When Google Chrome came out in 2008, I installed it on my Windows laptop, and I instantly was a believer. The front page, which shows all of your most-visited web sites was spectacular. It was quick to bring up compared to the other browsers. Last but not least, it was created using WebKit , which is what Safari , my favorite Macbook browser, was developed using. However, I couldn’t use it 100...
If you use Gmail's POP3 fetching feature to read messages from other email accounts, you've noticed that Gmail checks for new messages less frequently than desktop mail clients. Usually, Gmail tries to find new messages every hour, but some accounts are updated more frequently, especially if you get many messages. "Once you've set up Mail Fetcher, Google will check your other accounts on a regu...
You can easily import phone numbers of your Facebook contacts to Google Contacts with the help of a Greasemonkey script.
This could be useful for people using Google Sync to sync their Android devices or iPhone with Google Contacts and want their Facebook phone numbers too in the Contacts list.
Here’s the script: AddressBooker
How to Import Facebook Phonebook To Gmail Contacts
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Earlier this week, we reported on a number of new security enhancements that we expect Gmail to launch in the next few days, including oAuth support. It looks like we were right: a small startup called Etacts , which launched last month, has just implemented oAuth for Gmail IMAP accounts, allowing Etacts to securely tap into your email without the security risks associated with handing over ...
Rapportive is a free browser plugin (available as both a Firefox add-on and as a Chrome extension) for that replaces the adverts in Gmail’s sidebar with useful information about your contacts: a photo, bio and links to social media accounts (Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, etc). It provides similar functionality to Xobni, the popular plugin for Outlook that we’ve covered previously , and MailBrows...
Rapportive est un plugin pour Firefox et Chrome qui vous permet d’afficher la fiche contact «sociale» de l’expéditeur d’un message. Sur Gmail , lorsque vous ouvrez un mail, la photo et les réseaux sociaux auxquels adhère votre correspondant s’afficheront.
Rapportive s’insère là où s’affiche habituellement la pub sur Gmail. Vous ne trouverez pas les mêmes informations que dans l’...
Earlier this week, Google announced that they were adding the ability to “star” search results. This was added and SearchWiki was removed from the search results so that there was not duplicate functionality. The basic idea is that people like the concept of saving good search results, but really could not be bothered with changing the ordering of the results. However, stars on search results ...
Firefox/Chrome: Sure it's nice and all that we get Gmail for free, but those ads to the right of open messages aren't really all that helpful. Free browser add-on Rapportive replaces Gmail ads with contact info about the sender. Beyond installing it, there's nothing to using Rapportive. You have to give it access to a minimum of information to get started (looks like your name and email address, ...
When Google launched Gmail they revolutionized emailing.
Until then, the focus of email clients and services had been on sorting emails. Thunderbird for example has over a dozen sorting criteria including date, size, and status. Searching emails, however, is notoriously difficult.
Google is a search engine. Consequently, Google’s email service provides many different ways to search your Gmai...
At the end of January, I told you how I had recently picked up a MacBook Air to replace my aging MacBook Pro, and as part of that process, I would try to do as much as I could online instead of through desktop applications, leaving much of my rich media on the old laptop, and choosing the Web over hard disk as often as possible. A month in, it seems there is still much room for the cloud to grow...
The Android Market may still lag behind the iPhone App Store in terms of variety and quality, but there is something to be said for the Android operating system’s extremely tight integration with existing Google products, and the wide choice of devices and carriers. There’s no question that the iPhone has many wonderful apps, but Android’s smart syncing with existing tools, interesting Android-o...
Google’s 3% revenue coming from enterprise applications is massively important. The graphic running down the side of this post ( courtesy of Pingdom ) tells the main story. A few years ago, Google’s revenue from this ‘licenses’ line item was piffling. 3% doesn’t sound a lot but it represents $760 million. Going back to 2008, Henry Blodget provided some analysis where he said: Henry got it a bit...
Given the ease of distribution of content from site to site and network to network, with RSS or any other model, it's no surprise that scrapers galore are stocking away our unique copy and then trying to make a quick buck from ads surrounding it. Even though the copyright is not theirs, they are trying to make an end run around the system. As new aggregators and networks have hit the market, those...
If your Gmail account is down or consistently throwing random errors your way, like my account is right now, note that it isn’t just you . According to the Apps Status Dashboard , a “significant subset of users” started running into trouble at around 9:45 AM Pacific Time.
At 11:34 PM, Google posted an update, saying that Google Mail service had been restored for some users, and that it exp...