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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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Developer uncomplex gmbh has updated Mailplane, its mail client application that lets Gmail users access their email through an intuitive interface. The new release adds text clipping support, AppleScript and mailto: link support, Russian translation and more. A 30-day trial version of Mailplane is available for free... |
13 January 2009
11:06 GMT |
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Google has been having some problems with complaints regarding its Gmail system, which is not too easily manageable when it comes to more advanced and difficult tasks. Following these, the Gmail team has finally come up with a solution that's convenient for both sides involved.To further detail on that, Google h... |
9 December 2008
10:52 GMT |
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For those who need to quickly access their Gmail accounts while on-the-go, there is good news, as Google has recently updated its Gmail mobile client to version 2. Addressed at J2ME-based and BlackBerry phone owners, the new release brings both speed improvements as well as new features."We rearchitected the entire c... |
27 October 2008
07:51 GMT |
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As we reported last week, a 502 error made Gmail inaccessible to its users for about 15 hours. Yesterday, the error occurred again. And, once more, the reassuring message from Gmail's help center proved to be a bit too optimistic. "These errors generally resolve themselves within a few minutes, so please wait a ... |
12 August 2008
03:52 GMT |
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A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas.Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, and ... |
11 August 2008
11:57 GMT |
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Globex Designs, a Canadian company, has released a Firefox extension that completely changes the design of Google services using a lot of visual enhancements. It's called Google Redesigned and, at the moment, it supports Google Mail and Google Calendar. The extension uses local CSS files and remotely hosted imag... |
11 August 2008
10:04 GMT |
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A 502 server error prevented Gmail and Google Apps users from accessing their accounts for about 15 hours. The error, associated with servers that have to deal with too many connections, disappeared after the number of people who tried to access a specific location decreased. In this particular case, it took Google e... |
8 August 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Gmail offered users, from the very beginning, the possibility to use https (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) in order to prevent their data being intercepted by third persons. The idea behind the protocol is that users' data is encrypted before being launched to the Internet. The team from G... |
25 July 2008
03:40 GMT |
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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 pers... |
17 July 2008
11:36 GMT |
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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, G... |
17 July 2008
05:40 GMT |
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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, y... |
9 July 2008
09:26 GMT |
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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 p... |
8 June 2008
06:54 GMT |
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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. The reason? "It's just no... |
27 May 2008
06:25 GMT |
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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... |
20 May 2008
05:40 GMT |
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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 h... |
19 May 2008
03:03 GMT |
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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 ... |
16 May 2008
04:25 GMT |
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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 fast... |
14 May 2008
08:15 GMT |
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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, along with multiple twea... |
13 May 2008
06:19 GMT |
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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 Mountain View-based company. Well, the statement came today and, according to ... |
13 May 2008
05:35 GMT |
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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 th... |
12 May 2008
04:45 GMT |
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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 wh... |
24 April 2008
08:34 GMT |
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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 secu... |
23 April 2008
10:42 GMT |
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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 ... |
17 April 2008
04:32 GMT |
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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 excusa... |
16 April 2008
02:34 GMT |
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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 support several important web services... |
11 April 2008
03:42 GMT |
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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... |
10 April 2008
08:38 GMT |
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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 ... |
1 April 2008
05:11 GMT |
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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 translati... |
27 March 2008
16:06 GMT |
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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 appar... |
10 March 2008
15:06 GMT |
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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 ... |
6 March 2008
15:41 GMT |
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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... |
4 March 2008
15:46 GMT |
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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. ... |
4 March 2008
14:16 GMT |
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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, wit... |
28 February 2008
13:06 GMT |
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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 ... |
27 February 2008
17:06 GMT |
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(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 ... |
27 February 2008
16:06 GMT |
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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 ... |
26 February 2008
15:11 GMT |
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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 f... |
25 February 2008
16:46 GMT |
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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... |
22 February 2008
19:41 GMT |
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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 e... |
18 February 2008
08:38 GMT |
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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 ... |
14 February 2008
11:46 GMT |
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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 delive... |
5 February 2008
08:06 GMT |
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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 ... |
2 February 2008
07:19 GMT |
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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 Accou... |
1 February 2008
06:21 GMT |
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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... |
30 January 2008
07:51 GMT |
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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 a... |
28 January 2008
16:41 GMT |
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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 vide... |
25 January 2008
14:21 GMT |
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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 ha... |
21 January 2008
13:26 GMT |
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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... |
17 January 2008
07:26 GMT |
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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... |
16 January 2008
18:06 GMT |
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