December 9th, 2008:

Forwarding emails is not always a good thing. The email addresses of the original sender and early recipients of the message, after all, are revealed in all subsequent copies of the message. The good news is that you can actually forward emails without ever revealing the email addresses of the original sender and the earlier recipients of the message. Here is a step-by-step instruction on how you can forward emails without revealing the sender’s email address:

1. Save the original message as a .msg or a .eml file

Open the message you wish to forward from your inbox. Save it in either a .msg or a .eml file.

2. Open the saved file in a text editor

The next thing you have to do after saving the file in .msg or .eml format is to open it in a text editor. After opening the saved file in a text editor, delete all the email addresses that you wish to hide from the recipients. Save the edited message.

3. Forward the original message as an attachment

Back in your email provider, open the original message you intend to send from your inbox. Click the FORWARD button. When you forward a message, your email provider automatically generates the attachment in the new message. Delete the automatically generated attachment from the compose page to make room for your edited message.

5. Attach the edited message to the message

After removing the automatically generated attachment from the compose page, click the ATTACH FILE button on top of the page. Click the BROWSE button and locate the .msg or .eml file that you saved earlier. Enter the email address of the recipients in the TO:, CC:, or BCC: fields and click the SEND button to forward the email.

The Tea House, which is a cartoon-like theme featuring a little peasant hat-wearing fox, is one of the most used Gmail themes today. The little fox, which serves as the main character of the said Gmail theme, is also the proprietor of the Asian-inspired tea house. What makes the Tea House special though, is that its setting changes throughout the day.

Morning at the tea house

The first six phases of the Tea House, which appears from 5:01 am to 7:00 pm, all feature a morning setting. The color gradient used for the “sky” ranges from sky blue to sunny yellow. Throughout the morning, the little fox performs a series of tasks and activities: entertaining a bunny couple from 5:01 am to 7:00 am, picking a yellow flower from 7:01 am to 9:00 am, refilling a bird bath from 9:01 am to 11:00 am, sweeping a wooden floor from 11:01 am to 1:00 pm, pruning a potted bonsai from 1:01 pm to 3:00 pm, laughing with a friend monkey from 3:01 pm to 5:00 pm, and playing a bamboo flute from 5:01 pm to 7:00 pm.

Evening at the tea house

After 7:00 pm, darkness falls upon the tea house. The color gradient of the sky no longer ranges from sky blue to sunny yellow, but now from purplish dawn to midnight black. The sun is now giving way to let the black night show off the beauty of the silver moon and the twinkling stars. The tasks that the little fox performs also change: he is preparing a meal from 7:01 pm to 9:00 pm, lighting a lantern from 9:01 pm to 11:00 pm, scribbling a note from 11:01 pm to 1:00 am, tugging a blanket from 1:01 am to 3:00 am, and enjoying a dream from 3:01 am to 5:00 am. While the little fox is asleep though, the tea house makes room for several uninvited guests: a trio of checker-playing ghosts between 1:01 am and 3:00 am and a flower-eating turtle between 3:01 am and 5:00 am.

To view the other activities of the little fox, add the Tea House theme to your iGoogle page.