Got an unexpected email from Google yesterday, regarding the settlement for the Google Buzz privacy lawsuit. The email was sent to all Google Buzz users, so if you’re a Google Buzz user you should’ve gotten one on your email inbox too. The purpose of the email is to notify users that Google has finally settled [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 26, 2010
Hello people! How are you all doing? Hope you all had/having a good weekend. The past couple of weeks has been good for blogging as well as I’ve been able to keep this blog updated with about one post per day. To make up for last week’s late Weekend Roundup, I’ve made sure I posted [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 9, 2010
Gmail’s built-in filters, labels and the recently launched Priority Inbox help users who receive a boatload of emails on a regular basis to easily organize and manage their Gmail Inbox. However, there are still instances where the built-in features aren’t enough to organize and keep track of the emails you send and receive. Boomerang for [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 3, 2010
I have been using Gmail the past 5 years and for me what makes it better than other webmail services, (aside from it’s very effective spam filter) is that the Gmail team is constantly coming up with new features to improve the total user experience. The newest Gmail feature called Priority Inbox, is an experimental [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 22, 2010
For Gmail users, are you aware that you can now drag-and-drop attachments to your emails? Last week, Google announced on the official Gmail blog the release of the new drag and drop attachments feature for Gmail. This new feature is automatically added to every Gmail account so users don’t have to install it via Gmail [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 12, 2010
Recently, a blogger friend of mine asked me how I got the social media icons (with links) on my email signature. If you recently received an email from me, then you might’ve seen it too. My email signature contains my name, a link to my blog – JaypeeOnline, links to my LinkedIn profile, Facebook Fan [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 17, 2009
Remember the Gmail outage that happened about 2 weeks ago? It lasted about 4 hours causing users to panic and left many “stranded” because they were not able to send or receive emails. What most users didn’t know is that the web version of Gmail was the only one affected or inaccessible. For those people [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Webmail or web e-mail services are very popular amongst users because they are easily accessible and free to use. The top players in today’s webmail market are Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail and AOL. Gmail revolutionized webmail when it was publicly released in 2007 and offered 1 GB of storage capacity when its competitors [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 23, 2008
UPDATE: Thanks to Aja for pointing out that this should be roundup #25. I didn’t see that I already published #24 because I filed it in the wrong category. Yes folks, the Weekend Roundup is back! It’s been eight months since I last published the last roundup. I never intended to stop this weekly feature [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Last week, I received another phishing email pretending to be from PayPal. This time, it was easier to spot that it was a fake email compared to the first PayPal phishing email I got earlier this month. What’s good is that Gmail’s spam filtering system was able to detect it was a phishing email and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Yesterday, while I was checking my Gmail spam folder I came across an email that’s supposedly from PayPal. It says in the email that my PayPal account has been temporarily blocked because of several login attempts from different global locations. This is the second time I received a phishing email that’s pretending to be from [...]
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