Using label shortcuts to search Gmail
If you are a Gmail user, you might already know that there are no folders in Gmails. Instead of folders, you organize them by labels. Even all the built-in views like inbox, sent mail, draft, trash etc are also labels.
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Fastest way to import your contacts into Gmail
If you have recently switched to Gmail and would like to transfer all your contacts from your existing e-mail program (client) to Gmail, the fastest way to do this is to use the ‘comma separated values’ (.csv). You need to first export your existing contacts as .csv file and then import it into Gmail.
Exporting the [...]
Using Gmail as your Universal Inbox
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 [...]
‘Gmail - Unusual usage of account’ - What’s happening!?
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 [...]
Useful and free Gmail tools to increase your productivity
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 [...]
New Gmail feature - View PowerPoint attachments as slideshows without downloading
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 [...]
Gmail doubles maximum attachment size to 20MB
Gmail has recently doubled the maximum size of attachments to a mail from 10MB to 20MB. This is definitely good news.
But you need to remember that if your recipient is using a service that does not allow such large mails then there might be problems. So it would be safe to send to other [...]
