OtherInBox Private Beta Invites

The otherinbox team have allocated 26 beta invites for readers of efl20 blog :)
All you need to do to get your account is click on this link http://beta.otherinbox.com/signup/dd4e8

OtherInBox - "The Cure For Email Overload" launched at the TC50 conference in San Francisco earlier this month. As I mentioned in the previous post, I think this could be an excellent service for educators who need student email addresses to enable students to sign up for web services, while at the same time having to ensure their students' privacy.

otherinbox - solution for student accounts

otherinbox.com is a new, still in beta service, which enables the user to create unlimited email addresses on the fly, based on his account it could be very useful for teachers needing to set up "fake" student email addresses to enable students to sign up to webservices.
The gmail+ system used by many educators is useful but not all web services support sign up from email addresses which incorporate a plus sign. Of course it is possible to sign up to many websites with a completely bogus mail address but that puts the dampers on retrieving passwords etc in the event that students forget them.

With otherinbox.com user (in our case, teacher) gets a mail subdomain which catches all mail sent to it. So if the subdomain is: itteacher.otherinbox.com mail sent to susan@itteacher.otherinbox.com and mail sent to jostudent@itteacher.otherinbox.com are both caught by the mailbox and automatically placed in the respective folder, ie the jostudent folder and the susan folder. This enables the teacher to see at a glance which alias has new mail, see screencapture. There is no need to set up the aliases ahead of time, they are created automatically when mail arrives in the inbox.

At present incoming mail can only be automatically forwarded to the account holders primary mail, however if it were possible to set up filters to forward to other mail accounts, I could see this as being an excellent service not only for enabling students to sign up for web services but also for moderating student mail.

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Post to Twitter and Blog from Posterous

Posting to twitter, blogger and posterous from 1 email message.
Posterous, "blog from your email". Posterous automatically, publishes
attachments in suitable format.
If you haven't tried posterous yet, it's definitely worth checking out!

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10 Great Tips From Gmail Blog

Official Gmail Blog: Gmail blog turns 1: Looking back at our 10 most read tips

Lots of useful tips in this post on Gmail blog. My personal favorite is number 7, which explains how to create on the fly email addresses using your 1 gmail account - useful for teachers wanting to create fake student accounts and also as an easy way of filtering incoming mail.

10) Have Gmail do your laundry - Suggest new features for Gmail.

9) Tips for importing old email to Gmail -

8) Edit contacts right from your chat list - Clean up your chat list and change contact information quickly

7) 2 Hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address - You can insert certain characters to your email address to get additional names out of it -- all of which still make it to your inbox.

6) How to find any email with Gmail search - How to use search operators so you can find any email the first time.

5) 5 little-known Gmail features you may not yet know about

4) Top 10 little known Gmail features From "custom from" to creating events in Gmail - and other key features

3) Getting Gmail anywhere: IMAP versus POP - How to get Gmail on mobile phones and destkop mail clients

2) 3 Gmail Labs features that will spice up your inbox Popular Gmail Labs features: Superstars, Pictures in chat and Quick Links.

1) 9 reasons to archive -

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MyStudiyo - Quiz Creator

At MyStudio.com you can create two kinds of quiz, "Promote it Quiz" with your questions, "User Can Add Quiz" your questons and users' questions, you moderate. Or embed an existing quiz in your blog or web page, as I did just below.

Publishing Google Forms to Blogger Blogs

1) In your blog settings click on the "Email" tab.
2) Fill in the empty field in "mail-to-blogger address" - use something you can remember
3) Check the "Publish emails immediately" radio button - then save settings
4) Go to http://spreadsheets.google.com/newform, sign in
5) Create your form
6) Click on "Save" and "Next, choose recipients"
7) Write the email address for your blog in the "Invite" field
8) Choose any other options that suit you and edit the "Custom Confirmation" text.
9) Click on "Invite People"
The form is automatically published in your blog, and replies collected in a google spreadsheet.










See the form in previous post!