Yahoo! Mail Filters. Bleh…

Here’s one of the reasons I dislike Yahoo! mail: Creation of mail filters.

I use the “new and improved” Yahoo mail application. Which was introduced a couple of years back, wasn’t it? Even today, after all these years, when I click the option to create a new mail filter, I am greeted with this screen:

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Filters

Pardon our appearance during construction.

We’re still tweaking the Yahoo! Mail Filters option. Temporarily you’ll need to access it through the Yahoo! Mail Classic interface. But, rest assured, any changes made will take effect once you’ve reloaded the Yahoo! Mail.

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Really? It takes two years to migrate the mail filter option to the new app? It’s lame, I tell ya…

Obviously, I don’t dislike it enough to switch over completely to GMail (now that it’s out of beta 🙂 )

Why You Should Always Salt Your Hashes – Added Bytes

A nice article about hashing passwords before storing to the db.

Why You Should Always Salt Your Hashes – Added Bytes: I guess one of the comments there echoes my sentiments… “Well-written, though it’s sad it has to be written at all.”

"Google it!" bookmarklet

Here’s a nifty little bookmarklet based on this post : LetMeGoogleThatForYou Bookmarklet – Added Bytes

Google it!

Drag this link on to your bookmarks or bookmarks toolbar. Then, to Google something that you read on a webpage, just select the text you wish to Google and click the bookmark!

It’s no biggie, just a way to make life just that little bit easier…

URL Rewriting for Beginners – Added Bytes

A pretty neat tutorial on URL rewriting.

URL Rewriting for Beginners – Added Bytes