Use Gmail Contacts with Google Sync to backup your contacts

I just discovered Google Contacts recently,its pretty cool, remind me of Yahoo Profile, but this is from the big G though. Google Contacts is the standalone Google contact book, that store the contact information from Gmail.

Although it has slightly different looks, Google Contacts has exactly same contents and functionality as the contact book in Gmail. Don’t expect that, it is more powerful than the default Google contact book in Gmail. But its existence on its own URL, hint that probably, Google has something on their mind about Google Contacts in future. Who knows??

What else can you do with Google Contacts aka Gmail contacts?

Nothing, unless you using it together with Google Sync. icon wink Use Gmail Contacts with Google Sync to backup your contacts

I’ve backup all my contacts information on my mobile phone to Google Contacts using Google Sync. On my previous post, I write how Google Sync allows you to sync your contact information and calender between your mobile phone and Google services seamlessly. Your contact and calendar is now keep on the internet@cloud, which theoretically safer than keeping it on the device.

As it synchronized by its own , when there are changes on either side,  both side will still has similar information at the end of the day. Why needs telco’s paid services to backup your sim card, if you can doing this for free, correct?

google contacts Use Gmail Contacts with Google Sync to backup your contacts

Enable Transliteration to type Indian languages in Gmail

Google India team introduce Transliteration, that support typing in Indian languages in Gmail – Hindi, Tamil, indic screenshot Enable Transliteration to type Indian languages in GmailTelugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. This feature which available by default for Indian user, will automatically convert the English word to their Indian language equivalent as you typing words in the way they sound in English.

If this feature does not visible for you, please enable this feature from language setting page by clicking on the ‘Enable Transliteration’.  Please note that this is not the display language, as you can still have this feature while your Gmail shown in your desired language.

gmail transli Enable Transliteration to type Indian languages in Gmail

Set Gmail Undo Send to 10 seconds

When it was first introduced, the default Undo Send interval is 5 seconds. Well, now Gmail has put up an option to choose from 0, 5 or 10 seconds interval.

Go to you setting page to set this up. So happy now??
undo send 10 Set Gmail Undo Send to 10 seconds

Gmail Lab in 49 languages

Gmail rolled out translation version for its Gmail Lab, the last piece of Gmail which is yet to be translated before. If you use Gmail in your native language, you might have notice it before.

In case you interested to test how good you’re in your native language, first you have to choose that language from the ‘setting‘ menu. Once you have saved the language setup, go to setting again, and choose lab. Depend on the language you choose, you’ll see Gmail Lab now in non-English.

For instance, Gmail Lab in Bahasa Melayu. Err.. Beberapa Barang Experiment yang tidak betul??????

gmaillab malay1 Gmail Lab in 49 languages

Zoho Mail’s version of Gmail’s Undo Send

It is interesting to see, how Zoho counter back on some enhancement Google made on it services.

Recently, when Gmail introduced Undo Send last week, Zoho via sponsor post on Techmeme, introduced similar feature on Zoho Mail, called Outbook, which Zoho claim has been there quite sometime.

It work exactly the same way, except that Zoho Mail allow you to set how long(in minutes) you want the email to stay in outbox temporarily, before it sent to recipients. Google’s Undo Send at the other end, only hold the email for 5 seconds.

Zoho Mail also put an option, to send the email immediately. Head to Zoho Mail’s blog post for more details including how to set this up.

zoho outbox1 Zoho Mails version of Gmails Undo Send