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

Image: Screen capture by Jason Bean
Gmail has this setting where you can tell it to always display images from a certain recipient. That’s a really good feature because it gets annoying to always click on the "Display images below" link.
The problem is that it doesn’t matter either way. No matter how many times it appears that I click on the "Always display images…." option instead, I always have to click on it again to see the images in an email.
Where does this setting get stored? Is it a cookie? Do I lose it when I have Firefox clear private …read more

It’s been a very busy day today but I figure it’s time for me to throw my $.02 into the ring on my thoughts of the new Google browser, Chrome, that was released today. I’ve just now had a chance to download and install it and I’ll share just a few of my initial reactions.
My first thought that came during the setup process was why in the world do I not have the option to import bookmarks from my Google Bookmarks? I could only specify to import them from Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do what?
Hand-in-hand with that …read more

One thing I’ve done from the beginning of my days on the Internet has been to take advantage of free e-mail addresses from places like Juno, Yahoo!, Hotmail and Gmail. One of the newest providers I’ve come across is GMX and I’ve been happy with them so far, even though I still don’t use them as a primary provider.
One thing I’ve never done is relied upon the e-mail addresses provided by whomever is my ISP at the time. The problem with that is if you ever change ISP’s you’ve got to let everyone know your e-mail address changed as …read more

You can use Gmail to get a lot more stuff done than just reading simple, old e-mail from friends and family. Are you like me, getting weary of trying to maintain some sense of order and organization to your Inbox and your life? With GTDGmail you can accomplish both.
GTD – Getting Things Done – is a simple and effective productivity concept: designed so that even the laziest and most scattered of people can be organised and stress free.
It is a way to get things done with “less effort, more ease and elegance”.
GTD focuses on Contexts and Next Actions. A Context …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