A Few Quick Thoughts On Gmails New Labels
Google just revamped their label system for Gmail, probably because only power users understood how to leverage their potential. The new system is more like Google Docs, which means labels now behave more like folders. Only, you can still file one email in two labels, which you wouldn’t be able to if they really were [...]
Hybrid WebApps
Users of the Mac have been given an interesting amalgam of old and new, a combination of a traditional application and a webapp: Mailplane. It looks to be a wrapper for Gmail which mildly extends its functionality and desktop integrations, specifically in the areas of attachments and account management.
Webapps are great because they are on [...]
Gmail Bookmarklet: Mail To
Using Gmail daily, I’ve been wanting quicker access to the “Compose Email” area for a while now. So I concocted a deadly bookmarklet for doing just that. The following mockery of JavaScript will open for you, a new popup window showing only the Compose window. It’s awesome.
Drag this link to your bookmarks toolbar:
Gmail To
Works with [...]
Gmail Gets Colored Labels
Google has started rolling out colored labels in Gmail. It’s smart, I like it a lot, especially how removing a label is now no longer an option in a pulldown menu, but actually related to the label you’re removing. I am, however, ready for a label manager redesign. The whole “search don’t sort” thing, at [...]
Gmail vs. Google Mail
There’s a new version of Gmail on its way. Supposedly it’s speedier and has better contact management. New screenshots also show a graphic change: it’s no longer Gmail, it’s now Google Mail.
Why? Here’s a few possibilities and observations:
Who makes Gmail? Google does. Did you know? Maybe your mom didn’t. She will now.
My my look at [...]
Gmail Gets IMAP Support
Big news for fans of Gmail and standalone email clients: IMAP support. What’s that you ask? Well according to Wikipedia:
[IMAP] is an application layer Internet protocol [...] that allows a local client to access e-mail on a remote server.
Having never used IMAP myself before, this sounds to me like you can now use your Gmail [...]
Here’s What I’d Want In The New Gmail
Since I switched to using Gmail as my only mail client, email has begun working for me again. Spam is less of a headache and I can access my mail anywhere. Having learned that Google may be working on a new interface for Gmail, I quickly concocted this wish list for Gmail Gamma, in no [...]
Gmail + POP3 Mail, One Week Later
Just last week, I learned that Gmail can now download my regular POP3 mail to the Gmail interface. Previously, it only worked the other way around, meaning you could download Gmail messages via POP3 to your standalone mail client.
Well I essentially jumped right in and made Gmail my mail client of choice. It now [...]