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5 Tips to Get the Most Out of Gmail

Gmail is one of the most popular, intuitive and efficient web-based email systems on the planet, with a wide range of features that aren't always utilized and probably would take a lifetime to master. Fortunately, with some basic tricks you can get the most out of your Gmail experience. Try these 5 tips from the Personal Technology Experts at Support.com.

1. Use Gmail as Online Storage: Gmail offers 75GB of online space, but most of us aren't using anything close to that. So what's the best way to utilize all that space? One way is to use it for online data storage, for example you can supplement your online backup by emailing files to yourself (plus you'll always have files within reach). You can attach files up to 25MB. If you use Firefox as your main web browser, install Gspace, a handy add-on designed to transfer files from your hard drive to your Gmail account quickly and seamlessly. Read more

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Online Security: Be Paranoid - They Really Are Out There

"I just stole fifty cars in one night! I'm a little tired, little "wired," and I think I deserve a little appreciation!" – Memphis, Gone in Sixty Seconds (Touchstone Pictures, 2000)

If you pay a lot of attention to your online security, you're probably not reading this. If you pay no attention, you're probably screwed! If you have a normal concern…how bad can it be? Take a minute and go to your favorite sites and search on the subject of online/onphone security.

You'll probably find that:

there's an increase in the presence of malicious content on trusted sites – including search engines, blogs, bulletin boards, personal web sites, online magazines and mainstream news sites
there are more than 170,000 new malware apps spotted every month
more than 800,000 phishing emails were reported in one month at mid-year
$4.5 bln lost to phishing in 2007
$740 mln lost in 2 years to e-mail scams
1.45% of e-mails sent in May 2006 contained viruses
129 mln Americans received phishing e-mails
4.57% of Gmail filtered spam is false positive
22.5 million different samples of malware were recorded in June, double the year before
New webpage infections were discovered by Sophos every 3.6 sec (4x faster than last year)

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GMail Push (Finally!) Available on iPhone

by jessica on Mon, 2009-08-17 11:38

This is an application that email addicts have been waiting for! GPush, developed by Tiverias Apps, is a GMail push app for the iPhone. It is now available through the Apple App Store for $0.99. Once you have downloaded and installed the app, you will instantly be able to see emails sent to your Gmail account as soon as they arrive – no waiting period – you get them in real time.

GPush Application lets you choose how you want to be notified of new email. Options include having your iPhone vibrate and ring and having the GPush icon display the number of unread messages received. You also receive previews of incoming emails, displaying the sender's name and subject headings.

For more information, and to get yours today, visit www.gmailpush.com

The Apps to Use to Work Like You're in Your Home Office

By Jeff Zbar
www.homeofficehighway.com

To meteorologists and remote workers alike, The Cloud is a beautiful thing.

One makes his living off cloud formations. The other has discovered a mobility, flexibility and an untethered experience working in the cloud. These include teleworkers, telecommuters, road warriors and others released from place-based work.

For those not clear, the "cloud" — according to Wikipedia — "is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the cloud that supports them." In other words, all your applications — and even your documents, if you want — are stored and hosted via a computer with an Internet connection and a Web browser.Read more

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Google Adds Undo Send Feature to Gmail

by jessica on Sat, 2009-03-21 00:30

It's happened to us all...we write an email, hit "send" and then realize that it was accidentally sent to the wrong person. Google has a fix for this, their new Undo Send feature for Gmail. Undo Send allows you to stop the delivery of any Gmail message within moments of sending it…and when we say "moments", we mean it. Messages are held in queue for only five seconds…so you better think quick!

To activate Undo Send, go to the Settings/Labs tab in Gmail, enable it, and you're set. Here is how it works: Once the feature is activated, an "Undo" link will appear (as shown in the picture below) next to every sent email confirmation. Wish you hadn't sent it? Click the link and it takes you back to the composing window and confirms the retrieval. But remember…you've only got five seconds!

[Via Gmail Blogs]

Where are you? Your Gmail knows.

by jessica on Wed, 2009-02-11 13:52

The people over at Google Labs have certainly been busy these days. In addition to Google Latitude, Google Earth (to name just a couple), your Gmail account can now tell everyone where you are emailing them from. Traveling to New York and want to keep everyone updated on your location? It is as easy as enabling the feature (see steps below), and then Google determines your location based on the IP address. It is not completely accurate yet, but seems to work fairly well. To get a more accurate location detection, make sure your browser has a version of Gears installed that supports the location module.

Steps:

Go to Setting –> Labs tab and locate “Location in Signature”.
Select “Enable” and then click “Save Changes”.
Go to Setting –> General tab, locate ”Signature”.
Check “Append your location to the signature” and then “Save Changes”.

See…simple! Don’t want someone to know where you are? Just disable the option or delete your location in individual emails.

[Via Official Gmail blog]

Remember the Milk Gadget for Gmail

by Joe Stewart on Thu, 2008-11-06 00:30

Gmail has a To-Do list manager now. Well not really. This is third-party integration of Remember the Milk (RTM) inside Gmail. RTM users have had a very effective Firefox extension for quite awhile so integration isn't new either.

The Remember The Milk Gmail gadget incorporates all the good stuff from the main RTM task management site like tags, multiple todo lists, and different task priorities. Everything entered in the Gmail gadget is available on the RTM website and any external services used too. If you aren't familiar with RTM already, check out the features and screencasts.

What makes this stand out is that it isn't tied to Firefox. Safari, Opera and IE users can use it now too. Since it is enabled inside Gmail it doesn't have to be installed on each computer you use. Read more

SMS Text Message with Gmail Chat

by Joe Stewart on Fri, 2008-10-31 13:21

Google Labs is rolling out a feature that will allow you to send a SMS message to a friend's cell phone from inside Gmail's chat. This is not groundbreaking news in and of itself. Yahoo and AOL already have this. SMS via AOL/AIM is the one reason I still use AIM every now and then.

Instead of sending email to the cell service provider or create a temporary id, your gmail account will be assigned a phone number in the 406 area code.

Unfortunately I mostly use a Google Apps account so don't normally see all these cool new things available in the Labs. A regular gmail.com account of mine does not have this feature added yet. So I can't use it yet.

Has anybody tried it yet? What are your impressions?

Via: Techcrunch: Gmail Labs Adds Text Messaging Feature

and Webmonkey: OMG! Gmail Adds SMS Chat