Keeping in touch with your contacts is important, but organizing contacts quickly and efficiently isn’t always easy, even in Gmail. However, Gmail has added two new features to Gmail, making this easier to do. The first feature added to Gmail is under the contacts menu. If you’re like me, you have various groups of people…Continue Reading
So far I’ve walked you though the steps necessary to setup Google Cloud Print on your computer, in this guide I will show you how to use this setup to send documents and emails to print from your mobile phone wherever you are. The service is currently available in Gmail and Docs from your mobile…Continue Reading
Google recently launched a new Labs feature that makes it easier to stay on top of new messages in Gmail. When enabled the new feature embeds Gmail’s unread message count into the Gmail icon itself. This means that without having to switch tabs to access Gmail you can quickly determine if you’ve received any new…Continue Reading
Hate having to switch back and forth between tabs to find out if you’ve received a new message on Gmail? Sure you can use Growl notifications on your Mac or other applications in Windows to see these notifications, but who wants to install more crap on their computers. Today Google announced the availability of a…Continue Reading
Although Gmail does an awesome job of managing conversations in a browser when it comes to accessing those conversations offline I tend prefer an email client that keeps a copy of those messages on my computer as a backup. I currently use Mail on my Mac and have found it to be adequate except for…Continue Reading
If you are a fan of Gmail’s Emoji icons then you already know how time consuming it can be to sift through hundreds of emoticons to find your favorite one. Like a lot of other Gmail features, Google has decided to simplify the use of emoticons and you can now access recently used emoticons without…Continue Reading
As a huge fan of conversation view in Gmail I can’t see how Gmail users wouldn’t want an organized inbox. This is what the whole concept of threaded messages is all about, grouping related messages while saving you time and space. However, according to a recent blog post there is a small number of users…Continue Reading
It’s been over a week since Google launched Priority Inbox and already they have posted tips on how to maximize its effectiveness. In the guide below I will show each of the tips along with an explanation on how each works. If you have any comments or questions please use the comments form at the…Continue Reading
Do you feel that miss important messages because your Gmail inbox is drowning you with messages? Google does a pretty good job of keeping spam out, but doesn’t do much about alerting you to important messages. That all changes today. A new feature being rolled out by the Gmail team will automatically identify important incoming…Continue Reading
This post is a collection of frequently asked questions (FAQ’s) along with answers about the Google Voice service. If there is a question you feel belongs here, please use the comments form at the end of this post to add it and I will do my best to update this FAQ as soon as possible….Continue Reading
At least until the end of 2010 Google will allow US and Canadian based Gmail users to make free phone calls to cell phones and landlines using Gmail Chat. If you happen to have a Gmail account all you have to do is download and install the Voice and Video Chat plug-in for Gmail and…Continue Reading
How many of you have more than one Gmail account? Like me, you probably got a silly Gmail email address when Gmail was first launched years ago, and you later got a more serious email account as Gmail matured. Yet you are still receiving messages on both email accounts and switching between them requires that…Continue Reading
If you’v ever tried locating a file on Google Docs or Google Sites you know that in order to search the document you must visit the Docs page or the Site’s page. To alleviate this back and forth Google has made available a new Labs feature in Gmail that allows you to search these two…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
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One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading