Signature in E-Mail

To create a signature in Gmail, click on the Settings link at the very top of the page. Scroll down until you see the Signature section. Click on the radio button beside the blank box and that will allow you to type in your message. So, go ahead and type in your signature with whatever you'd like it to say. When you're done, scroll down to the bottom and click on Save Changes. Here's a sample signature:

Keep in mind that your signature will appear at the bottom of every e-mail you send, so if you don't want it on a certain e-mail, make sure you delete it before you send the e-mail. Gmail adds your signature to the bottom of your e-mails in a gray color and it is separated from your original text by two dashes. Cool, huh?!

Patently Silly

Welcome to Patently Silly, a quirky site devoted to patents that are strange, unusual or just down right silly. I can tell you that they are, at the very least, odd. On the homepage, you will find the major parts of the site.

In the Archive section, you can see all of the previous patents archived by category. They are just waiting for you to explore them! Some of the categories are: Food and Drink, Clothes, Accessories, Arts, Transportation and Animals. I can promise you that you’ll find tons of strange patents.

I found the patents in the Transportation section to be especially funny. I mean, haven’t you always wanted arm shades? Or an SUV tent? I also thought the Recreation section was funny. You know you need a surf board with a viewing window, or maybe even a pig shaped swimming pool.

In the Rant section, you’ll find one featured patent. If you click the links in the paragraph, you can see different photos of the mentioned patented items.

About Us – Here you can learn all about the two gents who run this site and what their backgrounds are.

There is also a Contact section where you may make contact with the people who run this site.

All in all, I thought this site was as its title claims: “Patently Silly!”

http://www.patentlysilly.com/

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Is there any way I can find out if my e-mail address is being used on public Web sites? I've been getting more spam than normal lately

One of the biggest causes, as stated in today's question, is giving out your e-mail address on public Web sites

if there's a Web site they can use that scans their system and tells them every single place their e-mail address is used. That's a great idea, but unfortunately, the answer is no. To my knowledge, there aren't any Web sites designed to do that, but you can get a little assistance from your favorite search engine. Just choose whichever search engine you'd like to use (Google, Yahoo!, etc.) and search for your e-mail address. From your results, you will be able to see which sites have access to your address.

If your e-mail address showed up on several different Web sites, you might want to take a few seconds to think about all of the sites you visit. Do you do a lot of online shopping? Are you a member of any social networking sites? Do you sign up for newsletters, etc. regularly? If so, you were probably required to fill out some type of a Web form.
Now, I'm not saying every Web site does that, but it does happen. And it's one of the main reasons why you might be getting so much spam e-mail. For your own safety, you should never intentionally post your e-mail address on the Web. I know it's required by a lot of Web sites and that's fine, but you should stop and make sure you trust the site before you type it in. Luckily, a lot of Web sites are designed to keep your personal information private and obviously, those are the sites you should be using.