GMail Trick

Unlike most webmail services (e.g. Live mail or Yahoo mail), with GMail, you can actually do pretty neat stuff with your email address. For instance, did you know that you could put the + sign in your email, and still receive emails as per normal? So if your email address was yourname@gmail.com, you could actually send an email to yourname+testing@gmail.com, and still receive your mails! This is because Gmail doesn’t recognize anything after the + sign.

GMail does record that particular email address though. To see it, just click on the “Show Details” link to expand the email header. You’ll be able to see the email address to which it was sent.

This trick is useful when you want to track email addresses. For instance, you could give out yourname+your_school@gmail.com to your school-related stuff, and yourname+work@gmail.com for work related stuff. If you want to see who uses a particular email address, you can tag it, maybe with a descriptive phrase or even a number like this: yourname+124@gmail.com.

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25% Big Skinny Wallet Coupon

It’s the standard Father’s Day gift - the ubiquitous men’s wallet, and wallet companies are rejoicing. The Big Skinny Corporation is no different, and it’s chancing upon this special day to launch a promotional offer, which I got as an email because I bought a wallet from them in the past.

The Big Skinny is not a bad wallet, but I think I could have been happier with another model or brand. Check out the other wallet alternatives that I researched.

Anyway, if you’re interested in the Big Skinny, you should just get it now because they have a coupon for 25% off classic style models (classic, sports & formal styles). That brings it to only $14.96 instead of the regular price of $19.95 until Father’s Day or while supplies last. The promotion coupon code is FD2008 (non-affiliate coupon).

My bet is that no matter what you’re getting, you should order early so that your gifts can arrive in time. Actually, it does make it interesting because seeing how thin the wallets are, it PROBABLY could fit into a Father’s Day greeting card too.

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How to Spot a Millionaire

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The Microsoft XBox 360

I just discovered how versatile the Xbox can be - it’s not just a simple gaming console, it’s an entire home entertainment system in one small box! If you have Windows Media Center, or a Zune, then you can connect these devices up very easily. Imagine having your songs on your PC, and then being able to stream any song wireless to your Xbox. That’s the power of the media extenders that Microsoft has developed, and the ease at which consumers can do this is one major draw of the devices. If your devices all on the same network (which they most probably are), then having the devices discover each other is a piece of cake, and you’ll be streaming music, photos and videos wireless around in your house, among devices.

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Samsung i780 (Touchscreen Windows Mobile 6 Device) Reviewed

My Palm Treo 650 finally gave up the ghost, so I have to search for its replacement, and it came in the form of the new Samsung i780. It’s a sleek, black touch-screen Windows Mobile 6 device, and the first thing I realised is how slim it is compared to my old Treo!

My first day with it was absolutely horrible though — I hated the default Windows Mobile interface. It felt clunky, things loaded slowly, and it looked ugly. So I went around searching for a solution, and found it in the freeware interface, PointUI.

After I installed it, the Samsung i780 felt so much snappier and easier to use. Just check out the video of the PointUI interface on my Samsung i780:

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