Yovav (Jay) Meydad's Personal Blog

By default, Microsoft Entourage automatically adds a signature at the very bottom of an email thread. I reply to dozens of emails every day and for a long time I used to cut the signature from the bottom and paste it to the correct place.

You might ask yourself how come I kept doing this. Very simple, I just could not find the right setting under the Preferences pane that would change the behavior. There is also no setting related to the positioning of the signature under the “Signatures”window to address this.

I finally found the time and did some online research and was able find the answer. I figured others could benefit from this tip as well. So, here it is. To get Entourage automatically add the signature at the top of the reply/forward, make sure you have the setting as in the screenshot below.

Alternatively, you could upgrade to Outlook which is a much better email client for Mac and is part of the new Office 2011, or use a webmail like Gmail.

Gmail users need a simpler & quicker way to attach files to a message. The current process requires too many clicks and is ’99ish.

Just like many file upload and photo sharing services (Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery), I should be able to drag multiple files into the body of the message (or into a special attachments dropbox) and then, using Ajax, the upload process should start automatically and asynchronously as I continue to compose the email.

I wish this would be added soon by the Gmail team as part of their Labs program. IMHO, this feature is more useful and important than (useless) features like Superstars, Old Snakey, Random Signiture and others.

But until this is going to happen, you might want to try dragdropupload, a useful Firefox Add-On which partially solves this problem.