it has been an extremely useful tip to me so I thought I would share it.

Have you ever found that between your spam, email lists that you thought you would have time to read- and all those millionaires that want to borrow your bank account for a few days that your email IN box is simply overwhelming? I'm not sure if I hold the world record or anything but until today, my email IN box contained 34,331 messages- 26,832 of which were unread. With Mac Mail, searching is easy and fast (kindof like Eudora) it's all indexed and you can search for any keyword and easily find messages. So, if I wanted to look up all the Mix Magazine articles; type in Mix and scroll. Still though, Thirty One Thousand Messages is a bit out of hand. So, my solution to get back to a nice clean, Zen-like empty mailbox? Simply create an additional mailbox called INBOX 2. I then select all the messages in my IN box and drag them (or transfer in Macmail) to INBOX 2.
Voila! Done. So now, if I want to look for that email from the record label where they promised they would put me in the same room with Brain Eno, I search for Brian Eno and....there it is.

I am finding now that I am not only deleting unneeded messages faster but also unsubscribing to junk emails. It just all seems a bit more manageable now.

Try it, if it works or if you have a similar organizational tip, let me know here!

Apple is Shutting Lala Down!

OK. for those of you that have not found the most awesome music purchasing/listening site on the 'net yet, let me tell you why Lala.com was epic.
1st- Lala let you preview the full single, album, etc. one full time at full rez with out dropping a penny before you bought it. I can't tell you how many times I would sit down in my studio while doing work (that did not require me to listen to audio) and using Lala to preview a new album while blogging, tweeting, facebooking, etc.. This is the only site that I know of that had that kind of variety and catalog that would let you do this. You search, press the play button and go. Which brings me to-
2nd- The interface was super easy to use. Good search features, clearly labeled with little mess.
They must have taken some lessons from Google.
3rd- If you wanted to buy a stream only version, you could for .10. This rocked for stuff that I did not need to download and/or knew that I was not going to take portable.
4th- If you were going to buy, they were the least expensive. As an indie music artist, I am all for us getting paid for our art. Competitive pricing can really sway the buyer one way or another.
5th-Playlists were easy to setup and you could upload your own music!

I'm sad to see Lala go. There are alot of differing views as to what Apple is up to.
If you used Lala and have an opinion or want to add to why you liked Lala, please leave a comment. Let's Shout out to Apple the features that we would like to have if they bring this back as part of iTunes.
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