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I’m sure we’re all familiar with the inner conflict known as buyer’s regret or buyer’s remorse. That slow panic rising from deep within your gut as the question begs an answer: “did I make a mistake in paying half my salary for that thing I just bought?” Oops.

Blogger’s regret is very similar. In a brave/foolish/ignorant moment you posted an entry that you really just shouldn’t have published…

Sometimes one wants to post something in anger or link to something corny and you just know you might regret it. What can you do to get it out of your favourite blog editor and off your mind?

One solution I find useful is to set up a Gmail label and filter combination and email my words away:

1. Log in to your Gmail Account and choose Edit labels

2. Create a new label BlogNoPub for example
3. While still in Settings, select the Filters tab and click on Create a new filter
4. Beside To: type in yourusername+blognopub@gmail.com
5. Go to the next step and select:
   • Skip the Inbox(Archive it)
   • Mark as read
   • Apply the label: your new label e.g. BlogNoPub

6. Create Filter

Now when you think you might regret posting something, email it to username+blognopub@gmail.com instead and let it sit there for a few days first. After a cooling off period, you can go back and revise your words or, as most often happens, forget about it.

If you’d like the contents of your attachment to appear in a new browser window without having to download the file, view the attachment as HTML. Here’s how:

1. Open the message containing an attachment.
2. Click ‘View as HTML’ at the bottom of the message.
3. When you’re finished reading the attached file, close the new browser window to return to Gmail.

Viewing attachments as HTML is a quick and easy alternative to downloading files. You can view the following types of files as HTML: .pdf, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .rtf, .sxw, .sxc, .sxi, .sdw, .sdc, .sdd, and .wml.

Gmail: Help Center - How do I view attachments?

This is going to be so useful to me as I don’t have Microsoft Word. I tried it out today on a .doc file and it printed out really nicely.

https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

via: 15 things you can do with RSS and Gmail RSS Feed at Forever Geek.

The first time I tried this with Bloglines it didn’t work. I tried it again this morning (and set the subscription as private) and now it does. Thanks, Bloglines for fixing that.

Update 05.07.12: This doesn’t seem to work anymore?

Gmail has updated their learn more page and now allows users to choose a no browser check option to access a standard view of their account. Before, I was getting only the basic HTML view because I have to use a version of Mozilla 1.3 that works on Mac OS8.6.

In Gmail’s HTML view filter creation, settings (including forwarding and POP), spell checker, keyboard shortcuts and address auto-complete were all unavailable. I also didn’t have any invitations. In the standard view, the only functionality missing for me had been keyboard shortcuts. While I can understand their wanting it to work perfectly in every browser, I was better off and had more functionality with an imperfect standard view than with a perfect HTML view. Thanks to Gmail for fixing that.