Wouldn’t it be nice to deal with an email message without having to read it? Sure, you can read the subject line and archive the message, delete it or flag it as spam, but what happens when you receive notifications for online orders, flights, hotel reservations, reviews? Gmail introduced quick action buttons that are placed…
Until now, Gmail offered 10GB of free storage and Google Drive/Google+ Photos only 5GB of free storage. Offering more storage for email than for storing files doesn’t make a lot of sense. That’s probably the reason why Google decided to share the storage for Gmail and Google Drive, so that you have a single free…
Google tests a new interface for the chat logs saved in Gmail. The new interface shows profile images and hides the regular buttons and menus that are displayed for almost all messages and conversations. For some reason, Google removed buttons like “move to inbox”, “delete”, “labels”, the “more” drop-down, the “reply” button and the associated…
Here’s a simple way to find when you’ve created your Gmail account. You can always find the oldest message from your account by visiting this page https://mail.google.com/mail/#all/p1000000: you’ll get an error message and Gmail will redirect to a page that shows the oldest messages from your account. The problem is that this is not a…
The latest version of the Gmail app for iOS added a feature that opens links using other Google apps: Chrome, Google Maps and YouTube, assuming you’ve already installed them. It works well for Google Maps links and YouTube links, but not that well for other links: some open using Chrome, but most links open using…
Gmail tests a new login page that promotes the mobile apps for Android and iOS and shows a large picture of a Nexus 4 running the Gmail app. “Experience the ease and simplicity of Gmail, everywhere you go.” If the current login page mentions that Gmail offers lots of storage and has a great spam…
One month ago, Google updated the Gmail app for iOS and added a swipe gesture that lets you move between conversations without having to return to the inbox. At that time, the mobile Gmail site didn’t have this feature, but now it’s available. If you like to use Gmail in the mobile browser and you…
As Droid Life previously reported, Google already tests Babel, an unified messaging service that combines Google Talk, Gmail Chat, Google+ Messenger. There’s a Gmail page that mentions “dogfooding Babel in Gmail” and it’s supposed to be available only to Google employees. “Upgrade Chat to Babel! Babel is Google’s new messenger with clients for Android, iOS,…
Here are some new Gmail keyboard shortcuts: d – open a compose window in a new tab (Shift+c opens it in a new window) , – moves the cursor to the first button in your Gmail toolbar { – archives the current conversation and moves to the older one } – archives the current conversation…
Gmail is the only Google service that disables keyboard shortcuts by default. They’re for power users and some people could accidentally trigger them, especially when you consider that most Gmail shortcuts don’t use modifiers. Google has recently added some new shortcuts that are enabled by default. The old shortcuts are still disabled by default, but…
A recent post from Gmail’s Google+ page mentioned 2 new Gmail search features: enhanced contact suggestions with thumbnails and suggestions from your Gmail search history. “If you’ve searched your email for ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ or other lengthy phrases, it just got easier to find what you’re looking for. Autocomplete predictions in Gmail may now include your past…
Google has always added great security features that protect user accounts: from SSL access to most services, Google Safe Browsing, Gmail’s spam and phishing filters to 2-step authentication, phone number verification and Gmail’s account activity monitoring. Sometimes Google’s security features are extra paranoid and block Google’s own services. I tried to use the mail fetcher…
As promised, Google brought back the offline mode for Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs. The updated apps use HTML5 features and no longer require the Gears plugin. For Gmail, Google chose the easy way out and tweaked the tablet interface. You can only use it in Google Chrome after installing this app from the…
It was only a few weeks ago that we previewed the new features coming to the Chrome browser in version 12. Probably of most interest to many Gmail users was what would not be in Chrome 12, Google Gears. Gears, originally developed by Google as a way to enable support for enabling web applications to…
