Spammers are known for their willingness to try anything to get their email across to a potential client by any means possible.Their latest attempt known as Image Spamming has been very successful at doing just that.

This tactic involves a spammer attaching advertisements inside of a image files such has .gif or .jpg, which are almost impossible for conventional spam filters to detect. GMail is unable to detect this type of spam as well but thankfully for the people at metafilter a workable solution is found.

Since GMail is one of the email services widely used, a simple solution to filter out some of these advertisements can be utilized using the Create a Filter function.

Step 1:Login into your GMail account,then choose “Create a Filter” option

Step 2:Type “multipart/related.gif” (without the quotes) in the field that says [Has the Words]

Step 3:Simply check the field “Has Attachment”

Step 4:Click next and select “Delete It” to move the spam message automatically to the GMail Trash folder bypassing the Inbox.Alternatively you can create a folder such as “probebly spam” in your inbox and then select “Apply the Label” option which inturn would send the messages to that folder.This can be a effective measure since setting it to automatically send the messages to the trash bin will delete it within 30 days.

Note:This method is not at all perfect in its ability to filter out spam messages.It could possibly result in messages to be deleted that could be potentially important or even personal.You might want to check your trash bin or the labeled folder you are using.

I am suprised to find such a fast and convenient e-mail service that is completely free.Gmail offered a service with 2GB storage space which caught many of us by suprise and just think of the reaction when considering 5GB of online storage space.

Inbox.com does just that with some great additional features that will make you think twice about your current email.Your Mail in inbox.com can be accessed by either the web or a POP enabled mail client such as Microsoft Outlook.Their web interface is designed to be fast and reliable.Also the text editor offers all the capabilities found in many of the popular services currently out there.

You can organize mail using stars, custom folders and automatic filters.Remote images in emails can be blocked from automatic download in Inbox.com to protect your privacy.Inbox.com lets you view mail in threads and supports rich HTML formatting in outgoing messages.You can send messages up to a size of 30 MB from Inbox.com.

In addition to a very useful email service,inbox.com offers services such as free photosharing.Your photos can be stored in their server to share with your friends and family.Those photos can be even be organized into albums.

There are a few drawbacks to be considered before you decide to use it.For one,this service does not allow the use of IMAP access .Also labels and smart folders found in services such as gmail are not visible in inbox.com.They should certainly improve on those aspects and so could become even more appealing than it is now.

The new SanDisk Extreme III will help a lot of professional photographers, paparazzi, and people who love to take a lot of pictures. SanDisk’s Extreme III CompactFlash card comes with 16GB of memory. Till today there have never been a compactflash card that could hold this much memory.

You�are probably aware of 32GB and 64GB capable CompactFlash cards but they exsist only in prototype forms. No sizes larger than 8GB have been available to the general public till now. I think its little pricy. SanDisk has admitted that the Extreme III will have a retail price of $1,049. I guess they are specifically targeting high end users.