Here’s another productivity- and efficiency-based reason to use Gmail – background sending. This new Gmail Lab lets you quickly return to reading and processing email without having to wait for the current one to be sent.
To turn the feature on, just go to the Labs tab under Settings and enable Background Send. This one is a no-brainer. Just use it. I’m pretty sure this is one that will soon become a standard feature.
Cloud-based provider of business services, RunMyProcess, has an interesting new product/service that allows multiple users in a hosted Gmail environment to see a common inbox.
Called the Shared Inbox, this plugin is perfect for a support/trouble ticket inbox that has to be monitored by multiple employees.
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Here’s another fantastic Gmail feature previously available only in the enterprise version of Google Apps that is now available to all Gmail users: account delegation.
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Right now, Facebook’s messaging system is rather basic and no one in their right mind would use that predominantly over a real e-mail account, nor could they unless all of their contacts existed and used FB. However, rumor is that they are indeed about to announce a totally revamped system that would include an actual e-mail address (ex: [email protected]).
If this is all true, the announcement will come on Mon 15 Nov in advance of the Web 2.0 Summit conference.
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Google’s Gmail team has put together a security checklist that you can use to double-check that you’ve taken most of the steps to protect yourself and your Gmail account against hackers (or bad guys as they put it!).
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Google has a new Gmail feature to help those of us suffering from e-mail overload – Priority Inbox.
The idea is relatively simple. The Priority Inbox component watches your e-mail, what you read and reply to, what you delete and other signals and tries to ‘learn’ what you consider important. It then separates your Inbox into 3 sections: Important (at the top naturally), the Starred items, and Everything Else.
Requisite cute video:
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Guess where you can now make a phone call from? Gmail. Yes, Gmail. If you’ve been using video chat already, then you are already set up for making calls. If not, you’ll have to take a minute or two to install a plugin.
Until the end of the year, calls to the US and Canada are free, and calls to other countries start at $0.02 per minute. Naturally, we have to mention Skype as they’re a direct competitor, and Google’s rates are surprisingly low and beat Skype’s.
And now the reverse is true. The reverse of dragging a file to attach to a Gmail message is… dragging an attachment out of a Gmail email to save to your desktop.
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Just a few days, I went searching for a new way to automatically include HTML/rich text signatures into my e-mails in Gmail. Well now I don’t need to worry about that any more as Gmail has added rich text signatures directly to its interface.
Just head to your Settings page, and scroll down to the signature section. You can throw in links, images and format the text and links with various fonts and colors.
What’s additionally great is that you can have different signatures for the different from: e-mail addresses you use.
Gmail has long had an automatic link to a map to the right of the e-mail if it detected an address in the body. But now, there’s a new Gmail Lab called “Google Maps previews in mail” that will let you preview the map right in the body of the e-mail.
It takes a few seconds to load, but it seems quicker than either clicking that automatic link or copying & pasting the address into a separate Google Maps window.
