Monthly Archive for May, 2007

Coping with spam on Yahoo Mail

I've had my Yahoo Mail account for a long time and I get a lot of spam. Here is one way to deal with it.

Just under your "Inbox" title there is a "View" menu.

Yahoo Mail Spam Screenshot 1

In the "View" menu select "Messages from Unknown Senders". Now most of the messages will be spam. But go through and see if someone new has sent a message and select them. Now click the "Add to Address Book" to add known mailers.

Yahoo Mail Spam Screenshot 2

Now when you return to the unknown senders screen you should be left with a screen full of spam. Click on the header checkbox under the "Delete" button to select all the mails then click the "Spam" button to make them go away.

You might need to do this on Multiple pages if you have a lot of spam.

Stat Happy

2 things happened in the past few days related to website/blog statistics.

1. WordPress.com released a stats plugin so that we can install it and use the wordpress.com stats application.

WordPress.com Stats

2. Google Analytics launched their new interface.

Google Analytics New Interface

Daily Sites

The web is huge, there is no way to surf it all. But we try. After a while of surfing we make it a habit to visit a few sites daily. Here are mine, what are yours?

More daily sites from the comments.

Contactify: It’s email. Without the address.

Contactify looks like a good idea. You give them your email address and they give you a contact form. Hmm you still have to give out your email. Why? What if these sites get hacked or start selling your emails?

How about this?

  1. You sign up with a user name and password.
  2. They give you a contact form.
  3. When someone contacts you it gets added to a RSS feed only you can access on the site.
  4. If you want you contact someone back or let the RSS item expire.
  5. No email account used, no chance of spam.

Upgraded to Fiesty Fawn

Just rebooted into Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn. I was going to do a clean install but it was taking too long to do a full migration to another pc. So I started the online upgrade about 12 hours ago and now its done.

The desktop effects are nice. I thought you needed high end graphics cards like ATI or Nvidia to run this stuff. I guess it runs better with those.

More videos at ubuntuvideo.com.