Social Networking sites send a lot of e-mail, and I mean a lot. After being active on a handful of these sites for a while, I got tired of seeing all those notifications in my inbox. In order to take back my attention span, I set up a handful of Gmail filters to keep [...]
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Use Gmail Filters to Prevent Social Networking Sites from Clogging Your Inbox
Friday, September 11, 2009Send SMS Text Messages to Your Friends Through Gmail
Thursday, December 11, 2008Google has added a new experimental feature to Labs that allows Gmail users to send SMS text messages to their contacts through their chat interface. The new feature has been rolled out with support for U.S. mobile numbers, and includes a few features to help recipients of Google SMS messages from running up their phone [...]
How to Back Up Your Gmail E-mail with Gmail Backup
Tuesday, November 11, 2008Gmail Backup is software that will backup your e-mail from Gmail’s web-based service. Gmail Backup will download all of your e-mail, folders, and labels from the Gmail service so that you can store the data on your own computer. We’re sure Google has some pretty good backup systems of their own in place, but it can [...]
Quickly View Contents of a Docx File with Gmail
Monday, November 10, 2008“Convert docx and other Office 2007 files to HTML with Gmail” by Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration runs through a quick and easy method of reading Office 2007 files with Gmail. Office 2007 introduced new file formats that are not natively compatibly with older versions of Office and usually require hacks or extra software in order [...]
How to Send SMS Text Messages Through Gmail
Friday, October 31, 2008In “Send SMS Text Messages from your GMail Account”, tech blogger Amit Argarwal shows us how to use a feature from Gmail Labs to send SMS text messages through the Gmail interface. Go to your Gmail Labs settings and enable the “Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat” feature. The facility is currently available only for US phone [...]
How to Insert a Link Into an E-mail with Gmail
Thursday, August 28, 2008First of all, you must be editing in Rich Text mode. If you are in Plain Text mode, click the “Rich formatting” link right above the message body box. Hilight the bit of text you wish to link, then click the link button to insert a hyperlink into your Gmail message. Type or paste the URL [...]
