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Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Monday, December 08, 2008 3:51 PM Posted by Jonathan Terleski, Michael Lancaster, and Brett Lider, Tasks team... People use Gmail to get stuff done, so we've added a lightweight way to keep track of what you need to do, right from within Gmail. Take ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks
Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers
Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:27 PM Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Gmail Product Marketing Manager Not too long... ago, one of the Gmail engineers broke out her vinyl cutter and made some Gmail m-velope stickers. Pretty soon, they were pasted to our desks, ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers
Gmail security and recent phishing activity
googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com — Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:22 PM Posted by Chris Evans We've seen some speculation recently about a... purported security vulnerability in Gmail and the theft of several website owners' domains by unauthorized third parties. At Google we're committed ... (more) Gmail security and recent phishing activity
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Gmail on your desktop gadget for Google Desktop
D' Technology Weblog — ... a new Gmail Gadget called “Gmail on your desktop”, that once installed lets you read, search, and send messages from your Gmail account. You can star messages, use the same keyboard shortcuts, and contact auto-complete. It doesn’t take up much space in your sidebar or desktop, you can also resize it to show as few or as many messages as you’d like, and you can keep more than one instances of the gadget open. The Gmail gadget currently works with the latest release of Google Desktop for ...

Gmail on Your Desktop
Technology - Channel Feed — Ways to run web services through desktop apps are constantly explored especially for oft-used ones. Desktop apps are preferred to web services because they tend to use less resources. Today, Gmail can be run as a desktop application through two means: Google Gadgets and Mozilla Prism. Gmail With Google Gadgets: To run the official Gmail Google Gadget, you will need Google Desktop 5 or above installed on your computer. The gadget is tiny (79KB) and offers all the basic features of Gmail including reading, sending, ...

How Do You Get New Gmail Notifications? [Reader Poll]
Lifehacker — ... of the Google Desktop Gmail Gadget added yet another way for users of the big G's email service to be pinged about their new inbox messages. While constant email awareness isn't necessarily a great thing, as ...

Gmail comes to the desktop in gadget form
Webware.com — ... Google has put out an official Gmail gadget for its Google Desktop product, giving users the option to run multiple instances of different Gmail accounts as standalone gadgets. The tool includes several useful Gmail features like keyboard shortcuts, mail, and contact search, along with the option to star messages. Users can also compose messages in a little pop-out window, which keeps them from having to fire up their browser. The app is currently Windows-only and requires Google Desktop version 5 or higher, leaving Mac and Linux users of Google Desktop out ...

Top 10 Things You Forgot Gmail Can Do [Lifehacker Top 10]
Lifehacker — ... open in Gmail are also permalinks for the account owner, meaning you can create lists of emails you need to get back to, bookmark an important thread in your browser favorites, and save them for any other purpose or list. 3. Keep your Gmail account(s) on your desktop. [image] More than one of the Lifehacker editors had gotten used to keeping Gmail and Lifehacker's Google Apps email open in two browser tabs, clicking over when a new message hit the title bar. With the just-launched Google Desktop Gadget , though, all the basic actions of email read, star, label, delete, respond ...

Physical email notification
Hack a Day — ... with Gmail setup instead. Perhaps by using a small wireless server and rechargeable batteries, it could make a great dinner table centerpiece notifying you of the latest email. How simple, or how complicated would you make a setup? ...

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