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Well, not literally, of course, but now you can access Gmail even when you’re offline. The Ninjas over at the Gmail team have created a masterpiece and are inviting you to give their new offering a spin. Too Dramatic, was it ? Well, the reason that I’m being so dramatic is that the feature that [...]
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In October, Sharninder wrote a great article here at MakeUseOf called “5 Gmail Labs Features Everyone Should Try.” That was only four months ago, but Gmail has made so many great changes over the last few months that it’s time for another edition. Gmail Labs is full of experimental new features that you can choose [...]
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Google Tasks is a recent offering from the web giant, offering you the ability to keep a list of things to do. We’re going to explore several methods of accessing your tasks list, varying from your desktop to a gadget within Gmail itself. Google Tasks on Your Desktop Available for all platforms capable of running [...]
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It’s a little feature in Googleland, but it adds a dash to our web talk. From the official Gmail blog I got the first hint of a new feature where we can now watch and share videos from within the chat window, while engaging in a normal tete-a-tete. Presently, the feature only supports videos from [...]
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FireGPG is a Firefox addon that allows you to encrypt gmailmessages and send encrypted email from Gmail with ease. It uses GnuPG, which is a program that utilizes public-key cryptography for securing the messages. Public key cryptography is probably the most widely used method for securing data, as it quite effective when used properly. Public-key [...]
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Say goodbye to ‘copy & paste’.  There are easier ways to organize information.  Zotero, a handy Firefox extension, picks up where Google’s ailing Notebook application leaves off. Marketed as a research tool, it is actually a tiny miracle.  Not only can it be used to bookmark information, but it also permits its user to highlight [...]
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Here is a compiled list containing 5 free clever email applications that will save you time, work, and the possibility of you smashing your computer to bits. Choose which of these applications benefits you the most and begin to simplify your email usage.   (1) SimpleMail (Firefox Extension) The first email application is called SimpleMail. [...]
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I’m the type of person that has to write everything down. If I don’t write it down, it simply doesn’t get done. It’s not necessarily the easiest trait to deal with, but thankfully there are a number of applications that help me remember everything I have to do, everywhere I have to be, and all [...]
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I recently counted all my email accounts, and I have close to 50. Of course I don’t use them all, but I certainly have more than one active account. The fact is, most people do, and it can be frustrating to manage all those emails and logins – not to mention social networks, a form [...]
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How many times have you had an email conversation and then realized that you need to share the details of the conversation in a document ? Copy and pasting from an email to a word or text document is such a waste of time and it becomes an even bigger pain when the thread is [...]
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Has Google missed the tree because of the forest? Gmail has done a lot for unwrapping email from the staid “click and send”.  It enables us to do many things such as collect our mails from several POP3 accounts, configure some custom addresses with a dot here and there…but it just plain ‘forgot’ to put [...]
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I love Adobe PDF files. I love the format, the features and their ease of use. But I have never really bonded with Adobe Reader or FoxIt and to be honest, I am not a big fan of overloading my computer with too many bloated software programs in the first place. If I can find an [...]
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Ever since Gmail Labs introduced “add a gadget by its URL” to the Gmail sidebar, we’ve seen lots of possibilities emerge for Gmail. Gone are the days when Gmail was just a simple email service. Now we’ve got video chat, to-do lists, and just yesterday, it was announced that Gmail was re-releasing their SMS service for [...]
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Not so long ago we looked at how to send emails to cell phone as SMS for free. Lots of people found the article quite useful. Today I wanted to extend it a bit further and show you how you can use the info from the previous post to setup SMS alerts for important emails [...]
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Today, when I was creating a new email filter to get rid of a tiresome email marketer who won’t take no for an answer, I came across two new filters in Gmail : “send canned response” and “never send it to spam”.  It is the first one that made me realise that I can now [...]
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