wither in the light

The Gmail hacks just keep rolling in... it's amazing what an open API and a commitment to not being evil can do for a company.

Lifehacks has gathered some of the cooler hacks; I've previously written about most of these, but it's useful to have them all in one place.

Gmail drive extension

Mount your 2GB Gmail account as a virtual hard-drive in Windows Explorer.

Linux drive extension...

Mount your 2GB Gmail account as a virtual hard-drive in linux

... turned inside-out

Don't mount your Gmail drive in linux - install linux on your Gmail drive. (!)

Use Gmail as a spam filter

run your other email accounts through Gmail to take advantage of Gmail's filtering and spam detection features.

Use Gmail as a journal

Store your thoughts and observations using Gmail's filtering and labeling functions.

Add persistent searches

Make virtual folders that act as saved searches using this greasemonkey script for Firefox.

Forward Gmail to your cell-phone

But only use this power for doing good.