Technology Madness

How to Save your Kodak Gallery Photos for free(?)

Kodak Gallery (Ofoto) is an online photo sharing site where anyone can upload pictures for free. However, today I received an email from Kodak.com that if I don’t buy anything from them, like, order pictures or picture CD or anything, they will delete my pictures. I hate when company do malpractice to keep customer with them by any means. This might be a good business model for some thrift market but not for corporate like - kodak.com.  Unfortunately Kodak Gallery is a closed service and so there are no API or tool that will help you to move your photos from Kodak to other free services like Flickr or Picasa Web.       

Scroll the web horizontally with Widexplorer

Generally all webpages are designed to scroll up and down. Sometimes I hate when I have to scroll right or left to get complete view of webpage. And I curse web developer of that site of being lazy.

But a new startup website: Widexplorer provides a new and revolutionary way to explore search results from multiple online information providers and gives you wide page format, laid out horizontally. You need to scroll from left to right to get same search from various sources. Search is available from prominent destinations of web for a variety of topics.

On top of everything, individual website can also be scrolled up and down site without moving the other four. I know it sounds confusing but it’s very easy, you have to try it yourself.

Try Widexplorer here.

Via [blogs.bnet.com]

Get unlimited email addresses from Gmail.Google.com

You must have experienced how Gmail is cool and better than its peers. But do you know that you can create unlimited gmail address for yourself from your primary account. Let’s say, my email address is – technologymadness@gmail.com. Here are three different ways you can get unlimited Gmail address and still get your mail to your primary account.

Tip 1: Insert one or several dots (”.”) anywhere in your email address.
technologymadness@gmail.com is same as technology.madness@gmail.com, tech.nology.mad.ness@gmail.com (you can insert as may as dot you want and create a new email address) so on and so forth. All these email variants ultimately delivers emails to my main-primary account: technologymadness@gmail.com

Tip 2: Append a plus (”+”) sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address.
So technologymadness+Craigslist@gmail.com (email comes from my craigslist listing), technologymadness+family@gmail.com (email comes from my sister/brother/parents) and technologymadness+junk@gmail.com (email comes from my ex or boss)– all these emails ultimately delivers your mail to your primary account. So next time when you are registering on a site or a forum or any freebees sites and all you need to give them their email address with (+) varient, and later you can create a filter for the specific email which comes from that address to skip the inbox and get archived. Cool, isn’t it?

Tip 3: You get 2 email addresses automatically!
If you got abc@gmail.com, you automatically get another email address which is abc@googlemail.com. And yes, it’s the same as abc@gmail.com-your primary account. So Now you can apply tip 1 and 2 (above) to your googlemail.com email address and have some more emails.

You can start organizing all your emails effectively using above tips. Let me know how is your experience about it?

Additional Gmail Tips:

• Conduct Survey by email using Gmail @labnol.org
• 11 Power Tips for Gmail @mattcutts.com
• Migrating from Gmail to Google Apps or other email accounts to Gmail @sudarmuthu.com

Update (08/03/2008):

I notice that several sites do reject addresses with a plus sign. You might use other services like Mailinator for disposable addresses instead. Also, you can use the services like SpamGourmet, which redirects mail to your real address. Good Luck!

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