- Apple TV gains hard disk capacity, loses weighty price @TUAW
- AT&T poised to roll out 3G MicroCell service @TUAW (Dad wants to know A) why they’re charging a service fee on this and B) why you need a separate box, is 802.11n not good enough?)
- AT&T Says MMS for iPhone Coming Friday Mid-day @Gizmodo
- A walk through iTunes history @TUAW
- Bose SoundDock 10 weighs in with $599 of iPod amplification @Engadget (I’m wanting to upgrade my current Bose SoundDock since it doesn’t charge 3g iPhones, I’m wondering if this one is worth it’s hefty price tag.)
- Do You Unplug at 100% Battery? @Unplggd (In the past I haven’t but maybe that’s why my battery only had a 1.5 year useful life. I’m starting now.)
- Do You Use an Email Signature? What Does It Say? @GeekSugar
- Five Best Time-Tracking Applications @Lifehacker
- Free MP3 Madness!! Harry Connick Jr, Gary Go, Brett Dennen, The Cool Kids, Jars of Clay, and more! @Devastate Boredom
- Intuit (Quicken) Buys Financial Site Mint @Lifehacker
- Music Industry Wants Royalties From iTunes 30 Second Samples @Gizmodo
- Nano vs. the Flip: Who wins? @The Apple Blog
- Operating Systems @GraphJam
- Pantone offers color libraries for iPhone, mostly @TUAW (I have a drawer full of Pantone books at work but put something I already love on my iPhone and it’s always better.)
- Pay for Your Grande Latte at Starbucks With Your iPhone @The Apple Blog (One step closer to my dream of having my ID, credit card, and car keys integrated with my iPhone so that I don’t need a purse anymore. And the best part is the Starbucks by my office is one of the test stores so I can actually try it out.)
- ‘The Lost Symbol’ by Dan Brown for Kindle outselling hardback edition @Download Squad (I’m not surprised, I’m infatuated with Kindle books right now myself and the Kindle edition is the cheaper than the hardback.)
- This Is What It Would Take to Print the Entire Internet @Gizmodo
- Volkswagen E-Up! concept rolls into Frankfurt, hits the road in 2013 @Engadget
- Volkswagen L1 concept is crazy efficient, could ship in 2013 @Engadget
I’m sure it’s happened to you before: someone you know sends out an email to everyone they know, someone hits reply all, this sets off a chain reaction and you start getting emails all over the place that you don’t even care about.
In the era of spam email, most people are fairly protective of their email address and don’t distribute it without a good reason. You wouldn’t give out your friends phone numbers or home addresses unless you had a very good reason to so why would you give out their email address?
Next time you want to send an email to multiple people who don’t know each other and don’t need to know each other, use blind carbon copy (BCC). Blind carbon copy is different from regular carbon copy because the recipients all get copies but no one sees anyone else’s email address.
Since you are required to have at least one address in the “to” field, put your own email address there. Put everyone else you want to send the email to in the BCC field.
The only time you should be putting multiple address in the “to” field are when the people already know each other and they might want to talk to each other directly about it. If I’m sending an email to my immediate family members I put them all in the “to” field. If it’s a work email and there are other coworkers involved on the item then all the email addresses go in the “to” or “cc” field. If your contacts do not know each other and have no reason to know each other then you should not be sharing their email addresses.
If I was sending a invitation for a party, I’d put everyone in the “bcc” field. My whole address book does not want or need a reply all from one guest to know if they’re coming or not.
