Roman messaged me yesterday about a problem one of his friend’s was experiencing. His friend’s Gmail account was more or less at the storage size limit which meant that the friend either needed to buy additional storage from Gmail, or delete emails. Deleting the largest emails in the inbox should free up some space. But [...]

Categories: Email, Google

I have more than 1000 contacts in Google Mail, all people that I know and hold dear. Just kidding. Everyone, and I mean everyone, who send you an email in the past was automatically added to your contacts, as was everyone that you send an email to. That was not really comfortable considering that spammers [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Lets say you have used the Mozilla Thunderbird client for some time and have decided to move to the cloud, more precisely to Gmail or Google Mail. Question is, how do you get your emails and the folder structure over to Gmail? Sure you could do that manually; Create the folders over at Gmail and [...]

Categories: Open Source, Software, Windows

Gmail is a free ad-supported web-mail service using both POP3 and IMAP4 email protocols. It is provided by Google, the company that runs the search engine website of the same name. Gmail works with any browser, but the extra plugins, add-ons and extensions to Gmail work best with browsers like Firefox, Mozilla, and Google’s own [...]

Categories: Email, Google

There are two to tango, and the same is true for an effective online security strategy. What does it mean? One the one side, the company offering a service needs to make sure that user accounts are protected on their servers, that no one can exploit vulnerabilities to gain login information or other data from [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Is it gmail.com or googlemail.com? The answer to this question depends on the country that you are living in and the time you have registered a Google Mail account. Most users have the email address in the format username@gmail.com with the notable exception of users from Germany and the United Kingdom who both use the [...]

Categories: Google

Google’s email service Gmail offered for some time now an overview of the recent Gmail account activities which listed the access time, account connection type, IP address and country of the last Gmail logins. Access to this feature is provided at the bottom of every Gmail page by clicking on the Details link there. But [...]

Categories: Google

Netbooks usually run at limited screen resolutions which often fail to display websites and services properly. And those that are displayed properly still need to be scrolled so that all of the content of the website can be accessed on the netbook. Netbook users who access Gmail on the web face the same problem. Many [...]

Categories: Email, Firefox

Google Calendar is a calendar application that is integrated into several other Google services like Gmail. A labs section is provided by for Google Calendar users that provides access to experimental features. The Google Calendar features can easily be activated in the labs section and Google just announced the addition of three new Calendar Labs [...]

Categories: Google, The Web