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Posts tagged “Gmail”

Gmail Soap from Russia Confounds, Confuses, and Cleans

Categorize this one under "weird, but funny". Wouldn't it have made more sense to have labeled as GMale: Clean your Male Box? Guess you can use this to wipe away your tears and sweat trying to get a G...

How to Access Your Home Files From Anywhere

It's becoming easier and easier to just store your files in the cloud. By cloud, we mean online. For example, a lot of people are now using Google Docs as an easy way to store their files. This makes ...

Because it Sucks to be John.Smith_091279@gmail.com

With our online personas seriously affecting our lives in the matters of friendships, careers and even our entire identity, its easy to see how getting the right username can be a big deal. Daniel Sun...

Gmail's Autopilot Responds For You...Fools

Have you opened up your Gmail today? Well, that is if you're not experiencing super slow Gmail load times, which seems like a bad joke in itself. But if you notice up in the upper right corner of your...

Undo Send in Gmail?!?! OMFG... Is it Real?!

We added Gmail's official blog to our bookmarks a while ago, as the tips and tricks that Google insiders give you about the program they themselves created, and continue to foster, are for sure the mo...

How To...Create a Back-Up System for WebMail

If you use any kind of web-based email account you're probably aware of the occasional hiccups of doing so. One example is when Gmail users couldn't access their accounts for several hours in Februar...

The "G-Fail" Resonates through Twitter, the Whole World

We hope you didn't have a late-night project to finish up. Most of us here in the US were asleep, but starting around 9:20 am GMT (4:20 am EST or 1:20 am PST), G-Mail and most of the Google network wa...

Gmail Trick Can Help You Beat Spam

When I subscribe to catalogs and magazines, I make sure to use a fake name. It's not for any privacy reasons, really. It's just to keep track of who's giving out my address. For example, I recently re...

Get Your SASE Ready For Some Free Gmail Stickers

Time to find an envelope and buy some stamps (since you don't have any on hand because you're banking online), because Google is giving away free stuff! You're just a self-addressed, stamped envelope...

The Free Software to be Most Thankful For

We're catching up on our RSS feeds after neglecting our duties to roam the blogosphere in favor of spending some quality time with loved ones. We're sorry we missed this post on lifehacker from last T...

Gmail is Doing Their Part to Stop Drunk Emailing

Following in the footsteps of breathalizer phones is this Gmail add-on from The Official Gmail Blog called Mail Goggles. When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to...

Survey: Webmail or POPmail?

Since Tuesday we've been dealing with internet issues -- meaning we have none. By sitting just so in a corner of our apartment we've been hijacking someone else's WiFi, but that's no way to live. Spe...