Today is St. Valentine’s Day, and here’s to wish all a very Happy Valentine’s Day!

There are tons of websites out there offering you with Valentine’s day pictures, gift ideas, online greeting cards, etc. What I’ll offer here, is something a little bit different.

Valentine’s Day can be a bit of a sad day for some people – yes, to those of you who hasn’t found your special someone, or who has lost them in some ways. For those who is secretly admiring someone, and do not dare/do not want to let him/her know, here’s something which just might makes you feel better.

These special websites allows you to send out an email at later date! If you still can’t get what I mean, imagine this – you wanted to express your feeling, but not now, not yet. You want to let her know when the time comes. But somehow you fear the unexpected - what if you’re no longer here one of these days ? When that day comes, you want to be able to tell him/her, but how ?

The first website here is LetterMeLater. After registration, you can immediately compose an email and schedule it to be sent to anyone at a certain date/time. As depicted in the image, it shows a typical email composing page, where you type in the email address of your ‘someone special’, specify the date/time when you wish to have this sent out (may be another 50 years, who knows). In case you may regret this, it even has an option to send a reminder to you 3 days before the due date (check the ‘Remind’ option just before the ‘Schedule to be sent’ button’). Neato!

If you think this is not fail-safe, and want something better than this, try DeathSwitch. As the name suggests, the site will send out an email for you when you die. How does it do that ? Very simple and primitive I would say – it sends an email to you periodically (up to you), and you are supposed to reply to it. If you failed to reply after a few attempts to contact you by this service, you’ll be assumed dead, and the service will proceed to send your personal email (be it love or hate letter).

The free service allows you to send email to one recipients, or if you’re serious, you can pay for better options.

This kind of service are rare, so I’m going to list down 2 more here that I came across.

http://www.deferredsender.com/ – this is free as well, but I cant’ seems to make it work.

http://www.mylastemail.com/

http://www.deathbyemail.com/2007/12/email-after-dea.html

As you can see, these are actually tools for ‘online will writing’!

 

Valentine’s being Valentine’s, I wish you all the best and my advice is, Cherish what you have (or have-not). Lastly, my disclaimers: This blog post is not about someone I secretly admire; and neither is the blog.

p.s. Chet Hong loves His Techlog.