Software by tag 'Gmail'

In.com – Shortest email address provider

Posted by Lim on Nov 15th, 08 | Filed under Internet | 7 Comments

In.com is a free email service from India. It provides @in.com email address, 10GB storage and user-friendly AJAX interface.

After you login to your Inbox, you will found that In.com has a very similar interface with Yahoo Mail. Both of them are using AJAX, and they will open new mail/item at a new tab.

The most interesting feature from In.com is they provide the shortest email address. It makes your email address easy to remember by others. In.com has built-in antivirus scanner and spam filter. But unfortunately, it doesn’t support SMTP and POP3. So, you can only use their web interface to access your inbox.

Although Gmail and Yahoo Mail provide more features, but you may try In.com if you want to have a short email address.

In.com

Use Mail Goggles to remind yourself before sending any message

Posted by Lim on Oct 30th, 08 | Filed under Gmail, Internet | 3 Comments

Google just announce Mail Goggles, which is a Lab service which enable user to remind yourself before sending any message.

Sometimes, when you compose mail, you may accidently press the send button. This is really bad for any formal or important mail. So, Google had launched Mail Goggles, which is a service that will popup a dialog box which ask users to answer some Math questions.

This is to prevent user accidently send wrong message and user may had enough time to think twice before they hit the Send button.

To use Mail Goggles, go to your Settings page and browse to the Lab tab, then enable the Mail Goggles feature. After that, you may set the difficulty of the Math questions. Besides this, Mail Goggles also let user to choose when this feature will be turn on. For example, you may only turn on this feature at mid night, as this is the time most people feel sleepy and chances to send wrong messages are higher.

Yahoo adds two new domains for its Email service

Posted by Lim on Jun 21st, 08 | Filed under Internet, Tech News | 1 Comment

Yahoo had add two new domains – Ymail and Rocketmail for its Email service.

How many of you are Yahoo mail users? I think most of the internet users will have at least one Yahoo mail account right? But, when you try to register a new account, and you found that some one had already chosen the name, what will you do? Use the recommend name or think another one? Or you will give up Yahoo mail and switch to another Email provider?

With the new domains, Yahoo believe more users will stay with them and can get their desired username. To register with the new domains, simply click the signup button, and choose your domain when you provide your yahoo ID.

So, why not grab your desired account now?

gDocsBar – Firefox sidebar to manage Google Documents

Posted by Lim on Feb 4th, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Firefox, Internet | No Comments

gDocsBar is a Firefox extension which add a sidebar so that user can access their Google Documents instantly when needed.

gDocsBar gDocsBar add functionality to your Firefox browser so that you can always access your Google Docs instantly. You can search through all your documents and filter them by type. You can also browse your documents by type, which means you can select only word documents or spreadsheets. Furthermore, you can sort the documents by title, date, or author.

The uploading process is pretty simple. You can drag-and-drop your documents from your computer to the bottom of the sidebar and these documents will automatically upload to your Google Docs account. Still remember the DocList Uploader which i introduce before? Both of them support drag-and-drop uploading, but i prefer gDocsList, as it can integrate with my Firefox.

Once installed, an icon will appear beside the address bar, which let you launch your gDocsBar. You can set the sidebar to open automatically when Firefox start (go to Tools -> Add-ons -> gDocsBar -> Options and then check Open sidebar when Firefox launch). Similar with other web applications, you can set gDocsBar to remember your account and password.

Some users may have concern about the security and privacy. Don’t worry, the credentials are sent using SSL, which is a secure connection. Your username and password will be stored in Firefox password manager. If you still worried about your password, uncheck the remember me checkbox.

I had try with Firefox 2.0.0.11 and it works perfectly. But, some users complain that gDocsBar is not compatible with Firefox 3 Beta. If you are Firefox 3 user and found any issue, please let us know.

gDocsBar

How to use DocList Uploader to upload documents to your Google Docs

Posted by Lim on Feb 1st, 08 | Filed under Application | 2 Comments

Google Data APIs developers had released an application called DocList Uploader, which let users to upload documents to their Google Docs account. This is an example application which using Google Data APIs.

The main purpose of this application is to show users the power of Documents List Data API. Before run this application, make sure your computer had installed Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

DocList Uploader

This application is fairly simple. First, you sign-in with your Gmail account. Then you can upload or download documents from Google Docs. There are a few interesting features. First of all, you can add DocList Uploader to your context menu, which means you can send documents to Google Docs from your right-click menu. Besides this, you can drag-and-drop files to the application to upload them.

They also make this application appears in System Tray. When you close this application, it actually minimized to System Tray. If you try to upload documents which not supported by Google Docs, you will get a warning message. Double-click the documents will open it in browser.

If you are a developer, you can download the source code, or view the page to get more details on how they implement this application.

download the application | DocList Uploader website

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Free 5GB online storage from Gmail

Posted by Lim on Nov 3rd, 07 | Filed under Application, Internet | 3 Comments

Gmail had increased its storage to around 5GB(~4.5GB). This was probably caused by other competitor( Yahoo and Hotmail) which offer unlimited and 5GB space respectively.

GmailGmail Drive is an application which con convert our Gmail account into online storage. Manage your ‘GDrive’ is similar as manage your folder on your desktop PC. Between the email providers, Gmail is the only one which can be used as online storage.

Gmail Drive

After install the Gmail Drive shell extension, under My Computer, you will see ‘Gmail Drive’ which can connect to your Gmail account. File upload to GDrive will be convert into an email attachment. So when you open your Gmail, you can see a lot of email message with your filename. You can even email the file to your friends and they can actually download your file using Gmail Drive. Cool!

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Gmail now support IMAP

Posted by Lim on Oct 25th, 07 | Filed under Internet | No Comments

IMAP-Internet Message Access Protocol. Is a protocol which allow local mail client to access e-mail on a remote server.

Google finally support the IMAP protocol. The screenshot below shows that mail client which support IMAP.

Support IMAP client

 

Now, Gmail’s users can read, changes, delete mail messages at their desktop and these changes will reflected in the server. Which means when they log-in to the Gmail using web browser, the messages that had been read, will be marked “read” accordingly. So,Gmail’s users now can log-in to their Gmail using different client at different platform and all changes will be recorded!

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