Mailbox Addons: Postal

Postal allows you to manage your alts' mailboxes.  WOW Insider featured Postal in their addon column last June.
http://www.wow.com/2009/06/06/addon-spotlight-postal/

More details about what it does and does not do here.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/postal.aspx

And here.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11187-Postal.html

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You've Played Too Much WOW When...

Big Bear Butt explains how you know you have been playing too much.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/11/03/you-know-youve-played-too-much-wow-when/

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Review: Lowerping.com

This service (not open to U.S. players) lowers latency.  Pwnwear says it works very well for him/her so far and gives tips about setting it up.  Apparently the documentation is a bit skimpy.
http://pwnwear.com/2009/11/03/review-lowerping-com/

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Newest Curse Client in Open Beta

WOW Insider says that Curse's version four client is now in open beta.  Details here.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/03/curse-client-v4-now-in-open-beta/

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Healing Meters--Why and How?

This is a very interesting article about healing meters and why they are really helpful.  The writer talks about Healing Per Second (HPS), Healing Per Cast Time (HPCT), Healing Per Mana (HPM) and Healing Per Encounter (HPE) as well as the other Recount measured items and describes how to use them to analyze the healing in a raid.
http://moarhps.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/hps-do-numbers-really-not-matter/

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Moonkin Basics for the Druid

Graylo has started writing Moonkin Basics on his Gray Matter blog, starting with talents.
http://graymatterwow.blogspot.com/2009/11/moonkin-basics-talents.html

Here's an addemdum to the talents posting.
http://graymatterwow.blogspot.com/2009/11/look-at-pushback-resistance.html

Here are specs.
http://graymatterwow.blogspot.com/2009/11/moonkin-basics-stats.html

By the way, he recommends this information by the Elitist Jerks on Moonkin PvE DPS as the best information he's ever read for the balance druid.
http://elitistjerks.com/f47/t66856-moonkin_pve_dps/

There is a moonkin website and forum here.
http://www.themoonkinrepository.com/

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Warlocks' Minions

Part one of a WOW Insider series on the various minions that warlocks have as companions and servants.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/02/blood-pact-meet-the-minions-part-1/#continued

Part two talks about the voidwalkers and generating threat, plus discussions of spells.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/09/blood-pact-meet-the-minions-part-2-of-voidwalkers-and-threat/

Part three covers the succubus and how to use crowd control.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/23/blood-pact-meet-the-minions-part-3-the-succubus-and-crowd-co/

Part four discusses the felhunter and the mage.
http://www.wow.com/2009/12/14/blood-pact-meet-the-minions-part-4-the-felhunter-and-mage-ha/

Part five talks about infernals and doomguard.
http://www.wow.com/2010/01/04/blood-pact-meet-the-minions-part-5-the-infernal-and-doomguard/

Part six describes the felguard.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/01/blood-pact-meet-the-minions-part-6-the-felguard/

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How to Recruit Using World of Raids

Matticus explains how he is searching for guild members using World of Raids' recruiting page.
http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/11/01/a-change-of-recruiting-strategy-world-of-raids-tool/

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