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The Web Worker Daily blog reminds us that today is National Clean Out Your Computer Day. Want to do some serious PC cleaning but not sure where to start? We've got your back, so let's get with the purging.Photo by karindalziel.

Windows: Yesterday we showed you how to remotely control a computer through Dropbox. Want to further automate your online syncing? MailDrop automatically grabs attachments from a particular email folder or label and stashes them in your cloud-based Dropbox storage.

You may be a diehard Gmail user, prone to declaring desktop email clients dead. That's fine. We still think you'll find Thunderbird 3 to be a better offline email solution, and a really convenient aggregator for all your inboxes.

Microsoft's Office 2010 has rolled out to trusted testers, and among the screenshots coming back, nothing seems so promising as the Quick Steps buttons. They're like high-powered Send & Archive buttons that can be tweaked to do any multi-step action.

The good news: One intrepid blogger offers up a massive cut-and-paste Gmail filter operator that corrals and archives non-English messages. The bad news: It only works when spammers are semi-honest.

As with the iPhone, the just-released Palm Pre can sync up with a Gmail account, but doesn't offer a native Archive button. With a familiar settings work-around, your Pre can start thinking like a real Gmail client.

The Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog writes up a guide to using Outlook's categories and search folders to organize your messy inbox and prevent email overload.

It's definitely a work in progress, but reBoxed takes a novel approach to organizing your Gmail—forcing you to pick who's more important a few dozen times, then using your (and others') answers to rank emails.

Matt Thommes at the Paint in the Tech blog finds it tedious to create filters in Gmail the multi-click way. His solution? Export a single filter, then make a few clever tweaks to the resulting XML file.

Now that you can export and import email filters with Gmail, we've decided to compile some of our favorite filters for organizing your inbox into a single, handy download. Come and get it!