Gmail Posts

May 1st, 2008
J. Phil

Quick Gmail Tip: Mute a Conversation

If you use Gmail for business correspondence or even if you have a lively inbox, you have probably run into the situation where you ...

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April 28th, 2008
J. Phil

Gmail Error #102

A few months ago we discussed an issue where Gmail might occasionally (or if you ...

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April 18th, 2008
Mark O

The Mystery Of The Disappearing Google IMAP

The other day I thought I was finally going senile and I started to get ready to check myself into the local psychiatric hospital.     Because in ...

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April 15th, 2008
Peter Jalbert

Quick Gmail Tip: Reply or Forward in New Window

Last time, our quick Gmail tip was about composing messages in a new window with a handy quick keyboard/mouse shortcut, the Shift-Click. While we're at ...

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April 9th, 2008
Peter Jalbert

Quick Gmail Tip: Compose in a New Window

I admit it. I'm a tabbed-browsing freak. At any given time, I would have dozens of tabs open, in two or three windows. In the mess ...

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April 3rd, 2008
Peter Jalbert

Quick Gmail Tip: Adding A Signature

Sometimes we take things for granted or overlook some useful stuff that's right under our noses. Gmail's signature feature may be one such overlooked feature. This ...

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April 1st, 2008
Peter Jalbert

I use GMail For The Important Things

I'm of the opinion that online professionals like me prefer to have their data and information always accessible, and always on hand, no matter if one ...

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March 26th, 2008
Peter Jalbert

Don’t Give Out Your Gmail Password. Ever.

Time and again I have received different email invitations to join a social networking site, social bookmarking site, or an online classmates/alumni directory. Indeed, I have ...

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January 18th, 2008
Mark O

Lifehacker releases an update to Better Gmail

In a long-awaited and highly-anticipated move, Lifehacker's Gina Trapani has released an update to the Better Gmail extension for Firefox. The popular extension, which ...

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January 16th, 2008
Mark O

How to open up multiple instances of Google Talk

The other day I started up another Google account so I can chat to business clients on Google Talk and keep it separate from my ...

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January 15th, 2008
Mark O

Using Google Talk to IM home to Twitter

I've blogged about using Google Talk and Twitter together in the past but I figured it was worth briefly covering it again for ...

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January 13th, 2008
Mark O

Gmail starts to freak out with crashes, errors and oops!

Gmail seems to be going through a pretty rocky time of the month right now. In the past 48 hours, I have been ...

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December 16th, 2007
Mark O

Google Reader shared items - nice idea, badly thought out

I am a bit late to this party as I was away all day yesterday at a wedding but upon logging ...

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December 14th, 2007
Mark O

Dave asks: “How do I group contacts in Gmail?”

One of our readers Dave (aka Nikon-Man) asked a question over on StumbleUpon that I thought would be ...

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December 14th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Gmail Epiphanies

Here are some epiphanies on how Gmail may well be the ultimate business email solution around. First, because of its efficient forwarding, POP and IMAP features, ...

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December 10th, 2007
Mark O

What’s your Gmail story?

Gmail has just started a new feature where you can submit a story about why you love Gmail. Despite a ...

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December 10th, 2007
Mark O

How to change your Gmail password

Changing your Gmail password is another issue that a lot of people seem to email me about.    So for the record, here's how to do it ...

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December 10th, 2007
Mark O

How to import contacts into your Gmail address book

In the seven years that I have been using the internet, I have had about ten email addresses (excluding all the addresses I set up for ...

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December 7th, 2007
Mark O

Gmail mistakenly shuts down user accounts - including mine!

Their motives in trying to crack down on spammers is admirable but in the end, they are messing up big time. ...

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December 5th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

Gmail Manager Firefox Extension

Gmail changed the rules of email, bringing to the game the idea of “virtually ...

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December 4th, 2007
Mark O

Gmail slowly starts to roll out AIM chat support

Holy Guacamole Batman! Hot on the heels of introducing colored labels, Gmail is now in the slow process ...

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December 3rd, 2007
Mark O

Gmail introduces colored labels

Once again, another Greasemonkey script bites the dust as Gmail slowly starts to roll out colored labels to its users. ...

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November 23rd, 2007
Mark O

Taking advantage of the new Gmail bookmarkable URL’s

A lot of people were impressed by the recent changes to Gmail especially the feature that gives unique URL's to folders and emails. So ...

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November 12th, 2007
Mark O

Germany approves new data laws - the end of Gmail in Germany?

By Mark O'Neill The German government last week passed new laws which orders web and phone service providers to keep their data logs for six ...

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November 3rd, 2007
Mark O

A Fistful of Greasemonkey Scripts To Pimp Up Your Gmail and Reader

By Mark O'Neill In my humble opinion, the two best things to happen to the internet was Firefox and Greasemonkey. With these ...

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