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Apple Mail has been my favourite Mail program for several years, it’s usability is higher than Gmail or Outlook, it’s fast, good looking and easy to compose in. But today I want to point out the great Stationery feature that Apple has added to the most recent version of Mail. Apple’s Mail or Mail.App is now at Version 3.1 and now handles RSS feeds as well as ToDo lists, for me, stationery is the most exciting feature. From Apple Mail’s compose window, you’ll see a small button labeled “Show Stationery”, click this and a small pane drops down from immediately below the toolbar.  From here you, you have a choice of six categories to choose your staionery from, “Favorites”, “Birthday”, “Announcements”, “Photos”, “Stationery” and “Sentiments”.  Each category contains a bunch of great looking templates that function like the templates in Keynote, iMovie, Pages, and most other Mac Cocoa Applications. That means, quite simply, you can drag images and text from anywhere on your screen (including webpages) right into the template. So whether you have a photo of Baker Beach in your iPhoto library, or, you find it on flickr, just drag it into your message to display it alongside your message.     This stationery feature makes your emails very vibrant and interesting, plus, they display really well in most other email clients , especially gmail! Have Fun! Remember, Friendly, Smart, Certified Apple Expertise is at hand, call 415-871-9683 and speak to Brendan