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Should Google Adapt Unlimited Storage?

by Mike Mansell June 16, 2011

Today every single Gmail account gets a standard inbox capacity just under seven and a half gigabytes. But although a far jump from what the service offered only a matter of years ago, Gmail’s capacity is no longer an outstanding feature for the service. Other free email providers like Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and even America Online have all implemented “unlimited” storage for some time now.

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How To: Automatically Keep Backups of Your Email

by Mike Mansell June 16, 2011

Being a huge computer and Internet users, it should come to no surprise that I work diligently to keep my email inbox in tip-top shape every single day. I’ll take the time out of my day to unsubscribe myself from spam and annoying mailing lists, and I will frequently purge any non-essential email from my inbox.

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Use a “Mobile” Email Account to Increase Productivity and Security

by Mike Mansell December 20, 2010

For many of us – regardless of what industry we are in – email is a major component of our day-to-day lives. In fact, many people see email as something important enough to take with them on the go via means of their smartphones. The ability to keep in touch with family, colleagues regardless of location definitely has [...]

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Finally! Gmail Improves Email Signatures

by Mike Mansell July 20, 2010

Do you use Gmail as a universal email inbox? Or do simply want a nicely formatted email signature? Well, after a lot of waiting, Google has finally made improvements to the signature feature of their web-based email client. These improvements are somewhat basic, but their subtle introduction to Gmail has made the service that much [...]

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How To: Use Gmail for Multiple Email Accounts

by Mike Mansell March 27, 2010

Google’s email service, Gmail, is a truly awesome email service. With its revolutionary spam filters, message sorting, conversation grouping, and integrated Google Talk client, Gmail has quickly become my favorite email platform. However, I have several additional email accounts that I use for various other projects and organizations (work, school, personal webpages, etc). I even [...]

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Gmail Goes Down, Email Halts

by Jeff Weisbein September 1, 2009

Back in July, Google dropped the beta label from Gmail after 5 long years of pretty much perfection. Gmail’s full feature set, solid uptime and performance is the reason it’s the number two web based email provider (US) only behind Yahoo Mail. However, today, Gmail took a major hit in the uptime area. Originally, early [...]

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Gmail Loses The Diaper, Switches To Boxers And Drops Beta Label In The Process

by Jeff Weisbein July 7, 2009

Today, after 5 long years in beta, Google is dropping the beta label from Gmail. Gmail which launched on April 1st, 2004 has revolutionized web based email. Over the past year in the U.S. alone, according to comScore, Gmail has grown 48 percent to 36 million unique visitors which puts them in the number two [...]

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Google To Consider Full HTTPS For GMail

by Matt Hodges June 17, 2009

You may or may not be aware, but every time you log in to GMail you pass through an HTTPS, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, connection. HTTPS is a combination of the regular HTTP and a cryptographic protocol and is used to pass sensitive information over the internet. Google implements this into the login portion [...]

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