Gmail
Google launches iOS Gmail application
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
The new Gmail app will shortly be available for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Features:
- Get alerted to new messages with push notifications and sounds
- Find an email in seconds with search across your entire inbox
- Autocomplete email addresses from your Gmail contacts or select from your device’s address book
- Upload photos with a click using the new attachment button in compose view
- On iPad, navigate your inbox and read your mail simultaneously with split view
- Pull down your inbox to rapidly refresh if you’re eager for new mail
- Swipe right to view your labels without ever leaving your inbox
- Swiftly scroll through dozens of emails just by sliding your finger
New Gmail lab feature: Preview Pane
Friday, August 05, 2011
With the new 'Preview Pane' lab feature, your inbox looks a bit more like Gmail on your iPad and lets you quickly scan messages without opening them:
If you like to try it, you can enable the preview pane in Gmail > Settings > Labs.
Gmail Snooze with Apps Script
Read and answer emails at a later time by snoozing them. Google has published a script that lets you snooze an email for 1 to 5 days. Check out the Gmail blog post for more details.
For a more flexible solution, take a look at Boomerang..
Coming soon to Gmail: Pick your favorite inbox style
Friday, July 08, 2011
Exciting news! Over the next few weeks, Google will add new inbox styles to Gmail:
- Classic - This is the default inbox style most people are used to. In the Classic inbox, messages are ordered chronologically, with your most recent email at the top.
- Priority Inbox - Important and unread messages appear at the top of your inbox, then starred messages, then everything else. Each section can be customized further, so you can create your own inbox style.
- Important first - This style puts important mail at the top of the page (both read and unread messages). Everything else is in its own section at the bottom of your inbox. You may have noticed that we turned on importance arrows for everyone a few weeks ago; this inbox style separates messages with these arrows from those without.
- Unread first - Simple: unread mail at the top; everything else at the bottom.
- Starred first - Starred messages at the top; everything else at the bottom.
A preview of Gmail’s new look
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Google is working on a new Gmail look. You can already try it as a Gmail Theme: 1. Click the gear icon in top right of the main window 2. Click the "Mail Settings" link 2. Select the "Themes" tab 3. Either "Preview" or "Preview (Dense)" to switch to the new theme.
Here's how the design looks like:
Protect yourself from scams by knowing who really emailed you
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
I just found this article on the official Gmail Blog:
I recently received an email from what looked like my bank saying I should update my account, but it looked a little weird. I clicked on the “show details” link and quickly learned it wasn’t from my bank after all; instead of being sent from First National Bank’s real email address, this message originated from a random South African domain. If I hadn’t viewed these details, I could have been tricked — it wasn’t entirely obvious that this email was a fake.
Phishing messages are a form of spam that attempt to deceive recipients in order to gain access to their personal information. Starting today, Gmail will automatically display more information about the origin of certain messages you receive so you can be better informed and protect yourself from getting tricked. If someone fakes a message from a sender that you trust, like your bank, you can more easily see that the message is not really from where it says it’s from.
Whenever you receive a message from someone who isn’t already in your Gmail contacts, the header will now show the sender’s email address like this:
Websites sometimes send emails on behalf of someone, like when your friend Mike sends you an article from abc.com using one of the site’s “Share this story” links. Gmail will now show this information more prominently:
Gmail will also automatically detect suspicious messages and display a warning when it looks like someone may have spoofed a Gmail address (we do this by evaluating the message’s authentication data).
If you determine that an email is a phishing attempt, please let us know by reporting it (you can always do this by clicking the down arrow next to “Reply” at the top-right of the message and selecting “Report phishing”).
10 Gmail gadgets to try
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Just found this list on Google's Gmail Blog:
There is a powerful but little known Gmail feature that lives in Labs called “Add any gadget by URL.” Once you turn it on, you can add iGoogle gadgets (or any gadget specified by an .xml file) to the side of your Gmail account. While most of these gadgets are built by third-parties and not owned or maintained by Google, they can be super handy.
To install any of these gadgets, follow those steps: 1. From your Gmail account, go to the Labs tab of Gmail Settings. 2. Look for the Lab “Add any gadget by URL.” Enable it, then click “Save changes.” 3. Go to the new “Gadgets” tab under “Settings” and add the relevant .xml address.
Wikipedia Look for a specific query right from Gmail.
http://www.google.com/ig/modules/wikipedia.xmlGoogle Calculator Make some quick calculations while typing an email.
http://calebegg.com/calc.xmlNote Add a sticky note to the corner of your Gmail account.
http://www.google.com/ig/modules/sticky.xmlRemember the Milk If you’re a fan of this task management system, accessing all your “Remember the milk” notes from right within Gmail can be super handy.
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/modules/gmail/rtm.xmlPolyClock Gives you the time of day for any place in the world.
http://gad.getpla.net/poly/clock.xmlCurrency Converter A real time currency converter.
http://helloworld123---.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/currency-converter.xmlbit.ly URL shortener Lets you shorten URLs in a single click.
http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/107368512201818821991/bitly-shortener.xmlFinally, you might be familiar with the last two gadgets, since they are also available as individual Gmail Labs:
Google Calendar Displays your Google Calendar agenda right from Gmail.
http://www.google.com/ig/modules/calendar.xmlGoogle Docs Gives you quick access to your most recent documents.
www.google.com/ig/modules/docs.xmlFind many more on this page
Gmail Lab features: 3 Labs graduations, 1 retirement
Thursday, June 02, 2011
The "Superstars", "Nested Labels", and "Advanced IMAP Controls" all graduated to normal Gmail features. Google decided to retire the "Google search box" lab feature.
Introducing the Gmail people widget
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
I personally use Rapportive to learn more about the people behind the emails. However, some of you are might be more interested about the interactions that you’ve had with a person rather than the social networks on which they appear. Seeing and solving that lack of context, [Google has introduced a People Widget for Gmail(http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-people-widget.html):
Email is just as much about the people you communicate with as it is what you communicate about. We think it can be helpful to view relevant information in context, which is why over the next two weeks we’re rolling out a new people widget located on the right hand side of your messages. The people widget surfaces content from friends, family and colleagues that is already available to you but may be hard to find and makes it easier to connect with them.
Next to every email message you can now see contextual information about the people in that conversation including recent emails you received from them, relevant Buzz posts, shared documents and calendar events. You also have quick access to a variety of ways to communicate with individuals, start a group chat or schedule a meeting with groups of people.
Gmail: Store up to 25000 contacts
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Gmail now stores more contacts and increases the maximum size of a contact:
Gmail used to have a limit of 10,000 contacts. For most of us, this was way more than enough, but we heard from some of you who use Gmail to communicate with more than 10,000 people. We want you to be able to store all of your contacts in a single place, so starting today, we’ve increased the limit for all Gmail users, including all those of you who use Google Apps, to 25,000 contacts.
Also, previously an individual contact could be no larger than 32KB — big enough for most people, but not always sufficient for those who like to keep a lot of notes on individual contacts. Now, each contact may be up to 128KB in size, allowing you to store more information in the notes field.
New Gmail Lab Feature: Background Send
Monday, May 02, 2011
Last week, Google published a new Gmail lab to make sending messages faster:
We’re always looking for ways to make Gmail faster. One of the most common delays happens after you hit that “Send” button, when you’re waiting patiently for a couple seconds for Gmail to send your message. If you send a lot of email, that can add up to a lot of lost time.
To help give you that time back, there’s a new feature in Gmail Labs called Background Send. Once you turn it on from the Labs tab in Settings, you can get on with what you’re doing while Gmail quietly sends off your mail in the background. You can keep reading your inbox, compose new messages, chat with people — all the things you’d usually do. You can even send more than one message in the background at the same time.
If anything goes wrong (maybe you got that email address wrong, or maybe your connection had a hiccup), you’ll see a warning message that prompts you to go back and fix the issue or try again later.
The “Send error” message will stay around until you decide to fix things, so you don’t have to stop whatever you’re doing right away. The only catch is that you should wait for your mail to finish sending before you close Gmail or shut down your computer. If messages are still being sent in the background when you shut down, your messages are probably going to be lost. You’ll know you’re good to go when you see a message like this:
Custom background image themes
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Google just announced custom background image themes:
Themes in Gmail are great — there are tons to choose from and they give your inbox a personalized look. But we’ve heard from many of you who thought it would be even better if you could give Gmail an even more personalized look and create themes completely on your own.
For a while, you’ve been able to set your own colors, and starting today you can customize your inbox with your own background image too.
Just go to the Themes tab in Settings and choose “Create your own theme.” There, you can select background images for the main area and the footer.
You can pick from any of your Picasa images or upload a new one. Enjoy!
Switching to Gmail got easier
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Visit the Gmail switch page to move from your old Email account to Gmail:
Switching email accounts can be painful. The idea of losing years of accumulated contacts and messages can sound daunting, to say the least. Luckily, switching to Gmail doesn’t mean you have to start totally fresh.
Back in 2009 we announced tools that let you import mail and contacts from other providers, such as AOL or Hotmail. Today we’re announcing the addition of fourteen more international domains to our list of supported email providers:
- aol.com.br
- hotmail.es
- hotmail.it
- hotmail.co.jp
- Kimo.com
- live.jp
- yahoo.es
- yahoo.cn
- yahoo.com.cn
- yahoo.com.hk
- yahoo.com.sg
- yahoo.com.tw
- yahoo.co.jp
- yahoo.it
We’ve also created a site, gmail.com/switch, with basic information and how and why you might want to switch to Gmail. If you’re reading this blog, chances are you’re already a Gmail user, but perhaps this link will be handy for friends and family.
Gmail: Click to call phone numbers
Friday, March 11, 2011
Gmail now detects phone numbers in emails and will convert them to clickable links:
With the ability to call phones built right into Gmail, you no longer have to get out your phone and retype a number anytime someone sends you one in an email or chat message. Starting today, you’ll see that phone numbers appear as links, like this:
Just click the number, and Gmail’s dialpad will pop up, already populated with the number you’re trying to call.
Click “Call” and voilà! Of course, if you don’t already have the voice and video plugin installed, you’ll be prompted to do that first.
You’ll also see a little green phone icon next to numbers in your contacts which you can use to do the same thing.
