Google has announced that Google profiles can now be created. This will give users the ability to post their own niche on Google. Once created, the profiles will appear at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages, making it easier for people to find you. It’s a potential gold mine for those who want to [...]
Google announced this week that users can now view TIFF and PPT files directly through Gmail, removing the need to save local copies of the file and install the software required to open them. This viewer provides a richer set of features than the old “View as slideshow” version: you can zoom in and out, [...]
Outlook has this nifty little feature that allows users to embed pictures in email. It’s handy for a lot of things, such as letting icons and small images to be placed in signatures. Google has revealed that Gmail is now able to do the same thing. Just turn on “Inserting images” from the Labs tab [...]
Before Gmail, free web email usually meant getting about 4-5mb of storage without POP3 support. When Google launched its email service, it gave users 1gb and rose from there. That was way back in 2004. If you’ve been using it since then, you probably have more mail in there than any other mailbox you may [...]
Google has announced that Gmail Labs has gone global. It means that all of the experimental features you see under the Labs setting are going to be available in nearly every language. If your language is set to, say, Italian, you’ll see a new page in Settings (or Impostazioni) called Labs. There, you’ll find a [...]
Have you ever sent an email that you later wish you hadn’t? You probably hoped that your email somehow had that recall feature in Outlook, didn’t you? Well, if you’re using Gmail, you’re in luck. Google’s email service now has an Undo Send button. Don’t get it wrong though—it’s not all-powerful. Turn on Undo Send [...]
Google posted a new update for Gmail that’s sure to be useful to anyone who uses a lot of its services (guilty as charged right here) and then some. Video site YouTube, image hosts Picasa and Flickr and review portal Yelp are all going to be made more accessible on Gmail. How? By integrating them [...]
Gmail suffered a crash on Tuesday that left users unable to access their email for a few hours. Google has issued an explanation regarding the outage and the cause was relatively commonplace: bad code. Unexpected side effects of some new code that tries to keep data geographically close to its owner caused another data center [...]
Ever since Google announced themes for Gmail, I’ve been using the ninja scheme. It adds a nice visual flair to otherwise boring email. Naturally, I had to go through three to four themes before I settled with it. Google knows that its preset themes won’t satisfy everyone. Some color schemes might be one or two [...]
Google has announced that it is making four changes to contacts in Gmail that should allow you to organize names and addresses easier than before. The first one in the list is about merging contacts. If you’ve got one person under different names, you can select those entries and hit merge to join them together. [...]
