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10 Ways To Give Gmail More Power

28 October 2009 Steve Leave a comment
  • Multiple Inboxes: You can see different sections like starred messages, drafts, unread mails, etc in the Inbox window itself. You can choose which category you want to view. If you want to display starred messages, go to Settings | Multiple Inboxes and in the search query plane type is:starred.
  • Undo Send: You can recall the email which you have sent by mistake/accident. This feature can stop the messages being sent. It lets the users to abort or stop the delivery of any Gmail message within seconds of sending it. To activate go to Gmail account | Settings | Labs and you will find a feature called Undo Send . Now just click on the “Enable” radio button.
  • Docs and Calendar Gadgets: You can easily access Google services like Docs and Calendar in Gmail itself by enabling the Google Docs and Calendar gadgets. They are placed in the left column. You can easily view starred docs, add reminders and so on.
  • Inserting Images: Usually when we want to send images, we’ll send it as an attachment, right ? These attachments are not seen on the email body. Those are old times. You can directly insert the image in the body of the message. To activate, go to your Gmail account, then Settings | Labs | Enable Inserting Images Feature.
  • Tasks: By enabling this feature you can easily list down reminders and tasks without opening another application. To use this feature, click inside the task window and enter your to-do list. You can also create directly from emails also, select the email you want to add and from the More Actions dropdown button, click on Add to tasks to add it to the list.
  • Quick Links : You can quickly access frequently search pages or important messages by this tool. It helps you to add links to any page that you have opened up in Gmail. You just need to click on Add Quick link and type in a name for the page being current viewed. By clicking that link you can directly go to that page.
  • Mouse Gestures : You can quickly navigate Gmail Pages with your mouse using this feature. Right-click and moving to the right will take you to previous pages, moving upwards takes you to the main inbox if you have opened a particular message.
  • Canned Response: You can use this feature for sending the same content to all of your friends. You need to create a template. To do this, click on the Canned responses link in the compose mail window and select New canned Responses, type in a name and select the template you have created. To insert a response, click on the Canned Responses and select the particular template you want to insert from the Insert section.
  • Offline: You can now access Gmail even when you are offline. You can do tasks like sending, reading, labeling, searching and so on. It will synchronize your mails from Gmail server to your computer when you are connected to the net. You need to have Google Gears installed if you are using IE or Firefox. Chrome users no need to install.
  • Search Autocomplete: If you are searching Gmail frequently then this feature will be useful for you. It helps you in searching Gmail faster by providing suggestions as you type. It displays contacts name and also similar phrases.
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    GeeMail

    31 August 2009 Steve Leave a comment

    GeeMail is a free Adobe AIR-based application tat lets you use Gmail from desktop with the same keyboard shortcuts like you do on the web. You can easily compose new emails offline and send them when connected to the Internet.

    The best thing about this application is that you don’t have to configure POP or IMAP settings like other clients. Just login and you’re good to use it!

    Highlights:

    • No configuration required
    • Offline support
    • Gmail user-interface
    • Cross platform

    GeeMail work on Windows, Mac and Linux. Now you can leave your emails for GeeMail, and use your browser just for browsing. You just need to have Adobe AIR to use this application.

    You can download it from http://www.sourcebits.com/geemail/

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    Postbox

    12 February 2009 Steve Leave a comment

    Postbox is a free desktop email client for Windows and Mac OSX which is based on Mozilla’s Open Source Thunderbird. Although its build on Thunderbird platform, it has much more web 2.0 features. Postbox also integrates social networking and micro blogging services like Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed etc. One of the good features of Postbox is that it aggregates all the links, attachments, images from the email to the sidebar, so that it is accessible quickly. These are available as tabs in the application for quick access.

    Apart from this, when you start Postbox for the first time, you can import emails, contacts and other information from Gmail, Yahoo etc. The settings are available by default and all you need is to enter the user ID and password for the account.

    The sidebar is one of the important features of Postbox, but sadly plugins support found in Thunderbird is missing in Postbox. Apart from this you can upload files directly to Facebook, Twitter, Delicious etc. If you are looking for a Web 2.0 desktop email client, then Postbox should be able to meet your needs. 

    For more details please visit http://www.postbox-inc.com/

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    Hack POP3 access of Hotmail for any country

    22 January 2009 Steve Leave a comment

    Hotmail (actual name Windows Live Hotmail which formerly knowns as Windows Live Hotmail) has officially added free POP3 and SMTP feature support which used to available to Hotmail Plus paid subscribers. With Hotmail POP3 support and turned on, users can download the mail messages to desktop or mobile email clients such as to Outlook without using Office Outlook Connector or iPhone, or consolidate all email messages into another email service provider’s mailbox, such as Gmail.

     

    The POP3 and SMTP support for Hotmail will be rolled out gradually to all users. Initially, only users in United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands will have the POP3 feature enabled on Hotmail account for free. Hotmail users from other countries will have to wait longer to enjoy the free POP3 and SMTP protocol access.

    For user who can’t wait, and want to enable POP3 and SMTP access on Hotmail now, here’s the trick to force enable and turn on POP3 and SMTP support on all Hotmail account, regardless of location or country.

    Login to Hotmail.

    Mouse over Options, and then click on More Options.

    Click on View and edit your personal information link under “Manger your account” section.

    Click on Registered Information link.

    For both Home Location and Work Location, change the following details to specified values:

    Postal Code: WC1B 3DG

    Constituent Country: England

    Time zone: London, United Kingdom – GMT

    Click on Save when done.

    Go back to Hotmail, and ensure that the display language of Hotmail is set to English by mouse over the Options.

    Configure your email client or other webmail service (Gmail configuration to access Hotmail via POP3) to access and download Hotmail Inbox via POP3 protocol, using the Hotmail POP3 and SMTP configuration settings.

    The email client or another mail service provider should be able to access, login and download or send through Hotmail server without error.

    Once Hotmail POP3 and SMTP support is enable on the account, it’s possible to change and revert back to your original web interface language, home and work location.

    Transfer all mails to another mail ??

    16 August 2008 Steve Leave a comment

    Do u want to transfer all mails, contacts, calenders from one mail to another

    Ive got one

    https://secure5.trueswitch.com/winlive/

    Categories: Email, Internet