George on December 2nd, 2009

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
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George on January 29th, 2009

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. [...]

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George on November 22nd, 2008

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 [...]

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George on November 19th, 2008

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 [...]

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George on November 12th, 2008

Finally, a good (and free) reason to actually consider getting a webcam. I don’t use webcams for remote meetings yet, but having a video chat from within Gmail, could change that. Now, you can start a video chat from Gmail chat!
“Gmail voice and video chat, which lets you have free voice and video conversations right [...]

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