Gmail Tasks has been moved from the labs section of Gmail to the main account a while ago. It offers basic task list management in the Gmail interface. Gmail users can for instance create multiple task lists, add notes and due dates or print them for offline use. Some Gmail users however requested a way [...]

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The option to import mail and contacts from other email accounts into a newly created Gmail account was enabled a few month ago. Long time Gmail users on the other hand were not able to use the email import option back then. Google today enabled the email and contact import feature for all Gmail accounts. [...]

Categories: Email

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Email, Google

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Categories: Email, Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Google Chrome, Online Services

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 some [...]

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