HOW TO send e-mails from any address using Gmail’s SMTP server
A little while ago Lifehacker posted instruction how you could use Gmail’s SMTP server to send mail from any e-mail address. Drawback: Google would always rewrite your From: address back to your original Gmail address, kinda defeating our original idea. Last week then, Google added a new feature allowing Gmail users to add multiple e-mail addys and to choose one from a drop-down list when sending a message via the Gmail interface. What hasn’t been mentioned yet is that once you’ve added another verified e-mail address to your Gmail account, Gmail’s SMTP server would happily forward the new From: address! And this is how you do it… Link.
For your Media Center PC folks out there- this is really cool. This package (firewire.zip) supports channel change and recording (SD/HD) via firewire, integrated into MCE. Channel change only works with the Motorola 6200/6208/6412 STBs and the SA3250HD/SA8000/SA8300HD STBs, recording works with other STBs. [
MAKE Flickr photo pool member laurence posted a neat photo in the MAKE pool – This is a marble-run made out of milk cartons. I saw it at the Tokyo National Museum where they had a whole room filled with various creative ways of “recycling” these cartons. 
Evidently this isn’t the first, but somebody’s running a bot on Google Talk which essentially creates a chat room for Talk users. A few folks seem to think this is Google’s doing, although I can’t see this having as much practical application as oh, say, actual rooms. Source code included. 
