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Finally back (with more tips!)
Jul 27th
I’ve returned! After a several month hiatus to re-align my personal life I’m back and ready to continue where I left off.
Is the suspense killing you?
Mar 5th
Let me set up a situation for you:
It’s a normal day at the office, and you’re taking a mental break to scour the web for inspiration. Suddenly, you stumble upon the most interesting, most cool, most important site on the whole World Wide Web! Reflexively, you start crafting an e-mail to your buddies and forwarding that link like it’s hot. Now you play the waiting game…
Like a prarie dog, you poke your head up from your cubicle and stare across the vast plane, waiting to hear the reactions… a giggle, a gasp… anything that will clue you in to the fact that people are currently enjoying your amazing find. Instead, you get nothing — not even the baseline sound of a cricket’s chirp.
Fear not! There’s a solution to your current “did-they-see-it-yet” plight. At the risk of introducing what may be considered a stalking implement for the slightly deranged, allow me to suggest LinkBlip.
LinkBlip lets you know whether your recipient has taken a look at the page you’ve recommended. Go to the LinkBlip site and enter your important URL, and they’ll give you one back. You can email the new link to your pals. When they click on it, they go to the page you’ve pointed out to them, but in addition, you’ll also get an email back from LinkBlip letting you know that the link has been followed. No more wondering “did they, or didn’t they?”
Along with the fact that you recipient has followed your link, you’ll be told where they were located, based on their computer’s IP address — just the kind of creepy surperflous detail you need to settle all curiosity.
LinkBlip is a free service, and it’ll satisfy your itch. I wonder, however, if prolonged use might make you feel a little dirty.
Check it out at http://linkblip.com
Need a ‘disposable’ e-mail address?
Mar 4th
Like most of you, I HATE spam! Due to my disdain for junk in my inbox, I’m very selective with regards to whom I share my e-mail address with. If your address falls into the wrong hands, you’re pretty much doomed to a life of discarding Viagra ads and come-ons for pirated software.
Of course, however, for access to lots of online services, or to post to many blogs, you’ve got to register and supply an e-mail address. If you already get enough e-mail spam, you probably aren’t in the market to add to that total. That means that in many cases what you need is a “disposable” e-mail address.
I have, on (admittedly) more than one occasion, created a ‘junk mail’ address with a vendor such as GMail, to use as the e-mail I can freely provide to websites with confidence, knowing that I can always dump the address if my inbox becomes too junk-laden. One organization took it one step further.
Enter: 10 minute Mail.
10 Minute Mail is a free service that lets you do just what it sounds like. Just go to their site, click on the “Get my 10 Minute Mail e-mail address” link, and you’ve got an e-mail address that will be valid for exactly ten minutes. That should be enough time for you to use to sign up for the service you’re joining, receive the confirming e-mail back to you, and to finally send the “yes, it’s really me” message back to the website– then the address just goes away. If you know you’re going to type slowly, you can add an additional ten minutes to the life of the e-mail account, but the point is this: once you’ve used it, you don’t have to worry about it any more, and you won’t add the to burden of your e-mail spam filter by receiving that much more “stuff” from your new best friend.
Check them out at http://10minutemail.com
