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Itemize reads your e-mail to build a shopping profile | Rafe's Radar. I wrote recently that receipts are the the new check-ins . And now companies are emerging that are trying to roll up the receipt collection process for consumers. One smart new business doing this: Itemize. It scans your e-mail receipts to build a profile of your favorite brands, and then it sends you deals so you can get the stuff you like at a discount. "We are receipt geeks," CEO Jim Thomas told me. He previously worked on analytics for MasterCard, which you'd think would have the mother lode of data when it comes to analyzing what people like. There are two challenges facing Itemize. Itemize will get a physical-receipt-scanning app eventually. The other problem: So you have this mailbox full of e-mail receipts. There is another way: Do what TripIt does, and let users forward their receipts to the service as they wish.

These hurdles stipulated, I think Itemize is a very smart business. "Customers are saturated," Thomas says. How to Email Web Pages to Yourself. Learn how you can quickly email full web pages to yourself – the entire content – with a simple click. Great for reading web content offline. How do you email a web page – the entire content – to yourself? Your options vary depending on which browser you are using.

If you are on Internet Explorer, there’s a handy “Send Page by E-Mail” option that you can use to send the full web page to anyone using your default email client. Google Chrome and Firefox do not have such an option built-in but add-ons – like this one – can help. The choices are even more limited if you are browsing the web on a mobile phone. If you have been looking for a more simple way to email web pages to yourself, one that works with desktop browsers as well as mobile browsers, consider using Joliprint. Joliprint is a free online service that lets you email web pages to yourself as PDF files using email itself – you don’t even have to launch the browser.

Email this Page Bookmarklet. How to Write an Email Message with a QR Code. Do you know that you can write a full email message inside a QR code. When people scan the QR image with the mobile phone, the message will open right into their email program ready for sending. QR Codes offer an easy way to transfer information information from any screen – like your computer desktop, display window at a retail store or even the ads in a newspaper – to your mobile phone. You may use QR codes to send all kinds of text-only data to a mobile including web page URLs, email addresses, business cards, postal addresses and even phone numbers.

For instance, scan the above QR image and you can instantly open this site on your mobile phone without typing a single character. Such a convenience! Other than plain text, do you know that you can write a full email message inside a QR code – when people scan the QR image, the message will open right into their email program ready for sending. To write an email message as a QR Code, you need to write it in the following format: Insert Tables into GoogleDoc.

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