So your Gmail inbox is full of Photos, Important files, and messages from family, friends, and co-workers? Searching for a specific email message from a pool of thousands of messages is quite a challenge. Just like Google has advanced search operators, Gmail has it’s own set of operators. You can find the Advanced Search Operators for Gmail with various examples here.
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Iconix Finds Trusted Emails By Adding Visual Identity To Your Email Inbox
Iconix is a free add-on for both Internet Explorer/Firefox browsers and Outlook Express/2003/2007 desktop clients. It solves a very unique problem. Suppose you get an email from PayPal asking for some information, how would you know if it is legit?
Once Iconix is installed, it will scan all your emails when you visit your account and add Truemark icons before the sender’s name that it finds to be legit. It scans by sending some details of every email to the Iconix server and then determines whether the email is original or fake. It scans all emails in real-time and the process is relatively fast. The scanning takes place in the background and does not disturb your activity.
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Remove Text Ads And Increase The Width Of Message Box In Gmail
Are you annoyed by the text ads in Gmail? GMail Without Ads is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox browser that removes the ads from Gmail completely. By installing this script, the advertisement from the right sidebar will vanish and the message box will be automatically extended, giving you more width and visibility. In other words, it completely removes the right sidebar.
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How To Insert Inline Images In Email Message When Using Gmail
Google has recently launched a new feature called ‘Inserting Images’ in Gmail labs that lets you add images in message body. To enable this feature go to Settings > Gmail Labs and enable it from there. Once enabled, you will find an Insert Image option while composing a message as shown in the screenshot below.
Read MoreAdd Facebook Chat And Google Talk To Your Firefox Sidebar
Instead of using Facebook Chat and Google Talk in Facebook or Gmail respectively, you can add them to your Firefox sidebar instead, in this way you can chat and surf the web at the same time.
Facebook Chat
To add Facebook Chat to your Firefox sidebar, go to Bookmarks tab and click Organize Bookmarks(or press Ctrl+Shift+B). Now go to Organize and select New Bookmark.
Read MoreHow To View And Update Your Facebook Status From Gmail
To update your facebook status message from Gmail, you will have to first install Xoopit plugin. It is a plugin I cannot live without, read the post I wrote about it here. Once you have installed this plugin you will find a Facebook Connect message on the top-right side of the screen.
Clicking Connect will bring a pop-up window asking to connect Xoopit with Facebook.
Read MoreA Complete Guide: How To Access And Send Email Offline In Gmail
Did you even imagine checking and sending emails offline? Gmail can finally be used offline thanks to their Offline Team. But what’s the use of accessing Gmail offline? Well if you receive plenty of emails daily and travel a lot, then it can come handy all the time. What it does is downloads all your emails so that you can check them later and also send important emails, these send emails are saved in Outbox. Once you connect to the internet again, messages in the Outbox are send automatically.
Read MoreHow To Login, Access, And Manage Multiple Gmail User Accounts With A Firefox Addon
Do you have more than one Gmail account and would like to manage them in a same place. Logging in to different Gmail accounts over and over again just won’t work since it consumes too much of time. If you are using two different browsers such as IE and Firefox then you can open two separate Gmail accounts respectively, but this doesn’t make any sense. If you are using Firefox, then there is an add-on called Gmail Manager that lets you manage more than one Gmail account easily.
Read MoreHow To Delete Spam Emails By Filtering Them Instantly From Your Gmail Inbox
If you are using Gmail and receive a lot of spam emails, you can filter them out easily. One way to mark emails as spam is to click Mark As Spam Button, but what if there are hundreds of spam emails and you want to delete them all instead of marking them as spam only. You can use the Gmail build-in filter tool to delete and block all such spam emails within seconds.
Read MoreHow To Search For Photos, Videos, Or Any File In Your Gmail Account
If you use Gmail frequently, you will find that searching for a specific photo, video, document, or any file inside your emails is quite difficult. Sure, you can use the build-in Gmail Search box but it is better used for searching emails, finding the right photos or any other file still remains a difficult task.
This is where Xoopit comes in. It is a small handy add-on for Firefox that customizes your Gmail so that finding photos, videos and other files becomes a piece of cake. In short, Xoopit converts your simple old inbox into a social inbox.
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How To Change Gmail’s Looks With New Themes
Google has release a new set of themes for its Gmail service which would be a great news especially for those who tend to get bore easily with the same interface and design with a period of time. A while back you could change the design and looks of Gmail with Greasemonkey scripts on Firefox that allowed you to spice up standard Gmail theme, in order to satisfy its users Google has finally released enough themes that you may like at lease one or two.
Read MoreHow To Change Your Firefox Into An Email Client
In the last post we covered 2 ways to turn Firefox into windows explorer file manager. But forgot to mention that you can actually convert Firefox into a complete email client too. Instead of using MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Gmail online client, you can now check all of your emails from Firefox by using it as an email client.
Read MoreAccess All Your Email Accounts From Gmail
Do you want to manage all your email accounts such as Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc from Gmail? Instead of checking different email accounts on their websites respectively, you can now manage all your email accounts from Gmail. All you need is to enable POP3 from your Yahoo, Hotmail, or any other account, POP 3 is a protocol that enables your emails to be accessed through any email client like MS Outlook, Outlook Express, or Mozilla Thunderbird etc.
Read MoreUpload, Move, Or Import Emails From Microsoft Outlook And Mozilla Thunderbird To Gmail
Do you want to move all your emails and contacts from MS Outlook, Outlook Express, or Mozilla Thunderbird to your Gmail account? You can move all your emails quickly to Google Apps Gmail account, but moving them to vanilla Gmail Account is tricky.
This tutorial is about moving emails and contacts from desktop email clients to your vanilla Gmail account.
Note: To clear the confusion, Google Apps Gmail Account is an email address that ends with a custom domain name(e.g nakodari@addictivetips.com) and vanilla Gmail Account is an email address that ends with Gmail domain(e.g testing@gmail.com)Read More
How To Add Your Favorite Google Desktop Gadgets To The Left Sidebar Of Your Gmail Account
Yesterday, I wrote a post titled How To Add Google Docs And Google Calendar In Your Gmail Account. Today I am going to teach you ways of adding your favorite Google Gadget in your Gmail Account. The process is tricky but fairly easy.
The title of this post could be confusing for some but this is how it works,
- All Gadgets that are available for Google Desktop are given in iGoogle Content Directory.
- Almost all Google Gadgets(that end with .xml url) can be added in the left sidebar of your Gmail account.
How To Add Google Docs And Google Calendar In Your Gmail Account
Do you use Google Docs and Calendar frequently? Now you can integrate them in your Gmail account. They are now available in the Gmail Labs, but are disabled as default. You simply need to enable them to view them in the left sidebar of your Gmail homepage.
Read MoreGoogle GDrive In Windows Explorer
Have you ever thought of using Gmail’s generous amount of space as a hard drive? With over 7GB of storage now we can use all that extra storage as a online hard drive. Much like a regular hard drive, you will be able to create folders, and copy, save or retrieve them from the Gmail drive and you will be able to access the file from anywhere with just an internet connection. The Gmail Drive is a free drive application that creates a virtual file-system in Windows Explorer, enabling you to use Gmail as an online hard drive. It literally creates an additional drive for your PC, under your My Computer folder. You will then be able to save, delete and retrieve files directly from your Windows Explorer. Read on to find out how.
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Easiest Way To Set Gmail As Default Firefox 3 Mail Client
Does email clients such as Microsoft Window Mail or Microsoft Outlook Express prompt up everytime you click on an email link?. If you are a Firefox 3 user and use Gmail frequently, then you can configure and set Gmail as a default email client. The latest Firefox 3 comes with support of YahooMail as default email client. For Gmail users, some setting needs to be done to edit the mailto application handler.
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How To Check If Some Intruder Is Accessing Your Gmail Account
If you are suspecting that some hacker or an intruder is accessing your Gmail account without your knowledge then Gmail has a feature called Last Account Activity that will provide you with information about your recent account activity. The information includes the last time that the account was accessed, the IP address from which the access was made, as well as the date and time, it enables user to check and verify that the login is indeed valid and legitimate, and whether there is another person using the Gmail account without your consent and knowledge.
Read MoreHow To Find The IP Address Of The Sender In Windows Live Mail, Gmail Or Yahoo! Mail
Whenever you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender and this is how you do it.
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