Talking Turkish Names

This one, you probably need and have never heard.

Let’s assume your gmail address is namesurname@gmail.com.

Got news for you: You own many more gmail addresses in the form of aliases. All the below are yours:

name.surname@gmail.com
na.me.surname@gmail.com
n.a.m.e.surname@gamail.com

In short, take namesurname and sprinkle it with dots the way you wish. All the resultant e-mail addresses are yours. Yep, all of them will be forwarded to your main address namesurname@gmail.com.

For those of you experienced gmail users the ramifications are incredible. You can use different aliases to separate for example work and personal messages. You can give name.surname to your work contacts and namesurname to friends and family. Then you can automatically filter work and personal messages according to Sent To field.

There’s more: You can append your e-mail address with a plus and then whatever you want. For example:

name.surname+nyt@gmail.com

and then you can use this address to register with the New York Times. If one day you receive an email address from any sender other than NYT, you’ll know that NYT is giving away your e-mail address.

All this is by default. No setting or configuration needed. (Not like me.com aliases, for example.)

Wow.

Don’t blame yourself if you are more than impressed. I’ve one question: What’s in the coffee that Google people drink? How do they even conceive such ideas?

I surrender Google. All my data is yours. Docs, photos. Please send a giant spider into my computer and get whatever you want. You’ll do it one way or another. At least I can surrender willingly and save face.