New Menu in Gmail = More Confusion?!?
Opened my Gmail today and was surprised to find a brand new menu at the top of my emails. Two new buttons have been added to the interface, viz. Move To and Labels.
Services
Now you can store your Gmail Offline
When Gmail came out a few years ago extremely was very pleased with the brand new shiny email service that came up in competition with Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail. However, off late using Gmail has been a real pain.
Now Send and Archive with One-Click in Gmail
The voluminous storage that Gmail offers you ensures that you never need to delete any email. Instead you can archive it and save it for your records. The usual process would be to reply to your email and then hit the archive button.
Five Tips to Secure Your Gmail Usage
Last week, MakeUseOf reported more domains being stolen, all owned by Gmail users. Brandon from GeekCondition reported a proof of concept. However, Google has replied stating that Gmail has no vulnerabilities.
Themes for your Gmail
If you’re bored of the plain old white Gmail background, then one option is to use the Better Gmail Firefox extension which added a few themes. Gmail now comes with several different skins that you can use to beautify your inbox. In a quote from their blog post: We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company.
Microsoft, Services, Techtites Featured, Windows
25GB with Windows Live SkyDrive (Service Saturday)
Take it from Microsoft to jump into the fray for Online Storage and then show why they can attract customers / users. In an announcement on the Windows Live SkyDrive blog, Microsoft announced some updates to their online storage service. Space has been increased five fold from 5GB to 25GB of free online storage Control your data.
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Services, Software, Techtites Featured, Utilities, Websites
Total Validator (Website Wednesday)
Total Validator is a free one-stop all-in-one validator comprising a HTML validator, an accessibility validator, a spelling validator, a broken links validator, and the ability to take screenshots with different browsers to see what your web pages really look like. You can select what validations you wish to run as well as which browser screenshot you wish to see and Total Validator will bring you a custom report on the errors. You also even more advanced settings, upload a page or cut & paste the HTML directly.
DNfame (Tool Tuesday)
How do you measure the popularity of a website? Usually it’s by its ranks on the tones of ranking services out there. So, you patiently open up Alexa, Compete, Technorati etc.
Google, Multimedia, News, Services
Now share Videos on Google Apps
If you are using a Premier Edition of Google Apps for your organization, then you have good news. You can now share videos via Google Video for Google Apps. The main features of Google Video: Share rich video information – Video sharing makes important communications like internal trainings and corporate announcements more personal, engaging and effective.
Privnote (Service Saturday)
“This message will self destruct in five seconds” runs the famous line in Mission Impossible. We definitely wouldn’t want our computers to blow up, but Privnote provides you with a service that is just like that! Privnote is a web tool that you can use to send private notes over the Internet.
Gmail now offers you more than 7GB
It’s crossed the limit finally. You have now more than 7GB storage space with Gmail. Storage space crossed the storage limit a few days before.
Emoticons and Group Chat in Gmail
It was about time that this happened! The dull and dry interface in Gmail just got an enhancement with Group Chat and Emoticons.