Gmail: Manage mulitple email accounts

Tech site Z-oc.com has written up a simple yet powerful tutorial on how to use Gmail to manage all of your email accounts in one fell swoop.

It's more than a matter of simply assigning forwarding rules willy-nilly, obviously - you get to set up a whole email management system. By the time you are finished with this, all your email can be actually managed from within Gmail with the domains kept separate but controlled inside of your Gmail workspace.Manage all your email accounts with Gmail [z-oc.com]

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Del.icio.us Bookmarks (Firefox)

Windows/Mac/Unix (Firefox): Del.icio.us has just rolled out a brand spankin' new version of their Firefox extension complete with a sidebar search, del.icio.us toolbar and even a del.icio.us menu item that give you a few more great ways to access your del.icio.us bookmarks.

Most interesting is the new sidebar, which replaces your Ctrl-B bookmarks shortcut with the del.icio.us sidebar. Your search box lets you search all of your tags, while the bottom half of the pane shows you all of the bookmarks matching your selected tag (the del.icio.us button next to the tag button offers the same search interface - see screenshot). If you decide you need another toolbar cluttering up your life, the new del.icio.us toolbar lets you view recent or favorite bookmarks, among other things, and you can even edit the bookmark's "properties", which just brings up the default tag page and lets you change anything you want.

When setting up del.icio.us Bookmarks, I was a little frightened when the wizard asked me if I wanted to upload my Firefox bookmarks (I did not), and the decline option said, "No, I don't need them now. Don't import them to del.icio.us." If, like me, you freaked out and thought that meant del.icio.us was going to replace all of your bookmarks if you didn't want to import them, fear not; this doesn't mean it's going to wipe out all 250 of your existing bookmarks - your existing bookmarks, and your bookmark toolbar, will remain unmolested.

To be frank, del.icio.us' new extension missed the mark on a couple of points (for straight tagging, I still prefer del.icio.us Complete or the quicktag bookmarklet). That said, the sidebar bookmark and tag search is a really cool addition that could make your bookmarks more easily accessible than they've ever been, and that whole interface seems to be a win. Since I know that a lot of you out there are del.icio.us fanatics, let us know what you think in the comments. — Adam Pash

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Del.icio.us: Batch upload your bookmarks

Wouldn't it be nice if you could upload a ton of your del.icio.us bookmarks all at once instead of one by one? Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration has figured out how to do this.

All you need to do is create a text file with your links (you can copy and paste his script) and you'll be able to bulk upload about once a minute. It's a much easier way than laboriously bookmarking pages one at a time.— Wendy Boswell

Submit Multiple URLs to del.icio.us Bookmarks as a Batche [Digital Inspiration ]

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Create your own RSS feeds

It's easy enough to subscribe to RSS feeds, but it's a little trickier to create them for your own site. Informit.com shows you how with a chapter excerpt from the book, Secrets of RSS.

Author Steven Holzner walks you through all the important steps, like choosing an RSS format, creating RSS feeds online, uploading the feed and adding an XML button. The guide reads easily and includes numerous illustrations and code examples, though the latter are a bit small. Thankfully, there's a printer-friendly version if you want a hard copy, though I can't help wishing for a PDF version as well. Even so, this is a great tutorial for anyone new to RSS publishing. Need a faster solution?

Try creating an RSS feed without an RSS feed. — Rick Broida

Quick Guide to Creating RSS Feeds [Informit.com]

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Bookmarking: Eight ways to improve your del.icio.us skills

Web Worker Daily has a great article on how to improve your del.iciou.s bookmarks. Here's my top three:

• Quicker Tag bookmarklet: Configure it with a Firefox keyword of your choosing by right mouse clicking on the bookmarklet in your toolbar, selecting Properties, and entering a keyword like "tag" or "delish" into the keyword entry box. Now you can bookmark a page by just entering "delish" in your browser location bar.
• Post links to multiple delicious accounts. Why would you want to do this? Maybe you're a highly productive web worker practicing multiprojecting (i.e., managing multiple projects simultaneously).
• Make your del.icio.us bookmarks searchable in Gmail.

Such good ideas here! Definitely inspiration for me; I've let my del.icio.us bookmarks get a bit dusty. Wendy Boswell8 Tips for Better del.icio.us Bookmarking [Web Worker Daily via etc]

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