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Free Google Snail Mail Postcards

Published on December 2, 2009 By George

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

Published on January 29, 2009 By George

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?

Published on November 22, 2008 By George

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

Published on November 19, 2008 By George

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 [...]

Google Voice and Video Chat

Published on November 12, 2008 By George

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 [...]