Is There A Way To Keep Very Noisy Mailing Lists Out Of Your Gmail Inbox And Still Participate In Them?

I am trying to keep a noisy mailing list out of my Gmail inbox (and I don't want to switch to https://Inbox.google.com just yet). It's not a noisy list per-se; there's a lot of signal (good information) but I'd prefer to keep it out of my inbox, except for the few posts that I participate in. I don't see a way to do this, which has convinced me to use Google's Inbox app.

Google Inbox combines many similar emails into bundles, either from a mailing list but also by the type of message, for example, groupon deals) into a single item in your inbox. It's basically a way of creating email filter rules but at the same time, alert you when there's a new message (new mailing list post, new groupon) without crowding your Inbox with each new message.

By the way, does anyone else have a huge Gmail inbox? Mine has 300,000 unread messages, going all the way back to 2005 when I first created it. Thank you to the poster from alt.games.mame who sent me that precious invited, back when Gmail was invitation only! It just got out of control and unmanageable. I do skim over all of the subject lines and read emails directly but I don't open reach one.

Syncing Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Outlook and Gmail Contacts

Funambol is open-source, has an outlook plugin,  as well as apps for android, blackberry, windows mobile, symbian, iphone, and generic java micro edition phones! 

Your contacts, notes, calendar and pictures are online at http://my.funambol.com/

IT'S THE ONLY FREE SYNC APP I'VE EVER FOUND THAT CAN BACKUP MY BLACKBERRY'S NOTES WITHOUT A USB CABLE! AND THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE I LOST A FEW IMPORTANT NOTES (EG GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS) BECAUSE I WASN'T DOING DAILY BLACKBERRY DESKTOP MANAGER BACKUPS THROUGH USB!

Since they just released the Blackberry app, I've noticed the web interface isn't always online. Also the blackberry app and the service is still beta, so continue using Google Sync or m:IQ (eg miqlive) as well!

You can even host your own funambol server, in case you don't want your phone's data "in the cloud"! If you run your own sync server you can even synchronize with Microsoft Exchange, Google Contacts, Zimbra, or Yahoo!.

I cross-posted this from my post in the Gmail Help Forums.

Login To Multiple Gmail's/Blogger/Google Services With Chrome

Have you ever wanted to open multiple gmail accounts or use other Google services all at the same time for testing purposes? In the old days there was CookiePie for firefox (which never really worked with Gmail). Just use Google Chrome's Incognito mode by pressing Ctrl-Shift-N. That is it! Your original (aka non-incognito, non-InPrivate, non-Private-Browsing) windows will continue logged in as normal when the Incongito windows are closed. It seems that each Incognito window shares cookies between that windows tabs, but not among any other windows, Incognito or not. Make sense? You can open as many different copies as you want up to your amount of memory, since nothing is ever written to disk, but rather is stored in memory.

This should also work with any other service that doesn't tie logins to IP addresses, but to cookies like Facebook, Mypsace, etc.... I don't really know if it works with IE8's In-Private browsing because I'm allergic to Microsoft software, and use it only when forced to.

Be careful composing in Blogger or using another service though, as nothing is cached at all. If you go back a post that wasn't saved as a draft will be gone.

Update (April 23, 2009): It seems that you can only login to two Google accounts at a time, one in an incognito window, and one in the regular window. Also it seems that playing Windows Media Player videos in Incognito mode leaves traces in Internet Explorer!

Google's Query Deserves Freshness (QDF) Knob Tweaking

It looks like the query deserves freshness knob has been tweaked a little too far. A query for details in El Google shows the USGS data for the recent quake in Sichuan, China as the second result. The only curious thing I can see in the code is that the details link is the first link after the first H1 and H2 HTML tags.

Plenty of Hulu Invites To The Private Beta

Sorry everyone, the original Hulu invites are all gone. If you setup a Google Alert for site:hulu.com/beta, the newest provisioned invites will show up. If you want one soonder perhaps you'll find one here if more are being given away. There are 30 availabe through this link: http://www.hulu.com/beta/megaleecher

My original post is below:

Found these hulu invitations in Google:

1528 hulu invites:
phttp://www.hulu.com/beta/wired

1508
http://www.hulu.com/beta/gigaom

226
http://www.hulu.com/beta/techcrunch

It's amazing what you can find in Google just from poking around.

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