Disposable Email Addresses

So many times on the web you are asked for an email address when you would really prefer not to give it out. There are so many ‘one time use sites’ that once they get your address you are a victim of SPAM forever. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a service that could provide a temporary email address for sign ups? Well there is and they have existed for quite some time.

Enter Melt Mail, a disposable email address service. Now they aren’t the only kids on the block, but I like them a lot.

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Adding SMTP and POP3 to a Hotmail Account

It appears that Microsoft may be learning from the success of a little company known as Google. Now you can finally migrate all your Hotmail messages into a much superior Gmail account with Microsoft’s addition of POP3 and SMTP. Some countries (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands) already have this feature, but it will not be worldwide until the end of 2009. However, with a little trickery it can be accessed by everyone now.

To setup POP3 and SMTP with your Hotmail aka Windows Live Mail you need to know some server settings.
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Google Chrome Coming to MAC and Linux

Brian Rakowski, Chrome’s product manager announced that they hope to have a product release for Linux and MAC by the end of Quarter 2 this year. If you want to follow news on the MAC development of Chromium, you can read more here. FOr the more advanced user, if you are so inclined, you can even install the test shell on you MAC. Overall I am quite impressed by how quickly Chrome is evolving, and the potential with it as a mobile browser and more.
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