Smartlife

Surviving smartly in the modern world means most of us have multiple email addresses. Work, real life, and a spare spam-catcher (or three) for those silly sites which honestly believe watching a video clip is worth your name and address — they allow us to filter and organize our incoming traffic, and that’s more essential than ever. Ninety percent of all email traffic is automated spam, but even after our filters have done their job, we have to sift through more trash than a family of Wombles on a landfill.…

Google has greatly expanded beyond its core search engine to offer a wide range of free online services. Easily one of the most popular of these is Gmail, the ubiquitous web-based email client that comes with loads of storage and the ability to handle multiple email accounts.

As powerful as Gmail may be on its own, the “crazy experimental stuff” being doctored up through Gmail Labs can greatly expand on this functionality and help to improve your productivity. This applies not only to the work setting, but also when it…

The very first message on the Internet was “Lo.” The second was a list of 10,000 lawyer jokes. The first was an attempt to “Login” to a system that would help mankind be more productive than ever before. The second was the opposite, and consisted of jokes that would be booed off the stage at a Christmas cracker convention MC’ed by Carlos Mencia. You know that because you got it, too: it’s circled the Earth enough times to reverse the planet’s rotation, had more forwards than the entire NBA, and even now no-one has ever actually read the whole thing.