E-mail has become a part of daily life for most of us. But if you can't keep up with the "delete" key, you may not have the space to save all the important stuff that's trapped along with those offers for miracle potions and get-rich-quick schemes.

Yahoo Mail has come up with the answer to all of your problems; in motoring terms, it will be the Autobahn of online e-mail services.

All limits are lifted. No longer will you have to sweat and fret about maintaining your mail within the unfriendly confines of one or two measly gigabytes.

Storage is unlimited and absolutely free.

It's mind-boggling to think about this.

I can remember buying my first hard disk drive at a swap meet back in the late 80s (the days before the general public had access to the Internet). It held a then-staggering 20 megabytes of data and probably cost me about $200.

While storage space was precious, we weren't storing data files with megapixel photos, musical recordings or video clips back then. Twenty megabytes was a lot of room!

How things have changed.

Fortunately, the price of storage has fallen along with our ever-increasing demand. Need 500 gigabytes of free space? It's easy to find a hard drive with that specification for not much more than $100.

It's not as convenient as having all those messages on your hard drive, of course. Or is it?

You can send yourself all the photos and video clips you'd ever want without having to concern yourself with clogging up your hard drive or burning CDs—and you can access any of that content from anywhere you can get an Internet connection.

What's behind all this data generosity? Simple: Yahoo's unprecedented deal is designed to win more eyeballs for the advertising that sponsors its mail system.

Online mail rivals like Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail have been offering more than two gigabytes of online space, but I suspect that Yahoo's deal has raised the stakes.

If you're a fan of funny stuff, it's hard to do better than The Onion.

It started as a satirical newspaper. For the past decade, it's also been a top Web destination, claiming more than three million weekly readers.

This week, The Onion turned its attention to online video with the debut of the Onion News Network. It's a modest enterprise at the outset, with three "news" clips available:

"Immigration: The Human Cost" examines the fate of a fictional Dallas telecom executive who loses his job to a an illegal immigrant who "crossed the Arizona-Mexican border in the back of a melon truck."

"In the Know: Our Troops in Iraq" is a panel discussion about the president's move to boost the ranks of our troops in Iraq by enlisting Civil War reenactors.

"Condoleezza Rice to Voyage East" traces the route of the next daring journey for America's secretary of state.

The Onion News Network faces competition from established online humor outposts like Comedy Central, which (as you might expect from a TV network) is very video intensive, offering scores of clips from programs like "The Daily Show" and "South Park" along with blogs and Web-only presentations.

The Onion's modest video enterprise is just starting. With the support of advertisers who know how to smirk along with the staff, it suggests a promising outpost of jollity in an online world filled with bad news.

I'm constantly amazed at how inexpensive computers have become.

A few weeks ago, we showed you a laptop aimed at the developing world with a target price of $100.

Here's the other end of that scale: The Luvaglio laptop.

The Engadget Web site says it features a self-cleaning screen, Blu-Ray HD DVD drive and a diamond-encrusted power switch.

The super-exclusive London-based company is said to be offering this notebook for a cool $1 million.

But don't look for more information from Luvaglio; you will require an invitation to enter their online portal.

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