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Google Advisor, Make Smarter, Faster Financial Decisions
Jun 18th
Google Advisor can help you make financial decisions. Advisor helps you choose Mortgage, Credit Card, Certificated of Deposit (CD’s), bank accounts and more. Yes, Google Advisor can help you with financial decisions by cutting down the time spent looking for, applying for and comparing offers and programs. Google for your daily life … check out Google Advisor, more info and video are below.
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Schedule Appointments with GCalendar
Jun 7th
Google Calendar keeps getting better and better… recently GCalendar added color-coding of events, and now they’ve introduced appointment slots which allows you the flexibility to accept appointments.
Or as Google’s post put it:
Google Calendar has become indispensable for organizing my own time and sharing my schedule with friends and coworkers. But what about letting others know about my preferred availability? Likewise, when I look at my hairdresser’s online calendar, I wonder why I can’t just book the open slot instead of remembering to call during regular business hours. Now, with appointment slots in Google Calendar, any individual or business can manage appointment availability online 24/7.
First, you define appointment slots, and then the next step in the process is that someone with access to your calendar signs up for one of your appointment slots. Now you can schedule appointments with your friends, clubs you’ve joined and businesses can accept appointments.
Color Code Calendar Events in GCal
May 11th
Gcalendar was bound to have color coding of calendar events considering color coded Gmail tags, customizing your Gmail background, and other Google personalization tweaks.
Their post also adds…
Just click on an event, then click the colored square in the top left of the pop-up bubble and pick a new color. If you don’t see this option quite yet, hang tight — it’ll be there for everyone within the next day or so.
Only you and anyone else you’ve given edit access to your calendar will be able to see the colors you choose. This has been a feature request from many of you for some time, and we hope you enjoy using it as much as we do.
So now you can organize more effectively, and if you are already organized your calendar can be more colorful, less drab.
Gmail Adds Background Sending
Apr 30th
A new feature has been added into Gmail Labs, Background Send. Background send could save time while you go onto other things and let Gmail handle the email as you continue on. Google had this to say:
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.
I’ve got to admit that I agree, and I’ll be reviewing and pruning my Labs features and trying this one out soon. What do **you** think about Gmails new background send feature? Sound off below in the comments, be sure to tell us if you are actually using this feature or just commenting on it.
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Customize Your Gmail Theme with your own custom background
Apr 14th
As I hoped for in an earlier Gmail Themes post, Google has just announced today that you can now invent your own fully customized theme by choosing not only colors but using your own background image.
Is Gmail Broken? NewsFlash!
Apr 7th
Well, is Gmail broken? Some would say yes, but I say no, at least not for me. I have a WinXP computer and its probably 3+ years old, though I do have 2GB of RAM, its otherwise an ordinary, outdated Windows PC and Gmail runs with all of the bells and whistles I’ve chosen just fine. So what is Gmail fixing?
Here’s a quick list, and you can read the entire Gmail Fixing the Little Things post along with their cool little graphic, too. Here’s that list of changes:
- auto-save contacts setting
- better warnings for typos in email addresses
- fewer annoying error pop-ups
- easier transitions between certain actions
- keyboard shortcut guide for everyone
- refresh button repalces refresh link
If that little list whetted your appetite pay the folks at Gmail a visit and click the link above!
Gmail Expands Priority Inbox Past Android for Mobiles
Feb 8th
If you have a smart phone but its not an Android you wanted Priority Inbox, the Gmail mobile web app now supports it!
The Gmail blog says:
Now, once you set up Priority Inbox in the desktop version of Gmail, you’ll see Priority Inbox sections when you visit gmail.com from your phone’s browser and click on the ‘Menu’ screen. You’ll also see importance markers in your inbox, so you can quickly identify which messages are important.
Read the entire Priority Inbox for mobile post for more detail. Also, the Gmail Mobile blog has more great reading for all things Google/Mobile.
Improvements to Google Contacts and Google Docs
Feb 3rd
Google Contacts
Along with updates to the Google Docs interface, Google has made improvements to Google Contacts as well in the form of new features to managing groups.
NEW CONTACTS FEATURE 1
You can add multiple email addresses by pasting a list into the Add to Group menu.
NEW CONTACTS FEATURE 2
You can also specify which email address is used in a given group.
Google Docs
For starters there is a new preview panel on the right sidebar, you can preview videos in the preview pane, its easier to view pictures/images, its simpler to explore and browse your files and more (read the entire post for more info on these features, visit Google Docs to explore, you can even take a guided tour in Google Docs that’s really informative, and there’s an Getting Started with Google Docs page, too).
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