Set Up Email Address

A Recap On Why You Should Set Up Email Address With Gmail

If you have made your way to this blog looking for ideas on how to set up an email address, I am a big fan and advocate of Gmail. Check out this entertaining video from the team at Gmail and find out why it is the best email system around and it is free.

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Creating Filters In Gmail

Recently I have found my inbox growing to quickly each day. Many of the emails that I receive are updates of some form and not emails that I need to see straight away. To make my inbox less cluttered I have set up a number of new filters, so that these types of emails skip [...]

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Solution To Gmail On Behalf Of Issue

Sometime ago I wrote about the Gmail on behalf of issue. In that post I stated that: It does appear to be an issue that cannot be changed within Gmail. In summary it appears to be an issue with the way Microsoft Outlook displays the “from” field. And at the time of writing that was [...]

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New Label Functionality In Gmail

By now you would have noticed the changes the label set up in Gmail. If you were like me then one day when you entered Gmail a couple of weeks ago, you would have noticed that the majority of your labels had disappeared. It once looked like this: And now it looks like: So where [...]

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Backing Up Gmail

When you set up email address with Gmail, you effectively have your email in the “cloud”. Being able to access your email anywhere, anytime is fantastic, but what if the cloud disappeared??? I am not at all thinking that this will happen with Gmail, but I do keep lots of precious information in Gmail. I [...]

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Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts

In a previous post I showed how to enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail. In this post, I will take you through how a keyboard shortcut works and list the ones which I find most useful. The below example uses my favourite shortcut “Move to”. Step 1. Checking Message Box You need to check the box [...]

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More People Setting Up Email Address With Gmail

On April 1, 2004, the first release of Gmail was rolled out. The instant attraction for many users way the free storage that it offered: 1000 MB of storage, compared to only 4MB which other free email services were offering. But Gmail’s popularity has been on the rise along with its storage allocation which is [...]

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How To Enable Keyboard Shortcuts In Gmail

Gmail allows you to work through your emails more efficiently, by the use of keyboard shortcuts. By using the keyboard shortcuts you do not have to take your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse. To use keyboard shortcuts in Gmail you need to make sure that you have them enabled. To check the [...]

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How to Use Labels In Gmail

In my post on How To Achieve A Zero Inbox in Gmail I briefly touch on the Labels function. For me this is single biggest factor in my ability to keep my inbox under control. Gmail gives you an amazing amount of storage space. The above image shows that I am only using 2% of [...]

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Accessing Gmail Offline

So you have set up email address with Gmail, but have found that there is times that you would like to access your email, but can’t as you are not online? Well Gmail Labs are testing a new application that allows you to access your emails when offline. The Official Gmail Blog describes how this [...]

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