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How to find any email with Gmail search
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 06, 2008
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerThe sight of someone scrolling through hundreds of email messages trying to find a specific one is like fingers on a chalkboard for me. With a few tricks, you can use Gmail to find the exact message you're looking for, without all the scrolling.If you don't get a ton of mail, just typing in the words you're looking for usually does...
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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 13, 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates many of the delays in reading mail by employing techniques like prefetching, but recently we decided to...
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New version of Gmail soon available in 37 languages
via Official Gmail Blog by Robby Stein on February 14, 2008
... (we now use the same rich text editor as Groups and Page Creator, and the contact manager can be seen in several Google apps). So if you were using English, you can now change your default language from the Settings menu to take advantage of a bunch of features that have recently launched in your preferred language, including:Colored labelsGroup chatRich emoticons A new contact manager wit...
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Russian Gmail art
via Official Gmail Blog by Test on February 27, 2008
... 18 square meters of batten- 12 cans of spray paint- 10 liters of white paint- 4 reams of paper- 2 kilograms of millet porridge- 1 printer- 1 hair dryer- 1 mop- 1 sawAnd the actual M at the end of the video? That's 3 sweaters, 3 balls, 3 pillows, 2 dumbbells, 2 pair of gloves, a set of child's plates, a hockey stick, a scarf, a paper folder, hats and slippers. All in red of course.
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Arrow indicators reveal who actually sent you email
via Official Gmail Blog by Robby Stein on March 03, 2008
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerA few months ago I wrote about how using colored labels with filters can provide an entirely new way to visualize your inbox. I just started using a feature that further helps me quickly prioritize my email. When enabled, "personal level indicators" put arrows next to messages in your inbox so you can tell if an email was addressed to you,...
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IMAP on Windows Mobile devices
via Official Gmail Blog by Test on January 30, 2008
Posted by Jamie Nicolson, Software EngineerSince we added IMAP access to Gmail in October, we've heard from a number of Windows Mobile users that their Gmail IMAP experience wasn't great -- some were receiving blank messages and others could read headers but not entire messages. There are a lot of email clients out there, each with its own quirks, so making IMAP work across all of them...
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Tip: Edit contacts right from your chat list
via Official Gmail Blog by Robby Stein on April 30, 2008
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWhen I add a new friend to Gmail chat, sometimes my friend's email address is added as their contact name, such as hikingfan@gmail.com. I personally like to have the name of all my chat friends in my chat list so I don't get too confused as to who's who. To change this, I used to go into contacts, select the contact profile,...
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Gmail/Greasemonkey API issue
via Official Gmail Blog by Test on January 29, 2008
Posted by Dan Pupius, Gmail engineerFirst off, this update is only for those of you who write or run Greasemonkey scripts. If you don't have any third-party extensions installed or don't know what we're talking about, you can ignore this post.Ok... looks like some of you are still reading.We recently pushed a change so Gmail Javascript now loads in an iframe. The Greasemonkey bindings...
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Invisible mode is here for Gmail chat
via Official Gmail Blog by Robby Stein on February 26, 2008
Posted by Jonas Lindberg, Software EngineerSometimes you need to chat with someone about an urgent project, but can't be bothered by anyone else. And going "busy" just isn't enough -- you might still get that unwanted ping. So, as some people have already noticed, we rolled out invisible mode for the latest version of Gmail chat last Friday. With this feature, you can appear offline, and...
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New "e" shortcut archives every time
via Official Gmail Blog by Robby Stein on January 15, 2008
Posted by Vivek Gupta, Engineering ManagerIntroducing: shortcut "e." It's a new shortcut key that archives email. You might be thinking, "Doesn't shortcut key 'y' archive email too? Why make a new way to archive?" Well, let me explain. I'm a heavy Gmail user, to say t
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