Tips & Tricks To Get Online Visibility
One the features long requested by Gmail users are finally available today. Rich text signature, or you may call it ‘fancy signature’ is one simple stuff, but it is no-brainer why it took this long to enable it. Anyway, good to have it now, and you can start drafting your fancy signature by getting to the ‘setting’ page from inside your Gmail, where you can find signature editor as shown below.
via : Gmail Blog
I have been copied in one lengthy email last week from unknown sender. I thought it is spam email, so I waste no time flagging it as spam. But I found out when I check the spam folder later, other recipients in the email start replying to each other and it become quite long threaded email. So what’s going on??Why am I copied in this email??
It appears that the email was incorrectly addressed to me. The reason is the dots (.) in the email address.
Apparently Gmail doesn’t recognized dots as character in your email address. It’s quite funny considering that dots is widely used in corporate email address. Here is Gmail explanation on this when I click the ‘learn more’ button.
Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:
- homerjsimpson@gmail.com = hom.er.j.sim.ps.on@gmail.com
- homerjsimpson@gmail.com = HOMERJSIMPSON@gmail.com
- homerjsimpson@gmail.com = Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com
The lack of 2 ways email status sync for email is quite disappointing after sometime . At the moment, only actions ( such as read, sent emails) from Blackberry device will sync toward the web based email (eg Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail), but not the other way round.
That’s pretty annoying if you have read hundreds of email from other email program (web browser, Gmail app in Andoird, iPhone), but have to mark it as already read ,manually in Blackberry, just for example.
Some good news is, the rumors about upcoming BIS 3.0 is said to overcome this issue. But apparently that’s only for Gmail plugin, so I guess other email have to stick with 1 way sync until.. I have no idea when.
The original source where this info first leaked, has uploaded document BIS 3.0 which apparently has been taken down.
I certainly hope this is for real!
If you open your Gmail today, there is chance that you’ll seeing this notification to update your secondary email address for the purpose of password recovery/reset on top of your mailbox screen.
This is the first time I notice this notification appear there, and probably part of Google effort to remind users, to enter correct secondary email for password recovery purpose of your Google account in case of any incidents that leads you to miss/forgotten the password.
This recovery process included using text message/SMS announced recently. It still not available here in Malaysia though, where email is the only method to reset the password.
If you click on ‘Update this address’, it will bring you to another screen below, where you can verify your email and enter you mobile number. Once yo update, the notification no longer showing up there.
Do you notice this??
It doesn’t take long for us to get hold of Offline Gmail. If you didn’t notice, it is now available on Gmail Lab. Enable it, and your Gmail follows you even on the offline world.
Additional note after it has been enabled. You’ll see Offline link on the right top of your Gmail page.
Clicking on it will prompt you to install offline access for Gmail, and Google Gears if you don’t have it installed.
Follow the installation steps till the completion. Once completed, it will start downloading your emails immediately. It could take long time, depending on how much email you have.
Once all emails are downloaded, you’re now ready to go offline!!
