How to Multi-Login in Google Account

by Haris on October 20, 2009
in Google, Tips and Tricks

Recently, I shared a Greasemonkey script to multi-login on Orkut and here’s another script I’m sharing today that let’s you multi-login Gmail and Google Account.

Switching accounts when using Google services would have never been this easy, thanks to this Greasemonkey script.

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Gmail is Down! Yes, again!

by Haris on September 24, 2009
in Google, Internet

Well, I think it’s about time Gmail also makes up its own version of a fail whale (like on Twitter). Yes, you got it right! It’s down, yet again!

Looks like more of a Google Contacts issue because Gmail users started getting this message a while ago: Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists.

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Alternate Ways to Access Gmail

by Haris on September 3, 2009
in Google, Tips and Tricks

We all witnessed another major downtime at Gmail datacenters because of a DDoS attack a couple of days ago, and the interesting thing in this downtime was IMAP and POP users of Gmail could easily access their emails while others could not.

There are several alternate ways by which you can access Gmail when you sense something wrong is going on with it.

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Gmail on Desktop with GeeMail

by Haris on August 31, 2009
in Freewares, Tips and Tricks

geemail-logoMany of us use Gmail as our primary email address and some people like me, check their mails very often, like every few minutes. It would be definitely better if we had a desktop solution for the notifications of new emails.

There are many tools like Gmail Notifier to do the job, but still you can’t write emails or actually read them on your desktop.

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Offline Gmail with Google Gears

by Haris on January 29, 2009
in Google, Tips and Tricks, Web 2.0

google-labsWe all know how Gmail Labs has been releasing new experimental features to enhance Gmail experience. Since the release of Google Gears, there has been rumors of Gmail adding support for offline mode, but nothing happened at that time.

Today, they released the most awaited feature “Offline Gmail” for US and UK users. You can now access Gmail in offline mode i.e when not connected to the Internet.

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Gmail Email To Google Docs

by Haris on December 17, 2008
in Google, Tips and Tricks

Gmail team seems to be all fired up these days and is constantly adding new features after every few days. Ofcourse none of these features are final and are in beta, but they can still be used from Gmail Labs.

This time they have added a new experimental feature which converts an email into a Google Docs document.

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Send Free SMS from Gmail

by Haris on December 13, 2008
in Google

Gmail seems to be on a roll with all the new features it has been introducing. Canned messages, Gmail for mobile, emoticons in emails and now a new feature that lets you send free SMS.

This new feature has been added to Gmail Labs that allows us to send and receive text messages and have conversations all from within Google Talk in Gmail.

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Video Audio Chat Now Available for Gmail

by Hammad Memon on November 12, 2008
in Google

Google has finally rolled out a feature which is for the first time on the web, Chat via Video or Audio from within your Gmail Inbox with an excellent sound and video quality.

This chat function will work from any PC with with the internet connection running on any of the popular OS like Windows XP and Vista along with Macs with OS X 10.4 or later. As for browsers, all major browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox 3, IE, Opera etc. are supported by this new feature. This feature will be available for mobile users soon.

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Backup Gmail Emails with Gmail Backup

by brian on November 6, 2008
in Freewares, Softwares, Tools

Why would anyone need to backup their Gmail accounts? Isn’t Google a mega-god of Internet age?  Well, yes they are! However, no one, not even Google, is infallible.

When it comes to one’s email accounts, and all the precious information they can contain, one can never be too careful. Take charge of your valuable information, and protect it with Gmail Backup 0.104.

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