Revitalize, Restore, and Renew Your Mac
Posted 03/15/2007 at 7:50pm
| by Niko Coucouvanis

If you didn’t already know, that’s a GIF image, specifically created by some loser jerk to hoodwink your spam filter.
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Supersize Your Spam Filter Apple’s Mail and other email apps have powerful spam filtering, but the junkmongers always seem to stay a few steps ahead. Give your spam filter some teeth by making a new rule in Mail (Mail > Preferences > Rules) to junk any email that comes in with a GIF image.
It’s always a good idea to peruse the Junk filter for mistakenly junked messages, but we bet you won’t find many GIFs in there worth redeeming. Before you get carried away, remember that spammers don’t use JPEGs as often as your mother does (no offense).
Dock Your Desktop The Finder runs better when the Desktop is uncluttered. To have your download-dumping ground and a fast Finder too, create a folder at the root level of your hard drive (or anywhere) and drag it to your Dock. Set this new folder as the default download location in your Web browsers and email apps. If you want the folder to look like a faux desktop, click its Dock icon to open it, select View > As Icons, then open View > Show View Options, and adjust to your liking (to ditch the sidebar, slide its border all the way left). Just make sure to check the option for This Window Only. Now click and hold on the docked folder to view its contents alphabetically, nested folders included, as a pop-up menu.
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