Have you ever come across a situation where you don’t have access to the Internet but can send or receive email messages? With email and no Internet, how do you read websites and blogs or check the current stock prices, or find what’s the top story on CNN homepage.
Well, you can do a lot of interesting things over email without a web connection - you can read any webpages over email, maintain your task list, convert documents, upload photo and videos, get dictionary meanings of words and more.
Just make sure that you have added the following address to your email address book:
10. pdf@koolwire.com - You have an Office document or a picture on your computer or mobile phone that you wish to convert into a PDF file. Just email that file an email attachment to the above address and it will soon return to your Inbox as a PDF file. [koolwire review]
9. ..@photos.flickr.com - Flickr provides a unique email upload address here - you can send your photographs to this email address as attachments and they’ll show up in Flick Photo gallery almost instantly. The subject line of email becomes the photo’s title while the body of the email becomes the photo’s description.
8. e@xpenser.com - This is like filling data in a travel spreadsheet through email. You can use this address to gather and record your travel expenses while on the road. [xpenser review]
7. go@blogger.com - You can use this address to post pictures on any Blogger hosted blog. Any picture that you send to this email address will appear as a new blog post in your mobile blog. You can also use this service to post regular text entries to your Blogspot blog. In that case, the “Send to Blogger” email address is available under Blogger Dashboard.
6. upload@upload.slideshare.net - If you have (one or more) PowerPoint Presentations and PDF documents that you quickly want to share with friends, just email the files to Slideshare and they’ll instantly turn them into a web slideshow. [Slideshare upload options]
5. …@mms.youtube.com - YouTube member can create an MMS profile here - if you have a video clip on your mobile phone or comptuer but no access to YouTube website, you can easily upload that video file to YouTube through that email address. [Details on Youtube Email upload]
4. pdf2txt@adobe.com - Send a PDF document to this email address as an attachment and it will come back as a plain text file. Handy when your don’t have a PDF viewer to open the PDF document. Alternatively, you can send the PDF file to pdf2html@adobe.com for conversion to HTML format. [Extract Text from PDF]
3. ..@prod.writely.com - Google Docs provides a unique email address here - you can upload your documents, spreadsheets and presentations to Google Docs through this address and read them on your mobile phone using the just launched Google Docs mobile at docs.google.com/m. [Google Docs Upload]
2. …@rmilk.com - When you signup for Remember The Milk, you are assigned a unique email address. Emails sent to this special address are automatically converted into tasks and appear in your Inbox. Click on Settings -> Info -> Inbox Email Address. Very handy for keeping a track of your unfinished tasks and getting things done while on the move.
1. wsmith@wordsmith.org - Get the dictionary definition and synonyms of any word by sending a blank email to this email address. Make the subject line as: define myword
And now the most useful email address that will help you read webpages through email without requiring a web connection:
0. www@web2mail.com - Send an email with the URL of the web page in the Subject field (e.g. www.cnn.com) and you’ll soon find a copy of that web page in your Inbox. A perfect option when there’s no Internet access in the area or access is restricted (for instance, you want to read the BBC homepage in China).
Another similar service is www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it - it will also fetch websites for you through email though in this case, the site address should go in the body of the email message.
These web-to-email services will come extremely handy for receiving on-demand Stock quotes (for the current Google stock price, type finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG), weather updates, currency exchange rates (for USD to INR, type finance.yahoo.com/q?s=USDINR=X) and more.
Related: Send Fax Over Email (no Fax Machine required)
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/access-websites-over-email-without-internet-connection/1660/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
I am confused…How will I send the email in the first place, if there is no internet??
Written by Anand on 10.27.07
Good post. Some of the services are perhaps too cliche, but the ones like fetching a web page via email was a good one..
Written by Vivek on 10.27.07
Waaw! This is an (Well you are as Lakwell) an amazing Compilation!
Written by Lakshman on 10.27.07
I agree with Anand - how is it possible?
Written by Annand on 10.27.07
I have same question Anand.. Amit can you answer?
Written by raz on 10.27.07
oh, you mean sending those files from mobile
Written by raz on 10.27.07
“Have you ever come across a situation where you don’t have access to the Internet but can send or receive email messages”.. no internet access but can send and receive email, may be it happen at office with small bandwith, they block internet access and only allow email connections..
Written by siti on 10.27.07
Very very useful post. Will be useful to may people at many places. Got to know many things from the blog
Written by Sandeep KN on 10.28.07
Reply to query from Anand - In office many persons use corporate e-mail, which is mainly from microsoft outlook or Lotus Notes. In Companies people do not use gmail or hotmail
Written by Sandeep KN on 10.28.07
Thanks Sandeep KN. I had realized it just after I had commented..But had not posted it here. Nice that you had clarified..
Written by Anand on 10.28.07
Thanks for the post! And for those of you reading, i love blogger and flickr. i keep a “mobile blog” just for fun link , and use my cellphone to post the blogs. don’t even have to find a computer when I want to post something!
Written by Rikki on 10.28.07
I sent a mail with my blog URL in subject line to link , but I didn’t recieve any mail from them yet! Its been couple of hours now since I sent!!! Have you tried all these options before?
Written by Srinivasa Ramanujam on 10.28.07
Can we upload the videos in other sites as well like
metacafe.com etc
Written by techie on 10.28.07
10. link
0. link
are not working for me.
i have send mails to two above ids, even after 30mins i did not get return mail.
probably I need to wait some more time..
Written by Dutt on 10.29.07
Yes Now link is working.
i has replied me after 1 hour.
but i did not get reply from link
I think I have to wait some more time.
Written by Dutt on 10.29.07
All the above email addresses were tested and they work for sure.
Yes, Koolwire PDF conversion may not be instant and could take an hour - it probably depends on the size of your document.
Written by Amit Agarwal on 10.29.07
Is this Bill Gate real E-mail address?
Written by joseph bitrus job on 10.29.07
Hi,
I read your article in HT City.. very recent edition. I thought it was brilliant!! But HT had made some errors in the email ids provided therein.. coz they weren’t working when i tried.. this dragged me here..!! this i guess, is the first time when i am reading a blog and leaving a comment :) this is only to tell you that the info u have provided here is really useful!! Thanks..
Cheers!
Written by Prerna on 11.06.07
yes.. they are all working…
Thanks…
Written by WinSecWar on 11.12.07
excellent find amith. i can use this when i am just restricted to only email access.
Thank U :)
Written by mgn on 02.08.08
You’re confusing the Internet and the Web in your title to this post. If you can send and receive email, you have access to the Internet. Email is transmitted over the Internet. The Web is the visible portion of the Internet.
Written by Jo on 02.16.08
How about link - For those times when you don’t have a scrabble dictionary handy, but you want to challenge a word :)
Written by Sean on 02.16.08
In this situation, most of the time you will find that you can’t send emails with attachments. So what to do then?
Written by m3rcywh3nm3 on 02.16.08
This isn’t possible, if you don’t have internet access there is no possible way to email, outlook just saves you email and sends it when internet becomes available. This is a terrible post
Written by John Jacquay on 02.18.08
Uh, you forgot photobucket, they offer sending by mobile phone to an email address specific to your account, however it also works from ordinary email
Written by Bubo on 02.18.08
Very cool idea for a post, wish I’d thought of it myself. To respond to John above, this could be useful in several situations, such as on a mobile phone or behind a restrictive proxy. That’s why most blog engines provide a blog by email feature, sometimes you just need it!
Written by Troy on 02.19.08
Geez. I would have thought that this article would have been self-explanatory. Ever heard of SMS or text messaging? Did you know that you can send an SMS to an email address the exact same way that you do to a phone number?
Written by scynn on 02.19.08
Juno makes an email program that can send and receive email without using the internet connection. After you type the email, you click the button, it calls its main computer, the email is uploaded, and the Juno server sends it to the recipient. Returning email is waiting for you when you dial up Juno, and your email is auto downloaded to your computer. Costs about $10 a year.
Written by SpaceRat on 02.19.08
Also extremely useful if you’re traveling internationally and on a plan where plain-text email is free but web access costs a lot (e.g. the Blackberry unlimited international email plan w/ T-Mobile).
Written by Anya on 02.23.08
I have to say that everyone should sign up for a yahoo mail account. I had a situation before where I lost the internet connection at my home, but was able to go to a friends home and access my email as normal.
Written by Julie Phineas on 02.23.08
Since some of the previous posters had some questions: You CAN have E-mail when you don’t have browsing abilities. Offcourse if your computer isn’t connected to the internet ( fully offline ) its impossible to use these techniques. The proposed options are for pc’s where rights are restricted ( corporate or government filters that filter HTTP traffic ).
Written by Rik on 02.25.08
I guess I’m a little late to this post, but let’s not forget Multiply.com, which allows users to share photos, videos and blog entries via e-mail.
[secret pin]@[username].multiply.com is the format, though one does need to register for an account and create a pin beforehand.
Written by Everett on 02.27.08
This service at link will convert any txt or pdf doc ebook into Mobile Format and deliver it to your Mobile Phone or recipients Mobile Phone at a cost of 0.50p per book.
Written by P Davis on 03.04.08
Thanks for the great compilation! I didn’t even know such services existed, but I’m glad they do! I can even foresee these things being faster than actually using real software to do the task.
Written by Bodhi on 08.28.08