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Gmail - Email Sending Limit of 500!

Gmail, is among one of the best free e-mail services available on the Internet. Right from the day of its launch on April 1, 2004, people started appreciating it. If you remember, not so long before, to open Gmail account you needed an invitation from existing Gmail users. According to a Wiki Continue reading

Gmail’s 10 Latest Lab Features

Gmail introduced a lab edition in June with 13 features. Over the time they kept adding these features and here is post listing latest lab features. But before exploring further, for those who missed these lab features completely, these can be activated selectively by going to Lab tab under Continue reading

Be a Gmail Power User : Use Advance Search Operators in Gmail Search

What do you do when you want to search something? We google it. Why google? Because of its amazing search techniques to deliver accurate results. Google provides the same searchability in Gmail too. Within Gmail searchbox, you can enter a word or multiple words that appears anywhere in your Continue reading

Bug in Google Talk’s Invisible Status Feature

Our reader, Anirudh Mehta, discovered a bug in Google Talk’s invisible status feature available in its Gmail Chat version. If use smartly, you can figure out if the girl next door is really invisible or avoiding you. Here are steps: Set the chat as off the record with target user (how?). Continue reading

Gmails Spam Filter Crashed !!!

Just returned to my Gmail after dinner. Shocked to see 100’s of unread mails in Inbox thats too in 30 mins… Check time column in following screenshot… are you also having same problem??? Update: This spam attack lasted for around 6 hours. After checking few spam mails I am sure Continue reading

Gmail Lab Edition with 13 New Features!

Google recently launched Lab Edition of its famous Gmail service with 13 new features. You can selectively enable these features on your account by going to Gmail Settings >> Labs tabs. Most of these feature are highly innovative and described in brief below… #1. Quick Links Adds a box Continue reading

5 Simple Rules To Fight Against Phishing [Security]

I often receive phishing emails, mostly claiming to be from PayPal, ICICI or similar sites where money involved. Yesterday, I received an email claiming to be from PayPal. Of course, I didn’t fall for it, but it looked so genuine that I thought about sharing few simple rules which I follow Continue reading

Edit Contact Right From Chat List - New Gmail Feature!

Consider this problem faced by Robby Stein, When I add a new friend to Gmail chat, sometimes my friend’s email address is added as their contact name, such as hikingfan@gmail.com. I personally like to have the name of all my chat friends in my chat list so I don’t get too confused as Continue reading

Insert HTML Signature in Gmail [Greasemonkey Script]

By default Gmail doesn’t allow HTML signature in outgoing emails. Means all tags you put into signature will appear as it is. There are multiple ways to overcome this problem. Simplest is too have a HTML editor and copying HTML signature into Gmail, thanks to Gmail’s WYSIWYG Continue reading

How many Gmail Addresses You Have! [Gmail Trick]

Most Gmail users will answer one! Rest will answer 2-3 or little more. But in reality, all Gmail users have infinite Gmail addresses even if they have registered for only one Gmail account! All these addresses act as aliases to Gmail address you use and can be divided in three categories as Continue reading