How to get dictionary definitions in email?

• Mail to: wsmith@wordsmith.org
• Subject: define yourword (eg: define utopia)
• No need to write anything in mail body

Here is what happened when we tried the above example:

And this was the reply:

This service is amazingly fast – really! It is one of the best options for people(like me) who work a lot with their email inbox always open. Moreover this service suggests similar words if the word you requested wasn’t found. This is very handy in case of typing errors or spelling errors.

All in all, a trick worth trying. Try it now and enjoy the service!

Backing up your Gmail Account using Gmail Backup is a very easy and a single click affair. Enter your email id and password, choose the destination folder, duration for backup and click on ‘Backup’ to start your backup.

Check out Gmail Backup to backup your Gmail account.

What can TwitterMail do?

• TwitterMail provides you a unique email address. When you write a mail to this address, the body of the mail is posted to Twitter
• All replies by your friends(beginning with @username) are mailed to your email address – this can be disabled in settings to prevent mailbox clogging
• When you send a message with ‘Friends’ as the subject, you’ll receive one message with the last 20 posts from all of your friends
• URLs are automatically shortened using TinyURL
• TwitterMail removes the limitation of 140 character limit by adding a ‘Read More’ link to display complete message
• If you add time to your email subject line, you can also schedule your tweets

TwitterMail thus simplifies your Twittering experience. By scheduling tweets, you can also create an impression of being online when you are not. TwitterMail enhances your productivity and saves a lot of your precious time and is well worth trying out! 

Check out TwitterMail!

1. Sign in to your Gmail account.
2. Click on the Settings link in the upper right corner of your Gmail window.
3. Click on the new ‘Themes’ tab in your Settings window.
4. Select a Gmail theme of your choice. My choices are Shiny and Ninja. Just clicking on the Gmail theme of your choice will be applied to your account. Some theme options even ask you to enter the city closest to you.

If you want to go back to your default Gmail theme, that’s can be done too.Go back to the Themes tab within the Settings option and select the Classic Gmail Theme.

StashMyMail is an online service which makes taking backup of your emails a piece of cake.

Benefits of StashMyMail are:

• Fast and easy backup of emails without having to configure additional software
• Prevent loss of emails due to crashes and glitches in service providers’ email systems
• Easy offline access to emails
• Download mails with attachments with miraculous ease
• Prevent the inbox from getting too full
• Backup of mails before closing an account for future references

StashMyMail combines all your emails into a ZIP archive file. You can download this file to your computer and easily extract all your mails on your computer. All emails are saved in standard text or html format so opening them doesn’t need any special software. StashMyMail also archives Attachments attached to emails. StashMyMail is currently FREE, but might be so for a limited time.

Check out StashMyMail – and drop in a word about your experience!

With FutureMe.org, you can:

• write emails to yourself, that will be delivered to you at a later date
• write emails to others, that will be delivered to them at a later date(displaying your address from where it was sent to prevent abuse)
• write public(but anonymous) letters, which will be displayed by FutureMe.org(read the disclaimer for more)
• read public emails written by others to have an insight to the varied thoughts of the human mind

Dear FutureMe – the book:

In 2006, the FutureMe compiled over 200 public(but anonymous) entries on FutureMe.org into a book titled – Dear FutureMe- Hopes, Fears, Secrets, Resolutions, which makes for an interesting read and is acknowledged by authors and psychologists as a unique social dialogue.

People behind FutureMe have a very funny bone, and the website reflects their simplicity and sincere humour. They run a PayPal account so that you can donate them some money, and the creator’s have also put up their wishlist in case you’d rather gift presents. So if you have been thinking of writing yourself(or someone else) a post dated letter (say a letter to your ex-girlfriend saying you-would-have-been -happier-with-me, or a letter to yourself reminding what you had planned to do on your 50th birthday – try FutureMe now.

Note:

Go through the What! section(yeah, that is what they call the FAQs) to learn about frequent mail delivery issues and guidelines.

To prevent such mails which you’ll regret sending in the morning, Gmail Labs have come up with an ingenious solution – the Gmail Mail Goggles. To enable the Mail Goggles navigate to Settings>Labs in the Gmail window, browse to Mail Goggles and click Enable. You can also send feedback related to this gadget here.

How does Mail Goggles work?

The name ‘Mail Goggles’ is derived from the slang “Beer Goggles,” which states the effect of alcohol on one’s ability to see the true nature of a few seemingly beautiful ladies. It is said that Gmail engineer Jon Perlow designed Goggles with his own weaknesses in mind. “Sometimes I send messages I shouldn’t send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night e-mail to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together,” he wrote when announcing Mail Goggles on a company blog.

Mail Goggles let you set a time and days(usually weekends, but if you are a way-too-regular visitor to the bar you can choose to activate it on all days) and a difficulty level. The Mail Goggles settings are a part of the General Settings.

So if your write any mails on the specified day after the stipulated time(usually nights) then a Mail Goggle comes into action and prompts you to solve some simple mathematics problems in a limited time. It assumes that if you are in a state where you can logically think and perform some easy calculations, then you deserve to send an email. Otherwise you don’t – and that is where it steps in.

So if you can’t add 23 and 13, its not that nice an idea to write an email. If you give wrong answers Google says some nice, comforting words like – “Water and bed for you. Or try again.”

Sometimes it pays to get help, even if it is from a machine. This is like those tests for drunken driving the only difference being these are not to determine punishments, but to save you from some. Don’t let alcohol ruin something which took a lifetime to build up – use Mail Goggles!