Google is currently under a massive overhaul. With lots of iterative design changes, the internet giant has revamped Gmail too. Read more…
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On April 1, Google called its bluff that Gmail Motion is real. It was one of many Google‘s April Fool pranks that deceived even the most seasoned techies. Read more…
Today Google rolled out a nifty little feature for Gmail users – Desktop notifications for email and chat. It lets you know when you receive a new email or chat message. Read more…
Quick-Tip
Some time back we showed you how you can undo an already sent email in Gmail – to give you a second chance to review the email again. Now, Google has rolled out another great feature that lets you restore your contacts to a specified date and time in case you accidently delete or modify them.
To restore contacts, click ‘Contacts‘ in the left pane. Then, click ‘More Actions…‘ button > ‘Restore contacts…‘. Select time to restore contacts to that particular date. Simple as that.
Also see: How to undo a sent email in Gmail.
In spite of not providing unlimited storage space like Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, Gmail is the favorite choice for most of us. It is a primary email service provider for most people and hence the problem of running out of space in Gmail bound to happen for most of us, sooner or later. The only thing one can do is to remove the emails that take up lot of space. These are mostly forwards with lots of multimedia attachments. You don’t want that. But the problem is, there is no easy way to sort emails according to size in Gmail (this was my favorite feature when I used Yahoo! Mail back in the day). So it becomes rather impossible to hand-pick the larger ones.
However, there is a cool service called FindBigMail which is nothing short of a bliss. As the name suggests, it scans your Gmail account and separates out mail with large attachments.
Once the scan completes, you need to login to your Gmail account and look for labels marked ‘My Big Mail‘, ‘My Really Big Mail‘, ‘My Ultra Big Mail‘. This is where you can easily select the large emails and delete them.
The service also sends an email with stats about how much space your can recover by deleting those emails. Try it now.
If you are a Linux user then you must have been surely annoyed by the unavailability of voice and video chat feature in Gmail. Not anymore. Google has finally introduced the feature for the Linux platform. So, now instead of the ‘System not supported’ error message, you’ll be redirected to the page where you can download and install the voice & video chat plugin.
As my friend Sathya, who discovered this update, points out, only DEB packages are available as of 30th Aug, 2010. Packages for RPM distros will hopefully be available soon.
US users of Gmail are now equipped with a super awesome feature that allows them to call any mobile phone within US and Canada for free (atleast till the end of the year) and at minimal rates in other countries. The service went live yesterday and within 24 hours, 1 million calls were made using the service. No doubt, it has turned out to be a big success. Google’s official Twitter account disclosed the numbers some hours ago.
You can use this feature by clicking the “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name. Google has also planned to make this service available globally soon.
