Sick of mailto: links in your browser opening Outlook or Mail.app whenever you click them? You can tackle this problem with extensions or through other means, but Googler and HTML5 guru Paul Irish offers a simple, no-add-ons-required approach. Here’s how it works: More »
Most word processors use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+K (or Cmd+K on Mac) to insert a hyperlink into a text, but even though the shortcut exists in Google Docs, it never worked in Gmail. Now it does. More »
Google’s new signup form for Google accounts now requires users to join Google+ and use Gmail, as well as provide your name and gender. More »
If you ever want to log into your Google account when you’re at a public computer, where you’re unsure whether or not there’s a keylogger installed, there’s now a solution. And it’s from Google! More »
After killing Gears, Google reintroduced offline support last September with a Chrome extension, but that wasn’t particularly well received either. Will the latest update finally make offline Gmail a realistic prospect? More »
If you’re sending Gmail messages from anywhere other than Gmail itself, they may look like phishing attempts. Up until today, whenever I sent messages using my Google Apps account with the From: address set to my vanilla Gmail address, my Gmail-using recipients got an alarming, bright red message at the top which said “This message may not have been sent by [who it appears to be from]. Learn more Report phishing.” Make sure this doesn’t happen to you. More »
Gmail currently allows you to automatically forward emails from any address, but if you’re looking to bulk forward old emails you have to to it manually. To solve this, Digital Inspiration outlines a way to do just that by using Google Docs. More »
Gmail’s Priority Inbox feature has been around for a while, and if you’re like me, you’ve found that Gmail’s ability to sensibly categorise mail is necessarily limited. Today, I realised it’s time to turn off those importance markers and get rid of all that unnecessarily added visual clutter. More »
Chrome: If you have a bunch of Gmail accounts you might grow sick of switching between them using the native switch account feature. Google Mail Multi-Account Checker is a Chrome extension that notifies you and switches between new emails in up to nine accounts. More »
Gmail has updated its iOS app with a few small features it was lacking at launch, most notably the ability to add a custom signature for messages sent from your mobile and settings for enabling a vacation responder. More »
