How often do you check your email? Half a day? Every hour? Every minute? What about your Facebook, Twitter and all other social networks that you are involved in? Won’t it be better if you can get a desktop notification whenever a new mail, or new update arrive, instead of having to visit the site everytime? CloudSN is a notification service for the Linux desktop that notifies you when new mail or update arrive. It supports Gmail, POP 3 and IMAP mailbox and Google Reader, Twitter and identi.ca. You can also get it to monitor a custom RSS feed.
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CloudSN Notifies You When New Mail Arrives [Linux]
By | February 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
Quick Tip: Adding Unread Count to GMail Favicon
By | January 28, 2011 |
The ability to “pin” tabs has been showing up in more web browsers these days, and it’s often a handy way to keep your ever-present favorite sites from taking up all the space in your tab bar. What’s often missing however is the information that is sometimes displayed in the title, such as GMail’s unread count. Lucky for us, Google has added a Labs feature to let you include the unread count in the page’s icon, so that you can pin the tab and still keep and eye out for fresh messages. Here’s how to enable it.
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Minimalist Gmail Strips Your Gmail To Bare Minimum And More
By | January 26, 2011 |
Love the functionality of Gmail, but hate the clutter? Wished you can customize the look and feel of your Gmail interface without having to dabble with the code? If yes, you got to try out Minimalist Gmail extension.
Minimalist Gmail is a Google Chrome extension that gives you the power to strip your Gmail to the bare minimum (if you want to) and customize it to your liking. It is a powerful tool that allows you to change almost every single aspect (of the looks, not the functionality) of Gmail.
Let’s take a deeper look.
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How to Keep Your Digital Life Synchronized – Automatically!
By | January 1, 2011 |
This is a guest post from Anders Vinther (Easy-Email.net)
These days, most people use a variety of electronic devices every day – computers, smartphones, iPads – you name it. I think the only person left who only uses one computer is my mum.
We all know how difficult it is to keep your information up to date and readily available when we need it. If you’re anything like me, you don’t want to have to remember to update your USB key before you leave the office or email yourself from your work email address to your personal email address… most often you don’t even know what you will need.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could have all your files, bookmarks, emails, passwords, contacts and calendar up to date, no matter where you are or which computer or device you are using? Here is the complete guide to synchronizing your digital life. Set it up once and then forget about it, it’s all automatic! It will take a bit of time to get it organised up front, but it will save you so much time from then on.
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How to Unsubscribe From Mailing Lists With Ease
By | December 2, 2010 |
Everyone has done it one time or another. You subscribed to too many email newsletters and got overloaded. I have an email address that was so overpopulated with junk, spam and newsletters I just gave up on it.
Instead of getting deeper and deeper into newsletter hell, you can use Unsubscribe.com to help reclaim your inbox. I am really surprised there aren’t more services like this readily available or even built into email programs.
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Your Inbox Needs Help, Use OtherInbox
By | November 19, 2010 |
Many of us let our email inbox go. We sign up for newsletters and keep the boxes checked allowing companies and their affiliates to send us anything they’d like. This makes a mountain of email that we dread sifting through.
What if you could have help? There is an application out there that will go through your inbox and sort out known email marketing lists and social media emails. OtherInbox helps solve this dilemma.
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The Easiest Way to Set Gmail As The Default Email Handler in Windows
By | October 26, 2010 |
In almost all version of the Windows OS, the default email application is always Outlook. For those who are using Gmail and want to use it as the default email client, what you can do is to configure Outlook to use Gmail as the default account so that whenever you click on a mailto link, your Outlook will open and compose a mail with your Gmail account. Now, what if you don’t use Outlook or any other desktop email application? Or you want a simpler solution – like open the Gmail site in your default browser?
While there are several ways to configure this, the easiest way that I have encountered is via the Mailto Updater application. All you need is a single click and it will configure your Windows to run Gmail (in browser) as the default email client. What’s more, it supports Google apps too.
Here’s what you need to do:
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Sparrow Access Your Gmail Account On Desktop [Mac]
By | October 11, 2010 |
Sparrow for Gmail bills itself as “The New Mail for Mac” and it is obvious why. OS X’s Mail app is a very basic, barebones email application that gets the job done quickly and relatively painlessly. Sparrow is very similar in that regard. Where it ends though, is email integration outside of Gmail, as Gmail is Sparrow’s sole focus. If you’re not a Gmail user, you’re probably (reasonably) pretty turned off, but if you are, keep reading, because Sparrow is definitely worth a look.
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FindBigMail Finds Big Size Mails In Your Gmail, Helps You Clean Up Your Email Account
By | September 29, 2010 |
Theoretically, 7GB of storage space for an email account is way too much for most people to fully utilize it. Google offers their Gmail service for free and each account has over 7GB of free space for email storage. Despite this huge amount of space, we found that many people could in fact run out of email space. When that happened, all your incoming mail will bounce until you have free up some space to store it.
The problem is, if your inbox contains 7Gb of emails (probably tens of thousands of them), it can be a tedious and difficult task to sort out which emails take up the most space and can be deleted. This is where Find Big Mail is useful.
Find Big Mail, as the name implies, is a web app that scan your Gmail inbox for large mail and mark them with a label. You can then sort your mail by the label and get instant result of the emails that are taking up all your storage space. The concept is simple, but it is tremendously useful.
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6 Features to Make You Reconsider Using Hotmail
By | September 19, 2010 |
Since people started moving all of their information to the clouds by the Terabyte, many of the web based applications have really stepped up their game. It seems to me like I am always hearing about what Google is doing.
While there is no denying I am a big user of Google’s offering, including Gmail, it never hurts to keep an eye open for what else is available. Windows Live mail (Hotmail) has added a staggering amount of upgrades since I had a Hotmail account. Below are some of the things you may not know Hotmail can do.
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