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Gmail Chat adds support for audio and video

November 12, 2008

Google has announced a major update of Gmail, Today the Gmail team at Google has expanded its capabilities by including video and voice chat. In order to access Gmail Video and Voice Chat, users have to install a small (Voice and video) plug-in for their browser.

Gmail Voice and Video Chat was designed using [...]

Send SMS messages via Gmail

November 2, 2008

Oh yes, again. Now the friendly and kind developers Google has added the ability to send SMS messages via the site of its webmail Gmail. Users of Google’s Gmail service can now send text message chats to mobile phones using the webapp’s built-in Chat feature.
You must activate the feature from the Labs section (you [...]

iPhoto2Gmail: Integrating iPhoto with Gmail

October 30, 2008

iPhoto2Gmail is a plugin for iPhoto (software to manage photos by default in Mac OS X) that integrates the Gmail service. This tool works only on Mac OS X, Windows users can use Picasa which is an application that offers the same functionality .
With this plugin we can send our photos from iPhoto using our [...]

Google also points to OpenID

October 30, 2008

From today you can use your e-mail account from Google as OpenID provider, but nothing to access its services with the exception of the comments on Blogger. This is the same position on OpenID taken by the blog hosting service in the house – Blogger – and other providers like Yahoo!, Launchpad and Windows Live [...]

Gmail gets Google Calendar and Docs Gadgets

October 28, 2008

Wow, Google is continuing experimenting and incorporating new features into Gmail. The latest has been to add two options that can help you to get in the left sidebar access to upcoming events in your Google Calendar and your recent documents on Google Docs, respectively.
Gmail is becoming more like iGoogle, but here the choices are [...]

How to display emoticons and smileys in Gmail

October 25, 2008

Sometimes I feel that Gmail is boring just because it doesn’t have the frills like other email programs do. Or it’s more like business oriented stuff, no fun, no smileys, no colors, all grey and white – it sucks!
Well, the functionality is superb – but just that it does not have smileys so I’m going [...]

Google Releases Gmail Mobile 2.0

October 24, 2008

Google has introduced version 2.0 of Gmail for Mobile for BlackBerry and mobile phones that support J2ME like the Nokia N96,samsung sgh-p310. They do note however, that not all features are available for all phones, but version 2.0 is available in over 35 languages.
The new version is proving much improved performance and reliability. Few additional [...]

iContact : Access GMail address book From your desktop

September 23, 2008

iContact is a free software tool for Windows that allows you to access your GMail address book from your desktop. You can find your contacts very quickly without the need to login to your GMail/Google Apps account everytime. One of the very cool features are that if you have more than one PC, iContact will [...]

Now Gmail Reminds you for Email Attachments

September 17, 2008

Have you come across a scenario where you have sent a email but forget to attach a file with it.Yikes, need to write another email with attachment!Gmail labs has added another cool feature called “Forgotten Attachment Detector“, that will alert you, if you forget to add a attachment to a email.When this feature is enabled [...]

Gmail Labs Adds More Features

September 12, 2008

Gmail Labs Adds More Features: Makes Working With Labels EasierGoogle announced a few additions to Gmail Labs today that make using labels a bit easier and expand the functionality of some of the already established features. Google announced Gmail Labs in June and, at that time, introduced 13 experimental features. This new batch of updates [...]