Just saw this really great tip over at makeuseof.com. A lot of us use Gmail these days, we recommend it to all of our clients under the guise of Google business. It never ceases to amaze me what you can find in Gmail.
This particular tip is so simple, just a full stop anywhere in your email address, as many times as you like… So if your email address is johnsmith@gmail.com you can have john.smith@gmail.com and you will still receive mail – which then allows you to give out different email addresses to different people and not have to worry about multiple accounts/pop boxes/etc.
Using Gmail’s filters you could filter john.smith@gmail.com for work and johnsmith@gmail.com for friends… Read the full article at makuseof