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January 24, 2007

Automatically Ignore Entire Conversations in Gmail

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Anyone who's a part of a mailing list has been party to email threads that just went on way too long. If you use Gmail, did you know you can mute the conversation to keep all future additions out of your inbox:

By using the 'm' shortcut key, new messages added to the conversation bypass your inbox so that the conversation stays archived. If your address appears in the to or cc field, though, the conversation will pop back into your inbox ready for your attention.

The muted messages you never see remain marked as unread and you can still find them with standard Gmail search syntax. There's even a special search syntax that returns muted messages only:

is:muted

If you later discover that some interesting talk has been going on behind your back, unmuting the conversation is as easy as selecting the conversation and choosing "Move to inbox" from the "More actions..." menu.

Now, what I really want to see is a way to mute conversations where my address is just on the cc line, for those many times when I'm copied on a message that never should have gone to me in the first place, or when friends or colleagues hijack a relevant message with off-topic chatter. Anyone have a hack for that?

(Via Mark Pilgrim)

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January 3, 2007

Use Google to View MySpace or Any Restricted Site

A year ago, a reader with the handle of bigthistle posted one of our favorite hacks to hacks.oreilly.com, describing how to access restricted websites using the Google Translate feature. Acknowledging that our readers often have better ideas than we do, we recently asked Wei-Meng Lee to take a closer look at this technique, and he wrote up this awesome HOWTO based on the original submitted hack.

If you have a hack on any topic that you'd like to share, let us know by using the "Suggest a Hack" form from the sidebar of this page.

UPDATE: The MySpace Hacks blog has a roundup of related ideas in How To Use MySpace If Your School Or Work Blocks Access.

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Google Hacks, 3E

December 18, 2006

Get a Google Search SOAP API Key

On the O'Reilly Radar, Brady reports that Google has deprecated their Search SOAP API, will no longer be issuing keys, and has removed the SDK from their site.

But Google Hacks, 3E, author Paul Bausch found a hack in the forums to get yourself the API key Google's just discontinued. If you have a Google account, go here. The page will error out, but you'll get a key via email. (If you don't have an account, get one here.) I just tried it myself, and it worked for me.

I'm sure this will be plugged soon, so if you want one of the last remaining and soon-to-be highly coveted API Keys, get it while you can.

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