Gmail Redesigned 2.0 gives everyone's favorite Web-mail service an extreme makeover, transforming it from ugly duckling to sexy starlet make that applet. To use this free Gmail "skin," you'll need two things: Firefox 3 and the Stylish extension. After installing...
The Official Gmail Blog explains how you can make Gmail your default e-mail client (meaning Gmail will launch whenever you click an e-mail link) in the recently released Firefox 3 browser. It's a pretty simple process: All you do is sign into Gmail, paste a snippet of...
Last year, Google added IMAP capabilities to its beloved Gmail service, thus making a good thing significantly better. Not sure what all the fuss is about or why IMAP beats POP hands down? The Official Gmail Blog has a primer you should definitely read: Getting Gmail anywhere:...
From Gmail to Calendar to Google Docs, Google Apps offers small businesses a wealth of communication and productivity tools. But figuring out how to use them all can be tricky, especially if you're more accustomed to traditional software. Enter O'Reilly's Google Apps: The Missing Manual, a new book that teaches you...
Gmail just made it easier to learn its large assortment of keyboard shortcuts: Press the question-mark key on your keyboard and a shortcut reference guide pops up. It's even transparent, so it doesn't fully obscure the Gmail goodness behind it. Before you can...
Oh, happy day. Gmail just added a fantastic new feature: colored labels. It might not sound like a big deal, but for anyone who relies on labels for organizing their mail, it's a major improvement. To assign a color, just mouse over any label, click the little...
As you may have read in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, Google may start offering free Web-based storage in the near future. Of course, savvy users have long been leveraging Gmail for exactly that purpose. Wait a sec -- how can you use an e-mail service for data...
It's crucial to understand the differences between a viral and a social marketing campaign, where participants are both willing and eager to participate. It's interesting how some terms are used in general speech to describe the exact opposite of what they really mean. Take 'Viral marketing' as an example. The...
Much as we all love Gmail, there's always room for improvement. Lifehacker's Better Gmail 2 is a compiled collection of hacks (actually, Greasemonkey scripts rolled into a single Firefox extension) that adds optional extra features to the Web-mail service. These features include: Attachment icons Instead of the...
Internet Message Access Protocol, or IMAP, is a wonderful thing. It provides immediate two-way synchronization between your mail server and one or more mail clients (Outlook, Apple Mail, your mobile phone, or whatever). Any changes made in one location are automatically reflected everywhere else. So, for instance, if you compose and send a...
It's a gala day for Gmail users (cue Groucho Marx: "I don't think I could handle more than a gal a day."). Gmail Mobile 1.5 works with all Java-compatible phones and brings much of the functionality of desktop Gmail to your cell. Among the key features of this new release:...
A couple weeks ago, Gmail marketing manager Bill Kee listed five little-known Gmail features. Now he's back with five more, including this little gem:Conversation update notification It can be really annoying to write up a whole response to an email and click send -- only to discover that someone else...
Running out of Gmail space? It happens to everyone eventually. Web Worker Daily offers four quick tips on freeing up extra space in your Gmail mailbox. For example:Clear out the old stuff. I personally don't need any emails older than 6 months, so I did a search with the "before"...
Gmail Associate Product Marketing Manager Bill Kee lists five cool Gmail features you probably didn't know existed, including "reply by chat":Most people know that you can chat with your contacts in Gmail if they're using Gmail too. But there are some subtle features that make chat particularly useful in the...
Viral marketing is another name for word of mouth or, on the Internet, word of e-mail. It can work in mysterious ways, but the Internet offers significant potential for viral marketing, particularly with the growing popularity of blogs. Yahoo did little or no advertising in its early years; instead, people...
Good news for Gmail users: You can now increase your storage space. If you've been using your Gmail account as a place to store files and photos, you may have noticed that you're bumping up against the 2.8 gig limit. (Click here to check how much space you've got left.)...
Businesses are flocking to Gmail in droves, and with good reason: It's arguably the best Web-based mail service on the planet. If you're one of the cool kids (i.e., a Gmail user), check out Lifehacker's list of the top 10 Gmail applications and add-ons. Many of them require Firefox (which...
Gmail proves its awesomeness yet again: The Webmail service now enables you to view PowerPoint presentations as slideshows, without the need to run or even own PowerPoint. When you open an e-mail that contains a presentation (i.e., a PPT file), you'll see a "View as slideshow" option alongside the usual...
Large attachments tend to wreak havoc with mail servers, many of which balk at anything larger than 5MB. So what happens when you need to send a big file or batch of files to, say, a client or co-worker? Here are three free and easy solutions: Gmail - The beloved Webmail...
In a comment on my post on Bill Gates’ management style, reader Kempton asked:“..do you think has billg got mellow out a little as he aged, got a great wife and partner, and also kids? He still seem quite geeky but I sure hope with age, he got mellow out...
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