Using Gmail is simple, but Gmail is also powerful. Make sure you make the best use of your Gmail account? Here are some tips, tricks, secrets and how tos for getting the most efficiency, comfort, power and fun out of Gmail.
 1.Get notified in your browser: Google’s nifty Gmail Notifier utility sits in your system tray and checks for new mail at regular intervals. But if your system tray runneth over and you are using Firefox, you can receive notifications right in the browser’s status bar through Doron Rosenberg's identically named Gmail Notifier add-on software; see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Get new Gmail notifications right in your Firefox status bar instead of using Google's own system tray-based notifier.
2.Filter messages with custom addresses and aliases: Like any decent email system, Gmail lets you set up filters that act on incoming mail based on criteria you set up. For example, you can create a filter that stars all messages from jrmuggins@frostbitefiord.co.nz and forwards them to every other email account you use. Click Settings->Filters->Create a new filter and follow the instructions. For more information on filters, click Help and choose Filters under ‘Common mail tasks and features’ to get a quick, complete tutorial.
3.Start using those gigabytes:Gmail continuously informs you that you have lots of storage space available —but most of us will probably never use even half that space for messages. Several tools let you use a Gmail account for web-based file storage or backup.
Bjarke Viksoe’s Gmail Drive adds Gmail to Windows Explorer as a storage device, permitting you to drag and drop files to and from Google’s servers, where they are stored as email attachments.
Rahul Jonna’s Gmail Space(or GSpace) is similar, but it works as a Firefox extension that converts the browser into a file-transfer utility to shuttle documents between your hard disk and Gmail (see Figure 2). When you create a filter that sends Gmail Space files to a specific Gmail folder (every file that Gmail Space uploads is attached to a message whose subject is prefixed with ‘GSPACE’), you keep your inbox clear of your stored files automatically. Note that the current version of Gmail Space conflicts with the NoScript Firefox extension.
Figure 2: Use those Gmail gigabytes for storing copies of your files online, with the free Gmail Space add-on program for Firefox.Labels: gmail, tips, tricks |
Incredible!!
Esp. da part abt GDrive n GSpace....
Fill in some more of the new additions made by Google to Gmail.
Cheers!