Posts Tagged ‘Gmail’
Gmail is down
Apparently Gmail is suffering from server errors:
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.
Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes.
Twitter is flooding with angry Gmail users. Google sure has some explaining to do.
Related postsWhy not block Facebook?
Given the recent commotion regarding Facebook (Scott Gilbertson and Dave Winer has some wraps on this), Paul Buchheit asks an interesting question.
What Facebook wants to prohibit Plaxo Pulse from doing is, to some extent, what Facebook is doing when users import their address books from, say, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. So should Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail block Facebook?
Head on over to Paul's post and have your say.
Related postsTags: Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Privacy, Yahoo
New Better Gmail extension for new Gmail
As a Gmail user who uses Gmail a lot, I also use a Firefox extension entitled "Better Gmail".
But as Google has started upgrading all Gmail accounts to a new and improved Gmail a new version of the Better Gmail extension is needed.
The aptly named "Better Gmail 2" is available at the Lifehacker site.
The new Better Gmail 2 extension lacks some of the features of its predecessor — I'm missing the Airwaves skin, for instance — but it's still at version 0.1, so they'll probably resurface in later versions.
In other news: All Gmail users now have IMAP access.
Related postsTags: E-mail, Extensions, Firefox, Gmail, Google
Google adds more space to Gmail — turning 3 GB
Today when I logged into Gmail, I noticed that I had some more space available than usually:
You are currently using 639 MB (21%) of your 3044 MB.
A quick look at the official Gmail blog and yes:
That said, a few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we're announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage.
Storage boosts are also on the way for Google Apps.
As Borat would put it: Very nice!
Update 1 @ 12:20
Just stumbled upon my post "5 GB of storage at Hotmail. As it now turns out, Google did not do nothing :-)
Tags: E-mail, Email, Gmail, Google, Storage
5 GB of storage at Hotmail
I have a Hotmail account that I don't use a lot, since I'm hopelessly in love with Gmail, among other things because of the magnificent search.
Nevertheless, I just got a mail from Hotmail telling me, that my account has been upgraded.
Among other things, my account is now an impressing 5 gigabytes — a bit more than the 2.9 that Gmail is currently offering.
It's going to be a little bit interesting to see what's going to happen here. Yahoo has unlimited space and Hotmail is now providing 5 gigs. No way, that Google will do nothing ;-)
That's my view…
Related postsTags: E-mail, Gmail, Google, Google-Gmail, Hotmail, Microsoft
Gmail: View Powerpoint slides
Derek at UneasySilence has a post that Google has allowed selected Gmail accounts to view attached Powerpoint slides via a Flash tool.
Sounds great. I still can't wait for the "open as Google Document" feature ;-)
Related postsTags: Gmail, Google, Google Docs
Put the G in Gmail
Steve Rubel has done a very interesting post on how you can use Gmail as a resource in various ways.
"Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center".
It's a great read if you want to know how services like Gmail can be used in many ways!
Related postsGoodbye, e-mail applications
From this day forward, I'm no longer using e-mail applications such as Outlook and Thunderbird.
The reason: Gmail now supports fetching e-mail from others accounts using POP3.
So I figured that I might as well go 100 percent online with my e-mailing stuff :-)
To stay updated on incoming e-mails I'm currently using ePrompter. But it would be better, if there were some online equivalent to ePrompter. Anyone heard of anything like this?
I could of course use the RSS from Gmail and smack it into Bloglines but I don't want my e-mail updates mixed up with my blog and feed updates.
Related postsFetch your e-mail in Gmail
I'm loving this, Google is making it possible to get e-mail from other accounts — up to five accounts.
And if you add the e-mail addresses as accounts (called "Send mail as") in Gmail you can actually manage most, if not all, of your e-mail chores in Gmail. Nice :D
Related postsNow everyone can Gmail
One might wonder, what this means for the amount of spam in the world…
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