Category | Google/Gmail

Using Gmail as your Universal Inbox

Posted on 29 September 2007

Nowadays most people have more than one email account. If one of yours is a Gmail account, you can use it as your primary inbox to check all your POP3 accounts in your Gmail browser window. But do remember that you can check only other POP3 accounts only. You won’t be able to check Yahoo [...]

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‘Gmail - Unusual usage of account’ - What’s happening!?

Posted on 11 September 2007

I have been using Gmail for about 3 years now and have been very happy with it.
Until now.
During the last one week I have experienced something strange with Gmail. On 3 occasions, I was automatically logged out of Gmail and when I tried to log in again I was greeted by the following message.

The message [...]

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Here is a whole lot of words born out of Google

Posted on 29 June 2007

Here is a list of words that have their origin in Google. You might have heard of many of them before but there might some you haven’t.
Egogoogling - To search for one’s own name in Google. It is also known as autogoogling or egosurfing.
Google Algos - A short-hand for “Google’s algorithms,” meaning the technical specifics [...]

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Googlefight - Turning Google search into a battlefield

Posted on 25 June 2007

Googlefight is an innovative use of Google search. It is a simple brawl of words.
Load Googlefight and you’ll see two text boxes, one that reads Keyword#1 and the other Keyword#2. Enter any keywords you’d like into these text boxes, click ‘Make A Fight’, and you’ll see two stick figures punching and kicking each other.
When the [...]

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Useful and free Gmail tools to increase your productivity

Posted on 22 June 2007

Gmail Space - Gmail Space is an extension to the Firefox browser which turns your Gmail account into a Web drive, so you can share your content from several systems without the need of carrying them with you and through a simple to use interface. - Download.
Send To GMail (aka Backup to [...]

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New Gmail feature - View PowerPoint attachments as slideshows without downloading

Posted on 12 June 2007

Gmail has introduced a new feature - now you can open PowerPoint attachments as slideshows right within your browser, without having to download anything.
To open a Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) file without downloading it to your computer:

Open the message containing an attachment.
Click View as slideshow at the bottom of the message.

This will open your slides in [...]

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Google’s exclusive search page for Microsoft-related sites

Posted on 07 June 2007

I came across this search page inside the Google website that was specifically designed to search Microsoft-related sites.
Just check out http://www.google.com/microsoft.html

This page seems to be in existence as early as 2002. It is quite surprising to find a search page solely devoted to searching stuff related to a particular company. But if you consider the [...]

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