Image: Screen grab of Gmail by Jason Bean
I’ve been waiting patiently today as I’ve been hearing everything talk about the cool, new themes for Gmail that have now been released. It was all the buzz today on twitter but every time I opened Gmail it was just the same old look and feel.
A couple of hours ago I noticed a little bit of a change to the look and feel and thought that maybe things were in a rolling staged release for users.
I got home from work, fired up the laptop and bingo! there are the themes all there …read more

One of the earliest e-mail addresses I had was a Yahoo! Mail address and it’s been the one I’ve used almost exclusively for friends and family to contact me and stay in touch.
You can now add a couple more free e-mail domains to those that you can manage from the familiar Yahoo! Mail interface:  @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com
If you’re interested in adding another e-mail address to your contact information and still use the Yahoo! e-mail interface then just go sign-up for one of these new addresses now.
What I’m wanting them to do is let me manage multiple Yahoo! e-mail addresses from …read more

We all know the Internet is an amazing world of information and media nowadays. I was just reminded of it quickly this morning when there was a song on the radio and we couldn’t remember who the other people singing were in this little trio.
A quick Google search with the name of the song and the person singing we did know and it immediately returned the results we were looking for initially. If you’re wondering, the song was Bryan Adams’ “All For One”, you’ll have to click the link above to get the answer to our conundrum.
Getting back to the …read more

One of the more interesting applications I’ve been using lately is twitter. At first I didn’t really get it. I was already using IM and blogging and e-mail of course, so the ability to blast out a short little “tweet” about what I’m doing just seemed like a waste of time.
I didn’t really catch on to the power of the application until I attended SXSW a few weeks ago in Austin and the entire b5 team used it as a sort of GPS tracking and status update mechanism for anyone in our group. We used it for quick information …read more

When I added VoIP phone service to our home phones via Comcast’s Digital Voice service, one of the options available to me was to be e-mailed and notified any voice-mail messages that were received on my home phone.
I’m not sure what happened to the service from Comcast, but it just stopped being available.
GotVoice brings that same functionality back to me, and adds the same function for cell phone messages as well.
Have you ever wished you would have saved that important voicemail? Would you like to share your voicemails with family, friends or coworkers? With GotVoice, you can, for FREE!
GotVoice retrieves …read more

Need to send large files to someone easily. Check-out Pando.com.
Pando is currently in beta and has got Web 2.0 written all over it, but that’s okay because it seems to do a really good job of accomplishing the task it was set out to do.
They’ve got a great illustration that explains how it all works, but for just you readers out there, here’s a textual conversation of how the process flows from sender to recipient.
1. Files sent – Sender selects files and/or folders, enters recipient(s) email address(es) and clicks “send”. A copy of the files immediately starts uploading to Pando’s …read more

Do you ever get tired of checking all of your various e-mail accounts because you’re somewhat obsessive compulsive like me?
This little website may have just the thing for you. You can download a little app called POP Peeper and it will alert you when you’ve got new mail on any of the following types of e-mail accounts:

POP3 of course
SMTP
Gmail
Hotmail/MSN
Yahoo! Mail
Mail.com
MyWay
Excite
Lycos
Rediffmail

Some of the other features you may be interested in knowing about:

Easy Setup – accounts are imported from your existing email client(s)
Read and delete email without opening your email client
Send Mail using SMTP or WebMail
Password Protection
Send, Save and Open file attachments
Many …read more

Are you still sending large attachments directly through e-mail? Don’t do that, it’s not the best way, especially for really large files.
Do you have a large file you need to get from someone or to someone, but it’s larger than your e-mail application will allow, or maybe your application doesn’t allow certain attachment types?
You should try YouSendIt

It doesn’t get any easier than that does it?