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This article was written on June 04, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of my favorite features in Gmail is the ability to add filters to incoming emails. I only use a couple different filters to automatically label emails from, for example, eBay purchases. But I do have one filter that would cause a lot of frustration if I wasn’t able to have it.

The filter I’m talking about is setup to delete all emails coming from certain email addresses. You know, those people who only forward dumb jokes to you, or those spammers that always seem to get by the spam checker. Yeah, those are the ones that I put here. That way I never have to worry about seeing a message from them sitting in my Inbox.

To setup one of those filters all you have to do is set the from field to something like this:

(example1@gmail.com OR example2@gmail.com)

You start and end the text with parenthesis, and separate each address with "OR". Right now I have about 15 addresses in that list which has greatly reduced the amount of unwanted mail that would typically clutter my Inbox.

That is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to things you can do with Gmail filters. Lifehack.org has a list of 20 different ideas for using the filters in Gmail, and a lot of them are pretty great.

Even with filters being as great as they are, there are still some things that need to be added to Gmail to make it perfect for me:

• Ability to schedule an email to be sent.
• Nesting capabilities for the labels, that way they can act like folders.
• Apply filters to more than just incoming emails. What about outgoing ones too?
• One-click access to add an email address to a certain filter.
• An easier way to specify multiple email addresses. Maybe separate them by commas?

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There are a lot of great gifts you can order online, but you better hurry; shipping deadlines are right around the corner.

Three months from introduction to on sale ain’t too shabby in the camera world, and that’s exactly what Casio has managed to accomplish with the intriguing new Exilim EX-H20G. We first spotted this point-and-shoot at Photokina in Germany, and now we’ve had a solid week to put it through its paces. Naturally, the inclusion of Hybrid GPS (read: engineered to find a location indoors as well as outdoors) is the standout feature and key differentiator, but the 14.1 megapixel sensor, 10x optical zoom and 720p movie mode are all fine additions. It certainly isn’t the slimmest compact on the market, nor the cheapest at $349.99, but do the unique aspects of this thing make the price easier to stand? Join us after the break for our thoughts.

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What’s NVIDIA got up its sleeve for CES, you ask? A whole host of Sandy Bridge laptop and desktop machines, by the sound of its latest press release. The green giant of graphics has proudly announced a new record of 200 OEM design wins for Intel’s incoming CPUs. The big draw of Sandy Bridge is that it’s the first processor to include an integrated GPU embedded directly within its die, which is projected to improve power efficiency and overall performance — though clearly it hasn’t been impressive enough to get PC vendors to abandon discrete graphics chips. If anything, they seem to be going in the other direction and insisting on a discrete GPU as well.

In other news, whether with or without NVIDIA’s help, the first Sandy Bridge laptops will feature quad-core parts. Such is the word directly from Intel, with one insider adding that the dual-core debutants will get their chance a month after CES, around the middle of February. Skip past the break for NVIDIA’s boastful PR or hit the source for more on Intel’s plans.

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It’s nearly the end of the year. There are two ways to go about this. We can either present you with a list of the year’s best gadgets, highlighting all of the wonderful innovations that have come out in the past year–or we can go the other way with it. I ask you this: which route sounds more fun?

With that in mind, we present to you the finalists for Gearlog’s first annual “Most Useless Gadget of the Year.” I did a quick informal tally and gathered together some candidates for the list, four in all. If you don’t see your (least) favorite on there, don’t worry, you can always fill it in on the poll or send me your candidate via Twitter (@bheater).

After the jump, a poll–and a little bit about each candidate.