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Google doesn't really like big product and feature launches. It's about to have one very, very soon as it unleashes Google Chrome OS into the world, but for the most part its products and services evolve slowly with small but regular updates. Sometimes though, these small features may be a lot more importa... |
19 November 2009
13:41 GMT |
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Google is finally offering Picasa users more storage. Unfortunately, it's for a price albeit a significantly decreased one. Google has always had a paid option for additional storage space for those who'd fill up the free space provided by Picasa or Gmail, but now the company has slashed the prices while a... |
11 November 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Google may be planning to give all of its apps and services a great do-over, creating a more unified experience across the different products. None of Google's biggest names is spared, starting with Gmail and moving to Docs and News, all of which will supposedly get a brand-new interface, very similar to Google ... |
9 November 2009
10:30 GMT |
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Gmail Labs is brimming with tools and features but most of them never leave the experimental repository, largely because they serve a limited set of users. Others though spend their time in Labs as an extended beta period, something that Google knows a lot about, and are finally released to the general public once th... |
21 October 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Developed by the people at uncomplex gmbh, Mailplane is now available for download in its latest beta form – version 2.1b (1229). The application brings Gmail to Mac users' desktops, and is touted as the perfect tool for those using both the Mac, as well as Google's mail client. “This Beta (cut... |
19 October 2009
08:39 GMT |
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Google has a wide set of products and keeping them working together can become somewhat of a problem. But, seeing as integration has always been one of the search giant's biggest draw, it's good to know that it is still working on this. The company has just introduced a new feature in Gmail Labs which, desp... |
16 October 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Google and cloud computing don't really need another failure but that seems to be the case as users are reporting issues with Google Docs after the recent update. The problems have been acknowledged by the search giant and, while not on the scale of Gmail outages, they are preventing users from printing document... |
15 October 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Email has been around longer than the Internet so maybe we're reaching a point where there's not that much left to do to improve it. Web mail clients like Gmail are brimming with features catering to everyone from the novice users to the most advanced ones. The email client from Google was also one of the f... |
14 October 2009
04:34 GMT |
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At the press conference held in New York earlier, Google's top dogs, CEO Eric Schmidt and cofounder Sergey Brin, went through several aspects concerning the company. One of the most important ones, from a technology point of view, was Google Chrome, the company's speedy web browser, and the overall cloud co... |
8 October 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Online security is always a concern but with information on some 30,000 compromised email accounts from all of the major web mail providers surfacing this week, it's more apparent than ever that users need to do more to protect their online data. The accounts in these cases were stolen using all-to-common phishi... |
7 October 2009
11:20 GMT |
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Google has silently implemented cross-site request forgery protection for Gmail authentication. The new feature comes in the form of a unique token stored in a browser cookie and checked when the login request is submitted.Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks involve tricking a browser to perform a request that ... |
5 October 2009
09:46 GMT |
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While size may not be as important for tech companies as it is for many other sectors and startups can become wildly successful multi-billion dollar businesses, there are certain situations where size definitely does matter. Google may be nimble for a company its size and may try to maintain a very open and laid-back... |
5 October 2009
05:11 GMT |
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In an unsurprising move, Yahoo decided to kill off support for the Xooping Gmail plugin. Yahoo acquired Xoopit, maker of a rather popular Gmail plugin, which allows users to view image attachments and other media from different emails grouped together, back in July. Yahoo Mail has had a version of the plugin availabl... |
3 October 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Gmail was hit by yet another problem last week, rather soon after a major issue affected the service, causing massive disruptions and outages a month ago. The problem affected quite a few users, preventing them from accessing their contacts or event the entire service at one point. Now Google has come out with an exp... |
29 September 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Gmail has just unveiled a new interesting feature in its Gmail Labs program called "Hide read labels," which is just a small tweak but can prove very useful in some circumstances as it allows users to hide the left sidebar labels for the emails that they have read already. This makes for a less cluttered interface bu... |
26 September 2009
06:31 GMT |
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No web service is perfect or safe from problems, despite the best teams and the best efforts. Still, some services are more important than others and, depending on their size and how crucial they are to their users, issues affecting them can generate a lot more unwanted attention than others. Such is the case with Gm... |
24 September 2009
12:27 GMT |
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Mobile phone users who already tried out Google Sync know very well that it enables any handset owner to synchronize Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with a mobile device that runs under Windows Mobile or Symbian, as well as with an iPhone. Until yesterday, these were the only two options available with it, yet now... |
23 September 2009
08:58 GMT |
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Since it was launched, Gmail has been one of Google's most popular products and the webmail service is one of the top three in the world at the moment. Unless you're living in the UK, in which case Google Mail has been one of Google's most popular products to date. Despite being called Gmail elsewhere ... |
22 September 2009
06:38 GMT |
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The Google Chrome team has updated the dev channel with a new release of Google Chrome for Mac and Linux. The dev channel is now focused on bug fixes as well as a new defense for cross-site scripting attacks, according to the Google Chrome blog. Chrome version 4.0.207.0 for Mac and Linux brings the following changes... |
14 September 2009
06:41 GMT |
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Google announced on Wednesday yet another feature that Google Voice subscribers would certainly be happy to learn about, the availability of Google Voice player on their Gmail, offering them the possibility to play Google Voice messages directly in Gmail. While until now a new web page opened when users clicked on th... |
10 September 2009
09:04 GMT |
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The Gmail user interface team pulled four new themes out of the hat and delighted their users once again. The announcement came today, September 4, 2009, on the official Gmail blog under a chat between designer Jake Knapp and developer Manu Cornet. These four themes (which are actually three, but we will explain that... |
4 September 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Google has some of the most reliable services online, but even those aren't perfect and, when they fail, everybody knows. A Gmail outage that lasted about 100 minutes was the talk of the Internet yesterday, affecting millions of users. Google engineers managed to get the service back up eventually and everything... |
2 September 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Gmail is growing steadily and is now the number three email service in the US as well as the rest of the world, at least in the number of active monthly users. But it is still a relatively new service and it's only going to get harder for it to get even more users to switch. One reason why users might be relucta... |
20 August 2009
08:54 GMT |
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Tiverias Apps has released a useful iPhone app for fans of Google’s email client, Gmail. Described as the missing link between Gmail and the iPhone, GPush enables iPhone users to receive instant Gmail message notifications on the device. The app can also be customized to behave exactly how they want it to. &ld... |
18 August 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Despite being one of the largest Internet companies in the world, Google keeps on growing with some products getting faster adoption than others. Gmail has been around for five years now, or two if you count from the official public release, as before 2007 Google's email service was invitation only, but it'... |
17 August 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Mobile browsing is becoming more and more widespread thanks to faster wireless speeds, greater coverage but also, in no small part, smaller and more powerful portable devices. One such device that has taken the world by storm is the netbook, packing a standard, albeit underpowered, computer in a very small form facto... |
7 August 2009
11:05 GMT |
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Email has been around as long as the Internet and, while it’s still being used by hundreds of millions of people and it's unlikely it will go away anytime soon, there are plenty who are ready to move on and there are also many who have little use for the service, especially the younger generations. So, wit... |
31 July 2009
05:23 GMT |
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One of the reasons why Gmail has become so popular in a relatively short period of time is its “user scalability,” being simple enough for even the most novice user but having enough advanced features to satisfy even the most demanding business customers, as the email client is included in Google Apps, th... |
31 July 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Even for the most casual user, emails can come in at a rate that makes it hard to keep up with them. And most of these emails are unsolicited or unwanted junk mail, usually newsletters from all sorts of places. Most users though don't bother going through the unsubscribing process and, at least in Gmail, just hi... |
24 July 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Email spam and phishing are as big a hassle as they have ever been. The numerous attempts to block or reduce spam email numbers have managed to make a small, temporary dent in the overall spam traffic at best. The same is true for phishing, as, even with ever-greater security measures, the number of attacks has been ... |
14 July 2009
04:22 GMT |
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Google is making an almost historical move today, as it sheds the beta tag off some of its most popular products, like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. The move was announced earlier this year, but is just now being rolled out. While some services have had the tag for several years now, it was co... |
7 July 2009
11:42 GMT |
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The people at uncomplex gmbh have released a new version of Mailplane, their tool for Mac OS X users and fans of the Gmail desktop mail client from Google. The new version delivers a number of fixes to improve performance, as well as new additions, like a new crash reporter, a new way to view images, and more. Mailp... |
3 July 2009
03:36 GMT |
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Gmail, the hugely popular web email client from Google, has been always updating and upgrading and now it is launching an improved "Labels" feature. The tweaks are meant to provide better label management and to make the feature more visible and easier to understand as Google found that the majority of Gmail users we... |
2 July 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Gmail revolutionized online email clients when it first launched, and has since added a host of functionality and features to the site to help users get trough the ever-increasing number of emails they receive every day. But many of those features aren't even known by most, let alone used, so the Gmail team has ... |
24 June 2009
04:08 GMT |
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Thirty seven security researchers, professionals, privacy advocates and academics have sent a letter to Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, asking him to consider encrypting all connections to Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar by default. Google has openly replied that it is considering such an implementation and w... |
17 June 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Mailplane users should be aware of the latest update from developer uncomplex gmbh, which has issued the latest beta version of the app. The application brings Gmail to Mac users' desktops, and is touted as the perfect tool for those in love with both the Mac, as well as Google's mail client. Unfortunately,... |
22 May 2009
06:38 GMT |
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In a move designed to steal audience from its rivals on the online email market, Google has started rolling out a new feature for Gmail that will permit users to import emails and contacts from third-party competitor services. Convincing an email user to switch providers is no easy task, and Google is well aware of t... |
15 May 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Developer uncomplex gmbh has updated its application that brings Gmail to the Mac users' desktop with a few maintenance tweaks, and an improved Spanish and Chinese localization. The update is free to existing users and can be downloaded right here, on our website. According to the changelog for Mailplane 2.0.10... |
14 May 2009
06:20 GMT |
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The folks at unicomplex gmbh have released a new version of their application that brings Gmail to the Mac users' desktop. Mailplane 2.0.9 Build 987 is a stable release, which adds support for the new "Inserting images" Gmail lab feature and addresses an issue where pictures didn't get optimized. The latter... |
8 May 2009
10:06 GMT |
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Mailplane is a Mac OS X app developed by unicomplex gmbh that makes Gmail recognize Mac-specific fonts and features. The newest beta release of Maiplane adds support for the new "Inserting images" Gmail lab feature, something now also present in the latest stable version of the software. According to the release not... |
14 April 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Developed by the folks at uncomplex gmbh, Mailplane makes Gmail recognize Mac-specific fonts and features. The latest (beta) version of Maiplane adds one new feature, while fixing an issue with pictures not getting optimized. The updated program can be immediately downloaded, right here on our website. Mailplane all... |
13 April 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Developed by the folks at uncomplex gmbh, Mailplane makes Gmail recognize Mac-specific fonts and features. The application allows users to attach files, send optimized photos, instantly send screenshots and pictures from iPhoto, store passwords in keychain, do downloads and more, all backed by the built-in sound noti... |
9 April 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Google announced on Tuesday that users of an Android-based mobile phone or an iPhone would be able to enjoy an enhanced experience while accessing Gmail and Calendar through their mobile device browser, due to the fact that there are some new features that were added to the equation. It seems that the user interfac... |
8 April 2009
03:44 GMT |
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The start of April 2009 was synonymous with the first five years since Google introduced its email service to the public. Dubbed Gmail, the service was offering at that time no less than 1 GB of storage space for emails. In time, storage space for accounts has grown continually, and users are now enjoying in excess o... |
3 April 2009
12:06 GMT |
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Mailplane, a tool that makes Gmail recognize Mac-specific fonts and features designed by the folks at uncomplex gmbh, has recently been updated to version 2.0.7. The application allows users to attach files, send optimized photos, instantly send screenshots and pictures from iPhoto, store passwords in keychain, do do... |
17 March 2009
09:28 GMT |
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Google has simplified the process of adding very large or multiple items as attachments to emails in Gmail. As of February 25, Gmail users are able to enjoy additional flexibility when it comes down to email attachments, by no longer having to attach files one by one without any estimate as to when the attaching woul... |
27 February 2009
05:57 GMT |
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A new feature debuted for Gmail is designed to increase the content management capabilities of the service. Users who are dealing with a flood of emails now have a new option, designed to organize content more efficiently compared to the traditional options already available. The new feature takes Gmail to the next l... |
6 February 2009
09:35 GMT |
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By using the Gmail service that Google offers you can enjoy some interesting features and one of them is labeling your messages instead of organizing them in folders, and although it may seem complicated at first, this option will turn out to be a very useful one in the end.For example, if you receive a message and y... |
6 February 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Because of an error in the malware filters, Google not only flagged all the websites on the Internet, including Google.com, as being malicious, but also cataloged valid emails as spam. The past Saturday, because of an incorrect labeling of the URL of '/' as a value to the file, Google associated the followi... |
2 February 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Google is taking its online-based email service beyond the limitations inherent in Internet connectivity. In this context, the Mountain View-search giant indicated that it would permit Gmail access even if users were offline, via Google Gears. The company indicated that Offline Gmail was nothing more than an experime... |
28 January 2009
08:30 GMT |
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