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Gmail can tell you the sender time zone and current time

This new Gmail Labs feature is very useful if you ever work with people from different regions. You want to reply to them, but you want them to read this immediately while they’re in front of computer, instead of stack up on him mailbox, and only being read when they comeback tomorrow morning.

That’s how Sender Time Zone will be able to assist you.

sender time zone Gmail can tell you the sender time zone and current timeOnce you enable it from Gmail Labs , all emails in  mailbox will have additional information called ‘sender-time’ once you ‘click ‘show detail’.

So now you know when this email has been sent and the time over there now. So do you still want to call them in the middle of the night??

Admin 11 April 2009 internet tool , , 5 Comments

Gmail in iPhone and Android get new engine, offline feature and UI enhancement

Google yesterday introduced new mobile browser version of Gmail, that said to be faster when user performs any action on iPhone or Android powered devices, such as reading or archiving email. The foundation behind all this speed is  HTML5 and Google Gears which is known,  for it effectiveness managing the web cache.Google Gears also will keep your devices connected even on the flaky connection.

Beside the speed, mobile web browser version of Gmail also received enhancement on how it make even easier now for any user to manage their inbox. Now there is floaty bar appears near the top of the screen. There are options such as to archive, delete, and more. The floaty bar stays with you when you scroll down or up your inbox. This is time saver as user no longer needed to scroll up or down to press such buttons in order to delete or archive any email,  which available only at the top and bottom of the screen.

Final improvement is on the Label functionality. Gmail bring the Gmail’s labellings for desktop functionality to the mobile version, which mean now, it is even easier to use and looks more familiar with it.

Admin 8 April 2009 mobile app and web , , , , , , , No Comments

Stay connected to Twitter from Gmail with TwitterGadget

twittergadget Stay connected to Twitter from Gmail with TwitterGadgetTwitterGadget is Twitter client that you need if you’re really into Twitter. Unlike other client based Twitter client such as Thwirl, which is useful, but consume another memories and CPUs power, TwitterGadget lives on Gmail (and iGoogle or other app that support widget). You save more resources here.

I used to left Gmail opened in web browser when I’m online doing my work or in the office, so does everyone else, I believe. So that’s how TwitterGadget complement Gmail. You get your email and Tweeter in same place , same page. Installation is straight forward by following this link.

By default, TwitterGadget appear on Gmail’s sidebar like the screen on the right side. It is small, but just nice to show any tweet update. No worry, as it can be re-sized to full screen, by clicking the double arrow located on the widget title.

When you’re login for the first time, there is option if you would like to set Twitter to refresh in certain time interval, which is highly recommended. Otherwise, you won’t be able to see the tweet updates.

Twittergadget also is ‘shortcut-rich’ applications. You’ll find the shortcut provided are very useful to get maximum out of from this application. But remember, this shortcut can only be used in larger view screen.

If you’re not using Gmail or Google, don’t worry as you can still view it directly from the web browser by following this link. It has the same feeling and looks as the widget version.

Admin 8 April 2009 socialize & media , , , No Comments

Gmail turns 5

Last Thursday, Gmail turn 5, a quite achievement for the Gmail team. Human at this old, has enrolled to kindergarten, started to learn letters and reading, mathematics and etc. Brilliant kids do much greater things, including solving complex mathematics for instance .

But Gmail is not human, although it was invented by human.. genius human being. It has changed how mailbox suppose to be, beyond its traditional function of sending and reading email. Gmail has transformed email to the extent, that it was like other not an email application, which is great. You can chat, create and manage task and many more. But it still not free from outage, which hurt millions of users.

Take all these as lesson to improve it further. Keep up all the good work!

Admin 4 April 2009 Technology 2 Comments

Search Autocomplete improves Gmail search functionality

Search Autocomplete is new Gmail Lab, introduced to assist you finding anything on your Gmail account, from emails in inbox, outbox, folders to the person name and email address from your contact book.

To get it to work, please enable it from Gmail Lab. As you typing few letters , Search Autocomplete will list down whatever subject, name or file that match with the letters.

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Finding any media type or attachment also has been improved, with the introduction of simple operator that anyone can remember easily.

For instance if you want to search for photos, as you typing the first few letter for pictures, images or photos, autocomplete will suggest ‘has photos‘ and turn the key phrase to ‘filename:(jpg OR png)’ . It will search every email with images.

Other useful operator is in:inbox if want to find email that only located in inbox.

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Other samples of operator

has attachment -> has:attachment

has pictures/photos/images -> has filename:(jpg OR jpeg OR png)

has documnet -> filename:(pdf OR doc OR xls OR ppt) OR docs.google.com OR spreadsheets.google.com

has video -> filename:(avi OR mov OR mpg OR mpeg OR mp4) OR youtube.com/watch

has calender event -> filename:ics

in inbox -> in:inbox

in chat -> in:chat

Admin 3 April 2009 internet tool , , No Comments
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