The great thing about Firefox is that it has a built-in option to set mailto links to open up in GMail. That means you don’t have to stick with Outlook or Thunderbird or any of the desktop programs. To change your mailto handler in Firefox, just go to Tools > Options > Applications tab, and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 26, 2011
If you’re using GMail and notice that it tells you that there’s an unread message, but for some reason you can’t find it in your inbox, or all mail, try searching for it. The good thing about GMail is that even unread mail carry labels, so you can actually search for mail that haven’t been [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 13, 2010
When you place your trust and confidence in an online service, even something as huge as Google, you’re probably thinking that it’s infallible. Which is what I thought about Google and its services too, especially Gmail, which I personally use on a daily basis (actually it’s more like on a 5-minute basis). Then this happened: [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
There are several things that I hate, and one of them is spam. The problem with spam is not actually reading the spam, but having to live with all the workarounds that have now surfaced to reduce the onslaught of spam. For example: anti-spam filters in your mail program. In the past, like 10 years [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 5, 2008
Unlike most webmail services (e.g. Live mail or Yahoo mail), with GMail, you can actually do pretty neat stuff with your email address. For instance, did you know that you could put the + sign in your email, and still receive emails as per normal? So if your email address was yourname@gmail.com, you could actually [...]
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Monday, March 14, 2011
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