Category: Gmail Blog
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Speed Dialing
Before I get started, I owe you an apology. I have been using this feature of Gmail so long I nearly forgot I was using it. It wasn’t until a few days ago that I was reading my email via a web browser on my cell phone that I thought “I don’t think I told…
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Gmail’s Latest Feature
You have to hand it to the people at Google for getting on the bandwagon with April Fools pranks. They’ve even listed this one as their new feature at the top of the page. Custom time allows you to send mail to the past!
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Gmail Assistant – and more
If you use Gmail half as much as I do, then I’ll bet you have more than one Gmail Account. We’ve covered the Gmail Notifier on this podcast in the past as a way to monitor your Gmail, but that only monitors one accountat a time. GmailAssistant is a notifier for multiple Gmail accounts. It…
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Hosted Mail (updated)
A while back I did an episode of the Gmail Podcast where I showed you how to switch your internet domain to be hosted by Google’s mail servers. This gives you the freedom of managing your own mail accounts, distribution lists, and other aspects of your mail environment, while providing all the benefits of Gmail…
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My Gmail Story
I couldn’t resist a chance to share my unique story with the rest of the Gmail community.
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Odds and Ends
Google has been very busy lately adding some very nice features to their version 2.0 interface. As a reminder, the ver 2.0 interface requires IE 6 or later or FireFox 2.0 or later. if you haven’t been following the blog on the Gmail Podcast website I’ll bring you up to date on a few announcements…
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Shortcut Keys Help Screen
It’s almost as if Google can read my mind! This is really scary. Just yesterday I was getting frustrated at looking up shortcut keys I rarely use. No, I’m not going to print one and put it next to my monitor – that’s clutter. Fear no more, the shortcut key to end all that has…
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GTalk now supports AIM Buddy List
The developers at Google are keeping my little corner of the G-Verse busy the last few weeks. Today is no exception! Not only did Google add colored labels to Gmail, but also AOL Instant Messenger buddies to the chat feature. Once again, you need to be using the new version of the Gmail user interface…
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Colored Labels
Google has added color to the labels. The key here is you need to be using the new interface. Sorry Internet Explorer 6 users (and perhaps some others I haven’t tested yet). It’s funny how such a simple thing like color can really make the labels come alive. I’ve color coded several of my more…
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GSpace
Gspace is an add-on to the Firefox browser that allows you to use your 5+GB of Gmail storage as drive space. Start by downloading GSpace from http://addons.mozilla.org. If you enter GSpace in the search box at the top of the screen, you shouldn’t have any trouble finding it. The download process is straightforward and requires…