After Buzz came to Gmail, it makes alot more sense to have Facebook there as well. Hate it or love it, this new extension makes 70% of your Social activity, right inside the inbox. The new Gmail Facebook Integration Chrome Extension lets you add “Facebook” right under the “Buzz”. And the Result is as seen below: (Shows Taranfx FanPage) Read further »

Google had hinted a Social Network step to compete with Twitter, Facebook, yesterday. And it’s finally here. It’s called Google Buzz. Works inside Gmail, Google homepage and via Phone and everything it does, it does pretty-neatly. The key stuff: Auto-Following Rich Fast sharing Experience Public, Private sharing Inbox Integration Just the good stuff Works right in your Gmail under “Buzz”. The very first time you use it, it will auto-follow all your contacts. With time, it gets better, it will Read further »

Google has long offered the ability to use a secure connection with Gmail via settings or using https:// in the URL itself. Now Google has defaulted it to https connection. I don’t know about the readers, but I always used secure anyway. You can still move back to http, but that would be very unjustified. Google was concerned about latency issues caused with https, that’s why it was never defaulted, but now Google seems to learn that security it the topmost thing we need. Definitely this is triggered by High profile attack on Google from China. Google Read further »

It’s annoying that our Browsers and IMs don’t allow multi-user login. I can cite multiple use cases for this but I guess just no web app provider would allow it, by default. Well, there’s a simple hack to get over it. For getting Multiple accounts logged in for any Web app, use a Firefox extension called Multifox. The addon will give a clean way of adding a new session in anew “Identity profile”. Read further »

Tuesday’s Gmail outage went for 1 hr 40 minutes, brought a Havoc among GMail users. Google calls it a “Big Deal,” – The breakdown happened over recent changes to the request routers that direct queries to the service’s web servers. Unfortunately, traffic was underestimated, and went out of service. What surprises us the most is this Irony — “some of the changes were meant to improve Gmail’s ability to stay online“. But Google underestimated the load these changes would place on the routers when it took a relatively small number of servers offline for upgrades. The company says it will Read further »

GMail, and other Google products had removed BETA, which implies they are meant to be reliable. But, as I write this, GMail is down since more than  40 minutes. Though, the good news is — The IMAP version still works. UPDATE: Gmail is back up and running. With a Total down time exceeding an Hour. I see, people panicking on Twitter. GMail being down, puts Twitter going down into perspective. Every single second GMail goes down, I stop breathing. It’s so hard to live without GMail. This is what you get — 502 Error. Read further »

Google Apps have all Matured. No longer are Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk carrying the beta tag. they are all now full-fledged members of the Google products Family In truth, it’s hard to tell exactly what technical improvements/enhancements may have prompted the decision to lift the products out of beta. Google said, removal of the beta status means that those products have all reached unspecified internal metrics in terms of reliability and usability. GMail was in beta for 5 years. And paying enterprise customers will still be provided with a 99.9 percent service-level agreement now that the Read further »

Google has introduced a new feature in Gmail labs called Inbox Preview. With the help of this new feature, you will now be able to see a static preview of your inbox with your latest ten messages displayed, while Gmail is loading. This means that if you don’t have any new messages waiting for you, you don’t really need to wait for Gmail to load. This feature will really come in handy for people who are looking to save time on slower internet connections, where Gmail could sometimes take a while to load. To enable this feature: Login to your Gmail account Go to Setting > Labs Scroll down to “Inbox Preview” from the list Select Enable Save changes Read further »

As Gmail gets ready to celebrate its fifth birthday (on April 1), Google rolls out yet another feature that goes to show that they really have learned a thing or two about e-mailing habits. Today, the company is announcing Undo Send, an experimental feature in Google Labs that will give users a chance to change their minds about the e-mail they just sent. Who among us hasn’t heard horror stories of e-mails that never should have been sent – maybe it had a major typo or an e-mail trail that wasn’t meant for all eyes? Better yet, what about those e-mails that should have been sent as a “reply,” not a “reply to all.” Read further »