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If you're a lover of Google's famous Gmail, you'll be very pleased to note that you can now add your own photos to your Gmail theme. Gone are the days of choosing between Google's theme choices. Now, your theme is whatever you want it to be.
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If you're a regular Internet user, you've probably got at least one webmail account and some sort of cloud data hosting somewhere, like Dropbox or Box. If you're a big user of cloud services, you may in fact use several of these services and have multiple accounts for each service. Why not link them all together and search them at once from your Mac? You can now do this using Found.
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You might send a vital email to a friend alerting him to a change of plans. A read receipt at least lets you know if your friend has read it, or do you need to call him in time. You can make use of a few workarounds to bring in some sort of tracking method for online services like Gmail and Yahoo Mail. They aren’t perfect but here are three.
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It makes sense to analyze our emailing habits and try to learn something from them, and indeed, a number of Gmail analysis tools have recently popped up. We’ve seen Google’s Activity Report tool that offers Gmail stats, and today I’m here to show you Gmail Meter, a free and clever Google Apps script that goes over your inbox and emails you with an interesting report.
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Google has been paying more attention to its search feature lately, and after launching the Knowledge Graph last week, it’s now also improving search in Gmail as well. We all know that Google’s auto-complete feature is one smart cookie, and now we can enjoy this same functionality in Gmail, with suggestions based on the actual content of our email.
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WiseStamp allows you to create multiple personalized email signatures for all standard webmail accounts, including Gmail, Windows Live / Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail. In addition to standard personal data and social networking profile links, WiseStamp provides apps for adding dynamic content to your email signatures, such as your latest tweets, random quotes, or RSS updates.
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An overflowing inbox is a problem, and one almost everyone has to face daily. We’re all trying to avoid leaving a huge stack of unread e-mails in our inbox, but let’s face it, we can’t deal with everything the minute it comes in. The confusion a full inbox creates is sometimes so big, it becomes a reason to delay answering all by itself. There are many solutions and add-ons to create e-mail reminders and have e-mails return at specific times.
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Remove features you don't like from Gmail, leaving behind only the things you do. Gmelius is a simple extension for Chrome, Firefox and Opera that lets you turn off parts of Gmail you're not interested in, including ads. Gmail's interface is great, and largely clean, but recent changes at Google leave minimalists pulling their hair out.
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Offline Google Mail for Chrome allows you to use Gmail without an Internet connection. Read, search, and send emails – all offline. When you do connect to the Internet, Offline Google Mail synchronizes with your Gmail account, downloading new emails and sending queued messages. Offline Google Mail replaces the deprecated Google Gears for using Gmail offline.
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Many of us have multiple Gmail accounts to separate private email from work and projects. However, life is rarely linear and we often find ourselves going back and forth between different accounts. How do you best do this without having to continuously log in and out? In this article, I will explore 4 ways to address this issue, moving from simple to more advanced solutions.
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Google has launched a small new feature for Gmail which is going to make a lot of people very happy. If you’re not a fan of the Gmail icon buttons, which are part of the Gmail’s new look, you can now have your text buttons back in seconds. Gmail’s new look was launched in November, [...]
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Gmail is one of Google's greatest projects and in my eyes it has revolutionized email. Not only is it the best web-based email client around, Gmail also beats free desktop clients by miles. After using Thunderbird for almost a decade, I recently switched to exclusively using Gmail's web interface. In this article I will share my ten favorite features that made me switch and will make me stick with Gmail.
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It is not uncommon to have several email accounts, but checking multiple accounts in different places is tedious. Hence, many people revert to a desktop email client like Thunderbird or Outlook to manage all their mail from one place. In this article, I will tell you why Gmail is better and I will show you how you can easily and efficiently read all your email in a single Gmail account.
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Google Mail currently offers 7,679 MB of free storage. For the average user, that is enough space to last a lifetime. But what if you run out of storage space nevertheless? How can you find and delete obsolete emails in bulk or track down large attachments to regain precious MBs? This article highlights three ways to quickly make room for more mail.
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We’re storing more and more data in the cloud these days. Email, contacts, documents, photos, calendar entries - you name it, it’s on Google’s servers. But what happens when the services we rely on go down? When the US government seized Megaupload, many users lost data they were storing on Megaupload’s servers.
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