bitful (Free subscription) | yesterday
I knew you could sync your Gmail contacts' birthdays and events with Google Calendar, but I could not find the 'Browse public calendars' link mentioned in the post Contacts' birthday and events calendar supported in Google Calendar. I found it instead under Settings > Calendars > Browse interesting calendars > More > Contacts' birthdays and events > [...]
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Iranian regime, already isolated internationally (well, the West doesn’t like her) continues to arrest dissenters. But this news places the country in the dubious role of copying China’s most draconian web censorship: On Wednesday, authorities temporarily blocked all access to e-mail programs such as Gmail and Yahoo during the demonstrations to prevent people from sending images [...]...
Computerworld UK (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Postini technology that lets Google Apps Premier administrators control their email environments by establishing and enforcing usage policies, rules and parameters will be extended to the other applications of the suite.
Illinois Pedant (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the nice features of GMail is that you can use it to aggregate email accounts on others services, checking multiple email accounts from one web interface. I've now set up my ISP email account, a Hotmail and and Yahoo account through GMail, and for the most part it has worked well except for one irritation -- SMTP Authentication for one of the non-GMail accounts to eliminate the message being...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Stats from Rapleaf In our last post, [An In-Depth Look at AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Email Users – Part 1: Age and Gender] we analyzed age and gender of AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo users. For this post, we sampled the same 120,000 users and studied their online social media profile counts and friend [...]
Squashy Frog Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
More spam got through on Gmail! :-(
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
If you've got a tech problem you want solved, please send a note to farhad.manjoo@slate.com, with "I've got a tech question!" as the subject line. (Your question may be edited.) [ more ... ] Farhad Manjoo - Facebook - Slate - Gmail - Business
Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In the past few days, many users of the iPhone and Gmail Push service through active sync have been reporting that it is not working. A large Google Mobile Help thread has dozens of posts from unhappy Gmail users. Google...
Beyond Search (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I heard about a price cut last week. I noticed an article by Dina Bass that provided more information. In “Microsoft Cuts E-Mail Price, a Bid to Ward Off Google”, I learned that in Bloomberg’s view, Google is making life a bit unpleasant for Microsoft. Ms. Bass wrote: Microsoft and Google are seeking customers that want [...]
Technotips (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
For Gmail Offline users it's a good news from Google apps where you can download all your mails on time frame of 4days to 5 years. Also download them based on the labels,such as select which labels to be downloaded which has options set to whole year,set 1 year and none for Offline download.With this Gmail Offline users can get check their mails from their Desktops. For those who haven't experienced...
Maximum PC all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Google announced on the official Gmail blog a handy new upgrade to the Offline Gmail labs app. Before the update, you could enable Offline Gmail and it would use specialized heuristics to download messages for offline use. With the new update, once you enable Offline Gmail, you can find some customizable options under the “Offline” tab in Settings. You can now select specifically which...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Google is open sourcing a collection of Javascript tools today that will enable developers to build faster, more powerful and more efficient web applications using some of the same code that runs Gmail, Google Maps and Docs. Why is Google doing this? Because the more powerful web applications become, the more important Google's search, browser and nascent OS become. More relevant to developers than...
Lifehacker Australia (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Gmail’s offline access feature gives you your recent messages while you’re on a plane or otherwise unconnected. Now you can get speedier offline access, or deeper archives, by customising just how long to store messages. (more…)
jkOnTheRun (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
One of my mobile mantras — number 4, actually — is to turn off wireless radios and work offline when I can. Solutions like Google’s Gears allows for that approach but sometimes you don’t need your entire mailbox with you when you’re offline. Starting today, you get a little more control. Google has now implemented a way [...]
The official update feed from the Google Apps team (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
You now have more options to configure offline settings and manage messages for offline use. Editions included: Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions Languages included: All languages supported by Gmail Labs How to access what's new: In your Gmail settings, go to 'Offline' if you have offline enabled. - In 'Download options', select the timeframe for messages you want to download for offline...
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