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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.
Gmail’s New POP3 Option
Jul 30th
When you choose to use Gmail for your POP3 email client instead of using a POP3 email client (like Thunderbird, Outlook etc… some) email programs show both your Gmail address and your POP3 email’s address.
I do this at work because I prefer Gmail for its superior spam protection, and because when I want to access my email I don’t have to be at my home or office, and I don’t need to worry about transferring emails, settings and such every timwe I get a new computer. So at myemail@gmail.com I get email from mywork@myjob.com, and until now some email programs would show my emails as:
From myemail@gmail.com on behalf of mywork@myjob.com
Not so cool, but now I don’t have to face that.
Read the Gmail blog post that explains how to do this…
New Gmail POP3 settings
Gmail July Wrap-up
Jul 26th
Wow! I’ve missed a lot of features lately…
Gmail came out of Beta (hooray!); announced you can now retrieve your password via text message from your cell phone (you must turn this feature on and priovide your mobile number for security purposes); launched a new feature showing their “super-trustworthy anti-phishing key” graphically you an email has been pre-filtered (in Gmail Labs); Gmail’s Tasks has graduated out of Labs, and is Gmail Lab’s first proud graduate; images in Contacts are now displayed automatically if you’ve emailed them twice (so far); and most recently launched a new feature to aid unsubscribing newsletters.
Hurry on over to these articles and read the details since I’ve just come back from vacation I’ve not added any comments or opinions except the simple “hoorray” that Gmail is out of Beta.
