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leopard

Apple and Google Combine Forces to Explode Your Address Book


The ability to sync your Address Book contacts with Gmail—one of 10.5.3’s most useful new features—could have used a bit more real-world testing. Rather than just syncing your beautiful, groomed, deliberately added contacts like any reasonable person would expect, Address Book downloads all of your Gmail account’s automatically collected addresses as well, which is to say pretty much everyone you’ve ever emailed, ever. More »

8:50 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By John Herrman
7,517 views, 27 comments

Latest by n/a: I wish Apple would have engineered Leopard against this problem of adding all those useless "loose" email addresses that Gmail stores. I'll bet the next Leopard release addresses it, but I'm currently using a paid third party solution. I've more »

cellphones

Helio Becomes First Carrier to Offer Push Gmail

If you are the proud owner of a Helio Ocean, Fin or Mysto, you have the honor of being the first to enjoy push Gmail on your cellphone. Using the "ultimate inbox" feature, simply set up your Gmail account and press Menu > Send/Receive. Then you will be prompted to enable new mail notification. It's just that easy, baby.

4:29 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,945 views, 28 comments

security

Gmail CAPTCHA Cracked in Teams; Bots Get 'Tude

Cracking Yahoo's CAPTCHA human verification may have been a major security-breach milestone, but now bots have been tag-teaming in pairs to crack Google's Gmail human test too, which they currently can pull off one in five attempts. During the crack, they also appear, somewhat snarkily, to read Google's help pages, perhaps as a means of preventing a timeout. [Slashdot]

9:30 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Wilson Rothman
4,825 views, 36 comments

diy

Make Your Own Physical Gmail Notifier

There are quite a few email notifiers on the market, but none of those gadgets can give you the satisfaction that comes with building something with your own two hands. Given the fact that I am lazy and unskilled, I would just as soon purchase the device, but for anyone with skills and some determination, having a flashing notification of mail in your Gmail inbox can done with any output device you have lying around, an Arduino board and some software. Hit the link for a full set of instructions. [j4mie via Make]

7:20 PM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Sean Fallon
17,303 views, 21 comments

Latest by someToast: @craig: I was thinking the same thing. I could see this being useful in 1993, but today I can get the same effect simply by leaving an ordinary desk lamp turned on. more »

email

Gmail Message Delay Problems Anyone?

Anyone having problems receiving messages on time in Gmail? On both a desktop mail client and the web UI, I see some new mail popping up timestamped two hours in the past (or about that), far down past some more recent messages. What gives? It's been happening for about two weeks.

2:15 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Brian Lam
7,127 views, 78 comments

gmail

GMail IMAP Rollout Sorta Complete

Gmail's rollout of IMAP is complete, paving way for synced GMail on Desktops, Laptops, Mobiles, and the web. Mine says it was activated since day one, but it's not working yet. For those of you interested, Lifehacker's mistress of email has posted a guide to tweak GMail's IMAP, and Google's posted a video of how to config on an iPhone, but its pretty newbish. How about the rest of you? Is GMail IMAP working alright for you? [Gmail Blog]

3:56 PM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Brian Lam
4,399 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: [mail.google.com] If you go here, you can report to Google that you too are having this issue with a single click. With luck, a few thousand of us clicking it will move the priority up. Feel free to post the link more »

GMail's getting a gradual storage bump to a possible 6GB come January as a continuation of their "Infinity + 1" storage plan, but is still a long ass ways away from Yahoo's actual infinite storage. Step it up, Google. [Gmail via Lifehacker]

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We're not sure how many of Google's apps have gotten the iPhone makeover, but GMail (along with Google Calendar before it) look quite optimized for the phone's screen. Of course, there's no real use to optimizing Google Maps for it, so don't expect that one anytime soon. [Google via Boy Genius]

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hmm, something's not right about this

Best. Phishing email. Ever.

[We Are a Community via NewLaunches]

Feature

1:00 PM on Fri Aug 17 2007
By Adam Frucci
169,640 views, 64 comments

Latest by Fluidity: All my emails are now belong to G Mai L. more »

google

Google To Offer Additional Online Storage Up To 250 GB

Google announced on their blog that they're offering additional storage for their Gmail, Google Apps, and Picasa services. Storage sizes of 6, 25, 100, and 250 GB are available at prices ranging between 20 and 500 dollars a year. We hoped for more flexibility in how the storage could be used, but it's nice for those running low on space. [AP]

7:19 PM on Fri Aug 10 2007
By Adrian Covert
4,704 views, 11 comments

get involved

Help Google Deliver Email In a Gmail Video

When you send an email through Gmail, hundreds of Google engineers leap from their chairs to help deliver the message. It's like P2P, but with bikes. They are doing a video all about it, and you can contribute to it if you hurry: More »

6:33 AM on Mon Aug 6 2007
By msparkes
2,824 views, 14 comments

software

Google Helps Themselves by Helping African Nations

Google has announced partnerships with both the Rwandan Ministry of Infrastructure and the Kenya Education Network to provide both institutions with Google Apps such as Gmail, Google Calander, Google Talk, and Google Docs. The governments and educational systems of the two countries will begin to freely use the Google online applications to communicate and organize their data. More »

3:00 PM on Tue Mar 20 2007
By Adam Frucci
1,048 views, 7 comments

GMail Going To 3.47G of Storage, Eventually Good news. The GMail code has been update to reflect storage growth over the next five years. The schedule?

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software

Gmail Now Open To Everybody

Just a quick tip for y'all: Google just opened up Gmail to everybody in the whole wide world today, so if you're one of the few who doesn't have an account yet, get to it. Don't forget that Gmail now works splendidly with Java-friendly cellphones, too. Shame it still reads all your e-mail messages. – Nicholas Deleon More »

10:10 AM on Wed Feb 14 2007
By Gizloco
650 views, 17 comments

announcements

GMail Mobile Rushes E-mail to Your Phone

Google's recent updates to GMail Mobile are making it easier and faster to check your GMail from your cell phone. The app (which can be downloaded from Google for free) pre-fetches your e-mail automatically and lets you view attachments like PDFs, images, and Word files from your cell phone. The folks at MobileCrunch gave it a whirl and were mostly impressed by the app's speed. Sprint already has plans for pre-installing the app on some of its new phones, otherwise you'll need a Java-enabled phone to run the app. – Louis Ramirez More »

11:30 AM on Thu Nov 2 2006
By Louis Ramirez
1,356 views, 20 comments

Latest by mozatyin: Om Malik says" if Google ever got around to releasing a single app that combined Gmail, Gtalk and GCal, they might have an instant winner on their hands. Just, which despite limited device support, remains one of our favorite mobile more »

cell phone

Power User - The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Build yourself a solar-powered wifi booster for the backyard. Your mousing wrist feeling a little achy? Train yourself to mouse lefty (or righty, lefties.) PayPal your buddy your share of the dinner bill with your cell phone. Add encryption to Gmail and sync your Google calendar with your mobile phone or handheld.

1:30 PM on Wed May 31 2006
By Gina Trapani
328 views, Comment

portable media

Google Talk and IM on the Nokia 770

With all this talk of UMPCs and Origami, the poor Nokia 770 has gotten lost in the shuffle. Well, have no fear. It's still getting upgrades and you can now use it to make Google Talk calls and IM with your Google buddies. While it's not quite Skype-tastic, it's nice to see they're still working on the product. More »

10:47 AM on Tue May 16 2006
By johnb
675 views, 2 comments