Posts Tagged ‘GMail’

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Use Gmail as your default email client in Firefox

It’s always frustrated me when clicking a “mailto” link in a browser, and it tries to open Outlook.  I use GMail for all my email.  Turns out that since Firefox 3.0, there is a fix.
* go to Tools > Options* select the Applications tab* search for mail* select Use Gmail from the list of actions [...]

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GMail gets even better with offline access and “flakey connection mode”. Faster too!

I’m an unabashed GMail (Google Mail) fan.  It’s fast, searches work great, and I love tags vs. folders.   It simply works great.  And it’s easy to manage multiple email addresses from one spot.   If you’ve got an email address that you want to keep, you can manage nearly any email address through Google.

And Google has [...]

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Brilliant and finally! Integrate Calendar into GMail

I love Gmail and many other google products. My wife calls me, probably accurately, a Google fanboy. But I’ve always felt that Google Calendar could be better integrated into Gmail. You’ve been able to add a puny side bar for a while, but I wanted more. Using the experimental Firefox add-on [...]

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Google offers new themes for GMail

Sometimes I feel like a shill for Google.   But they just keep introducing cool, free tools.  This isn’t really anything that will increase productivity, and certainly isn’t a new tool, but for those of us that spend a lot of time in Gmail, a little eye candy to freshen up the look is nice.   Google [...]

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Using GMail Filters

This post explains how to use your gmail acocunt as a forwarding agent, to make easy to remember addresses that would be easier to remember than the random strings of characters that a flickr email would include.http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/interact-with-websites-via-easy-email-addresses/
Gmail Filters are super usefull.   I use them for nearly every email that comes into my mailbox, including my [...]