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Aside from Gmail, one Google product that helps me become less of a tardy person is Google Calendar. And with GCal’s integration with Gmail, what else would make me lazy to do what I gotta do? (except watching YouTube, of course, hehe).

If you don’t like using your Gmail and Gcal together, you have another option of including it on your personalized Google page or iGoogle.

Tags: GCal, Gmail, iGoogle

Switching from one Gmail account to another that is.

It might be weird to have more than one Gmail account, but I’m using three - one for clients, one for subcontract workers, and one for my newsletter subscriptions.

And when I was still new with using these three Gmail accounts I often encounter problems with opening one just right after signing out from another.

I kept on being led to the same account when I try to sign out. It’s like an accordion-ish situation wherein I can’t get out of that Gmail account.

However, I soon discovered a way to get around this problem - Google Analytics. How?

When I tried to see if Google Analytics does the same thing (I only have one account for Google Analytics but I created another just to see if the signing out issue will still occur), there’s the option to “sign in as a different user”. That’s it! Whenever I can’t get out of one of my Gmail accounts, I sign in to my Google Analytics first as a different user to get led to a blank sign in page.

Tags: Gmail, Google Analytics, email account

An arbitrator appointed by National Internet Exchange of India made a Chinese national transfer the domain name gmail.co.in to its rightful owner - Google.

Google Inc, which launched its website ‘gmail’ in April 2004 worldwide, applied for the registration of the mark in India in 2005. The company had filed a complaint before NIXI seeking transfer of domain name ‘gmail.co.in’ when it came to know that the address was registered by a Chinese national.

The arbitrator observed that Zhaoyang registered a company “Gmail Ltd” only after the complaint was filed by Google and the domain name “gmail.co.in” was transfered to the company one day later.

Imposing a cost of Rs 50,000 on the Chinese company, the arbitrator said: “The company has failed to furnish any explanation about the adoption of an identical mark. All these indicate that a disputed domain name is got registered and used by respondent in bad faith in respect of the general commercial business activities.”

Full press release.

Gmail’s spam filtering is not the only functionality of the Gmail filter feature. Here are the other uses of Gmail filter compiled by Lifehacker.org:

Archived bookmarks. If you use del.icio.us and other bookmarking services, you can archive them all in a Gmail label (”bookmarks”). Get the feed urls for each of your bookmarking services, enter them in a forwarding service such as rssfwd.com, and then set up a filter to label them all “bookmarks”. Now all your bookmarks are in one place, with Gmail’s great search.

Backups. Create a second Gmail account for storage, and create a filter to automatically forward any emails with attachments (”has:attachments”) to this second address. Now you can delete your old emails without guilt or worry.

No delete. Some emails you don’t want to delete — those precious ones from your kids, for example, or maybe ones from your boss. Set up a label (”nodelete”) and a filter that puts the nodelete label on emails from (or to) the addresses you want. Now, some of the above filters, add the string “-nodelete” so that it doesn’t show these emails. Now you can delete your old sent emails, or your attachment emails, for example, without worry that your kids’ or boss’ emails will be trashed along with the rest of the riffraff.

Check out 17 more useful tips on how to get the most of this cool Gmail feature.

Tags: GMail, Gmail filter, Gmail spam

People who often attach documents in bulk using their Gmail accounts will love it that Gmail’s attachment capacity has upgraded to 20MB from 10 MB.

This will be very helpful to me since I attach large files, usually writeups, often for editing. I just hope my forward-messages-loving (read: SPAMMERS) friends won’t take advantage of this new upgrade from Gmail on sending me videos and glittery flash images in chain email formats.

If only there’d be lesser downtimes too, which I’m often experiencing with my Gmail account lately. I’m not sure if it’s because of my connection or something.

via GoogleSystem

Tags: Gmail capacity, Gmail attachment

I, myself, am a rabid fan of Gmail. Aside from its large space, which doesn’t leave me no choice when my inbox gets bombarded with emails, I can directly communicate with people I’d rather chat with via Gmail’s instant messaging feature.

Although I have never tried Thunderbird, I found an interesting Associate Press article comparing the two email services. Gmail still got the trophy but there were also some useful features that Thunderbird sports that instant messenger users may want to consider.

via AP