The Ultimate Spam Filter: Create a Disposable Email Account with NowMyMail

If you're like me, you love to sign up for a lot of things and you end up with a lot of spam in your inbox (how about 10 every hour). And sure Yahoo! has got a decent spam filter and Gmail's is even better but none are flawless. But you've gotten used to it; you just have to give out your email for some of these contests even though they send you the prize in your mailbox.
But there's no need to face deleting all those messages anymore with NowMyMail, the disposable email service. It's pretty simple and there's not very much to talk about so I'll make this quick.
Whenever you see a contest that you just have to sign up for because they're giving away a $150 Starbucks gift card, but you don't see much of a point in giving your email away, just go to NowMyMail.
With a single click, you can create a disposable email that might be something like "jspkvfwcgg@nowmymail.com". This will create an inbox where you can view emails in plain text and delete them as well. Of course, you can't reply (and it wouldn't be smart replying anyway). This email account will be remembered for up to an hour if you have cookies enabled on your browser, even if you close the page.
And after your done with it, it just deletes itself so you don't have to worry about it anymore while the sender's email will be flooded with Mail Delivery Errors.
Plus, it's free!

A Practical Gmail Tip For You: Stop the Annoying Noises

Before I finally decided to really explore the depths of Google's free email service, Gmail, I always had to face the distraction of a little beep playing every time someone sent me an instant message. Gradually, this became more and more irritating to the point where I would simply refuse to open Gmail.
I mean, no one wants to be suddenly jolted by a silence-breaking tone when they're doing something important such as completing a university thesis. Often, this little noise will even force me to totally lose my concentration and forget what I was thinking.
And it was a coincidence that I found the way to shut this thing off. Here's how to do it:
First, obviously open your browser and go to Gmail, which should take you to your inbox. Now, at the top left of the page, there is a link list of other Google Services but don't be tempted to click these. Instead, look to the right, where you'll find your email and links to Gmail settings, the older version, help pages as well as the sign out button. You should go to the "Settings", where in bold letters, the title, Settings, will be perceived. Below that are several tabs such as General, Accounts, Labels, Filters etc. But you don't need any of these for what you're trying to do; go to the "Chat" section. When here, scroll down and you will see a part entitled "Sounds" where there will be two options, "Sounds On" and "Sounds Off". Select "Sounds Off" and you won't have to listen to those truly agitating beeps, countless times every day.

Note: Naturally, the downside to this is that you won't be notified when someone begins to chat with you, which could mean you'll be ignoring quite a few people every day.

Google Mail's Leap To Video: Gmail Video and Voice Chat

As you may know, Gmail is one of the world's most used e-mail services, offering many great features such as a 20 MB attachment limit, over 7 GB of storage space and a handy labeling system. Another useful aspect is the web-based chat system that has wide selection of emoticons, group chats, personal messages and now video and voice chats.
Recently introduced, this component basically displays a view of streaming video from your buddy's webcam above the current chat. But if that doesn't satisfy you, you can also pop out to full-screen mode. However, if your friend doesn't hasn't enabled video chat, you can still operate a one-way video chat or just utilise the run-off of this, voice chat, which only requires a microphone.
It works like this. Where there used to be an "Options" button at the bottom left, you'll see a "Video and More" button instead (if you have video chat installed). So, you simply click this and a little box will pop up where you can select "Start Video Chat" or "Start Voice Chat". This will "call" the person you want to talk to, which notifies his/her computer with a ring that this person can choose to either ignore or respond to. When he/she has answered, you should see Gmail begin to do its job.
And the great thing about this is that you'll be able to actually see all the facial expressions, hear all the laughs and directly show others your favorite photos in person. In addition, Google provides these features with impressively high quality sound and video.
The old-fashioned text chat just isn't good enough these days. Video chat really re-defines internet communication and Gmail's version of this leads the pack so install this little program (it's only takes a few seconds) and start really taking advantage of the advances of the internet age.

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