Users who prefer webmail email services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Live Mail over desktop email software programs face a problem that desktop users do not have. They have to visit the website of the mail service to check if new emails have been received since the last visit which can be especially problematic for [...]
Gmail Starts Displaying Images Automatically For Contacts
Gmail’s previous stance on images in emails was to hide them from the user initially because of two reasons. The first was that images in emails could be used by spammers to track if a user read an email or not if the email was embedded in the mail and not attached to it. The [...]
Use Gmail To Host And Share Photos
Google has recently raised the attachment limit of emails that can be send and received via their email service Gmail to 25 Megabytes. The storage that is offered to all Gmail users exceed 7000 Megabytes which makes Gmail an ideal service for a variety of applications.
We have already seen that it is possible to use [...]
Gmail Raises Attachment Limit to 25 Megabyte
Sending large attachments via email is a big no-no unless the recipient is aware of the email’s size and has given the ok. There are other means than email to send large files to recipients. It would for example be possible to upload the file to one of the myriads of file hosts that offer [...]
Change Default Mail Client In Windows XP
One of the biggest problem of multi-user Windows XP computer systems is the lacking feature of setting a default mail client for every user. Windows XP only supports one default email client by default which makes things a tad complicated if the users who work with the operating system use different clients. The default email [...]
Add Twitter To Gmail
Twitter Gadget puts Twitter right into a Gmail account. This makes it possible to access Twitter directly from within Google Mail. The installation of Twitter Gadget is not complicated and takes less than a minute to complete. All the user needs to do is to enable the “Add any gadget by URL” feature in the [...]
- Author: David Pierce
- Published: Jun 4th, 2009
- Comments: 14
5 Extensions to Make Thunderbird Gmail-Friendly
I’ve spent the last several months trying to figure out, once and for all, my perfect email system. All my email is in Gmail, but there were certain things I didn’t love about using Gmail – the offline features are hit-or-miss, there’s no reading pane, and a few notably missing keyboard shortcuts caused me [...]
