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Outlook.com vs. Gmail: Android app showdown

Posted December 1, 2012 - 8:03 am

Microsoft's Outlook.com Webmail service recently passed the 25 million active user mark, a milestone the company celebrated by releasing an Android app for Outlook.com. The supposedly new Android app is part of the software giant's plan to take on Gmail, Google's critically acclaimed Webmail service, which has about 425 million active users.
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The Weekly Hash - November 30, 2012

Posted November 30, 2012 - 11:52 am

A review of this week’s goofiest tech stories, involving lederhosen, the International Atomic Energy Agency and (finally!) a cloud-based medical device for your dog
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Gmail gets integrated Google Drive link sharing

Posted November 28, 2012 - 10:45 pm

Gmail users will soon be able to share documents stored in Google Drive without leaving the Gmail interface. Drive, and Google Docs before it, have always allowed users to share links to files using Gmail. But users have always had to share files from the Docs/Drive interface and never Gmail's, until now.
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Send huge, 10GB email attachments with Gmail and Google Drive

Posted November 28, 2012 - 2:04 pm

If you're not using Google Drive to its fullest yet, this is a reason to start: way bigger email attachments in Gmail
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Google integrates Gmail, cloud storage service Drive

Posted November 28, 2012 - 11:12 am

Google announced on Tuesday that it has integrated Gmail with its cloud storage service Google Drive. The result is a significant increase in size of documents that can be emailed -- up to 10GB.
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10 great Google tools you need in your business workflow

Posted November 28, 2012 - 9:00 am

Google is so ubiquitous in our everyday digital lives that it's easy to overlook the many tools it offers that have a business slant.
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Find emails much faster and easier with new Gmail search operators

Posted November 15, 2012 - 2:32 pm

Weed out your inbox and find messages faster with new Gmail filters for size, date, labels, and more
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Learn all the Gmail shortcuts in one handy infographic

Posted November 12, 2012 - 1:09 pm

Gmail offers many keyboard shortcuts to help speed up your email work. Learn the most important ones here.
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5 Gmail tricks to boost productivity

Posted October 25, 2012 - 9:45 am

Learn how to unsubscribe from unwanted emails, share your account with an assistant, keep your account secure and more.
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The Weekly Hash - October 12, 2012

Posted October 12, 2012 - 10:40 am

A review of this week's top tech stories, with a minimum of malarkey!
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Gmail adds support for search inside message attachments

Posted October 1, 2012 - 1:31 pm

If you use Google's webmail service, Gmail, you can now search attachments in your e-mail messages that are in formats from popular programs, such as Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, and others.
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Automatically save Gmail attachments to Dropbox or another cloud service

Posted September 29, 2012 - 7:45 am

Reader Meg wants to know how she can save her Gmail folders to her Dropbox account.
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Gmail vs. Outlook.com: Which offers the best email in the cloud?

Posted September 27, 2012 - 11:08 am

There’s an elephant in the room, and it’s wearing a Microsoft T-shirt.
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Learn Gmail keyboard shortcuts with KeyRocket for Chrome

Posted September 15, 2012 - 7:35 am

Keyboard shortcuts are awesome-sauce. Anytime you can keep your hands on your keys instead of reaching for the mouse, you're saving precious seconds.
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Eight great Gmail tips

Posted September 15, 2012 - 7:10 am

When it comes to managing your email, Google’s free Gmail is easily one of the most efficient tools around. Over the years, Google has reinforced its unique approach and built bigger and better features into Gmail.
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10 Gmail tools to supercharge your inbox

Posted August 28, 2012 - 8:00 am

From dynamic contact tracking to analytics in your inbox, these add-ons and services provide enhanced capabilities for both casual and power Gmail users.
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Chrome/Firefox extension Gmelius makes Gmail more readable

Posted August 23, 2012 - 8:44 pm

With numerous buttons and options you may never use, Gmail's rich interface can get in the way of actually reading email. To be fair, Google packs a lot of functionality into the interface, but no interface is perfect for 100% of its users. Gmelius is a simple Chrome extension and/or Firefox add-on that lets you pick and choose which features you want to see, and how you want to use them.
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Make Gmail on Android even better with these helper apps

Posted August 22, 2012 - 9:53 pm

If you’d like a smarter address book, quick “canned” responses, better attachment handling, or an entirely new email experience, you’ll find it’s not that hard to get a better Gmail under your thumbs.
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Add a snooze button to Gmail with Snooze Your Email

Posted August 20, 2012 - 9:30 pm

Regular readers know of my mad love for services like Boomerang for Gmail and FollowUpThen, which let you "snooze" emails you receive so they appear at the top of your inbox at a later time.
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Five ways Outlook.com beats Gmail -- and one way it doesn't

Posted August 11, 2012 - 7:05 am

As you'll recall from last week, Microsoft just took the wraps off Outlook.com, a.k.a. the Webmail service formerly known as Hotmail.
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Google rolls out search upgrades, Voice Search for iOS

Posted August 8, 2012 - 8:54 pm

Google is planning to integrate Gmail results into its core search product and turn the previously U.S.-only Knowledge Graph into a global feature, according to an official blog post by Google Search Senior Vice President Amit Singhal.
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Google adds Google+ video Hangouts to Gmail

Posted July 31, 2012 - 1:16 pm

Google is adding the Google+ Hangout feature to Gmail, the company's popular cloud-based email service.
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Access your Gmail contacts offline

Posted July 28, 2012 - 7:25 am

Robert Conner keeps his friends' phone numbers and snailmail addresses in Gmail. He asked me how he can access this information offline.
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Three ways to make Gmail easier to live with

Posted July 28, 2012 - 7:05 am

Making the move from Outlook (or another mail client) to Gmail can be jarring. It means giving up the folder system you've used for years, getting accustomed to an entirely new interface, and so on.
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Google Talk users lash out over major outage

Posted July 26, 2012 - 11:28 am

Google Talk, a desktop and mobile text and voice chat service used by many Google Gmail customers, has suffered a widespread outage Thursday morning that the company says is affecting "a majority of users."
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