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The guys at Gmail have been busy lately, and just a few days after releasing offline support for Gmail, here comes another feature – Multiple Inboxes.

The name might be a bit misleading, since what this feature really does is providing a way to have multiple views of your email available at the same time and without having to open another browser window/tab.

Multiple Inboxes is available as an option in Gmail labs. Just go to Settings -> Labs and enable it. You’ll then get a new “Multiple Inboxes” tab in the Settings, where you can set up what “inboxes” you want to appear in Gmail next to the regular mail. The way to specify the contents of each “inbox” is by using Gmail’s advanced search operators. It’s also possible to change how many results show up in each “inbox” and the position of the new tabs: above, below or to the right of the regular Inbox.

It’s a handy feature for those of us who like to keep the Inbox tidy and just filter most email so that it gets labelled and archived on arrival, and then have to click through all the labels to read it.

If you just don’t know where to spend your money and also like shiny things, this might be the thing for you: gadget bling!

The company responsible for this is Computer Choppers, a “hobby-turned-business of customizing computer cases, laptops, and electronics” from Oregon, US. The Macbook Pro pictured above is coated with 24 carat gold, and costs more than $2000. Who said there’s a crisis?

And if gold isn’t your thing you can also opt for aluminum (polishing) Nickel, black nickel, copper, chrome, white gold, rose gold or platinum.

Well, I’ll try to remember this when I become filthy rich…

(via The Inquisitr)

YourFonts is an online tool that turns your handwriting into a TrueType font for free. All you need is a printer and a scanner. And best of all, it’s free.

The process is very simple:

1. Download and print the provided PDF;
2. Fill in the blanks for each letter and number with your own handwriting;
3. Scan and upload the template back to YourFonts;
4. Preview the generated font;
5. Download;
6. Install.

The above example looks really cool. I’ll surely try this out soon and let you know about the result.

(via Lifehacker)

We didn’t really have a clue back then, did we?

Well it takes over two hours to receive the entire text of the newspaper over the phone, and with an hourly use charge of $5 the new “telepaper” won’t be much competition for the 20c street edition.

(Via Techcrunch)

One of Ireland’s biggest ISP’s, Eircom, signed an agreement with the four major record labels in which it agreed to disconnect customers if they illegally download music. This came as a result of a lawsuit initiated by EMI Ltd., Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music and Warner Music Group Inc. (via the Irish Recorded Music Association – IRMA) in which the labels wanted Eircom to install network monitoring equipment. The offenders will be given two warnings before being shut down.

So now, instead of having to go to court to get an order asking the ISP to shut off a subscriber’s connection, the music labels will directly to the ISP, making the whole process much faster. And the record companies have agreed that they will take all necessary steps to put similar agreements with other ISPs in Ireland, although there are no signs of that for now.

Now let’s be realistic. Illegal downloads will not stop. Ever! So why do they even bother? I think it’s quite easy to understand that music sales will not rise because of this. People who download illegal music wouldn’t buy it anyway, and there’s the even the chance that music downloads increase record sales. That’s what far smarter people than me have been saying for a while.

Anyway, the existence of quite a large number of alternatives might eventually make Eircom change their mind, or at least place some effort in trying to avoid shutdowns by being especially strict about the evidence presented by the labels. I guess they don’t want their customers running away to their competitors.

So much hype about this being a big thing, but I don’t think it will really make any difference.