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Shifting mail base is what we call a pain in the bum. With my GMail inbox now touching over the 5 gigs mark, I cannot even think of moving to any other mail provider. And that’s why I can exactly understand why my best friends wouldn’t get shifted from Yahoo or Hotmail or even Indian providers like Rediff and Indiatimes. But as I had mentioned in an earlier post – innovation is thy name, GMail. A new feature has been rolled out which allows users to import not only contacts, but even older mails as well.
So, GMail can now migrate email and contacts from a lot of email service providers and the list is pretty damn exhaustive. The big names are definitely featured -Yahoo, Hotmail/Live, AOL and also some familiar names in the US and UK such as Comcast and Sprint. (See the full list here).
In the official GMail blog post, it has been mentioned that businesses and schools using Google Apps however, will not be able to use this feature. Another functionality added is to try and test GMail for a period of 30 days, by importing just your new email to GMail (after which I believe you never would want to go back). Depending on the size of the inbox, importing would take 24-48 hours.
by Sujoy on April 23, 2009
No need to download Powerpoint slides before viewing them. GMail now has an inbuilt Powerpoint viewer. Also, TIFF support has been enabled. GMail’s Blogpost reports that the new Web-Based viewer has been upgraded with the support of viewing these two document formats. Ok,ok! we know that GMail previously did have Slideshow viewing enabled.
But with this new upgrade, the functions that are included are Copy/Paste, Zoom in/out, Print to PDF, and above all it no longers Flash. Yayy. So, if you have a Powerpoint or a TIFF in your inbox, and click on view, it would be shown in a new browser tab. The browser tab would offer thumbnail views, multiple slides per page, and even an online editing function (of course, that would happen on Google Docs). So, there you go; no more unnecessary downloads unless you are really impressed by a presentation. For all those who don’t cut it, their life doesn’t reach your hard-drive.
Also read: View PowerPoint and TIFF files in your Browser using Gmail
by Sujoy on April 18, 2009
GMail Labs’ new feature enables a new luxury in your inbox. Coming to your inbox is Suggestive recipient listing. This feature will suggest your recipients on the basis of your frequency of your mailing to them. Does it mean, your mailing behaviour is being monitored?
The Official GMail Blogpost tell us that, once you enable this Lab setting, when you compose a message to your dad and mum, it would also suggest you to add your sis to the sending list. But, the criteria here for suggestion, is the entry of a minimum of two contacts.
More thoughts on it:
a) No suggestions on the Bcc text space.
b) Only works with the frequently mailed contacts. Suggestion doesn’t work if mail is being written to a contact to whom I don’t mail often.
c) One bug suggested by Alkarex, is that if the contact recipient name includes an ampersand (&), then when it is in the list of suggested recipient, it is double escaped and appears as &
What did you think of this new Lab feature in GMail?
by Sujoy on April 13, 2009
Innovation is thy name GMail. The new features to be introduced on GMail Labs this time are Sender Time Zone and Image insert in Mail. Let’s deal with them one by one.
1. Sender Time Zone:
In a livewire world where most users are using mail 24/7 and across the world, travelling across different time zones, time zone recognition for mail will definitely make life much easier. SO, the new feature on GMail : Sender Time Zone will do exactly that. It has two features:-
a) Show if it is the sender’s office hours currently (i.e. 9 am to 6 pm in the sender’s time zone)
b) On clicking details, it will show the Sender’s Time Zone, and when the mail was sent. [ via. GMail Blog]
2. Insert Image:
Lemme begin with Yayyyyy!!!! It sounds exactly like it is. You can now insert images in the post. No workaround required. Enable in Labs (Setting–> Labs) and voila. Users who trust your content can view them straight away, else, have to use the ‘Display Images Below’ setting to display the embedded images. Easy peasy!!! [ via GMail Blog]
