I loaded Gmail tonight and was welcomed with a notice that there’s been a little bit of an interface change. They’ve added some AJAXy ability to drag and drop messages onto your defined labels to label the messages.

You can see the little handles on each message line on the far left side of the message. You can then drag the message on top of the label you want to apply to the message. Not the major improvement from their perspective, but I really like the fact they moved the labels up to be positioned right under the standard groupings of …read more

I’m hitting a little bit of a theme with my posts. Can you tell it’s that time of the week when I go through my spam filters and check for false positives? That’s what I’m doing and I’m reminded of something that to me is extremely easy to identify. I’m not sure why messages fitting this scenario aren’t immediately flagged as spam and never seen by the user.

I don’t know how many times I’ve gone into my email and noticed messages with a weird date and time. In my opinion if an email is sent to me with a …read more

Gmail seems to continue to be the webmail application to beat. If you’re using Gmail over the other popular webmail tools like Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail/Windows Live Mail, are you using it to its fullest potential?

You can go to the Gmail Help files and read through a variety of tips to make you a ninja of Gmail usage. The tips are divided into the four different levels.

White belt
Green belt
Black belt
Gmail master

Through each section they have pretty much covered just about any other tip I can think of for how I use it. Many of the tips involve using features that …read more

Awhile back I had found out about Xobni, a 3rd party Outlook tool which helps you organize, manage and make better use of your email and contacts. The features that Xobni added were very useful and sorely lacking in Outlook.

The challenge I saw with the first version I tried was that it seemed to significantly slow down the processing and open and closing of Outlook.
The new version I’ve been playing with now seems to be going a bit faster and they’ve continued to add new features. They used to only connect with LinkedIn to find out more information …read more