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Filtering Mailing List Messages with Gmail

Posted by on Jun 14, 2011 in Tech Tips & Tricks | 0 comments

Filtering Mailing List Messages with Gmail

If you’re on any mailing lists, you realize they can fill your inbox quickly and distract you. Creating filters in Gmail is easy. Here are some ideas on how you may want to use them. Targeting a Mailing List Often, mailing list messages will always come from–or be going to–a mailing list address. You can set the filter to be active for any email from (or to) that special email address. But what if there is no special address? What if someone from a group you visited once in another state emails you and 50 other people by...

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YouTube Sidebar Widget

Posted by on Jun 14, 2011 in Plugins | 0 comments

YouTube Sidebar Widget

Plugin Purpose The YouTube Sidebar Widget is a simple tool, but works great for showing a list of videos from a YouTube user or a playlist. Why would you want to do that? Most commonly, to show a list of videos representing your business on your website. Advantages I prefer it to plugins such as Smart YouTube and TubePress for these reasons: YouTube Sidebar Widget works with Conditional Widgets, which is useful if you want to show different lists of videos on different pages. This widget is, I feel, more intuitive for clients. They can just...

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