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Thanks to a recent Gmail search update, it is now easier than ever before to search for messages by size and date. For example, you can now search for larger:5m to yield all messages that have attachments larger than 5MB. Better yet, you can combine this with the older_than operator and search for size:5m older_than:1y, thus yielding a list of all messages older than a year and larger than 5MB.
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Gmail's new compose mode is simple, it's clean, and it's a great sign that Google isn't done improving Gmail yet. Back in July Google acquired Sparrow, a brilliant email client for Mac and iOS users. Their team joined the Gmail team, and if this is a sign of things to come from that I have to say: everyone wins.
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There are tons of tools out there that can help with Gmail productivity, and we’ve shown you some excellent ones in the past. If you’re still looking for Mr. right-add-on for your Gmail usage, you should be able to find it below, in this all new list of Gmail browser plugins, which will boost your productivity.
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The innovative to-do app Any.DO has launched a new feature, which conveniently integrates right into Gmail. This new Gmail integration lets you add tasks to Any.DO directly from your emails, eliminating the annoying habit of leaving a pile of unread messages with tasks to do later. Considering the increasing amount of users who use email as a means to receive and remember tasks, this feature could prove very useful, especially if you already use Any.DO.
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Reading and managing emails is one half of the story. Composing them is the other half, and Gmail just went in for an improvement there. Using a separate window to write emails allows you access to your inbox. Gmail believes that this wasn’t used by many, and so they have gone about improving it so it is more prominent and gives you more control.
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Google has just added India to the growing list of countries that can use Google Chat to send free text messages to mobile phones. Users in India can now send SMS messages from Gmail’s chat interface to all available mobile carriers, and also receive messages from mobile devices straight to their Gmail. The service is not available in the standalone Google Talk app.
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The global language may be English, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t express ourselves in other languages. Google recognized that and now has added 100 virtual keyboards, transliteration and IMEs to Gmail. Google calls them Input Tools and with these inclusions, Gmail now officially supports 75 languages.
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Juggling several email inboxes can be a hassle, but luckily with all the main email providers - Gmail, Outlook (Hotmail) and Yahoo - you can merge all of your email accounts into one inbox, and send and receive email all from one place on the web. This will come in particularly handy to those of you who don't like the idea of using a desktop client. We've put together a guide for all the major email providers, making it easy for you to figure out how to do it.
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Have you ever received an email and wondered if it was legitimate or not? Or maybe you have corresponded with someone and were curious to know more about them. Of course you could ask, but it might come across awkward or simply off-topic to what is being discussed. Plus, do you really want to ask each person you encounter online through email what their social accounts are, what they do, where they’re from and so on? Likely not.
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A good number of users highly value the services provided by Google, including emails, calendars, tasks, documents, and so much more. But Linux users also love their desktop applications, and how they often integrate very nicely with the desktop. So what can people do who use Linux but love Google's products? Thankfully, there are a good number of Linux applications which can connect very well to both Google's products as well as your Linux desktop.
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When it comes to email organization, the immediate reaction is often all about folders, tags, filters, priority marks, and things of that sort. Not that any of those are bad - in fact, most of those features are plain awesome. But there’s another feature in Gmail that can help you to automatically organize your incoming mail - the alias. In any field that requires organization, methods can be split into two types - reactionary and proactionary.
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Many cases have been made for why Gmail is an ingenious webmail client. Now even though it is almost trivial to find emails in Gmail, knowing that you can find them doesn't mean you will remember to search and read them once they have been filed or archived. So what else can you do to not forget about important information?
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Gmail is an ingenious webmail client with many awesome features. Being a Google service, one of its strengths obviously is Search. And this is exactly how Google revolutionized email. In Gmail you don't really have to worry about filing or sorting emails because you an always find them in a matter of seconds using the Search. While you will easily get to most emails with a plain keyword search, it does help to know some advanced search operators.
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Google uses OAuth 2.0, the latest standard of the open protocol that allows secure authorization with third party web apps. But now, Google has gone ahead a step further and added OAuth 2.0 support for IMAP/SMTP and XMPP. This brings Gmail and GTalk within the ambit of OAuth2.0 with all its extra security features.
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Thinking of switching to Gmail, but afraid to lose all of your old emails and contacts? Don't be. Gmail can easily grab your old emails, especially if you were already using a web-based client. And even if you weren't grabbing those emails is perfectly possible. Importing from an old email address isn't a new Gmail feature, but it's one someone switching to Gmail won't necessarily know anything about. Here's how it works.
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