Admit it. We’ve all tried to use fake e-mail addresses before. But there are always those sites where you need to go through that e-mail validation process unwillingly when you sign up for accounts, only to end up getting loads of spam.

With the help of 10 minute mail, you can get the job done without any hassle to worry about. On the click of a button, a random temporary email address will be generated at your disposal, in which you can send/receive mail just like any normal webmail client. However when you’re done with signing up an account, or playing a prank etc, all you need to do is to let it self destruct when the time is up. And of course, if 10 minutes isn’t enough for you, you can always just extend its lifetime with just another click.

So give it a try. It will save you some spam someday.

As an engineer, when it comes to practical designing, CAD tools are your best friend, allowing you to visualize and simulate your design before you actually put your design into production. However, with a lifelong job in engineering, there will eventually come a day when you finally get sick of loading AutoCAD or Spice Simulation tools every single day at work. Aren’t there any CAD tools out there that are actually fun to use and that you won’t get tired of?

Well, you’re in luck today! Introducing to you today is BlockCAD, a free downloadable CAD software to help you design your lego projects so that you can estimate how many pieces of each part you need to finish your miniature lego Great Wall of China or Statue of Liberty. Show them that Lego isn’t just for kids aged 6-12.

Download BlockCAD here.

During the Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge in which I took part in a couple of days ago, one of the puzzles pointed me towards an interesting project at Windows Live Local. Apparently, this is Microsoft’s attempt at challenging Google Earth by providing a first person perspective of various locations in a city on earth.

With only maps of Seattle and Washington currently available, this project seats you in a virtual car and shows you the view of every part of the city as you cruise and navigate along the roads of the map. Since a cached snapshot is displayed every few steps you move on the city map, I cannot possibly imagine how many photos were taken in total to digitize the whole Seattle. It would be a really cool tool, however, if all major cities on earth could be implemented some day, opening up the possibility of virtual travelling. However for now, have fun in Seattle!

Just slightly more than a week after Microsofts’ official launch of the Internet Explorer 7 as previously posted at retrochronix.com, the Mozilla Firefox team also decided to debut their Firefox 2.0 to match up with the competition’s browser hype. While most of the new features showcased by Internet Explorer 7, Firefox already had them since its previous releases, the Firefox’s 2.0 upgrade does not come as just a repackaged version of its old browser.

The newest release of Firefox fixed up a few usability issues from its old browser allowing an easier way to close tabs, a way to resume previous browsing sessions, support for Javascript 1.7 for Ajax fanatics out there as well as better add-ons and extensions management. It seems as if IE7 has caught up to the standards of web browsing in the web 2.0 era, but still, I can’t get past their weird usability decision of placing the address bar at the very top.

Download the latest version of Mozilla here to see which browser you prefer.

The long awaited Internet Explorer 7 was finally launched today, showcasing promised features including tab browsing, rss feed reading, external modules/plugins as well as claimed improved security. On terms of layout, IE7 continues with the new ‘glossy’-textured user interface started off in MSN messenger live, in preparation for the launch of Windows Vista sometime in the distant future. However functionality-wise, all of its new ‘features’ seems to be copied straight out of a mozilla firefox. Also, I’m not sure whether it’s just my settings or the program itself, but the URL bar now seems to be stuck to the very top of the IE browser, and it is rather user-unfriendly.

Again with the new IE7, the Zune, Soapbox… it seems as if Microsoft is again doing what it does best, copying from its competitors.

Download the installation pack for IE7 here.

*Extra* The funniest thing about it is this -> checkout http://www.ie7.com/. Seems like Microsoft got the domain name too late.