Filter Spam with Quick E-mail (and Gmail) Hack
We all get spam from all over. The problem that comes to mind is where on earth does it come from? Did it come from that photography website I signed up for? Or from the new tech news letter service? Or maybe from a company who sold your data? You may never know … until now.
This tip has been posted upon dozens of times in a plethora of places, but it’s worth mentioning over and over again. So lets say you are signing up for a new streaming music service, but you don’t want to give out your e-mail address which already gets more than enough spam. With many current e-mail services you can use this simple `hack’ to get around this issue. Simply add “+<some tag” before the @ sign. So the e-mail address you enter would be something like this:
myemail+musicblog1@gmail.com
So, your e-mail address of myemail@gmail.com will still get e-mails, but they will have the tag appended. So how does this help you at all? Simple! Set up a easy filter! All you have to do, assuming it’s spam, is filter myemail+thespamtag@gmail.com to the trash. It also makes for easier content filtering.
You can filter your news sources much easier this way, you can set something up like this:
myemail+photographystuff@gmail.com
myemail+IBMnewsletter@gmail.com
myemail+facebook@gmail.com
myemail+someserver@gmail.com
And then you know exactly where your mail is comming from. Easy filtering and tracking. Use it for all your tracking needs 
Hellsing OVA
Being a fan of Hellsing, I jumped on the chance to finally see all the episodes of the new Hellsing OVA. It follows the manga rather closely so at times it gets a bit odd. All in all the characters are awesome, and music is top notch and the animation is amazing. Happy viewing! Here’s the list of the episodes (at least episodes 1 through 4) on megavideo.
Episode 1: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=MNPXXPXH
Episode 2: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=AYWVFLI5
Episode 3: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=9DKDNH6T
Episode 4: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=33VTFCQP
Epside 5: <don’t remember>
Epside 6: <not released yet at the time of this writing)
Sphere: Related ContentFix/Change Firefox Google search default language
Traveling out of your native country and using google? Trying to get Firefox’s Google search to use your language but it’s not complying? Let me tell you this, normal Firefox setting AND Google settings WILL NOT WORK.
If you search on Google on how to set the language, it’ll tell you. But it’s not what we are searching for and it doesn’t work with the Google search in Firefox. So how do we fix this? Simple actually, first locate a file called “google.xml” in a folder named searchplugins.
You might have a few versions of this file, so it might be a good idea to edit all of them. For me the file was:
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/google.xml
In this file you will see a xml section of lines by the name of “Param”. It will look something like this:
<Param name=”q” value=”{searchTerms}”/>
<Param name=”ie” value=”utf-8″/>
<Param name=”oe” value=”utf-8″/>
<Param name=”aq” value=”t”/>
Add the folling line in there. A good place would be right above the utf-8.
<Param name=”hl” value=”en”/>
So, your final product should look something like:
<Param name=”q” value=”{searchTerms}”/>
<Param name=”hl” value=”en”/>
<Param name=”ie” value=”utf-8″/>
<Param name=”oe” value=”utf-8″/>
<Param name=”aq” value=”t”/>
Of course, if you do not want English … use something other than “en”. Google for the correct value.
Quick recap (and more jump) after the jump with linux commands to get it done. Read more
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