Gmail Posts

Christine Buske

How to Create a Gmail Shortcut for iPhone Home Screen

Although I love the idea of an iPhone, I am not a regular iPhone user unless I can get my hands on one of my friend’s ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

How To Add External Gadgets To Gmail

The best thing that has happened to Gmail in the last two years is the introduction of Gmail Labs and then the subsequent additions of some ...

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Christine Buske

Preview Google Docs Directly in Gmail

Gmail let’s you preview pictures, YouTube videos, Picasa Albums, and Flickr Albums. It doesn’t stop there, now you can also preview Google document attachments directly in ...

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Christine Buske

Stop! Gmail Feature Prevents Emailing the Wrong Person

Sending an email to the wrong person can be extremely embarrassing, and can even cause you to lose your job. A while ago, a government worker ...

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Christine Buske

Gmail Ramps Up Productivity with New Labels Feature

Gmail has been my task manager for quite some time now, and I use it on a day to day basis to keep track of what ...

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Peter Jalbert

Are You Being Phished?

Ever got one of those emails asking you for your credit card details? Most likely it’s a phishing scam. Usually, the emails look pretty legitimate, and ...

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Peter Jalbert

Lost your Gmail password?

It happens, I guess. Everyone will lose their password at one time or another; and it’ll be made of suck. Come on, who here among you people ...

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Christine Buske

How to Whitelist in Gmail

Gmail has a fantastic built-in spam filter, but no spam filter is absolutely perfect. Sometimes, we might run into a situation where a much-anticipated email actually ...

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Peter Jalbert

Drag and Drop your emails to labels with Gmail

So I logged on my Gmail account today, and I noticed something different. Aside from the loads of email I got, there was this huge reminder ...

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Peter Jalbert

Send forbidden files back home using Gmail

So if you have some files you want to email home but they are .exe files, and as we all know, everybody’s favorite email client is ...

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Peter Jalbert

Use Gmail to consolidate your email addresses

If you’re anything like me, you probably have around a dozen emails from different services. There’s Yahoo (I think I have five of them), there’s my ...

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Peter Jalbert

Reduce Spam in your Gmail Inbox with a Language Filter

So last time I taught you guys how to automatically switch languages so you and your contacts won’t have a hard time translating each others emails. For ...

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Peter Jalbert

Translate your email, automatically

So let’s say you get this email written in Spanish. You don’t know if it’s something important, but you’re pretty sure it’s not spam either. You ...

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Peter Jalbert

Check your email even before you open your inbox

Know what would be a nifty timesaver? Some way for us to check our inboxes before we open it. No, I’m not crazy or anything (even ...

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Peter Jalbert

How to insert images in Gmail

So you want to put in an image on the email that you’re composing in Gmail. It’s funny and brilliant, and you know that a picture can ...

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Christine Buske

14 Add-ons that make Gmail more awesome(ly productive)

Gmail has been my email client of choice ever since I managed to get my hands on an invite years ago (ah, the days of Gmail-by-invitation-only, ...

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Peter Jalbert

Use Gmail Sender Time Zone to keep in sync with your contacts

Let’s say you get an angry email from your friend who’s halfway around the world. You receive it in the middle of the day, and you’re ...

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Christine Buske

New, Easier, Lazier Ways to Search in Gmail

Whenever I think Google can’t possibly add more features to Gmail, they prove me wrong. Currently, I have 1908 messages in my Gmail inbox. I’m sure there ...

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Peter Jalbert

Save yourself from sending out embarrassing emails

It all happens to the best of us. We send out something and we fail to attach the all-important file that was the reason for the ...

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Peter Jalbert

YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp previews are in Gmail

Sometimes, we just want to save time by choosing which links in our emails are worth clicking or not. It really isn’t a pleasant feeling if ...

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Peter Jalbert

Use Gmail Tasks to increase productivity

Let’s say you have a hundred things to do and there’s just no way to keep track of your tasks. That’s where Gmail Tasks come in ...

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Christine Buske

How to Turn Gmail into a Task Manager

It’s no secret that Gmail has a Task Manager. We’ve blogged about this before on GT as well, and others have weighed in their views on ...

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Christine Buske

3 Gmail Tweaks to Save Time

When I am supposed to work on a particular task, such as doing research online or writing a blog post, I often break off my activity ...

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Peter Jalbert

Import contacts and mail to Gmail, the easy way

If you’re switching to Gmail from another email provider, importing contacts and messages from your old email account can help you make the transition without having ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Sync for your mobile phones

Do you have lots of phones and your do phones have different sets of contacts each? Or maybe you want your email contacts synced with your ...

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