Access Gmail Through Alternate Modes

Just because the Gmail web interface went down doesn’t mean that Gmail is entirely down—often you can continue to access your account using one of the alternate web interfaces, which often are still accessible even when the regular web interface goes down.

via How to Access Gmail When It’s Down – Gmail – Lifehacker.

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Blocking Unnecessarily Obnoxious Ads

Without question, obnoxious ads are out of control on the web these days—you can barely move your mouse across a page without ads moving around, popping up, taking over the screen or pretending to be a dialog window indicating impending doom if you don’t pay for a system scan NOW. These ads can be put in their place easily, using everybody’s favorite Adblock Plus extension. Lifehacker is, of course, an advertising-supported site—so we’d be grateful if you’d keep us on the whitelist—but it’ll do a charm for those flashing, pop-up-ing, overlaying, obtrusive ads all around the web.

via Use Firefox to Fix the Web’s Biggest Annoyances – Annoyances – Lifehacker.

Visit the s4ve.as web site, select a file you want to share, upload that file, and you’re given a URL. The URL is good for 24 hours from the time of creation. Anyone who visits it can download the file you’ve shared. You don’t need to be online, the file is temporarily stored on the s4ve.as servers.

S4ve.as is a free service with no restrictions on the size of the file you can upload.

via S4ve.as Makes File Sharing as Easy as Sharing a URL – File Sharing – Lifehacker.

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