We have to say our ship left Hotmail’s port many years ago, but the free email service survives in fairly robust form, boasting over 350 million users.
Now here’s something we’ve been wanting in GMail for yonks: a preview pane.
Google has just added this handy feature which lets you instantly preview emails in your inbox.
It seems incredible, but email has been around for forty years now, with the messaging medium first arriving in 1971 when computer engineer Ray Tomlinson blasted off the first electronic email message (sadly, the forgetful bugger can’t remember what it said).
Heading to your GMail account any minute now is Google’s rather fab People Widget.
We know it’s pretty hard to get excited about email but this looks to be a rather natty innovation, which serves up useful context to your email conversations.
We deal with a ton of email every day, and with GMail being our client of choice, we’re grateful to hear any new tips to make dealing with the daily deluge less of an ordeal.
Have you ever fired off an angry reply, told the boss to shove it or shared an wildly inappropriate joke with all your colleagues in a moment of madness – and then immediately regretted what you’ve done?
Facebook have announced their new messaging service which they claim heralds “the next evolution of Messages.”
If, like us, your inbox is a hideous, sprawling, disorganised mess stuffed full of assorted emails of wildly varying importance, then hope may be at hand courtesy of Google’s new Priority inbox system.
We’ve been mightily underwhelmed by the GMail contacts interface for a long, long timer, so we’re highly chuffified to report that it’s finally had a bit of fairy dust sprinkled over it.
Like a DIY addict on a long Sunday afternoon, Google continues to polish up the GMail experience and introduce shiny new features, and the company has just announced that it’s bolting on more drag and drop functionality to its phenomenally popular GMail browser-based email client.
We’ve been wanting this feature for ages, so it’s good to see Goggle on the case and adding the ability to include rich text signatures in GMail.
We’re always up for a hefty info-graphic or two, and the folks at flowtown have helpfully knocked out a page-filling monster all about our attitudes to spam.
We’ve been waiting for this one for ages.
From today, Gmail users looking to include files with their email messages won’t have to faff about with all that “Attach a file/locate the files/manually add them” malarkey any more.
We’re not getting any emails pushed through to our iPhone at the moment (we’re in the UK on the o2 network) and a quick look on Twitter shows that other people seem to be suffering the same problem.
We’ve been getting delays in mails arriving all day – at the moment our GMail account has at least 15 emails dating back three hours that are yet to turn up on the iPhone.
Google has had a tidy up in its GMail Labs inventory, promoting some experimental features to full products while telling others they’re simply not good enough.
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