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Free Google Snail Mail Postcards

Posted by George on December 2, 2009 at 11:02 pm

This year you can use Gmail to send a Snail Mail postcard courtesy of Google!
This holiday season, as a token of our appreciation to our most enthusiastic fans, we’ll snail-mail a free holiday postcard on your behalf. Yes, through the mail and everything.
- Gmail Blog, Spread some holiday cheer, one card at a time
So get [...]

Gmail gets experimental offline mode

Posted by George on January 29, 2009 at 10:09 pm

If you ever take your laptop to places yuo can’t get online, or if your desktop doesn’t always have a connection (or if you are on dialup) you might appreciate this new feature in Gmail Labs – Offline Gmail.
Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. [...]

The Gmail Email Reminder?

Posted by George on November 22, 2008 at 12:18 am

Gmail’s Forgotten Attachment Reminder now has a sibling, a reminder to types your email out instead of sending an empty email (maybe an email just with a subject line like “How About Dinner Tonight?”).
Gmail lover that I am I’m going to rate this one next to useless, unless you are trying to break yourself of [...]

Gmail Rocks (more) with New Themes

Posted by George on November 19, 2008 at 11:22 pm

Like I said before Gmail rocks! Now they’ve (almost) added themes, so I can now choose different themes for different browsers. Since I mainly use about 6 browsers on 3 different computers that’s really cool for me. Also this should let me see at-a-glance whether our laptop is logged into my wife’s Gmail or mine [...]

Vote Obama – ok this really is not a political post

Posted by George on November 4, 2008 at 9:54 pm

This post is not political except for the beginning of the subject line, its just a “hey what’s that?” kind of catch line designed to attract interest. If you did come here for politics I apologize, that was a little mean – maybe you’d like to check out CNN’s Election Center 2008
As for the rest [...]