Gmail Podcast

Category: Gmail Blog

  • Comparison

    Listener, and fellow Friends In Tech member, Steve Holden sent in an audio clip comparing Gmail to several other popular online mail services. Listen to find out the results. http://www.chuckchat.com/media/gmail/Gmail-Comparison.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

  • Google Money?

    This morning while fueling up my mini-van I was pining for the days when I used to use PocketQuicken on my Palm PDA and sync it to my Windows machine at home. It used to make entering receipts so painless. Time moved on and I find myself with a Windows Mobile device and a Mac…

  • IMAP 101

    Gmail now supports IMAP. What’s IMAP you say? IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. This is just another way for your Outlook, Outlook Express, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, or even your iPhone, to communicate with Google’s mail server. So what are the advantages of IMAP? For users with many, or large messages, IMAP can result…

  • IMAP Support

    Several Gmail Podcast listeners and readers are reporting that Google is rolling out support for IMAP. The “Forwarding and POP” tab has been renamed to “Forwarding and POP/IMAP”. Although it only appears to be available on some accounts at this point, particularly the hosted domains, I will have a podcast and detailed blog entry on…

  • Twitter offers import of Gmail Contacts

    For those who use Twitter for your social networking, they have added a nice feature under the “Find & Invite” section to allow you to invite people from your Gmail address book quickly and easily. As a quick side note, Twitter is similar to instant messaging on a web page. You login with an account…

  • Filter Assistant

    I don’t know when the Filter Assistant feature first appeared, but I have found it very useful. You’ll find the link to the filter assistant in the upper right of any message. When you click on this link, an orange section appears that looks a lot like the content when you are creating filters via…

  • Gmail may shut down in Germany

    New Launches reports that Gmail is threatening to shut down Gmail in Germany if the Bundestag passes a new Internet surveilllance law scheduled for 2008. If the law is passed, any data connection of any German citizen on the internet will be saved for up to 6 months. This goes against Google’s privacy policy and…

  • PowerPoint Viewer

    Gmail now recognizes Microsoft PowerPoint attachments. When you have a message with a PowerPoint attached, Gmail will present a link labeled “View as slideshow” near the attachment. When you click on that Gmail will open a new window and start displaying the slides. In theory, it’s pretty straight forward, but here’s what I found in…

  • Accessing Another’s Email

    This time we take a look at what you need to do if to get access to one of your loved one’s Gmail after they are deceased. This item has been in the news and fortunately for us, Google has a standard procedure. You will need to provide Google with the following information in written…

  • Selecting Multiple Conversations

    Here’s a quick tip how to select multiple conversations with just two mouse clicks. To check a range of conversations from the index, click the checkbox next to the first conversation then hold down the shift key while selecting the last conversation. If you are familiar with selecting a range of cells in a spreadsheet,…