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New in Gmail : Move to button and auto-complete

New stuff comes to Gmail icon smile New in Gmail : Move to button and auto complete

New button

Instead of just the typical ‘link’ looks, it has switched to button style now.

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Label vs Move To

New button ‘Move To’ is introduced. To give you an idea about what it is, the screen shot below is from my ‘directory’ labels.  The difference between ‘Move To’ and ‘Labels’ button is, labeling email will label the email with your choice label and the email stay in Inbox (on the screen shot below, it is the first row email)

While moving email will move them to that label, and the emails will disappear from Inbox  (second row email below).

label vs mv New in Gmail : Move to button and auto complete

Auto Complete

auto complete New in Gmail : Move to button and auto completeThe third improvement is pretty much self-explanatory from the this screen shot. It works on the ‘Move To’ and ‘Labels’.

Admin 4 February 2009 internet tool , , , , 2 Comments

Yahoo Mail Open Application opened for all?

yahoo app Yahoo Mail Open Application opened for all?

After about a month in beta, it seems like Yahoo Mail open applications is now available to everyone. See that this morning on my, and my wife yahoo account. Previously, only users who have registered for beta tester are able to test it, but only from the beta URL.

Additionally, there are also few more applications has been added into the application gallery such as ‘Family Journal’. 

When it run on Google Chrome, the new Yahoo Mail also requesting permission to allow it accessing Google Gears (it never asking anything before). Does that means the Yahoo Mail open application now using Google Gears to improve its perfomance??

Erm, no announcement on the Yahoo Mail blog..

yahoo gears Yahoo Mail Open Application opened for all?


Admin 30 January 2009 internet tool , , , , , 1 Comment

Gmail goes offline

gmail logo Gmail goes offline

Ultimately, this is what every Gmail users wish I guess, to be able to access and read Gmail even when there is no/limited internet connection. And yesterday, Gmail team make it happen although it is currently limited to everyone who uses Gmail in US or UK.

Like Google Reader which goes offline last year, Gmail is going to the same way utilizing Google Gears. That means, Gears will download local cache of your emails to your local drive. It will automatically synchronize the mailbox with the email’s cache version once connected to internet connection, as well as automatically switched to offline version when disconnected from internet.

Theoretically it works charm right? So you have not to worry about losing data in the midst of sending an email when all of sudden you’re disconnected from internet, since the email copy will be kept in outbox and re-send when the connection is back.

Beside that, it is said that offline version allowing you to do whatever you used to do with your emails, just like as if you’re connected to the internet.

So lets hope it will reach us soon, and if it is up to the expectation. Read the anouncement post.

Admin 28 January 2009 internet tool , , , , , 7 Comments

How to check who else accessing your gmail account

It was a relief knowing the new office allowing access to web based emaisl such as Yahoo Mail and Gmail particularly. But unfortunately, access to Facebook is blocked icon sad How to check who else accessing your gmail account although I prefer Gmail over Facebook.

So when I’m back home I notice that my account is still open on other location, which is at my office’s desktop.

whoopengmail How to check who else accessing your gmail account

Click on ‘detail’ link which will open another such as below. It shows who and what accessing your Gmail account. If you feeling unsafe, just sign out all other sessions.

whoopengmail2 How to check who else accessing your gmail account

Admin 6 January 2009 internet tool , , , 2 Comments

Yahoo Mail’s Open Applications hands-on

A day after requesting to have the beta access to Yahoo Mail’s open application, my wish was granted today. These application are only accessible via beta URL, but you won’t be able to see it unless you have been granted access prior that.

The first app that I open definitely WordPress. As my early guess, it wasn’t something that new. It allow you to post a new article to wordpress.com or your own hosted wordpress blog(require XMLRPC setup) as well as reading WordPress.com blogs.

Next to it is Flickr. It offer option whether you want Yahoo Mail accessing your Flickr account or not. By allowing Yahoo Mail talking to Flickr (yeah they share the same Yahoo ID),  you’ll be able to open and share your photostream, your friends photos or favourite photos to others via email. Not to worry, if you don’t have Flickr account, since you can still viewing and sharing public photos.

I did open other applications but not go through it very much, as I’m not really into is as often as WordPress & Flickr.

yahoo mail application2 Yahoo Mails Open Applications hands on

Third party applications

Will Yahoo bring Facebook, Myspace or even Twitter in? Probably..

My cent is, fully functional application is not required here. Personally ,if I want to browse Facebook, I prefer to open it on new browser.

But just like Flickr & WordPress, put the most frequently used functions such as ‘tweeting’ for Twitter or posting status update to Facebook is sufficient. Others have done it (even WordPress has such plugins), so to company like this size shouldn’t have no problem implement it if they wish (particularly twitter).

Yahoo own services

Beside these third party applications,  Yahoo should consider bring in its own application such as Yahoo Buzz, Yahoo Answer inside. Flickr is a good starter though.

Don’t forget the root..

But the ultimate goal of Yahoo Mail is to provide excellent experience when doing email related task, which I feel not really up to the level compared to previous Yahoo Mail. In my observation, the emails are taking longer time to load (although sometime it is erroring) with and without any applications opened.

This is quite irritating, when thinking of all these hypes about the new features, but the ‘foundation’ of Yahoo Email itself has started to shows its weeknesses.

Nevertheless, this is still in beta, and we’ll see how it perfoms once its open to every Yahoo users.

Admin 19 December 2008 internet tool , , , , , 1 Comment
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