This is a cool service that allow us to use temporary email address for some registration. I will describe a scenario where this application is useful. Suppose you want to read some information, but for reading you need a registration. When we register they will send confirmation email to email address given. They may use this email address to sent there newsletter/advertisements. Sometimes this may be annoying for us. Situation like this can be avoided by using temporary email service.

10 Minute Mail is such service that allow us a temporary email that will expires in 10 minutes time. The emails sent in 10 minutes time will be received and shown in the page. In the case of registrations the confirmation email will receive are shown in the web page. The process of creating temporary email address is simple as clicking this link, and click on the link labeled “Get my 10 Minute Mail e-mail address” you will get a temporary email address that is valid of 10 minutes.

I am sure slew people are using gmail as there email client. I know lot of peoples shifted to gmail from other providers mainly due to its usability. Now I am going to explain how to make your gmail account as an application to store your notes online, however this is a tricky mechanism but I guess it is useful for employees who regularly use Notes.

There are mainly 3 step to make your gmail account a Notes Store.

Step 1)

Add a contact with name as “Notes” and an email address “yourusername+Notes@gmail.com”. Click on the “Contacts” link on the left side of your mail box, will load the contact window. Click on the first ‘+’ icon which has a menu tip of “New Contact”.

Step 2)

After entering the name as “Notes” and email address as “yourusername+Notes@gmail.com”, please click on the save button. It will add the new contact.

Step 3)

Create a Label “Notes”. Go to Settings->Labels enter the label “Notes” at the bottom and click create button.

Step 4)

Create a Filter. Go to Settings->Filters->Create a new filter (on the bottom). During filter creation add the “To:” field as “yourusername+Notes@gmail.com” and click on the button labeled “Next Step”. In the next window check the checkbox with label “Skip the Inbox(Archive it)” and “Apply the Label:”, from the drop down select “Notes” and click on the button with label “Create Filter”.

Now let me explain the denouement of this magic. You know gmail accepts email address with format “YourUsername+AnyLabel@gmail.com”. The ultimate thing is that your gmail will accept all email address with format as above. For eg: send any email as per above format from another email address and watch whether it receives your mail box.