Gmail Posts

Peter Jalbert

New Gmail Feature: Fetch POP Mail

We’re a step further in having Gmail as our universal inbox. Here’s a new feature I think a lot of users have been asking for: the ...

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Peter Jalbert

Attach Files In Gmail By Drag-and-Drop

I used to use Microsoft Outlook and even (gosh, no!) Lotus Notes before I totally moved to web-based email services like Gmail. One thing I missed was ...

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The Tutor

Is Gmail a Killer App?

Steve Ruble has a great post today on turning Gmail into your personal nerve center that might make you think that it is - However, in recent weeks I have ...

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Does Google really care about our Privacy?

As Google grows that question is becoming more and more important and other bloggers have rehashed the topic to death already so I won’t! Instead ...

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Peter Jalbert

Open 2 Gmail Sessions In Firefox

If you’re like me, you probably have more than one Gmail account. After all, spam is still prevalent these days (never could totally count on Gmail’s ...

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The Tutor

Firefox 3 to Support Google Apps Offline

I caught this interesting piece from Richard over at Read/WriteWeb, apparently FF3.O will allow the user to use web apps offline as well as on: Robert O’Callahan ...

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Peter Jalbert

Gmail Now Open For Public Signup

Good news. The best webmail in town just got better. Now you no longer need that precious invitation in order to get signed up. Google has ...

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Peter Jalbert

Gmail Webclips

Boy is RSS getting more popular by the minute. Sometimes you don’t even notice that it’s RSS you’re working with. RSS is, of course, really simple ...

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Peter Jalbert

Gmail: Open Attachments Directly in Google Docs

In my opinion, one of the best features of Gmail is that it lets you view attachments directly on your browser as a webpage (by clicking ...

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Peter Jalbert

How To Setup Filters To Automatically Sort Mailing List Messages (part 2)

Recently we presented the use of an email address suffix to automatically add labels to your inbound emails. However, given the limitations, it’s generally better to ...

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Peter Jalbert

How To Setup Filters To Automatically Sort Mailing List Messages

Let’s face it. Spam sucks. But sometimes we tend to create our own “spam.” And this is by subscribing to e-groups and mailing lists. True, they’re ...

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Peter Jalbert

GMail HTML View: When AJAX Slows You Down

One of the best things that Google had to offer when it started out was that it used an AJAX interface. This meant users no longer ...

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Peter Jalbert

How to Archive ALL Your Gmail Messages

Lets face it. One of the offshoots of having a humongous inbox size limit is that sometimes you’ll be too lazy to delete those spammy messages ...

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Peter Jalbert

Prioritize Gmail Messages At a Glance

We earlier mentioned that you can use labels and indicators to help you sort your email visually at a glance. And you can set this up ...

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Redirects again, or does Google just have a problem with Authority?

As you’d expect “GMail” is a very popular search term at Google, and look at what I’m seeing sitting at #6 today: That’s a redirect link direct ...

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Peter Jalbert

GMail: It’s The Small Details That Matter

Sure, Gmail is well-known for its 2.7 (and growing) Gigabytes of mail space and its threaded message views. But it’s not just those big things that ...

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Peter Jalbert

5 New Gmail Features

In our opinion, the best things in life come in subtle forms. You don’t have to be very loud about something, but if you’re into the ...

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Can’t find GMail?

Our logs tell us that lots of people can’t find Google GMail, so here’ a few pointers for you: Although GMail.com will redirect you to the right ...

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Peter Jalbert

Using Gmail as Your Universal Email Account

Having a multitude of email addresses, I thought of simplyfing my life and workflow one day. I realized I’ve been wasting too much time checking up ...

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Peter Jalbert

Oh Google Talk and GMail Chat, When Will You Have the Same Features?

It was supposed to be the other way around. GMail chat was supposed to be a supplementary to Google talk, meaning GTalk would be the main ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Roundup: What’s New This Past Week?

It’s exciting times again for Google, as new features and sevices had been announced in the past few days. First, there’s the new sound notification in GMail ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Personalized Homepage – Yet Another AJAX App?

Yahoo has My Yahoo!, and maybe you’re wondering why Google doesn’t seem to have its own version of a personalized home page. Well, it actually does, ...

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Google Talk in GMail – initial thoughts

When Google gave us GMail, we got more email space than we ever needed. But when they gave us Google Talk, many wished for more features, ...

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GMail and Google Talk integration: trying it out

Google has recently implemented tighter integration between its famed GMail electronic mail service, and Google Talk, its cool—if Spartan in features—instant messaging and voice-chatting software. First, ...

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Gmail + Aliases

Some email providers support something called “plus” addressing. Gmail is one of them. It’s not a well-known feature; in fact, I don’t believe it is even ...

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