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Evomail Is A Simple iOS Gmail App With Gestures & Universal Search

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Evomail has been around on iPad for quite some time, and has managed to entice many Gmail users because of its clean interface, support for gestures and an array of really useful features. The app is great for users who frequently need to perform a universal search in their Gmail account and efficiently switch between different labels. With apps like Mailbox and Seed Mail already providing tough competition in the genre, it is difficult for an email client to prosper in the App Store without being present across all iDevices. So, it is nice to see that  Evomail has finally arrived on the iPhone, and in addition to sporting a clean UI, it supports even more gestures than the iPad variant. Anyone who is looking for a simple email app that doesn't come with too many bells and whistles is sure to appreciate Evomail. Read More

Quickly Preview, Delete & Archive New Mail In Firefox With Gmail Notifier

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Email notifications have become essential not just on our mobile devices but on our desktops/laptops too. Throughout the course of a normal workday, you will open, close (and forget to close) many tabs and in between all that, you'll constantly visit your email to check for anything new. Extensions and add-ons that keep track of and notify you when you have new email are useful for precisely this: keeping you sane and up to date with your email. Gmail Notifier is a Firefox add-on that does just that, but has support for multiple accounts and an amazing preview panel that gives you an excellent overview of the new emails you've just received. You can delete, archive or mark emails as read from the panel, and navigate to the next/previous email without even having to open Gmail. The add-on gives you both desktop and audio notifications, and lets you manually check for new emails, switch between different email accounts, and edit the color of the preview panel as well as the notification on the add-on's navigation bar button. Read More

Open, Edit & Sign Documents In Gmail With The HelloSign Firefox Add-On

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Ever wonder why signing an online document can feel so primitive? That’s because most of us follow this simple-minded route: download document, print it out, sign, scan, upload, and send to the concerned party. Yep, primitive would be the right term. From the extension of the team behind HelloFax comes HelloSign for Gmail, a Firefox add-on that changes this by enabling users to create signatures on the spot, stick them on any document and send it right from within your Gmail inbox, without soliciting any cumbersome third-party software. If you need someone else’s signature, simply assign a field to the document and send your request to them - it’s that simple! The extension was initially released for Chrome and later, the HelloSign service itself went mobile with the release of its iOS and Android apps. Read More

4 Tips To Make The New Gmail v4.5 Android App Easier To Use

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Google introduced a tabbed inbox for Gmail a little over a week ago and earlier this week, the search giant updated its Android and iOS Gmail apps to accommodate the new inbox tabs. For now, tabbed inboxes are opt-in but Android users will find that these new tabs aren't the only thing that’s changed. With the arrival of tabs and the updated app, how you select messages in bulk, receive notifications for each label i.e. inbox tab, and the way messages are deleted has all changed. Sender images are a new addition to the app. The old features are all still there but they need to be enabled, and it isn't very clear how to do so. In this post, we will show you how to view notifications for emails for all labels, disable the sender image, restore the delete button to the actions bar, and select messages in bulk. Read More

How To Enable Push Notifications For Gmail In Stock iOS Mail App

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Being a Gmail user on iOS, I never realized the importance of push notifications until Google turned evil a few months back and took away these nifty alerts in a bid to get more iPhone users to switch to the official Gmail app. The Gmail app is pretty good, specially after its recent tabbed inbox update, but it can get a bit cumbersome trying to use multiple email apps on your iDevice, which is bound to happen if you are using services other than Gmail as well. You can try living without push notifications, but getting mails 15 minutes late is never fun and bothers a lot of people. Thankfully, a developer over at the Cydia store has finally taken note of the situation, resulting in the release of a tweak named Push for Gmail. The jailbreak community has come up with solutions to fix other push notifications in the past, but this tweak is a little more specific. As much as we would have loved to see the tweak do all the dirty work automatically, this is not the case and you have to do some manual tinkering before the push notifications start working. Read More

Gmail For iOS Gets The New Tabbed Inbox & Better Notifications

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Due to the competitive nature of the market, it is impossible for even well-established companies like Google to rest on their laurels. This is why Gmail has had some pretty decent updates in the not-so-distant past. Google gives priority to Android apps when it comes to big updates, but iOS is rarely left far behind, as has happened with Gmail’s new tabbed interface and categories. The new inbox was rolled out first for the web version of Gmail, and the Android update was hot on its heels. Today’s Gmail update for iOS brings the app on par with its Android counterpart, as support for the new category-based inbox has been added to it. Gmail’s notification system on iOS has been significantly improved as well, as you can now configure the app to push notifications only for important mails. Read More

Download Gmail For Android v4.5 APK With New Tabbed Inbox, Navigation Drawer & More

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Google recently released a new tabbed interface for Gmail, announcing the same changes for its Android app in a soon-to-be-released update. Though said update, labeled v4.5, began rolling out yesterday, it might take some time for it to come to your device. But that doesn't mean you have to wait. An XDA member has been kind enough to share an APK for the new Gmail app on the forum, the link to which you'll find at the end of this post. Coming to the app itself, it's a whole new experience combining the new tabbed Inbox and Google's latest interface design guidelines, as per which, the app now has a slide-out navigation drawer and actions along the top instead of in a bottom bar. Apart from that, the app now supports pull to refresh (about time!) and options to quickly empty your Trash and Spam folders of all mail. Read More

This App Is The Closest Thing To An Official Gmail Client For Windows Phone 8

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Everyone was a bit surprised when Microsoft came up with a YouTube client of its own that didn't have ads and was capable of downloading videos for offline viewing. Some went as far as labeling the app even better than the Android version of YouTube. Pretty quickly though, it became apparent that Google wasn't happy with the new app, and it was soon taken down from the WP Store, temporarily at least. In this context, it looks highly unlikely that Windows Phone users will be receiving an official app for any Google service in the near future. After Google Maps, Gmail is probably the most popular service offered by Google to smartphone users. While WP8 has some pretty decent options when it comes to navigation, now the Gmail app from iOS has been ported to WP8 as well (sort of). Of course, Gmail for WP8 is an unofficial app, and has its fair share of problems, but if you are a regular user of the service, it is worth a shot. Read More

How To Enable, Disable & Use The New Gmail Tabbed Inbox

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Gmail is rolling out a tabbed inbox for its users and if your initial reaction to this is panic, then you’ll happy to know that the new interface is opt-in, and should Google decide to make the change permanent for everyone, you don’t have to worry because firstly, it’s just awesome once you start using it and secondly, you'll still be able to choose one of the older views if you want. The new tabs act as filters for the messages already in your inbox. Messages can be moved from one tab to the other, and Gmail can be told to treat all future emails from that address the same way. At present, you’re limited to the tabs that are available by default i.e. you can’t create and name your own tabs, but we’re hoping Gmail will allow users to customize that in the future. Read More

Browse & Post To Social Media From Major Email Services With PowerInbox

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There's no doubting the importance of social media these days, but it can be an extreme distraction for many of us, keeping us from being productive by switching to those Facebook and Twitter tabs all the time. For many of us, the mailbox is where we spend a significant time of the day while at work, and apps like Mailbox and services like Mailstrom are some of our favorite ways for dealing with email when it starts to become too overwhelming. Though wouldn't it be nice if you could also keep an eye on your social media accounts right form your inbox, without having to switch to their tabs? PowerInbox is an extension for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer that integrates with Gmail, Hotmail/Outlook, and Yahoo! Mail, and lets you add apps for services like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and more to it. PowerInbox adds a sidebar to your email inbox and shows you your feeds for each of the services you've added directly there. It also allows you to see icons for emails sent by services it recognizes. Read More

Auto-Save Gmail Attachments To & Attach Files From Cloud With Kloudle

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Earlier this year, we covered a Chrome extension called Cloudy that allows you to attach files in Gmail from multiple cloud storage services or your Facebook account directly, without having to download them to your desktop first. Kloudle is a similar service that can connect with Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive, and lets you attach files to your emails in a way similar to Cloudy. Kloudle supports far fewer services than Cloudly but coupled with its Chrome extension, the service does something else as well that can be really useful - it allows you to save files from your Gmail account to any one of your cloud drives. Files are saved automatically based on ‘rules’ that you create, and you can create up to ten rules. Think of it as the famous service IFTTT, working entirely in your email. Read More

Export Multiple Gmail Messages As A Google Doc For Easy Batch-Printing [Chrome]

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Emails have all but replaced paper in many offices, but we aren’t free of paper entirely; not yet, anyway. There's always that rare occasion that calls for the printing an email; it might be needed as part of some essential work process, some legal or governmental procedure, simply some personal use like printing out a receipt for an online purchase. The fact is that emails are seldom printed, but printed at times nevertheless. Now printing an email is no big deal, but what if you need to print a whole bunch of them, like an entire email thread? Gmail Print All for Chrome is a Chrome app that makes it easier to print emails in bulk. It asks you to select a label from the ones added in your Gmail account and then exports all the emails in that label to a document that is saved to your Google Drive. You can then download the document and print it out with ease. Read More

Get Email Alerts & Mac Menu Bar Shortcuts For Multiple Gmail Accounts

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Mac users who aren’t happy using the default Mail app have the choice to use other desktop email clients like Thunderbird or Sparrow. Many are satisfied with just using their email service’s web interface. If you’re a Gmail user and like to stick to its web interface but at the same time receive notifications for all your emails, Mail Ping is an app worth $1.99 in the Mac App Store that might interest you. The app works with Notification Center in Mountain Lion to give you alerts every time you receive a new email. The app supports multiple accounts, just like Gmail’s web interface, and allows you to open your inbox or the compose message page for any of the configured accounts from the Menu Bar. Read More

Set Gmail To Auto-Delete Emails Older Than A Set Number Days

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A few days ago, we reviewed Mailstrom, an amazing web service that helps you clean your messy inbox. It’s an amazing service that can help tame even the wildest inboxes and it’s worked great for us. Once your inbox is clean though, you might want to keep it clean. The simplest way to do that would be to read your email regularly, archive the messages you want to keep and delete the useless ones. Of course, if it were really that simple, we wouldn’t have messy inboxes to begin with. If you’re often unable to remove read messages or unimportant ones from your inbox, you can use the following Google Script to automate it for you. Read More

Temporarily Archive & Set Followup Reminders For Emails In Gmail [Chrome]

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Reading all your new email messages everyday is a routine task that many do without any trouble. The real problem with email is remembering to reply to an important email or to follow up on one that you’ve sent. We’ve covered some reminder tools to help you manage follow ups. MailFred is a Chrome extension with the same purpose. It integrates itself in Gmail’s interface and allows you to schedule reminders for any received email. The reminder can be set for as early as 4 hours from the time it is set, to any future date. This is, of course, typical of such a tool; what sets MailFred apart is that when you schedule a reminder, the email itself can be archived, marked as unread, moved to your inbox, or starred. That is, you can choose to either keep an email out of your inbox until it is time to reply to it or follow up on it, or you can keep it marked as unread and in your inbox until you are finished with it. Read More

Easily Switch Google Accounts & View Gmail Alerts From Chrome Toolbar

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Google supports signing in to multiple accounts and switch between them across all of its online services. Though there is a limitation to this switching - you can only switch accounts while on Google's websites, and not while on any other website. Google Multi-Account Launcher is a Chrome extension that adds multiple account support to your browser, letting you you add multiple Google accounts and switch between them from anywhere in Chrome. It also provides a short preview for the 20 latest messages in each Gmail account, along with a whole tab of shortcuts to popular web services. The extension is perfect for opening Gmail or any other Google services in your preferred account without having to launch their site first and then switch account from there. Read More

Airmail: OS X Mail Client With Dropbox Support, Easy Filtering & A Great UI [Review]

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Mail and Sparrow are two of the most popular email clients for the OS X platform. Being the default email client, Mail enjoys a larger user base, while Sparrow is usually preferred by those who have used its iOS variant. Both these clients are quite good in themselves but there will always be room for improvement, new features and better apps. Airmail is a great new option. It is a Mac email client for Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and iCloud that syncs attachments to your Dropbox account, supports multiple accounts, and has an excellent email filtering feature. Let's learn more about this app after the jump. Read More

Attach To Gmail From Cloud, Image Hosting Services & Facebook [Chrome]

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Google Drive has been integrated in Gmail so that you can attach a file to a new email directly from your Google Drive cloud storage. The feature is very handy for Google Drive users, but it’s of no use to those of us who primarily use some other cloud storage service. Cloudy is a Chrome extension that lets you attach files to your emails from a large number of cloud services including Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Facebook, Picasa, Instagram, Flickr, Github, FTP, Evernote, and more. Furthermore, it can also connect with your computer’s webcam and record a video or take a picture to directly attach with your email. The extension also gives you the option to upload files from your computer, pick attachments from other emails in your account, and search & attach images from Wikipedia, Flickr, and Google Image Search. The best thing about the extension is that it works flawlessly with Gmail’s new Compose view. Read More

Get Evernote Integration In Gmail With Powerbot For Chrome & Firefox

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Gmail is an excellent email services, not just because of its speed but also because it’s great at helping us keep things organized. Evernote is an equally excellent service that helps you note down important things and access them from everywhere. Imagine if Gmail and Evernote could be connected. Powerbot for Gmail is an extension for Chrome and an add-on for Firefox that does just that. It lets you insert notes or notebooks from Evernote in to an email from Gmail’s web interface, and save an email thread, complete with attachments and all, to a notebook in Evernote. The notebooks/notes you add to an email become public in order to be viewed by your recipient. When you add an email thread to Evernote from Gmail’s interface, it lets you add tags and comments before saving it. Once saved, the extension will indicate where a message has been saved in Evernote, and also give you the option to view it there. Read More

Birdseye Mail Is An iPad Gmail Client With A Unique, Visual Inbox View

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A lot of people never feel the need to switch to a third-party mail client on the iPhone, since the stock app is pretty good and offers most features you are ever likely to need on a mobile device. The iPad is a different story though. The tablet variant of the stock Mail app in iOS offers more features than its iPhone counterpart, but one might argue that its interface has room for improvement, especially on a large-screen device. If you want an email client for your iPad with more 'oomph' when it comes to the UI, Birdseye Mail might be a great option. This app is a client for Gmail and Gmail Hosted accounts, with an interface optimized for the iPad, and support for a handful of gestures. Furthermore, the app also analyzes each mail to offer you relevant options for it. Sounds perfect, doesn’t it? Read More