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How to Make Free Phone Calls from Gmail
Google is once again allowing Gmail users to make free telephone calls directly from their inbox, all without any kind of service contract or landline phone.
Work Smarter, Not Harder: Fun with Gmail Automation
Here’s how to use magical web service IFTTT to automate various Gmail tasks you might find yourself repeating day after day.
Gmail’s New Inbox: Another Way to Auto-Organize Your Messages
Google’s new approach to inbox organization sorts messages of different sorts into tabs.
Gmail at Nine: The Evolution of an Essential Web Service
I recently chatted with Alex Gawley, the service’s product manager, about Gmail’s first nine years — and a little bit about where it might be going.
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.
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: …
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 …