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GuerrillaMail is an anonymous web service that provides you with a temporary email address—perfect for web sites that you don't want to communicate with you but require email registration. Generate an email address and reload the home page to view any incoming messages. The 15-minute timer displays the amount of time you have remaining until your email address expires, but you can extend your time if necessary. The concept is not much different from previously mentioned 10-minute mail, 2 Prong, or the army of similar temporary email services—though GuerrillaMail even has a (paid) script to host this application yourself, which could come in handy if the guerrillamail.info domain name gets banned. Whatever service you choose, temporary email addresses can really keep your regular inbox spam-free.
Filter all of your RSS feeds through web application FeedHub for a single, customised RSS feed that only delivers content that best matches your preferences. Just upload your OPML file (the file that holds all of your feeds) to FeedHub and then subscribe to your new FeedHub RSS feed. You can add or remove feeds to FeedHub at any time and select favourite content categories through a snazzy drag-and-drop interface. FeedHub dynamically adjusts what content you receive based on your reading preferences so that hopefully—in time—your feed will deliver all the content you want and very little of what you don't. While there are probably those sites from which you'll always want the full content, FeedHub could come in particularly handy for those feeds that have a low signal-to-noise ratio.
Wanna limit the time you spend goofing off online? Ask MetaFilter user myrrh created a timer that counts down a certain number of minutes in your browser title bar (or background tab) and pops up a browser alert dialog when it's done. Run a timed work dash or limit your Facebook break without installing any extra software—the magic all happens in this page's Javascript. Hit the link to give the timer a try. Thanks, Iron!
Quitting may very well be good for your health, according to a study reported on by the Association for Psychological Science.
...the psychologists followed teenagers for a full year. Over that time, individuals who did not persist obtaining hard- to-reach goals had much lower levels of a protein called CRP, an indicator of bodily inflammation. Inflammation has recently been linked to several serious diseases, including diabetes and heart disease, suggesting that healthy but overly tenacious teens may already be on the road toward chronic illness later in life.
The lesson isn't necessarily a new one: know when to cut your losses. The upside to the study for those less willing to give up on goals easily is that of the participants who did quit, those who were more willing to set and re-engage in new goals had more sense of purpose. So just because it can be good for you to give up on a goal, that doesn't mean it's time to give up on tough goals altogether.
A self-made millionaire mum describes how she uses a digital timer to keep herself focused on getting work done during certain times of the day.
As a "work"-from-home mum of a two-year-old, I find it necessary to structure my writing and blogging time according to her schedule and push to GET IT DONE. I write when she's sleeping in, napping, or enjoying one-on-one time with her daddy.
Posted by Sarah Stokely at 2:58 PM on September 28, 2007
The How to Split an Atom blog has reviewed the beta version of Digg monitoring and notification tool, Notifir. If you're a power user/commenter on Digg, some of the features sound interesting. The review picks a few holes in the software but says:
"Currently, Notifir provides a dashboard of stories that you have submitted to Digg in the last 24 hours. It can tell you who Dugg it and gives you a platform from which to submit additional articles. I think the most interesting thing that it has going for it is that it provides a list of articles from “commonly promoted sources†and lets you submit these stories with a click of a button. For power users in the making, this can save you quite a bit of surfing time."
Participants in the Notifir beta can vote on which features should be developed, which is cool. And if you read the comments you'll also see the Notifir founder responds to some of the critical points of the review. Nice to see them responding to community feedback.
How To Review Notifir [How To Split An Atom]
Dried ink on printer cartridges can render your expensive ink unusable, but blogger Bucky decided not to toss the cartridges out and instead soaked the base of the cartridge in WD-40. The result: a cartridge that works again.
I got a brain-storm of an idea the other day and decided to try soaking the base of the cartridge in WD-40 to see if it would soften and clean the dried ink and holy crap - it worked!!! (I soaked it over-night and then wiped it off good before reinstalling it in the printer.)I had to run the printer through three head cleaning cycles afterward, but it cleared the clogged nozzles and it is now working perfectly.
If you've got the DIY outdoors-y bug, you can make your own portable miniature stove using two aluminium cans, sandpaper, a thumb tack, razor blade, coat hanger, fiber glass, and Heet (I'm sure that's all just sitting in your go bag, right?). It's a very cool project, but if you undertake it, make sure you proceed with caution. Lifehacker prefers its readers keep their eyebrows. If you've got less goodies on hand but still need a fire, check out these alternatives.
Windows only: Track your latest Amazon purchases for price drops qualifying for their 30-day price guarantee or just watch your wish list for price drops or availability with freeware application Amazon Price Watch. After you've installed the application, Amazon Price Watch can automatically track any item you add to your cart or wish list. That means that as soon as you click the add to cart or add to wish list links at Amazon, Price Watch will prompt you and ask if you want to watch for price changes. Then the application will track the price for 30 days and alert you via email if and when there's a price drop (or change in availability, Wii hunters). Amazon Price Watch is freeware, Windows only, works with Internet Explorer only (bummer). For web-based price protection at a variety of online stores, check out Price Protectr
