Free web app OtherInbox wants to do the job you loathe doing daily — looking through all those semi-regular news alerts, coupons, account updates and other non-personal mail. Give it the keys to your inbox, and OtherInbox can summarise and prioritise your bacn.
Digg founder Kevin Rose needed to process nearly 2000 emails, along with a system that didn’t let important stuff fall away in the future. His solution? An auto-responding filter that gives actually urgent mail a second chance to catch him.
Windows only: The hosts file is the best way to entirely block a website or other net entity. You can edit it by hand, but free editor HostsMan verifies, cleans up and manages your hosts file clean and simple.
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Windows/Mac: If you’re looking for a kid-friendly way to let a young child interact with your computer without the risk of them deleting important files or getting into content they shouldn’t see, Zoodles is a kid-friendly browser.
Ever wish you could get even more nit-picky about your Gmail filters? Free Gmail-based webapp Syphir filters messages by arrival time, number of recipients and whether they “need” replies. It really works, and it might just scratch your last, hard-to-reach inbox itch.
If you don’t like seeing NSFW or kid-inappropriate videos popping up in your search results and suggested videos, YouTube now has a Safety Mode to do the heavy-lifting for content filtering for you.
If you just don’t have the bandwidth to manage one more set of social notifications automatically hitting your Gmail inbox, you may not be all that excited about this morning’s Google Buzz announcement. Luckily banishing Buzz from your inbox is easy.
One common argument against mandatory Internet censorship and the so-called ‘clean feed’ is that content control should be left in the hands of individuals rather than forced on everyone. If you’re a parent who wants to restrict access for your kids, the Internet Industry Association list of approved filters is a handy place to start.
If you’re in the market for some real time search results, Collecta offers filtered real-time searching with news, blog comments, images and more.
FeedMyTorrents is defunct, TVRss.net is in a coma of indefinite length—where does one go to get custom download feeds for favourite shows? You can use this handy Yahoo Pipes feed to scrub EZTV.it.
