There are two ways to create signatures, you can either use one of provided image templates or upload you own background images. In both cases the text can be customized it in terms of size, color, font and position.

Features:

• Generate email icons and signatures.
• Use provided background templates or upload your own image.
• Customize text, font, size and position.
• Save generated image onto your computer.
• Similar tools: EmailCover, HideText, EmailCover and Spam Proof Email Generator.

Check out NeedASig @ www.needasig.com

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Just register on the site first and spend a couple of minutes customizing your form in terms of content, dimensions and color. Finally copy the code and paste it onto contact page of your website.

Demo video:

Features:

• Create simple contact me form for your website.
• Create as many forms as you like.
• Easily customize it in terms of content, color and dimensions.
• Simple to use, and no programming skills needed.
• Similar tools: VisitorContact, Contactify and Whspr.

Check out EmailMeForm @ www.emailmeform.com

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Here’s how this add-on works:

1. You decide the time and the date when you are available to call a meeting. (The add-on checks for overlap with your Google Calendar).
2. You create a meeting and invite people.
3. Invitees reply with their availability times.
4. Meeting is scheduled by you keeping in mind availability of the invitees.

The add-on creates a small widget inside your Gmail where you can take a look at the upcoming meetings. A cool thing about this add-on is that it integrates with your Google Calendar too. So you don’t have to re-check with your own calendar to see if the meeting conflicts with some other appointment.

Check out Meeting Scheduler for Gmail @ http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14971 (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• PermaTime: Easily Schedule Meeting Time Across Time Zones
• Meet-O-Matic : Meeting Scheduling at its Simplest
• Diarised: Fast Online Meeting Scheduler
• Zuplo: Cool Stationary Backgrounds for Your Emails
• Zamabook: Web Based Appointment Scheduling Service

Your emails will presented on clean format along with attached files, videos, pictures, audio. Using the website is very easy and requires sign up.

You can also browse emails shared by other users, check out most popular shared items, rate them and leave comments.

Moreover, ForwardOn has a reward system where depending on the popularity of your posts you get points which can be redeemed as various prizes or donations to several organizations.

Features:

• Easily share and convert your favorite emails to webpages.
• Receive a link to access your page directly.
• You can edit/delete your emails at any time.
• Browse and check out emails shared by others and your friends.
• Comment, rate and share any posts you find throughout the website.
• Free and easy to sign up.
• Similar site: Moomeo.

Check out ForwardOn @ www.forwardon.com

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• Zuplo: Cool Stationary Backgrounds for Your Emails
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• Yahoo Go: Yahoo Apps on Your Mobile

Zuplo backgrounds work with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Thunderbird and many other major email services.

Adding background to your email is easy, simply search the site and find background you like, copy it onto your clipboard and then paste into your email message. When the background appears in your message, click on it and start typing your text. When finished typing the message click on the send button. Done!

Creating your own backgrounds is simple as well, just upload the image you want to use, crop the parts you don’t like and customize colors the way you want. Zuplo will do the rest.

Zuplo is free and doesn’t require any registration, though registered users can also save their favorite backgrounds online and quickly access them in the future when needed.

Zuplo demo video:

Features:

• Get cool and quality email backgrounds for free.
• Public library has more than 7000 colorful email backgrounds.
• Search and and browse background images by category.
• Upload images and create your own email backgrounds.
• Supported image formats: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMF.
• Zuplo also has a desktop client.
• The email backgrounds work with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Thunderbird and other email providers.
• Free, no sign up necessary.

Check out Zuplo @ www.zuplo.com

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The way it works, you simply send an email to robot@mailmyweb.com with a URL of the site you want to access as the subject field line. Few seconds later you will receive an email with requested page in the body.

MailMyWeb supports all sorts of websites, including video sharing resources like YouTube and search engines including Google, Yahoo and Bing. Watch the demo video below to see MailMyWeb in action.

Features:

• Access blocked sites at work through your email.
• Supports all sorts of sites including video sharing networks and popular search engines.
• Free and easy to use.
• Similar tools: WebInMail.

Check Out MailMyWeb @ www.mailmyweb.com

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• YouSendIt

The email is nicely presented on clean Moomeo page along with attachments. All email addresses contained in the original email are scrubbed for privacy. Anyone who views that page can leave comments.

Features:

• Online email sharing made easy.
• Share as many emails as you like.
• Works with any kind of attachment.
• Users can leave comments on threads.
• Free, easy to use, and no registration.

Check out Moomeo @ www.moomeo.com

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• YouSendIt
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There could be many uses of this tool like for masking your email address, sending confidential info on IMs, posting things on forums which you won’t like search engines to discover and more. It doesn’t require sign up and is easy to use.

Features

• Quickly convert text into pictures online.
• Customize the font type, color and size of the text.
• Get the direct url, forum url and the HTML code of the image.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: SpamProofEmailGenerator and HideText.

Check out TxtNinja @ www.txtninja.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images
• FineReaderOnline: Web Based Image Text Extractor
• UpperCaseIt: Uppercase, Lowercase & Reverse Text Online
• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text
• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files

The corresponding plans shown are from the premium segment (hence the free versions of Gmail, Hotmail etc aren’t included) and you can find lots of details about the email plans and compare them using the comparison table.

Features:

• Do a customized search of premium email plans and compare email providers.
• Search options include storage capacity, plan duration, POP access, IMAP or POP3 access, availability of phone support and more.
• Compare email plans from various hosting providers like Rackspace, GoDaddy etc.
• Get elaborate details like attachment limit, phone support, and contract price.

Check out Email Service Guide @ www.emailserviceguide.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• LetterWiz: Free Sample Letter Templates
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By default letters have a SnailMailr logo on them. It costs $0.15 to remove it. The only downside of SnailMailr is that it dose not support international letters.

Features:

• Send postal letters online.
• No registration needed.
• Your letter will be printed and mailed within 24 hours.
• Basic letter costs 1$, each additional costs $0.10.
• Currently letters are emailed only to US addresses.
• Similar websites: Postful, EZGram, L-Mail and TelegramStop.

Check out SnailMailr @ www.snailmailr.com

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• L-Mail
• HowTo: Send and Receive your Postal Mail online (makeuseof.com)

You just need to type in the email address and click the encode button to get the code. And then paste the code where you are planning to put your email address.

Note:  This technique is not a foolproof solution, a spambot intelligent enough could have the ability to crack this code, but this is WAY MORE safer than just writing the address.

Features:

• Web based email address encoder.
• Works on all the browsers.
• No sign up required.
• Similar tools: TheHTMLEncoder, The Enkoder Form, SpamProofEmailGenerator and HideText.

Check out MailTo Encoder @ www.mailtoencoder.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Now you can easliy check if your email address is on one of these blacklists using a tool called BlacklistCheck. The application lets you quickly check a number of major DNS blacklists (Sorbs, Spamhaus, NJABL, DSBL, CBL and PSBL) for a given IP address or hostname and find out whether it is on a blacklist.

Features:

• Check if your email address is on a spam blacklist.
• Checks major DNS blacklists such us Sorbs, Spamhaus, NJABL, DSBL, CBL and PSBL.
• Free, no sign up needed.
• Similar tool: MXToolbox.

Check out Blacklist Check @ www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.dbl-test.html

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Vanish is available as a software plus Firefox plugin system and as a web based app. It works with almost all the messaging systems like email, chats, social networks like Facebook etc. The messages are encrypted with a key which is lost after 8 hours and hence the message can’t be decrypted.

Fro more info watch demo video below:

Get the Vanish System here and click here to access the web based version. (via ReadWriteWeb) (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Sending email is straightforward. Enter recipient’s email, type in your message and click on the “Send Message” button. That’s it!

Features:

• Anonymous email sender.
• Send as many emails as you like.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar websites: DeadFake.

Check out Send-Email @ www.send-email.org

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Although sign up isn’t required, registered users do get some extra benefits like ability to create & store multiple signatures and access to some nice downloads and plugins for free.

Features

• Quickly create online signatures.
• No registration required to get started.
• Use the creation wizard, draw the signature or scan your original signature.
• Get extra benefits by signing up for free.
• Similar tool: Hyplet.

Check out My Live Signature @ www.mylivesignature.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• YouSendIt

You can start by creating an account and claiming your email address with them. Once you verify that address, you get a new auto-responding email address which is created by adding .kukoo.com to your existing address. You can create separate reply rules for each day of the week and hence be more productive in handling your emails.

Features:

• Free online email autoresponder service.
• Create reply rules and let senders know when you would replying their emails.
• Claim multiple email addresses.
• Read emails at specific times and be more productive.
• View extended statistics on your email usage and popular contacts.

Check out Kukoo @ www.kukoo.com (via Web Worker Daily) (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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How it works:

1. Setup your group by picking a group email address (ex: project1@tgethr.com) and enter email addresses of people who should be included
2. Whenever you send a message to the group email address, everyone on the list automatically gets a copy
3. You can attach photos, videos etc. All the messages and files are archived online.

Once you setup your account you can communicate with members either by posting messages from the website or by sending or replying to emails to your group email address. All the messages are archived online, in case you want to access them later.

Basic free account lets you create one group address, up to 5 users and 25 discussions per month. Paid accounts (starting from $6/month) let you have more groups, users and more.

Features:

• Easy to use email collaboration tool.
• Email to one address and reach everyone.
• Attach photos, videos etc.
• All the messages and files automatically archived online.
• Free account is limited to 5 users and 25 discussions per month.
• Paid account offer more groups, users, messages and secure email communication.

Check out Tgethr @ www.tgethr.com

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When the Hyplet is ready you may embed it onto your blog, website, email footers or personal web page. See Hyplet in action in the demo video below.

Features:

• Create personal signatures, IDs and web flyers.
• Provides number of templates to choose from.
• Add images, avatars and emoticons.
• Embed your hyplet into email, blog or social networking profile.
• Browser add-on for quick and easy embedding available.

Check out Hyplet @ www.hyplet.com

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• MyLiveSignature: Create Your Online Signature
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Option to add attachments and get alerts for when they have been opened is available as well.

To start first go and register on the site. Then select the “Send Email” option from menu and write your email. Set alert options and click on Send. Once the recipient opens your email you will be alerted.  You can also view more detailed info about recipient such as exact time, location, IP address, browser and operating system.

Note:  You will not get any alerts if recipient has disabled  HTML in his/her email client, email provider is blocking email tracking or the message is simply deleted without opening.

Features overview:

• Online email tracking service.
• Get email notification each time your email was read.
• Send 5 free tracked emails per day.
• Send each email to up to 30 recipients with CC, BCC supported.
• Add as many attachments as necessary.
• Get notification when attachments are downloaded.
• Import your address book from Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail, and AOL.
• See the date and time when the recipient opened your email.
• Shows recipient’s location, IP address, browser details, operating system, etc.
• Similar websites: SpyPig and Confirmeo.

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For more details watch the demo video below:

Features:

• Set and receive text message reminders.
• Set as many reminders as you like.
• At the moment SMS reminders are available only to US users.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Similar websites: TextReminders, RemindTRON and more.

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• TextReminders: Send Free SMS and Setup SMS Reminders
• TextMemos: Free text message reminders.
• Resnooze: Sends Regular Reminders to your Email
• Remounce: Easily Set Up SMS Reminders & Announcements

If some website is asking for your email to send you a one-time newsletter or some offer etc., just give them any random email address (ex: receive-newsletter-may19-2009@dodgit.com) And then come back later to Dodgit and check for all the emails sent to that particular address.

The down side of this is that anyone who knows or guesses your temporary username can access your emails. So make sure to pick the something only you would know. You can check your emails from the website or through the RSS feed.

Features:

• Get an instant disposable inbox to receive emails.
• No need for to choose username, password or remember a unique URL
• Check emails for any username.
• Access your emails from the website or via RSS feed.

Check out Dodgit @ www.dodgit.com

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• TemporaryInbox: Temporary Email Forwarding
• TempInBox: Temporary Email Account
• StopForwarding: Ask Friends to Stop Spamming your Email
• SpamGourmet : Spam Blocker for your eMail
• MakeMeTheKing: Free Temporary Anonymous Email Boxes

So whenever you receive an email and heard about something that you aren’t not sure about make sure to visit the website and see if it’s been reported by someone earlier. If it’s popular you’re likely to find it on that website, you may then view its hoax status (true/false) and read more details.

Features:

• Verify popular Internet hoaxes and expose scams: email chain letters, fake charity runs, celebrity death news and others.
• Search for scam emails or browse by categories.
• Verify the hoax status (true/false) and read the detailed commentary

Check out Hoax Slayer @ www.hoax-slayer.com

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Enter CC:Betty. It is a web service which can automatically organize your emails and photo and file attachments online. All you have to do is to cc: betty@ccbetty.com every time you send or forward someone a message with an attachment and CCBetty takes care of the rest. It automatically creates albums from attached photos, organizes attached files for easy sharing and tracks who said what and when.

To get started, cc an email to betty@ccbetty.com and you will get a unique URL to your MailSpace with a password.

MailSpace is your personal page, which is constantly updated together with your ongoing email conversations.

Features:

• Lets you automatically organize emails and attachments online.
• Makes it easy to follow email discussions from your personal online MailSpace.
• View albums and slideshows from attached photos.
• Watch attached videos online.
• Automatically creates albums and slideshows from your attached photos.
• Makes documents easy to view, share and comment on.
• To get started send a message to betty@ccbetty.com.