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Gadgets, Technology, Public speaking and IT from an undergraduate's perspective.
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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05 Jun 08 | 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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Toastmasters Table Topic Ideas for Impromptu Speaking - Mixed Words
Write words on small pieces of paper and put them all in a bag. Have each Table Topics speaker pick up 3 pieces of paper and make up a story that contains all 3 words in it. If your chapter meeting has a “Word of the Day”, you can also require that the speaker use the “Word of the Day” as well.) Generally, you should make variations of the word acceptable. So for example, if the word is “run”, then “running” may be used in the speaker’s story.
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Daily or Monthly Contact Lenses?
I think contact lenses can be considered one of the best inventions of our time, as the convenience that they give over spectacles is invaluable. When wearing contact lenses though, you’ll need to go through a 4-step process:
1) Wash your hands (with soap) before handling your contact lenses.
2) Clean, rinse, and disinfect whenever you remove your contact lenses from your eyes
3) Use only fresh contact lens care solution and not water or saline
4) Replace your lenses with a new pair regularly
The daily grind of cleaning, rinsing and disinfecting my contact lenses is getting to me though, and I’m thinking of changing my monthly disposable contact lenses to daily disposable ones, which effective removes steps 2 and 3, so it’s a nice and neat 2-step process. In addition, I can go places without having to worry about bringing solution because I can just dump my daily lenses and wear new ones the next day.
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