Filed under: Windows, Office, Productivity, Freeware
You know how easy it is to interact with websites through email. For instance, you can upload photos to Flickr, publish blogs on Tumblr, add tasks to your To Do list in Remember The Milk, upload files to Google Docs, save notes in Evernote, send videos to YouTube, convert documents .. and so much more with a simple email message.
Each of these services provide you with a secret (and often impossible to remember) email address that you are not supposed to share because anything sent to that address will instantly get published / uploaded on to your account.
Since it is fairly hard for anyone to remember these addresses, the alias feature of Gmail can come quite handy here. Lets see how using Flickr as an example.
Setup a Gmail account (say labnol@gmail.com) and create a new filter. In the To: field, type labnol+flickr@gmail.com and then put your secret Flickr email address in the "Forward it to:" field. Save.
Now any picture attachment that is addressed to labnol+flickr@gmail.com will get published on Flickr. You can create similar aliases for other services like labnol+youtube@gmail.com for YouTube, labnol+gdocs@gmail.com for Google Docs, and so on.
So your single Gmail account acts as a central hub and redirects messages to the relevant service based on the alias used in the address. And since these email aliases are so logical, you will probably have no trouble remembering them even if your email address book isn't around.
Also see: Create Email Polls using Gmail
Interact with Websites via Easy to Remember Email Addresses - Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Rising energy costs and environmental concerns have caused just about all of use to take a good hard look at our usage habits. Verdiem's Edison helps your conservation efforts by picking up where your Windows power saving features leave off.
Note2Email is a simple web form that you may use for sending email messages anonymously to just about anyone - no need to create any account.
Your IP address is not passed in the message header so your identity remain hidden and the email recipient will never know who exactly sent that message and from where.
Other than sending anonymous emails, this service will also come handy if you are sitting on a public terminal and want to quickly send yourself an email without logging into your own web account for security reasons.
You may send unlimited number of emails with Note2Email but one at a time. Obviously there's potential for misuse so you can ask them to blacklist your email address so that people can't send you messages anonymously.
Related: Write Text Notes That Disappear After Being Read
Send an Anonymous Email Message With Note2Email - Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal
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