If you are one of the users who is not using a desktop mail client anymore but one who relies on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog. It is possible, and pretty easy, to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I only glimpsed over the Lifehacker article in the Brief Firefox add-on and only the mail from Dark Kosmos made me change my mind. Google has added a very interesting feature to Gmail called Labs which is accessible in the account options. Labs is basically a testing ground for Gmail add-ons that are not yet [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Most users that I know have several email accounts at various email providers. I’m using about ten email accounts actively in Thunderbird and web interfaces and always thought that there must be a way to sync the contact information. Late last night I discovered the Zindus (via Download Squad) Thunderbird extension which syncs the Gmail [...]

Categories: Email, Google

Google likes basic designs that just works. Take a look at their search engine or Gmail to know what I mean. Now you all know that I do not have a problem with basic designs because I prefer websites to be usable and speedy instead of shiny and slow. Gmail Redesigned on the other hand [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox

I recently read an article written by Amit from Digital Inspirations who was describing a way to set Gmail as the default email client in Firefox. Whenever a email link would be clicked on the Gmail compose mail page would be opened. His way required users to download Google Talk and activate the option “Open Gmail when I click on Email links”.

There is however a way to reach this goal without installing Google Talk at all. All you need is the Google Toolbar for Firefox.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

We had some reports coming in about some outages of the gmail – that is google mail – web interface which meant that some users could not access their mail accounts for several hours which seems to be a big problem for at least some of those users. In the time where customers for instance demand a fast, almost immediate, reaction to their emails it could become a matter of survival to receive and react to the mail.

Categories: Email, The Web

There have been two drastic changes to Googles Gmail service in the last week. The first will probably make most users happy, gmail is not available to everyone. That is right, no more begging for invites, just visit the gmail site and signup for an account if you need one.

Categories: Email, The Web

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Gmail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.

Categories: Tools

A lot of my visitors already have a google gmail account or are asking me for an invitation. I thought it would be nice to share a great site that features lots of gmail tips with you. The site gmail tips the complete collection gives a rough introduction to the google mail service and lists more than 40 tips afterwards. For example tip 27 explains to you how you would add a hotmail email to gmail, tip 11 tells you how to connect securely to gmail.

Categories: Knowledge