Are you a power Gmail user? If not, these 6 little known, yet useful Gmail tips can get you on the road to being a power Gmail user today!

1. Import your contacts from Outlook, Thunderbird or Yahoo! Mail to Gmail. Don’t spend your entire weekend trying to copy your contacts over from another program or service! Just export your contacts as a .csv file and upload to Gmail. You can upload up to 3,000 contacts at a time. Here’s a detailed how-to on importing contacts using this method.

There are certain people in the world whom I detest intensely. When I hear of these people, I get really irritated and bad-tempered. People such as Britney Spears and Paris Hilton for example. I am getting more and more annoyed with the ongoing media drama of Britney in the hospital or Paris flaunting herself wherever there is a camera.

So whenever they popped up in my RSS reader, I would be hitting the delete button rather aggressively. After writing about how to block undesirables from your Google News page, I then decided to see if there was any way to block them entirely from ever appearing in my RSS reader again - and there IS! It’s called Feed Rinse. Hallelujah.