Google’s Mail Fetcher allows you to receive and send mail from other POP-enabled accounts. It does this by checking that account once every hour. You can navigate to it by visiting your Gmail account > Settings > Accounts.

There is a maximum to this, however. Google will not check your 25 thousand email addresses every hour. This is too much of server strain. So they figure, let’s just give each person five!

Any web-crazed person knows this isn’t enough. I probably have more than 30 accounts from more than 20 providers, including Gmail to Hotmail to Mail.com. The point is, achieving Simple Inbox (all your email in one place and Inbox Zero together) isn’t possible anymore.

Continue reading ‘One Gmail Account to Rule Them All: How to Have MORE Than Five Accounts in Google’s Mail Fetcher’

Google has been keeping a little secret for quite a while, and they’ve been doing a good job of it. Sure, some blogs have linked to it, but Google has done an amazing job of keeping it quiet. There are no links anywhere on Google.com that lead to it. What-so-ever. (with the exception of search results; duh).

What am I talking about? Google Bookmarks, of course.

Continue reading ‘Google Bookmarks, and One Amazing Thing you can Do with It’

xSketch might be the game that will have you playing forever.

You guess what the things drawn are. That simple. Keep guessing until you, or someone else, gets it right. You can also, of course, become a sketcher.

The game is very easy to understand and is very addicting. Earn points to level up. Everytime you play, 4 points is deposited into the “pot” where the winner and the sketcher gets 50/50.

Try it out today: registration is very straight-forward and you don’t have to click the conformation email immediately to play.

I just saw this new service called IS.GD that shortens your URLS for you. I’ve taken a liking to this vs. ShortURL and TinyURL because of the length of the site name and the fact that so far, they’ve only reached 3 characters trailing the domain name.

But here’s the trick: they have an awesome API. And that makes it easy for me to make this quick little bookmarklet, which is after the jump. They only work for Firefox.

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This is going to be short. That is why you need to read these three super tips. These three tips, in use at time of writing, are the things you need to be super.

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There is an amazing game that I just saw today, and it’s called Phosphor.

Our family was having a little party so I just decided to take a look at this after a relative pointed it out. All I can say is… wow.

Phosphor is a first-person-shooter. It’s not unlike Halo or anything of the sort, but there’s only the deathmatch mode, which is basically kill all. I know, kinda scary.

Continue reading for my in-depth review of this game.

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Website Review: CushyCMS is a newly innovative online CMS. (CMS means content management system). I took a quick test-drive of this beta application and have a invite code for you all to try.

Go ahead and surf on over to CushyCMS.com. Click the big hinting “sign up for free” button. The invitation code is after the jump. Continue reading ‘Website Review: CushyCMS’

WordPress 2.5 introduces a new color scheme to us, and they call it “Fresh.”

Fresh is supposed to be fresh, as in different from previous versions of WordPress. You are able to create new color schemes, according to a developer, through plugins.

Unfortunately for us who are on WordPress.com, we are forced to live with one of the colors: the Fresh one.

Or are we?

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WordPress 2.5 is finally out for WordPress.com users, or whatever version they’re using right now, considering they’re on the MU install of it.

A few minutes ago, there were a few bugs, but now, after the WordPress.com Blog has said everything, it seems to have disappeared. Some of those bugs I encountered were 1) extremely slow loading, 2) visual mode in page / post writing not working, and 3) automatic refreshes without any regard to what I was writing. Continue reading ‘WordPress.com Updates to 2.5′

If someone steals your cellphone, the very least you can do is stop the cell-phone user from using it. The logical answer to do that is to call your cell phone company (with a landline or something).

This option presents an obvious flaw. What happens if they change the SIM card? The answer is quite simple. Continue reading ‘Stop a Cell-phone Stealer from Using your Cell Phone’