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Email and Gmail
Email and Gmail, especially the latter since I think its such a great email platform.
More Gmail Themes
Sep 4th
1. Update: Google has announced even more Gmail themes.
2. Let Gmail know you want to upload your own pictures to your Gmail theme… go to Gmail’s
Suggest a feature for Gmail page and click the “Suggest It” button next to More themes/create your own themes
Suggest a feature for Gmail page and click the “Suggest It” button next to More themes/create your own themes
4 new themes and I jumped all over the green one. Gmail has added these themes just in time, because I was getting a little tired of the last one and I was READY for something new. I’m glad they even care enough to add themes because I’d hate to have to learn to skinning Gmail myself, I’d rather just choose from pre-selected options with awesome pictures and so far I like many of them, so more kudos to Gmail!
Original Gmail Themes Post.
Old Gmail Themes Post.
Gmail Themes Help.
Let Gmail know you want to upload your own pictures to your Gmail theme… go to Gmail’s
Suggest a feature for Gmail page and click the “Suggest It” button next to More themes/create your own themes
Suggest a feature for Gmail page and click the “Suggest It” button next to More themes/create your own themes
Gmail Ninja Tips Goes More International
Sep 4th
Gmail announced today that you can now get your Gmail Ninja tips in more languages - Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and UK English. Plus they’ve also added some new tips to the English site received from user feedback.
Send your Gmail Tip and who knows, maybe they’ll use it!
More on 09-01-2009 Gmail Outage
Sep 2nd
posted a follow up to the Gmail Outage Tuesday mentioning that the outage was 100 minutes long, and noted the root cause of the outage
Here’s what happened: This morning (Pacific Time) we took a small fraction of Gmail’s servers offline to perform routine upgrades. This isn’t in itself a problem — we do this all the time, and Gmail’s web interface runs in many locations and just sends traffic to other locations when one is offline.
- Gmail Blog
More details are inluded in the More on today’s Gmail issue post including what they’ve done to insure it doesn’t happen again. You xcan check out their entire post by clicking the bold link above.
Even the big guys go down sometimes, it just so happens Google suffered this outage during one of the prime times of the week, just as the east coast was getting off of work – which ironically was part of the reason for the overload in the first place.
Gmail “Ouchage” – Gmail Down for Hours
Sep 1st
I just read about the Gmail Outage (7:50pm EST) and was glad to see I could log back in again. The update in the Gmail blog post notes that the issue was fixed at 2:37pm, and I experienced it at about that time at the end of my workday here on the east coast.
Glad to see its fixed and I can get into my Gmail now, and hopefully everyone else can, too. Pretty cool of them to make a “hey we were down and we’re sorry” post.
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eWeek: Gmail Outage
Gmail Adds Popout for Contacts
Aug 30th
Gmail has a great autocomplete feature when you are typing the email addresses or names of people you want to email. If you’ve ever had trouble remembering someone’s name, or email address then you will appreciate this new addition.
When composing a message you can now click To, Cc, or Bcc in the compose screen to bring up Gmail’s new Contact Chooser (in the red outline at right). The Contact Chooser has a search box at the top, a dropdown for all of the different categories of contacts and groups, a box listing the contacts that fall under the category of contacts or group you have selected, and a box listing the contacts you have chosen.
Contact chooser is a great addition and is flexible for different situations you may run into writing emails amdf can simplify writing emails a little bit.
New in Gmail – Email Your Task Lists
Aug 21st
Coincidentally today I was wishing tasks could be a more useful feature for me. I use tasks at work and I use them at home, but I wanted a way to shuttle the info between the two. Gmail has an answer for that and even more, now you can email your task list.
For example today I was thinking of some ideas I had to add features to the websites we create at the office. the last thing I need is another paper list, or another item on my daily To Do list! Just click the Switch list button at bottom right…
…and select “New list…“, and in my case I make a list called Future Work Ideas, then type in my ideas.. Then on over to the Actions menu, click Email Task List and in the compose email window just type email it to myself at home.
Such a simple feature, but so very useful and cool!
Import Mail and Contacts from Other Accounts – Switch to Gmail Easier
Aug 19th
Back in May I mentioned import email and contacts for Gmail being added, plus Gmail has worked more on contact imports, and now they’ve improved importing of mail and contacts from other accounts into Gmail. Its now simpler to move your mail over to Gmail than ever before. Says the Gmail blog:
You can even have your messages forwarded from your old account for 30 days, giving you time to take Gmail for a test drive while you make up your mind.
This new feature is available in all newly-created Gmail accounts, and it is slowly being rolled out to all existing accounts. It’ll take longer than the few hours or days that most Gmail features take to get out to everyone… Sorry, businesses and schools using Google Apps won’t see these new migration options.
Other Gmail Import & Contacts Posts
Importing Contacts and Mail
New fields for Gmail contacts and better importing too
Bringing your contacts to the cloud
Gmail Thinks of Notebook and Netbook Users
Aug 5th
If you have a lower screen resolution you might appreciate this latest Gmail feature in Gmail Labs if you use labels. You can now hide labels so you can see the email subject line, mostly for notebooks and netbooks.
On smaller screen resolutions – or whenever your browser screen isn’t adjusted wide enough – you may only see the from email address, some labels and… well that’s it (see the link above for a screenshot).
I guess if this one takes off you might see a button in the main Gmail screen for it later.
