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Avoid other causes of communication breakdown:

• Guy Kawasaki’s 12 tips for better emailing
• How email fuels miscommunication
• Merlin Mann on working smarter and faster
• A brief guide to email style and manners
• The Ten Commandments of email according to Intel

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A while ago I blogged a screenshot of Mail.app’s Dock icon being cheeky when it has too many unread emails to count.

Today a friend sent me another picture of Mail getting funny, this time with attachments:

This was caused by a cut ‘n’ pasted iChat transcript packed full of emoticons.

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For those times when the spirit of “live and let live” is not enough, Hawk Wings presents a Special Limited Edition “Hasta la Vista” Junk and Trash icon replacement set.

The set’s large Junk icon features a well-known email client and browser peeking out in a jaunty manner over the top of Junk’s brown paper bag.

On its large Trash icon a future operating system release nestles in the bin at peace like a rudderless ship that has found safe harbour at last.

The small trash icon throws all pretence at subtlety to the wind.

In fact, while it may seem like gloating, the Hasta la Vista icon set is perfect for those Mac users who are tempted to arrogance by their enjoyment of a computer that “just works”.

Through its gentle visual reminders of those who are less fortunate, it promotes compassion and staves off hubris of any kind, helping to make the world a better place.

The set contains five icons – junkmail.tiff, junkMailFlag.tiff, TB_Junk.tiff, TrashMailbox.tiff. TrashMailboxLarge.tiff – to replace the defaults in the Resources folder of Mail.app.

Probably the best thing here is to enjoy the idea for a minute and then move on. But if you want to try it out… Make copies of the original files first. Then follow the same instructions for replacing Apple Mail’s new mail badges.

Or better still, if you (unlike me) actually know what you are doing in Photoshop, knock out a decent set and share it.

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