Gmail

Here’s How the New Gmail App Will Finally Tame Your Inboxes

Email is the bane of my existence. Trying to keep all my inboxes up to date and organized often feels like a full-time job. I’ve tried a couple of email clients now and nothing seems to work just the way I want it, but this leaked view of Gmail’s Lollipop makeover, first spotted by Android…

7 Gmail Filters to Make Email Less of a Chore

Hundreds of millions of people use Gmail but only a small subset of them dig deeper into the advanced features that are available in their inbox, such as filters. Setting up new rules for incoming can seem like an onerous task that doesn’t justify the effort put in, but here are seven filters that are…

Gmail No Longer Forces New Users to Make a Google+ Account

Google’s free email service is great—tons of people use it. Google+ isn’t nearly as popular, even though new Gmail users have been forced to connect to a Google+ account for years. Now, Google’s making that social service integration optional. Finally. WordStream noticed yesterday that new Gmail sign-ups are no longer required to connect a Google+…

5 Essential Add-Ons That Will Make Your Gmail Great

If you could add just one improvement to Gmail, what would it be? Chances are there’s an add-on, extension or plug-in that does exactly what you want—a thriving ecosystem of third-party tools has grown up alongside Google’s email client over the last ten years, and we’ve highlighted five of the most useful for you to…

Yahoo and Google Working Together on Unified Encrypted Email For 2015

Google hasbeen working towards offering end-to-end encryption for Gmail. But now, it’s teaming up with Yahoo to make both webmail services encrypted in such a way that they both work together. Yahoo has been a little slower to the encryption party than Google. But yesterday Alex Stamos, Yahoo’s chief information officer, announced at the Black…

Gmail Just Made Unsubscribing From Bulk Emails Easier Than Ever

You probably still get a bunch of bulk emails, simply because it’s a pain scrolling around to find the elusive “Unsubscribe” link. Gmail just solved that: now, an unsubscribe option pops up right next to the sender’s address in certain types of mail. Scroll no more. Added just today, the feature floats that magical link…

How to Use the Infinite Number of Email Addresses Gmail Gives You

One trick you may or may not have picked up about Gmail is that you can add in periods anywhere in the front part of your address and it makes no difference whatsoever: [email protected] works just the same as [email protected]. What’s more, you can add a plus sign and any word before the @ sign…

Archive Texts and Call Logs on Android with SMS Backup +

SMS Backup + isn’t the only option for getting your texts and call data off your Android smartphone, but it’s one of the simplest and most effective. It archives all of your messages to Gmail (or Google Calendar), and it covers WhatsApp communications too. The app is free to download and install, though you can…

5 Quick Ways To Free Up Space In Your Gmail Account

Google has boosted Gmail storage space by a factor of 15 since it debuted in 2004, but power users may still find themselves bumping up against the limit (and you now have to share it with Drive and Google+ Photos too). Here are some quick, easy tips for clearing out a significant amount of room…

Google’s making it even easierto attach Drive document in Gmail: on the right-hand pull-down menu in the Android app, there’s now an “Insert from Drive” option. Neat.

Double-tap to Zoom One-Handed in Google’s Mobile Apps

This tip has been floating around the Web for a while, but not everyone has caught on—if you’re using a Google app such as Chrome or Maps while holding your phone or tablet with one hand, you can double-tap then move your finger up or down to zoom out or in. Keep your finger or…

Create Gmail Filters As You Go For Inbox Nirvana

If you use Gmail as your day-to-day email system, chances are it’s a little disorganized. Although Google provides some powerful filtering tools, does anyone have time to make use of them? Just keeping up with the tide of incoming emails is difficult enough, but there are ways to filter and categorize messages as they arrive.…

Bookmark Gmail Searches For Easy Email Reference

You may not pay much attention to your browser’s address bar while you’re clicking around in Gmail, but each screen—from search results to individual emails—has its own unique URL. That means you can bookmark these URLs to give you quick access to searches, filters or threads you want to refer to frequently. Find your emails…

Google Now Offers End-to-End Encryption on Email

Google has released the source code for a new extension for Chrome—but this is no ordinary extension. It’s called End-to-End, and it will provide users with the ability to encrypt their email the whole way from outbox to recipient. The new system uses the open-source encryption standard OpenPGP, and should make it easy for users…

Turn Gmail Into an RSS Reader With IFTTT

Whether you’re still struggling to get over the loss of Google Reader or you want to try out RSS subscriptions for the first time, you can set up Gmail as a makeshift feed reader in just a few minutes. We’ve outlined the steps you need to follow to turn your inbox into a news ticker…

Gmail for Android can save now attachments directly to Google Drive, which is super useful.

Google Has Most of Your Email, Even If You Don’t Use Gmail

Even if you’re careful about choosing how and where your email is sent, chances are you reply to plenty of messages sent from Gmail. And, as it turns out, that probably means that Google has most of your email, whether you like it or not. Benjamin Mako Hill—who runs his own email server—decided to work…

Geek.com seems to have spotted an experimental new web Gmail layout that replaces the left-side control panel with a slide-in menu, uses pins instead of stars, and adds a “reminder” feature—all within a heavily-redesigned layout. No word if this test setup will ever roll out to users. [Geek.com]

9 People Who Thought Gmail Might Be an April Fools’ Prank

Gmail’s officially entering its tender tween years today, and after a decade with the internet’s favorite email service, we can barely even remember our lives without it. But then, that’s why we have the internet—to remember for us. Google chose a pretty dubious day to announce the birth of Gmail (April 1, 2004), so news…

Gmail Is 10 Years Old Today

Take heed, because there’s a lot of bad stuff out there on the internet today. But there’s one thing that’s very good and useful: it’s Gmail, and today your favorite email service is celebrating its tenth birthday. According to Wikipedia, Gmail was launched on April 1, 2004. At the time, it was an invitation-only beta…