Tagged: gmail

19 Mar, 2009

Undo sending a message in Gmail

There are times when you are in a hurry while writing mails and sometimes write things that could mean something else, misspell a spelling or something like that. And your practiced hand clicks the send button right away when you realize that something wasn’t right in the email. What will you do? Send another email correcting the mistakes, or regret for the next couple of minutes for having hurried? How would it be if there was some option for cancelling a message being sent? Well Gmail’s new feature lets you undo a message that is being sent.

Popular posts widget for your blog based on the highest number of traffic-I

14 Mar, 2009

Popular posts widget for your blog based on the highest number of traffic-I

You want to show your readers the posts that are most popular on your blog. If you use Wordpress for maintaining your blog, you can use or must have already used plugins that show off the most popular posts. Placing such widgets help you get more traffic to your quality posts. But the wordpress plugins basically display the popular posts based on the number of comments, i.e. the more comments a blog gets, the higher is its rank on the popular posts widget. The posts that get the highest number of comments are not necessarily the posts that get the maximum number of traffic. So, what if you want to put a popular posts widget that shows the posts getting maximum number of traffic?

3 Mar, 2009

Uploading Gmail attachments made easy

Attaching files to your email in Gmail sometimes may have irritated you quite a lot as you would have to open up the dialogue box every time you upload a single file. But Gmail now lets you select multiple files to attach to your email in a single take.

26 Feb, 2009

Customize themes and colors in Gmail

With the standard version of Gmail, you can choose from, a lot of beautiful themes for your Gmail interface. From the stylish to the funny ones, the themes are surely gonna lure you. But...

Watch Youtube Videos right inside Gmail

26 Jan, 2009

Watch Youtube Videos right inside Gmail

While you chat with your friends on Gmail, you sometimes share links with them if you discover anything interesting on the web. Or maybe you’d like to share a newly released music video of your favorite artist on Youtube. Your friend will have to open the link, wait for the video to buffer and continuously switch between the video and the chat window. So, you tend to get annoyed at your friend’s delay in sending the message who would be busy watching the video.

9 Jan, 2009

Camouflage your Picasa ID

You can disguise your Picasa Identity if you do not want others to know your real Google ID. Your Google username is generally shown in your Picasa Web Album address. Like if your Gmail ID is something like grungestar@gmail.com then your Picasa Web Albums Address will look like this:

7 Jan, 2009

Use Google Viewer for viewing different Gmail attachments

You can have a quick view of the images sent to you as attachment in Gmail and then download it on the fly. But what if the attachments are not images but PDF files? Previously Google used to convert the PDF files to plain HTML with the images excluded for your quick view which didn’t look much appealing. But now you can view PDF, DOC and PPT attachments very easily from Gmail using the Google Docs Viewer.

Reader and Calendar in Gmail

6 Jan, 2009

Reader and Calendar in Gmail

You can read your feeds subscribed via Google Reader or access the Google Calendar’s features right from the interface of Gmail. Here’s how you do it.

25 Nov, 2008

GmailDrive-Use Gmail as your online Drive

GmailDrive is actually a Shell Namespace extension which creates virtual storage system that will let you access your files from almost anywhere. Gmail provides a lot of free space but generally that is never utilized to the fullest. GmailDrive will let you use Gmail as your online hard drive very easily.

20 Nov, 2008

Xoopit- Enjoy Social Media on Gmail

Xoopit lets you easily access the multimedia content of your Gmail account. You won’t have to perform those tedious searches looking for your mails with attachments, Xoopit makes images or video viewing experience much...

13 Oct, 2008

Some google talk tips and tricks

Google doesn’t have built in smileys or emoticons that can be inserted by selecting from a list, but some of the simple text-type smileys are recognized by Google talk and it highlights them automatically in blue. These are: