The Name Behind the Gmail Address
	It has recently come to light that by signing up to Google Calendar, one can find out the name used to register any Gmail account. This is a serious issue for those who have used their real names, but prefer the information stays private. The thing is that by getting access to such data, a spammer can deliver a personalized message and fool the recipient into thinking it is a legitimate e-mail. It all boils down to how much you ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 11:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail's New Contact Manager Feature Faces Problems
	Recently, Google launched a new feature that allows users to have two specific lists of contacts on their Gmail account – their manually added friends and the suggested contacts. This came as a solution after people complained about the fact that their list of contacts was getting bulkier and bulkier. Thanks to it, Google automatically adds in the users’ personal contacts the people who have received 5 or more e-mails from them. [ADMAR ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Now Safer
	It seems that the Gmail's developers truly care for the security of its users. Since you can sign in to the Google account from different locations at the same time, there is the possibility you could forget to sign out of one and then be faced with an invasion of privacy. Thanks to the new feature from Gmail, you can now see if you have not signed out from all the places where you opened the account and what you should do i ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 09:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Rolls Out 13 New Features
	Gmail rocks and all of you knew it already, but even so, users always want to see more features from Google’s mail service. Regardless if we’re talking about folders or a different UI, people have always requested new functions. Because of that, Google has recently rolled out Gmail Labs, a special testing platform which incorporates test versions of the upcoming Gmail features which could be used by all users of the mail service. ... [read more >>]
	08 June 2008, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Web Hosting Provider: Please Use Gmail!
	Dreamhost, a large web hosting provider based in Los Angeles, said in a blog post that users should really give Gmail a try because Google simply "does do a great job at email." Moreover, "in a way we are taking some steps to stop providing email," Dreamhost explained in the blog entry. T ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Gets Ready to Launch Gmail Themes
	The Mountain View-based company may prepare a new Gmail feature requested by numerous users but there's no official confirmation on this. The rumor was launched by Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped who wrote that "a source is telling me that Gmail will get themes - custom layouts to personalize Google’s w ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Is Now Faster
	Last week, Google has announced a new upgrade to its mail service, Gmail. For those of you that have been using Google's mail service and have not yet noticed the new option, here's a quick insight. The people responsible for development at Gmail have thought of a way to improve access times for those who have poor Internet connection. If you turn to your Gmail account and sign in, you will find a new option displaye ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail and the Story of the Unrecognized Dots within Usernames
	There are a lot of users out there who registered for certain Gmail accounts using dots in the usernames. Somehow like softpedia.news at gmail.com, just because the user who registered it thought it looks prettier than softpedianews at gmail.com. However, an interesting aspect of the Google mail service, revealed by Aamir Attaa of ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2008, 04:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail – Faster than Light
	Gmail has always been a very popular webmail service and, ever since it was officially released, it has been drastically improved with a large number of new functions. But what's more important is that since the day it was born and until today, Google has continuously improved Gmail in order to make it work faster and faster and, according to Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail Performance, the company will continue to focus ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 08:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mailplane 2 Beta Released for Mac Users. Download Here.
	Mailplane is a tool that makes Gmail recognize Mac-specific fonts and features designed by the folks at uncomplex gmbh. This useful tool has been updated to version 2.0, which is currently in beta but free to download as a trial version. Mailplane 2 adds a pretty impressive array of features, alon ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Denies the Recently Reported Gmail Security Glitch
	Yesterday, news about a potential Gmail security flaw that could let attackers turn Google's service into a spamming machine could be spotted everywhere around the web, but all users were still expecting an official statement from the Mountai ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Security Flaw Can Easily Turn Gmail into Your Worst Nightmare
	Gmail, Google's very popular email technology, which is for many users their main email service, can easily turn into your worst nightmare as a security glitch could allow an attacker to use the service as the perfect spamming bot. According to security research team INSERT, the security glitch "is related to the risk of abusing the email forwarding option in Gmail accounts." In case an attacker manages to take adv ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Glitch Lets Users Access Others' Gmails
	Google's video sharing service YouTube is currently affected by what seems to be a pretty dangerous glitch since it allows users to access others' accounts and view the information stored inside. Moreover, if the affected YouTube member uses the same account for Gmail, thanks to the global Google account which permits to have the same username and password for multiple services, somebody can even infiltrate into your in ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 08:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MarioLovesPasta.com, Google Thinks
	Google tries anything it's possible to protect its brand and if this means buying thousands of domain, no problem, Google does this, too. In fact, it has already done it as thousands of domain names, some of them totally unrelated to the Mountain View-based company, were bought by Google, probably just as a security measure meant to prevent people's cruel intentions. The folks at Pingdom created a huge ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 10:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail, Yahoo Messenger, Bank Account - All Sharing the Same Password
	Is there anything more dangerous than using the same password for multiple services, let's say Gmail, Yahoo Messenger, bank account and email, and get hacked? Well, I don't think so because it only takes a second until you lose your email and you money. And what's worse is that most people do have the same password for several services; following a study conducted by Accenture, their percentage is almost 50 points. ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 04:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Singapore Telecommunications Has Just Spammed My Gmail
	We've seen it in the past and we see it again: a spam email which informs me that I have won the grand prize, which by the way means no less than 1 million pounds, at the UK National Lottery arrived in my Gmail inbox although it should be redirected in the spam folder. However, Gmail's mistake may be excusable since the email seems to be sent from a legitimate email address. But what's really interesting is that th ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 02:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Internet Explorer 8 Incompatible with Yahoo Mail And Gmail
	Microsoft recently released a beta version of Internet Explorer 8 and, since we're talking about one of the most popular browsers on the web, lots of people downloaded, installed and tested it. However, some of them may encounter unexpected problems because IE8 doesn't ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail and Yahoo Mail - Spammers' Favorite Services
	Following today's report that spammers are currently looking to hire people for breaking CAPTCHAs, it seems like two of the services supposed to be used during spam attacks are actually the leaders Gmail and Yahoo Mail. According to The Register, some spam filtering service have already took attitude and deviced to "throttle messages from Gmail and Yahoo" as a move to reduce the amount of unsolicited emails coming ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2008, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Introduces New Function to Send Emails to the Past
	We all know that Gmail is one of the most popular email services on the web and the reasons are more than obvious: it's freeware for everyone and provides quite advanced functions for such a product. However, the Mountain View company has ever wanted more than that and today rolled out another ability which may bring the mail service back in the spotlight. Codenamed Custom Time, the new function is supposed to let you to mod ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail to Provide Language Translation
	What happens when you receive an email written in a different language than your native one or the ones you don’t know too well? Well, it’s simple: copy the text, go over to Google Translate or to any other translation website/service/application, paste the text, select your language and start the translation process. But what if you have such a translation feature straight in your email service? Supposing you’re using Gmail, wha ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Archiver Scam
	Gmail backup software G-Archiver, that should save all of the emails in the inbox on your hard drive, proves to be a user’s nightmare, as Coding Horror reported that, besides doing what it is advertised to, the software also emails the user name and passwords of those who have installed and used it, to the apparent creator, John Terry. Fortunately for those who now feel like they’re in peril of losing everything, Dustin Brooks ... [read more >>]
	10 March 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Be a Master of Deceitfulness with Gmail
	Not everybody likes to have his or her inbox stuffed with all sorts of emails and newsletters from companies that have absolutely nothing interesting to read, but they had to agree to receiving because of the ‘I Agree’ button once used in times of need. Gmail is dishing out options to avoid situations like this left and right, and it couldn’t do it at a better time. Going through all of the difficulties of creating a filter fo ... [read more >>]
	06 March 2008, 15:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google: The Return of the Grieving Widow Strikes Back
	It was just last week when a security company noticed that Gmail captchas had been cracked, or should I say, a way to crack them had been found. The percentage of the successful attacks is pretty low, about 20 percent, but the number of attempts makes up for it. Once one of the most spam-free email services, Gmail is now slowly sinking into the pool of never-ending treacle that unwanted messages create. And it’s not only Gmail having t ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 15:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail, Arrow in Your Email
	Google is trying hard to compete with Yahoo! in the email category because it knows that’s one of the last strongholds the Sunnyvale-based company is left with on the Internet. At the moment, it’s bringing more changes to Gmail in a month than Yahoo! does in a year, and that’s according to statistics. Then again, when you’ve got a late start, that’s the only way to do it. Not many people know about the personal level indicators that [AD ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Create Your Own Gmail Art Ad
	More often than not, an ad pops out from the rest and just gets you watching it over and over again, until you finally get all of the details and manage to wrap your head around it. Naturally, being one of the biggest companies in the world and having more fans than you can count might bring you good advertising, with even better concepts coming in from all around. I doubt the Russian ad for Gmail will be topped pretty soon. I ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

For One Gmail Address You Get Two
	Gmail users have it made for them, everything is working itself out smoothly (with the dev team’s help, we’re not there yet with artificial intelligence and code that rewrites itself) and all they have to do is just enjoy the many features and characteristics that only Google’s email service offers. One of the lesser known facts about Gmail is that by creating one email address you actually get two. It’s like the offers in convenience s ... [read more >>]
	27 February 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Chat Has Hidden Emoticons
	(Imagine the Star Wars way of text scrolling up the screen while the theme is playing in the background:) For years, the stage of the Instant Messaging services had been dominated by the strong Yahoo! armada which reigned supreme among its peers, squashing in its infancy any other service’s attempt to overthrow it. It was all quiet, as the Yahoo! Sith started building the Death Star, also known as Messenger for Windows Vista, an ... [read more >>]
	27 February 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Cracked!
	The spam-free Gmail is about to become spam-full and on an accelerated rate from now on. When the email service from Google first came to be, it prided itself with its filters that would redirect spam directly to the folder specially created for it. Slowly but surely, hackers managed to evolve methods of fooling the rigid filters and some unwanted messages started finding their way into users’ inboxes. The next step was to cr ... [read more >>]
	26 February 2008, 15:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Invisible
	The stealth cloaking generator has hit the Gmail stores and now is available somewhere near you, and other words and phrases to that effect. Google’s mail service has just been added an all-time popular feature with other IMs, the option to appear invisible to your list of contacts – can’t quite name them friends with the trouble the manager had with adding any and all addresses an email was sent to. Google Talk is a delicate little bea ... [read more >>]
	25 February 2008, 16:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Couldn’t Log into His Gmail Address, Logged into Others’, Found Embassy Code
	An Internet Service Provider from Kuwait delivered one of the most frustrating experiences a user can have. Abdulaziz Al-Shalabi was unable to log into his Gmail account, but at the same time he was free to log into other 30 or so people’s accounts and browse through their inboxes. He couldn’t help but think that at the very same time another person was going through his personal messages and metaphorically taking a peak in hi ... [read more >>]
	22 February 2008, 19:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Login Error 502
	Depending on email for a big part of one’s life can sometimes come and bite one in the arse. Gmail users experienced this first hand over the past weekend, when many turned to Google Groups and reported that they could not sign into their mail accounts and that they were greeted with a ‘friendly’ 502 error when attempting it. Google started addressing the issue as soon as they found out about it, but it was only this morning w ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail More User Friendly
	Ta-ta-da-daaaa! (fanfare band sounds) Gmail, the fastest growing email service on the Internet, provided by Google, revamped last autumn, is finally finding its way onto our computers in our own languages. Perhaps a herald needs some special training, I don’t think I was able to underline the importance of this new update the way a pro could have. What’s so great about it? Well, aside from the scoreless numbers of new people s ... [read more >>]
	14 February 2008, 11:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Did You Know You Can Use Gmail as a Feed Reader?
	Feed Readers are the latest fashion when it comes to being kept up to date with what some people are doing (blogs and the likes) or with news from a source of your choosing. You don’t have to manually browse top the site and then search for the category that appeals to you most. This way, they’re all delivered to you on a pretty regular basis. The only problem I've encountered and managed to get angry with is that the rea ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 08:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Useful Secrets of Gmail Service
	When the time to select a free email service comes, you will notice that there are many options available on the Internet. The free email services, as well as some payed ones, could have various limitations, like the file upload size, email forwarding and more. Gmail is a free email service offered by Google, which provides more than 6 GB disk space for your inbox. You are also allowed to use the amount of free disk space as ... [read more >>]
	02 February 2008, 07:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail and AdSense Login Error!
	Google reported that the problem which some of the AdSense users had been encountering, that of not being able to login to their accounts, was found a reason and a workaround until further action is to be taken, but more about this a bit further down the page. The error, "Welcome! You're signed in to Google Accounts under the email [your email address] and your Google Account password, but this is not a valid AdSense ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 06:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IMAP Problem for Windows Mobile Fixed
	Back in October, when IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) was rolled out for Gmail and syncing between the messages sent or received on their mobile phone and the mail accounts became possible, the problems started pouring in at the help desk. Among them were Windows Mobile not being able to take advantage of the new option and several Gmail accounts being blocked. Whilst the second was quickly fixed and the cause was made well know ... [read more >>]
	30 January 2008, 07:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Possible Gmail Features in the Future
	Matt Cutts of Google had a couple of ideas about further improving Google’s mail service that will certainly give the dev team a run for their money. Not that they’d be very difficult to implement, but they’d completely change the face of email as a product. How would you feel about an option to send an email a bit later, as would be if you lagged hard, just in case you noticed a typo in a very important message? That feature would also ... [read more >>]
	28 January 2008, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Story
	A short while ago, the Gmail team decided that the way they kept the motivational stories that users sent in was obsolete. In other words, they couldn’t carpet their walls a second time with the letters, over the first. The solution, in touch with modern times, was to ask fans of the email service to make a video of themselves telling the story and send it the team’s way. About a month and 1,500 videos later, somebody had an idea about ... [read more >>]
	25 January 2008, 14:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Having a Jealousy Crisis?
	It doesn’t wait for you in its slippers, holding a baseball bat while aggressively approaching you, don’t worry. It couldn’t do that, it’s an email service, not a wife substitute. Nevertheless, the more it knows about you the better it is for you and a better and more organized life you’ll have. At the moment, the only use for the option to add a secondary email address to your Google Account is that it automatically adds the ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 13:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Problems for Internet Explorer 7 Users
	A major issue encountered by several Gmail users who tried accessing their accounts while using the latest Internet Explorer in Microsoft’s Windows Vista was reported on the Google Groups forums. Blank login screens are bad news no matter where you’re trying to log in, but when it’s about email, people tend to be really nervous and anxious for a solution. Fortunately for them, as searchengineland.com’s "rustybrick" r ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 07:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

iPhone Gmail Users, Beware!
	Yesterday’s launch of the new Gmail experience for the iPhone was kind of rushed by the dev team, so they never got the chance to note all the updates that had been implemented. Slowly, probably one every couple of days, they will reach Internet light and show everybody what the engineers have worked so hard for. The IMAP feature that was released by Google in late October is fully functional and as useful as ever when it come ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Applications Offered by Wireless Service Provider
	The company founded by wireless pioneer Craig McCaw yesterday announced that it would probably start offering its customers applications from the Google array, such as e-mail and calendar, as of the second quarter of this year. The Google services offered by Clearwire will include every implementation a user might find when accessing them with a desktop system, for example Gmail will also have the Google Talk instant message ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 06:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Archiving Shortcut to the Rescue!
	You can see the way the engineers over at Google’s Gmail work and have their free time by the amount and the magnitude of updates they keep rolling out. Nothing from them for about two or three weeks (including the Christmas holidays) and after that they shower us with services, one after another. Ever thought that a single letter could mean the world of difference between happy and unhappy? I’m not thinking about one of the ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Gmail for the iPhone Released!
	Google’s push into the Mobile world has had people wonder at one point last year whether their product will be a handheld device or an operating system. I guess that waiting a while before taking sides or betting for or against one of the two paid off and now, it’s well known what the future will hold. Not a distant future at that, mind you! Until the release of the GPhone, Google users will just have to sit back and marvel at ... [read more >>]
	15 January 2008, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Old Switcheroo With Gmail
	The Gmail Manager Firefox extension is a time saver for everybody and in case you aren’t using it already you’d better start right away. Besides letting you know when you’ve received a new Gmail message it also lets you switch between Gmail accounts without having to sign out and then log in again. With the time it takes Gmail to load all the messages on lower-end machines, that’s no feat to be taken lightly. You would still have to add ... [read more >>]
	15 January 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Contact Manager Feature Presented to the World
	In case you’re still in contact with a couple of old friends from junior high, or even before that, and you like to reminisce together the good old times, you’ll most definitely not want to forget any of them, or mistake their addresses when mailing something to the group. That’s where the Google Mail Contact Groups comes in handy as an option. It’s not a mailing list in its full meaning and extent, it’s only a simple way to email a gro ... [read more >>]
	11 January 2008, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Had Its DNS Stolen?
	Wouldn’t it be shameful for a company the magnitude of Google to be forced to admit that somebody stole its Domain Name System (its most basic task is to translate hostnames to IP addresses, in case you didn’t know that)? Yes it would, don’t even try to think about another answer, because it’s just no point. Yet that’s what it seems to have happened last night in India, where typing Google.com would redirect users to SoGoSearch, ... [read more >>]
	08 January 2008, 10:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Is There Life after Google?
	Has Google gotten so big that when it enters a metaphorical room with you in it, it covers at least three light sources? What further heights could you dream to reach with Google after taking over the market in a blitzkrieg kind of way? Many more questions on the topic to follow after this short commercial: "Have you ever felt the need to feel comfort in other people noticing you? Do you need to think or look at what you’ve ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 21:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Hungry for Gmail and Yahoo Accounts
	Gmail and Yahoo have always been two of the most popular email services on the web and this obviously caught the hackers’ and spammers’ attention. A few days ago, it happened again: a new infection has been spotted in the wild, being used by attackers to gather new email addresses for other spamming purposes. Trend Micro, the security company that found the threat, wrote that WORM_NUWAR.UL could be extremely dangerous as it has a ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 11:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Try Gmail Baptizing if You’re in the Blue
	Availability for your desired username is always a difficult thing to find so many people turn to the randomized name suggestion, not caring or simply because it actually returned something perhaps better than the original idea (not that it’s very likely, but still…) Every mail service from every company on the market has one of these randomizing things out in the open and they’re willing to lend a hand to those who couldn’t f ... [read more >>]
	03 January 2008, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia