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Gmail for iOS – (iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch)
06 months ago
Waiting. Walking. Watching TV. Working out. Winding down. Waking up. We check email pretty much everywhere these days. And when we do, we want easy access to our important messages so we can respond quickly and get back to life — or slinging birds at thieving green pigs.
With that in mind, we’ve created a new Gmail app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. We’ve combined your favorite features from the Gmail mobile web app and iOS into one app so you can be more productive on the go. It’s designed to be fast, efficient and take full advantage of the touchscreen and notification capabilities of your device. And it’s one more reason to switch to Gmail.
Speed
We want to give you the information you need quickly, with minimal effort and distraction. So we’ve included some time-saving features:
- Get alerted to new messages with push notifications and sounds
- Find an email in seconds with search across your entire inbox
- Autocomplete email addresses from your Gmail contacts or select from your device’s address book
- Upload photos with a click using the new attachment button in compose view
- On iPad, navigate your inbox and read your mail simultaneously with split view
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Uplaod Photos
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Efficiency
Our inboxes overflow with dozens and even hundreds of messages a day—and this can be even more challenging on a smaller screen. The new Gmail app helps organize your mail so you don’t have to go wading through your inbox to find that key message from your boss or loved one:
- Focus on your important messages first with Priority Inbox
- Quickly scan countless emails on the same subject with threaded conversations
- Organize your mail by archiving, labelling, starring, deleting and reporting spam
Threaded conversations on the iPad
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Touch
We’ve also optimized the interface so you can perform common actions in Gmail with the lightest touch:
- Pull down your inbox to rapidly refresh if you’re eager for new mail
- Swipe right to view your labels without ever leaving your inbox
- Swiftly scroll through dozens of emails just by sliding your finger
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Swipe right to view labels
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We hope the Gmail app makes checking email on the go a little easier. It is available in the App Store today and works on all devices running iOS 4+.
[ Via Gmail Blog ]
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Lesser known Keyboard Shortcuts!
7You know, the humble keyboard shortcuts. From Ctrl+C to Ctrl+Alt+Delete, these key combos certainly help improve productivity. Here are some relatively lesser known keyboard shortcuts that can make your day in front of the computer better.
Try the shortcuts listed below and do share this page on Twitter or Facebook if you find something useful in here.
- Create new folders.
If you want to create a new folder in Windows what will you do? File/right click menu options to create a new folder in Windows Explorer. Instead of this you can create a new folder by hitting Ctrl+Shift+N – a new folder appears right in the Explorer window. You can rename it from there!
- Ctrl+Shift+T (Reopen accidentally closed tabs)
Somwtimes you accidently hit the cclose button in the Browser, Don’t worry! Now you can open it by pressing Ctrl+Shift+T. This shortcut works in almost all famous browsers.
- Facebook: Alt+1 to Alt+0 for
Almost all of us are familiar with the name Facebook. and you probably don’t know who to check notifications & news feed without using Mouse. Alt+1 will take you to the home page.
Alt+2 to the Profile Page.
Alt+3 Friend Requests.
Alt+4 Messages.
Alt+5 to the Notifications.
You can check the remaining by yourself. If you’re using Mozilla Firefox, Press Alt+Shift instead of just Alt. (Because it’s Firefox) 
- Twitter.com: Surf twitter with keyboard shortcuts.
If you tweet actively via the Twitter web interface, these shortcuts could be tremendously useful to you.
- f : favorite
- r : reply
- t : retweet
- m : direct message
- n : new Tweet
- enter : toggle details pane
- Google Search:
Right arrow for instant preview, Up/Down Keys to navigate search results
If you search Google with Instant turned on, you can use the up/down arrow keys to put the focus on one search result after another. You can then use the right arrow key to see an instant preview of the highlighted result.
- Windows: Print Screen & Alt+PrintScreen
If you want to take a screenshot in Windows you just hit Print Screen. But if you want to take the Screen shot of just active window hit Alt+PrintScreen
- Notepad: Insert the current timestamp with F5
If you occasionally fire up Notepad to jot down your activities, try the F5 keyboard shortcut the next time you’re recording something. It will insert the current date and time in the text document.
These Tips are taken from different blog posts, so it’s difficult to mention any blog!
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How to access all your Emails offline on a USB Stick.
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How do you ensure that you always have access to all your emails – even at places where there is no Internet or when you aren’t carrying your own laptop?
One of the popular options is that you use a tool like Microsoft Outlook to download all your emails to the computer beforehand and you can then read them anywhere even in offline mode. Both Gmail and Hotmail offer POP3 access to help you download messages using any email client while there are easy workarounds for Yahoo Mail.
There are some downsides though. First, most email clients aren’t portable (can you carry emails on a USB drive?) and second, if all you want is offline access to your Gmail messages and nothing extra, Outlook is probably too heavy a tool for that purpose.
I have been testing a Windows-only utility called MailStore that seems like an ideal solution for such a problem – the tool is free, there’s a portable version for your USB stick and best of all, it works out of the box with your email account without requiring any configuration.
Step by Step – How to Backup your Emails
The way MailStore works is something like this. You install (or unzip) the software to a folder and then select the email accounts that you want to archive. They can be your Gmail accounts, Microsoft Exchange, your old Outlook PST files, Thunderbird and any other web email service that supports either IMAP or POP3.
The tool will pull your email messages from all these places into a central location. If you have a large mailbox, you may specify criteria to skip emails that are older than ‘n’ days. It skips the Spam and Junk folders by default but you may also manually specify any folders /labels that you wish to include (or exclude) from the backup.
That’s it. There’s a convenient search box allowing you to search all your email accounts from one place. You can copy the MailStore folder to your USB drive, or even your Dropbox folder, and access all the emails from anywhere, anytime. Since this is more of an email backup utility and not a full-blown email client, it cannot be used for replying or sending new emails.
To quickly recap, here are some scenarios where you may find Mail Store useful:
0. You want to backup all your web mails to a safe location.
1. You want to carry your Microsoft Exchange / Outlook emails on a USB drive.
2. You have multiple email accounts and need to search all your mailboxes from one place.
3. You want offline access to all your web-based email accounts.
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Access Multiple Gmail Accounts In The Same Browser
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You have good flexibility with multiple Gmail accounts these days. Google have let people to access one account at one time. In fact you have access to one account in one browser at one time. Initially, it was an issue. As the next moment I wanted to have another account signed in, I had to log out from the previous and then log in from my other account. It was tough initially to manage this kind of situation. In fact I had to use either Google chrome to come upto this solution. But now, Google presents you with good facility of using multiple Gmail accounts for much time.
If you have multiple Gmail account then you can easily save enough time in going through the redundant cycle of logging in and logging out procedures. Gmail provides you with testing facility of Logging in with the multiple accounts. You can easily get access to sign in with multiple Gmail account from same browser. So how is this done?
Gmail Account settings
When you want that you shall be free to open two Gmail accounts from same browser, then you must do some setting changes in your Gmail accounts. When you go in to your Gmail Page, you will find a drop down box, which is there under My Account section in Gmail page. These features are also active in Google calendar, Google Reader and other Google sites.
Accessing more than one Gmail account at one time
When you need to access more than one Gmail account at same time, you need to perform some task. You have to visit the Google Accounts page. Inside that, you will find “Multiple Sign in” features and you need to enable that. Make sure that you have enabled that in good condition. When you go to enable them enable them, you need to check that your multiple sign-in feature is set to ‘off’. Now, you need to press on Edit and then you will see the option of changing the setting to ‘on’. You need to click on ‘on’. This will help you in making desired changes in setting of the account so that you can have multiple sign in from all your Gmail accounts at once. Juts after this, sign in your main Gmail account. You will find there is an arrow at the top of the email address that you have typed. There you will get a point that says ‘Sign in to another Gmail Account’. Now, you can easily sign inside another Gmail account in same browser too.
Two Gmail accounts signed in for advanced users
It is believed that multiple Gmail accounts sign in is for high end users but not all services from Google support this. For all those sites such as Picasa and other Google facility, you get signed in to the primary account by default, which you have opened in Gmail initially. Hence now, it is easier for you to easily log in to multiple Gmail account and keep in words with your official as well as normal clients at one side, whereas chat with your friends through other Gmail accounts.
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Introducing Gmail Motion – Now control your Mailbox with your Body Motion! (April Fool :P)
21 year ago
in Google
In 1874 the QWERTY keyboard was invented. In 1963, the world was introduced to the mouse. Some 50 years later, we’ve seen the advent of microprocessors, high resolution webcams, and spatial tracking technology. But all the while we’ve continued to use outdated technology to interact with devices. Why?
This is a question that we’ve been thinking about a lot at Google, and we’re excited to introduce our first attempts at next generation human computer interaction: Gmail Motion. Gmail Motion allows you to control Gmail — composing and replying to messages — using your body.
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To use Gmail Motion, you’ll need a computer with a built-in webcam. Once you enable Gmail Motion from the Settings page, Gmail will enable your webcam when you sign in and automatically recognize any one of the detected movements via a spatial tracking algorithm. We designed the movements to be easy and intuitive to perform and consulted with top experts in kinestetics and body movement in devising them.
We’ve been testing Gmail Motion with Googlers over the last few months and have been really excited about the feedback we’ve been hearing. We’ve also done some internal tests to measure productivity improvements and found an average 14% increase in email composition speed and 12% reduction in average time in inbox. With Gmail Motion, Googlers were able to get more done and get in and out of their inboxes more quickly.
To use Gmail Motion, you’ll need the latest version of Google Chrome or Firefox 3.5+ and a built-in webcam. If it’s not already enabled on your account, sit tight — we’ll be making it available to everyone over the next day or so.
For more information, visit gmail.com/motion.
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via [gmailblog.blogspot.com]
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