Cloud High Club

Today’s featured web app is 10 Minute Mail, a handy tool that gives you a temporary email address.  This address is valid for 10 minutes only.  It is best used to apply for one-time only service, test drive web forms and any service that requires an email address for only one time.

10 Minute Mail: Your Temporary Email Address

Basically you do not have to do anything or install any software to use it.  Just go to the official site of 10 Minute Mail, a randomly generated email address will be shown.  You have 10 minutes to use this email address however you want.

During these 10 minutes, all emails addressed to this address would be shown on this web page.  You have the options to reply to the email or forward it to your own mailbox.  If you run out of time, click “Give me 10 more minutes” to obtain an extra 10 minutes.

So how should you use this service?  If you are a web site developer, this is a good tool to test your site’s application forms without having to use real email addresses.  If you are asked to provide email address to get access to a web site, but you cannot pay 100% trust to the site, you can try 10 Minute Mail.  I also heard of people using it and virtual machines to apply for lots of Dropbox accounts by referral, so that their main Dropbox accounts get extra spaces.

Official site: http://10minutemail.com