Last week, at the suggestion of a friend, I finally downloaded some IM software called Trillian. I had never heard of this before, but thought I might give it a shot.
Sure, it’s another instant messaging program. But some of you might be interested if you haven’t heard of it before.
The beauty of this software is that it consolidates the IM programs of something like five different major programs, including Yahoo!, MSN, AIM/AOL, ICQ and another I don’t recognize, so can’t remember.
The downside is, not only is it another 11MB of software to bog down your computer, but once you plug in every individual on your e-mail address list who has screen names in one or more of these IM programs, you won’t get a word of writing done. Today was a good example of that as, in the same 10 seconds, three different people converged on me this afternoon, in addition to a phone call from hubby, and my son pulling on my arm to practice some “boxing”.
Let me tell you, I was doing some impressive juggling.
Another beautiful thing about this program is, once you get your own various identities from your various e-mail accounts set up, it will send you a message every time you get new e-mail in each of those accounts AND indicate who it’s from. Then, you can click on the box and it will take you right to your e-mail account.
Wow.
That’s neat stuff for little ol' me, who likes her toys where she can get them! Talk about convenient, and staying informed. It’s like having caller ID for your in-bin. Every single one of them!
This evening, as I worked down my list of favorite bloggers and was steadily rounding the corner to page two (of four, no less, having recently culled pages five and six), I got an e-mail notification for my main e-mail address.
But the weird thing was, the e-mail to me… was from me.
How odd. How could that be?
I believe I was in the comments section of one of Timmy’s blogs when this happened, and I just had to check it out. I couldn’t concentrate on anything else.
I clicked on the little notification box, and it directed me right to my in-box. I scanned the list, and the only thing that could possibly apply to this mystery was another notification from another writing site, informing me that someone on my faves list there had posted a piece of poetry. In the "from" column it simply said so-and-so had posted another poem.
How can an automatic notifier from another website use my e-mail address to remotely send myself e-mail? How does that work?
It just seemed strange to me.
