If you work in an office where employees have no access to Internet but are allowed to send and receive email, the new Web-In-Mail service from Rediff will come very handy.
“Web In Mail” lets you fetch full web pages to your inbox by simple email commands. You may even perform searches on Google Web and Google Image through email.
Full HTML Web Pages Delivered to your Inbox
To browse a web page, send a blank email message to browse@webinmail.com with the page URL as the subject. If you like to search google, send an email to the same address but the subject should say google:query (e.g. google: how to impress your boss).
Also see: Most Useful Email Addresses
You can read emails in Outlook, Blackberry or any email client that understands HTML.
And there’s something smart about Web in Mail as noted by Allen Stern – it rewrites all the links in the web page as mailto. That means you’ll automatically launch a blank email message when you click any of the hyperlinks in the existing email.
To get started, why don’t you just send a blank email to browse@webinmail.com.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/surf-the-web-via-email/5624/
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Reader Comments
Brilliant idea.. but it isn’t always layed out so nicely (Gmail). Try link
Just tested Outlook, marginally better but still fairly horrible.
Written by ocirion on 11.27.08
WoW!! It works well. Thanks for this info.
Written by Raja on 11.27.08
Looking good. But for some reason it didn’t work for me in Gmail.
Written by Saad Kamal on 11.27.08
Great tip. If it works for me it will be great. Thank you.
Written by Joe on 11.27.08
Tried in Gmail but nothing happened, love the idea though!
Written by Lady Banana on 11.28.08
Nice idea, but isn’t working for me. Even the ones mentioned in your old post aren’t working :(
Written by RaSh on 11.28.08
I got a mail from link , but some 10 hours later. Kind of defeats the whole purpose if it’s so late :(
Written by RaSh on 11.28.08
It works for my BlackBerry Pear 8100 because it save my GPRS fee.
Written by Phao Loo on 11.30.08