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24 Nov, 2010

Instantly view profile of email sender in Gmail using Rapportive

There are people you need to deal with via email without having any information about them. Well wouldn’t you want to have rough information about the person you’re exchanging emails with? Or even if you are exchanging emails with a friend, Rapportive would prove fruitful as you can instantly see what your friend is sharing on his social networks. Rapportive is a Gmail plugin that takes a step towards letting you see the background info on a person sending you emails.

20 Nov, 2010

Pimp My Gmail – a cool interface for Gmail

If you are using Gmail, you can add a variety of useful plugins from Gmail labs and choose a Gmail theme from an extended gallery. You can even customize a theme by adding colors and images. But the icons and text remain the same even with different themes. Pimp My Gmail is a script for Greasemonkey that will really pimp up your Gmail by letting you have beautiful icons and an altogether cool interface.

24 Oct, 2010

How to filter documents and photos in Gmail

Sorting emails containing documents, pictures or other files would be easier if they could be filtered into respective folders as soon as they reach your inbox. Using Gmail Filters, you can filter emails containing documents into a “Documents” folder, the ones containing pictures to “Images” folder and the like, making it easier for you to search through them.

12 Oct, 2010

How to know if the recipient opens your email

Email Oracle can be the perfect tool if you want to track email opens. Email Oracle as of now is available for Gmail users only. It is downloadable as a Firefox addon. After you install it, you’ll need to authenticate it for integration with your Google Account. When this is done, you’ll find a “Tracked Emails” link on your Gmail navigation. You’ll also see an Email Oracle Dropdown towards the top of Gmail’s interface.

13 Sep, 2010

Gmail and Google Reader’s favicons are more than just that

Favicons instantly help us which website is contained in a tab. Gmail’s Favicon can be more than just a favicon. It can be very informative in terms of showing the number of unread emails. Google Reader’s favicon can also be used in a similar manner. This can be done easily with a Firefox plugin and a handy greasemonkey script.

12 Sep, 2010

How to change the WordPress username in Multi-Author blogs

If you have a wordpress blog, you must have noticed in your admin settings page that you cannot change your login name once it is set. So, you believe that once you get some stereotypical name like Admin(default) you cannot change it later like you MSN or Gmail username. In case of single author blogs, people generally leave the username to default i.e. admin, which everyone can pretty much guess on. Even if you have a multi-author blog, you might need to change the username for other contributing writers for some reasons. You cannot do it via the Admin interface but can do it very easily from PhpMyAdmin.

26 Aug, 2010

Now call phones directly from Gmail

Gmail has unarguably become the most user friendly and feature packed email service out there. The handy plugins developed by Gmail labs, the Voice and Video chat feature etc. are all very popular and have somewhat become a part of our lives. Gmail with its ever increasing array of new and useful features has recently rolled out a very handy functionality, the “Call Phone” feature. This lets you make a call to normal phones with the aid of your headphone and microphone.

5 Jul, 2009

Gmail attachment size now upto 25 MB

Gmail the popular email service from Google has now increased the maximum file size for attachment to 25 MB.

20 Apr, 2009

How to send a complete webpage via email

You share the sites of your interests with your friends and colleagues. Generally you share them over sites like Twitter, Facebook or via IMs. Well if you like, you can also send a whole webpage to your friend via email. Emailtheweb can help you do it.

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