Publish your emails to a blog automatically

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:39:43 +0000

If your emails are not so confidential and you donot want to waste time logging into email account and read email by clicking next button, here is a tweak. You can create a new blog from blogger.com, set a unique email posting address at blog’s setting and forward your email to that address. The steps involved are described below.

Create a blog at Blogger.com (or any other blogging site).

Go to Settings ->Email & Mobile.

Create an Email Posting Address in Posting Options and click ‘Save Settings’. This email address is unique and should be used only to post to your blog.

Now, go to your Gmail (or other email) account setting.

Go to Forwarding and POP/IMAP.

Select option “Forward a copy of incoming mail to” and type the Email Posting Address (unique address that you created from blog settings above)

Then select appropriate option (either delete or archieve gmail’s email copy or do nothing).

Then you are done.

You can also subscribe to some newsletters, fun stuffs so that, they get automatically posted to your blog.

Tag based or Folder based Web Applications? Which do you prefer?

admin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:33:49 +0000

Tags here mean some sort of label or comment given to an item like email, picture or blog-post. These are notations which help to find out those items from a heap. On the other hand, Folder here mean category or some sort of classification of those items. So, which one do you prefer most?

Let’s begin with an example – Hotmail and Gmail. In Hotmail, we can create folders and allocate emails to those folders. But, we can allocate an email to only one folder. However in Gmail, a single email can be labelled or tagged with multiple labels. The Gmail idea seems great when we cannot categorize an email into particular one category. But it has consequences. If same email is labelled with two labels, it will increase count in both labels, which may not be ok for all. In other many tag-based systems, users need to type tags manually. It is irritating. A simple typing mistake will lead to creation of new tag. Hotmail has another advantage. In Hotmail, we can drag an email to required folders in sidebar. However, this is not the case in Gmail. Dragging same email to multiple labels seems confusing. So, we have to mark same email multiple times with labels. If an email has multiple labels and we remove one label accidently, it accepts easily. But, we may not remember the label name to label it again. In case of folder based application, it is not the case as one-to-one relationship has to be maintained between the item (email) and folder.

Delicious and Yahoo! Bookmarks are popular bookmarking sites both offered by Yahoo. Delicious is tag based however Yahoo! Bookmarks uses integration of both. In Yahoo! Bookmarks, bookmarks can be stored in a folder and also tagged with multiple tags. Users are able to view bookmarks either folder-wise or tag-wise.

Now a day, more and more applications are offering tag-based systems or integration of both. Popular photo sharing sites like Flickr, Picasa offers integration of both. Blogging site Blogger.com offers label based system while Wordpress.com offers integration of both.

Personally I favour folder based system, as tags for me seem to be more specific and folders look clean. However integration of both is of course excellent.

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Publish your emails to a blog automatically

Tag based or Folder based Web Applications? Which do you prefer?