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Track packages automatically in Lion Mail

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 4th, 2011)

Mail in Lion has added a "data detector" for tracking packages. When you get an email with a tracking number in it, you can hover over the number and click the arrow to select Track Shipment... This should open a window in Mail that shows you shipping details for that package. ...

Inside iPhone 3.0: The address data detector

by Steven Sande (Jun 22nd, 2009)

Michael Rose had a double-take today while he was reading an email on his iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0. In the message -- a comment from TUAW reader binklewis -- was the place name 'San Antonio, TX'. As Mike scanned the email, he noticed that those words were highlighted as a link, and tapping ...

Turn off Data Detectors in Mail.app

by Mat Lu (Aug 1st, 2008)

Among the new features Apple touted in Leopard was data detectors in Mail.app. The idea is that if somebody sends you an email with a street address in it, for example, Mail.app can detect that it's a street address and add it an Address Book contact with just a couple of clicks. Unfortunately, ...

Using Data Detectors in Leopard's iChat

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 5th, 2008)

I'm always, well, tickled by the things that can happen when you use Terminal commands that begin with "defaults write" -- thus changing the preferences for applications, the Finder, and more, often in ways that you can't accomplish via GUI pref settings. I also get a certain warmness from Leopard's ...