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Official Hotmail app released for Android and iOS

October 4th, 2011 10:33am No comments

Official Hotmail app released for Android and iOS

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.

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Google adds GMail Preview Pane – and we feel the love

August 5th, 2011 9:45am 1 comment

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.

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Forty years of email celebrated in an infographic

June 18th, 2011 3:32pm No comments

Forty years of email celebrated in an infographic

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).

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GMail People Widget makes us love email all over again

May 27th, 2011 12:04pm No comments

GMail People Widget makes us love email all over again

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.

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Great GMail power user email tips from a Google main man

May 3rd, 2011 10:00am No comments

Great GMail power user email tips from a Google main man

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.

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Avoid catastrophic email blunders with Gmail Undo Send

March 25th, 2011 2:23pm 1 comment

Avoid catastrophic email blunders with Gmail Undo Send

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?

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Facebook Messages: a new, unified messaging service [video]

November 15th, 2010 8:47pm No comments

Facebook Messages: a new, unified messaging service

Facebook have announced their new messaging service which they claim heralds “the next evolution of Messages.”

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Gmail Priority inbox promises to automatically prioritise your email

August 31st, 2010 10:26am 1 comment

Gmail Priority inbox promises to automatically prioritise your email

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.

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GMail contacts interface gets sprinkling of fairy dust

August 11th, 2010 9:30am No comments

GMail contacts interface gets sprinkling of fairy dust

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.

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GMail adds drag and drop attachments and multiple accounts

August 4th, 2010 12:01pm No comments

GMail adds drag and drop attachments and multiple=

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.

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GMail lets you get jiggy with customised rich text signatures

July 9th, 2010 8:27pm No comments

GMail adds rich text signatures

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.

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Spam and you. Some stats.

April 30th, 2010 9:30am No comments

spam graphic

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.

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Huzzah! GMail adds drag and drop email attachments!

April 16th, 2010 9:45am No comments

Huzzah! GMail adds drag and drop attachments!

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.

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iPhone and Gmail problem: emails not coming through (update)

March 1st, 2010 5:58pm 12 comments

iPhone and Gmail problem with emails not coming through?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.

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Google GMail Labs gets the Simon Cowell treatment

February 25th, 2010 10:49am No comments

Google GMail Labs gets the Simon Cowell treatment

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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