August 24, 2008
You’ll never see me driving around in a pimped out car, but tweaking the looks of my computer and everything on it is a whole different case altogether. When you surf around the web long enough, it will happen. It’s just a matter of time. Sooner or later you’ll arrive on this God awful website [...]
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July 15, 2008
Ever wanted to master the keyboard shortcuts and get more productive on the web? Here is everything you need – 10 quick cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web. Download, print and stick them somewhere near your desk. Google Cheat Sheet Windows Cheat Sheet* Mac OS X Cheat Sheet [...]
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July 12, 2008
Spam has evolved from a minor annoyance into a fundamental issue. To the average user it’s a waste of time and nerves, to the economy it’s a major factor costing a ton of money. Spam is something we will never get rid of but there are ways to cut it down and get it under [...]
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June 8, 2008
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! 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 [...]
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May 30, 2008
GmailAssistant is an amazing little java application that allows you to check multiple Gmail accounts including Gmail for Domains at the same time. GmailAssistant accesses your Google accounts securely using IMAP over SSL. Basically folks, that means that it’s pretty secure! GmailAssistant allows you to completely customize your notification options. You can choose to have [...]
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May 27, 2008
If you happen to be one of the many people who use their built-in mobile web browser to check your e-mail, chances are you get frustrated by that little scroll wheel or tiny scrollbar when trying to move around inside the page. If you’ve used the web-based version of Gmail on your mobile browser you’ll [...]
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April 27, 2008
I have had the email purists gang up on me for this in the past but I constantly use my Gmail account for backing up my digital life. This has led to the online lynch mobs chanting “an email account is not for backing up important documents!” and they are right to a certain extent. [...]
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April 24, 2008
With the advent of Apple’s new iPhone and iPod Touch, a whole host of websites have set up mobile version of their regular site. Notable among these various sites is Gmail and all of the related Google web services. (disclaimer: for the rest of this article I will be referring to the iPod touch, but [...]
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April 20, 2008
I am always mystified about why people would want to do this but there is now a way for you to read your Gmail email in a RSS reader. Previously, it was very difficult, bordering on impossible. Gmail has a RSS feed which is called an “authenticated feed” which basically means you need to enter [...]
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March 13, 2008
Much has already been said on Make Use Of about keyboard shortcuts but I want to focus specifically on the ones I use most often. I’ve often found that it’s easy to be totally overwhelmed by the sheer volume of shortcuts out there (who can remember them all?) so I’m going to boil it down [...]
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February 17, 2008
In the interests of full disclosure, I didn’t come up with this idea. I read about it in a computer magazine a year or two back but of course when I wanted to refer to it for this article, I couldn’t find it! But someone on Digg eventually managed to find it so here is [...]
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February 7, 2008
Prism is a really neat application brought to us by Mozilla Labs. Prism, which was earlier named Webrunner, is an application that enables users to run their favorite web apps directly from their desktop or start menu locations. This concept isn’t new, Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight do very similar things but Mozilla’s stance is [...]
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January 5, 2008
Worried about keeping your email archives online? Need a simple and free tool to backup your emails? If so, then read further. Here you go, five free and different utilities to handle email backups: MailStore Windows only email backup utility that lets you backup all your emails from multiple email accounts and programs into one [...]
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January 3, 2008
Since the holidays were recently upon us and many of the readers out there no doubtedly got a new cell phone, I wanted to introduce an old friend to your new cell phone. Google Mobile, meet our readers’ new phones. You guys will get along great together! Google has been really stepping up their efforts [...]
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November 24, 2007
I live in Gmail. In fact my entire life gets run by Gmail in every possible conceivable way (except for cooking my dinner which is the next Gmail feature that I am waiting for!). I am now running a little experiment to see how much information I can collate from inside Gmail without having to [...]
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