Priority Inbox works based on a label called “Important” that Gmail’s priority algorithm applies to messages it considers important. Just like you can compose a Gmail search that will include items in your inbox or starred items by using the in:inbox or in:starred search operators, you can include items that Google’s algorithm considers important by [...]
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Searching your Gmail more quickly
Earlier this week I wrote up a post at Download Squad about a new browser plugin called CloudMagic that can speed up your already pretty speedy email searches in Gmail: CloudMagic is a Google Chrome and Firefox extension which indexes your email locally on your computer, and provides ridiculously fast results when you search. The [...]
Quoted in Computerworld on Outlook slowness
I was quoted again in an article on Computerworld’s website regarding the performance of Outlook 2007. While the spirit of my comments are fairly accurate, there are a few inaccuracies in the article, and some relatively harsh words were used to describe things that I know I used softer language on. I’m sure this falls [...]
How to mark all posts as read in Google Reader
With the release of Google Calendar, I’m finding myself migrating more and more of my online life into Google apps. Gmail was the first (and still best), Google Personalized Homepage the next, then Google Calendar and now I’m starting to use Google Notebook some. The one that I could never really get into, though, was [...]
Becoming a Gmail master
While I’m a heavy user of Outlook in a business environment, I’ve migrated to Gmail for my personal email, and I don’t think I’ll ever go back. Gmail is pure email done right; it doesn’t have the productivity functionality of Outlook, but if you’re just looking for a mail client that allows you to deal [...]
Gmail for Your Domain
I recently mentioned to a colleague that I wished that I could manage email from my work Exchange Server account through Gmail. Although this isn’t exactly what I meant, imagine my surprise when he forwarded me the link to Google’s new beta Gmail hosted service. The idea here is that Google will set up Gmail [...]
Unresponsive Script Error in Firefox Using Gmail
Gmail has been driving me crazy ever since upgrading to Firefox 1.5, particularly when trying to send a relatively large attachment. One of Gmail’s best features is the ability to send attachments that are up to 10 MB in size, but uploading a file of that size simply takes some time. Apparently in Firefox 1.5, [...]