Google has posted an update on its tasks feature to include migration and splitting/merging. Users can now move tasks from one list to another, removing the burden of re-creating entries made on the wrong list. Here’s how: To do this, simply click on the arrow (or use Shift-Enter) to the right of the task. At [...]
Google has a new advertising scheme in place that is agitating privacy advocates. Its new behavioral advertising system will track your Internet activity in order to come up with ads that are better suited for you. It says that it won’t be storing any personal information to the cookie. As expected, this sort of tracking [...]
Google’s going gaga with this offline thing. The search engine giant has announced that Google Calendar now has an offline mode. As you can probably guess, it allows you to view events and activities even when you don’t have Internet access. You won’t be able to make any changes though, so make sure you save [...]
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. [...]
Maybe it got the idea from Latitude, but those folks at Gmail Labs have revealed a feature that will add your location to any email that you send. While IT administrators and geeks will argue that you can always look at email headers and do some magic with IP addresses to get that information, having [...]
Google’s on a roll. First there was the improved labels for Gmail, then came Latitude for mobile tracking. Now, it’s announcing that multiple inboxes are available for Gmail. It sounds great, but what would you need that for, right? Before you get excited, it’s not what you think. You won’t be importing your Yahoo mail [...]
Google went a little haywire recently, tagging Web as malicious except for a few sites. The message “This site may harm your computer” appeared on search results, even in lists that included Google websites. The problem went away 15 minutes later, but not before a lot of people noticed. The search engine giant has provided [...]
Google is experimenting with a Gmail feature that you’re unlikely to see in other webmail services: an offline mode. As always, you can sign up for it if you like. Here’s how it works: Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you’re [...]
