Update: Official Gmail Blog has confirmed that the outage happened and is fixed. The problem was caused by the contacts system used by Gmail. Many of our Twitter followers started tweeting, that Gmail has been down for them. We could confirm that Gmail is down for one of our accounts, but another account worked fine [...]

Since the launch of Google Docs, it’s been obvious that Google is slowly constructing a full-scale online office suite. Even though Microsoft’s hold on the market is loosening, the vast majority of web-based office productivity applications still have a long way to go before they can replace their desktop counterparts. So far, Google is holding [...]

Gmail has a very annoying habit of adding people you email to the contacts list without your approval. This feature has been fiercely debated for pros and cons for quite some time. If you are asking for our opinion about this, then here goes, Gmail definitely should have this feature where they add contacts to [...]

Web based email clients like Gmail have a huge advantage that you can log in to your email account just about from anywhere. From your office, home, cyber cafe, your friend’s home, just about everywhere. But that facility exposes you to a huge risk. Suppose you forgot to log out. Anybody can access your account [...]

This post is a part of the user recommendation marathon where users asked us about several tips and tricks which could help them, in this post regular reader Nancy recommends a question to us. Nancy asks us Gmail shows me that I have 700 emails in my Inbox, due to several things I have not [...]

This is part of the user recommendation marathon where we write articles based on recommendations users have given us. In this we are going to answer a question Ashley recommended to us. Ashley asks I have a company email account which is regular webmail provided by our hosting provider, I can access all the mails [...]

Google provides users with a bunch of services to users which include email, contacts, calendar, news, notebook and more. Accessing each of these services would require you to open multiple sites or tabs to access each of the service. But like Google Talk you can access all the Google services in your Firefox sidebar using [...]

Online storage space is becoming cheaper and cheaper by the day and we have covered many such free to use online storage websites. Quite some time back we had also posted how to use your Gmail account as your storage device. Today we will review another such tool which certain has more advantages over other [...]

It is a well known fact that Google is a employer that allows their employees to spend 20% of their time doing personal projects. The fruits of many such employees will be soon be made available to Gmail users with 13 new experimental features being added to it. Gmail users should soon start seeing a [...]

Gmail is getting more and more popular these days. With its ever increasing storage space, the concept of deleting your old emails and attachments to free up space for new emails, is now virtually over. You are no more expected to delete old email. A big relief. But this has increased complexity in searching an [...]

A few days back we talked about a theme for Gmail which would help you make Gmail a bit more snazzier. Well that dream may soon come true for Gmail without use of any extensions or stylesheets. Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped has picked up some reliable dope on Gmail getting themes in near future. [...]

Gmail has revolutionalized the way people look at email and made the Inbox a much better place. The one thing that lacks with Gmail though is no support for skins and templates. It has sported the same look from the day it has launched with little improvements in them. Not that I am complaining but there are tons of users who do not like the plain old interface.

The spam filters of Gmail is one of the best of all the email providers and beats Yahoo and Hotmail outright but I do have to sometimes check my Spam folder for legitimate emails being filtered as Spam and have at times retrieved some emails from friends in the Spam folder. Today while I was [...]

Google Blogoscoped reports that users have started to see a View Presentation link for power point attachments. Users have started to see the Google Presentation integration into gmail. You can now view the presentation online without having to download the file to your computer.

Gmail as you may already know is becoming a very popular email provider. I can use Gmail to easily backup files, send mails, chat and many more things. So how many of you think you really know Gmail well. I found a superb piece of information which will help all Gmail user’s use it to [...]