I recently chatted with Alex Gawley, the service’s product manager, about Gmail’s first nine years — and a little bit about …
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Google Simplifies Free Storage into a Single 15-Gigabyte Chunk
Previously sliced and diced into varying increments and doled out between Gmail and other Google services, the search giant has simplified things.
How to Create Google Calendar Events Straight from Gmail
If you use both Gmail and Google Calendar for your e-mail and planning needs, respectively, you can now create calendar events from directly within Gmail messages.
Kloudless Stores E-Mail Attachments Where Gmail Won’t
In the never-ending turf war between tech titans like Microsoft and Google, a new service called Kloudless is trying to make some peace.
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Google’s Greatest April Fools’ Hoax Ever (Hint: It Wasn’t a Hoax)
Back in 2004, Google announced a new service that sounded like heavy-handed whimsy. It wasn’t
Google Drive Gets Gmail Attachment Support, Mobile Spreadsheet Editing
Google has brought a couple of much-needed features to Google Drive, including a solution for the age-old dilemma of how to send extremely large files.
Stop the Insanity: Inbox Pause Lets You Quiet Gmail Down for a Bit
You can’t stop the mighty deluge of e-mail. You can only hope to contain it. In that spirit, Google Chrome add-on Inbox Pause lets you add a big blue PAUSE button to your Gmail inbox.
It works pretty much like you’d expect: …
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Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup Means It’s Probably Toast
When I learned this morning, via Twitter, that the small company behind Mac/iOS e-mail app Sparrow was being bought by Google, I almost didn’t need to read the startup’s announcement to know the upshot.
Google and Facebook buy …
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Uh Oh: Google Is Buying Sparrow
The inventors of Sparrow created a much-loved application for Macs and iPhones by stripping all the complexity and clutter out of Gmail. Google is apparently among Sparrow’s fans: It’s buying the company.
When these deals …
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The Old Gmail Is Officially Dead, Dead, Dead
The Atlantic‘s James Fallows — a technology enthusiast as well as a god to anyone who likes good writing — is not a fan of the new Gmail. How hard did he try to avoid it? When he heard that Google was about to kill off the …
Become Fluent with Language Immersion for Google Chrome
Learning another language is hard when you aren’t immersed in it. Sure, you could move to Paris like you’ve always wanted to, but it’s probably more cost effective to use the Internet. Luckily, Google has released a few new tools …
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Hate the New Gmail? Here’s How to ‘Fix’ It
First, a disclaimer: I like the current version of Gmail, which Google started to preview last summer and then rolled out in November. I found the old one insufferably cramped and claustrophobic, and am positive that the airier …
