Google Tasks as a standalone app – access it without logging into Gmail
Google Tasks is a simple way to manage your to-do list right inside your Gmail. Google Tasks was, until now, available only via Gmail or the iGoogle Gadget. To enable it in GMail you need to goto GMail Settings > Labs > Enable Tasks But now it seems that Google has launched Google Tasks as… |
Read emails in your GMail inbox using a feedreader
Opening your GMail inbox everytime you wanted to check for any new e-mail is really a hassle. Plus if you are on a slow internet connection then GMail takes ages to load or you may find yourself in a less feature enabled – HTML mode of GMail. This has many solutions. You can use google… |
GMail adds progress bar and multiple-select for attachment uploads
Google has made some modifications to the way Gmail handles attachments. Untill now attachments were added individually and there was no indication of how much of a large file has been uploaded. Now Google has made multiple-select of attachments possible. To do this just click on attachments and a new window will open where you… |
Gmail Down? Time to Backup your mails!
Recently, Gmail was down! And all of us panicked, didn’t we. Though we were sure that all our messages were safe, but going by the way things are happening at Google these days, you never know! I know I’m exaggerating, something like this happening is 99.9% impossible, but this gives rise to my QoTD. Computers General Google Hacks How-To News Software Tips & Tricks |
Google prefers HTML5 over it's own homegrown Google Gears
Earlier this month, Google had launched the Offline version of their email service, Gmail which was using the google gears as a storage for the inbox. We had also conducted a poll on whether this Offline version of GMail could replace desktop mail clients and not very surprisingly we had 76 % votes for the… |
Make and use custom themes for GMail
The GMail team has now introduced custom themes for the GMail interface, so in case you are bored with the limited number of themes that GMail provides for your inbox, you could now probably try your artistic skills to make your own GMail theme and show it to others. To make your own theme you… |
Update your peers about your current location via Gmail
The Gmail Team has introduced yet another useful feature in their Labs. Now you can append your current location (that is the city`s name you are in) to the email`s signature. For this to work properly you need to have the latest verion of google gears installed with the support for the Location API of… |
Multiple Inboxes – Another neat Gmail feature
Google really is on a roll as we had already covered in the story about Google Latitude earlier!! Now they have added a neat and useful feature called “Multiple Inboxes” in Gmail. If you like to organise your mails by creating labels and filters, this is a very useful feature. Basically what it does is… |