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Delete Large Email Attachments from your Gmail Inbox to Free Up Space

Free up Space in Gmail via IMAP – The Strategy

Now the more interesting part. Let’s see how we can free up some important disk space in our Gmail inbox using a simple strategy:

Step 1: Track down bulky email messages in your Gmail inbox that contain large file attachments.

Step 2: Save these attachments to the local hard drive.

Step 3. After the attachments are saved locally, remove them from the online mailbox without deleting the corresponding email message(s).

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Tags: attachments, Digital Inspiration, email, Gmail, Google Mail, IMAP, mailbox

Let Search Engines Index Your Google Documents and Presentations

If you have a pile of documents and presentations stored in your Google Docs account that you want to world to find via search engines, here’s a workaround.

The Problem with Google Docs

While Google Docs is a great place for uploading documents that you want to share with the world, there’s one basic problem with that approach – most people won’t ever find your public Google documents on the Internet unless they have the direct URLs.

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Tags: Collaborative, Digital Inspiration, Docstoc, documents, Google Docs, index, Issuu, presentations, Scribd, Search Engine, sharing, SlideShare

Minimalist Gmail: How to Get Rid of the Non-Essentials

I’ve been running a Minimalist Gmail setup lately, stripped of nearly everything but, you know, emails … and I’m in love with its simplicity.

There’s something pure about having nothing but the essentials.

Now, some of you will recall a couple of other posts I did, and let’s quickly review them for background:

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Tags: Firefox, Gmail, Greasemonkey, Minimalist, simplicity, zenhabits

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Waving hello to Google Apps

Google Wave has been generating lots of interest among Google Apps users since we unveiled it in May at Google I/O, our annual developer conference. Today we’re pleased to announce that we’ll be opening up access to Google Wave for some schools and businesses as part of the preview this fall. And while we won’t be able to open it up to all Google Apps users just yet, we hope to bring Google Wave to all Google Apps users next year. If you’re a Google Apps administrator and you’re interested in testing Google Wave, you can sign up here.

via Official Google Enterprise Blog: Waving hello to Google Apps.

Tags: developer, Google Apps, Google Enterprise, Google I/O, Google Wave, video

Official Gmail Blog: New in Calendar: Sports schedules and contacts’ birthdays

People keep track of lots of things in their Google Calendars — meetings, business trips, due dates and conference calls. But when I started my summer internship at Google, I wondered why it wasn’t easier to add calendar events for the fun stuff in life, like birthdays and sports schedules.

Now, when you look under “Other Calendars,” click “Add,” then “Browse Interesting Calendars” (or use this link to the Calendar directory), you’ll find calendars for hundreds of teams in dozens of sports leagues — everything from the National Football League to the Korean FA Cup.

via Official Gmail Blog: New in Calendar: Sports schedules and contacts’ birthdays.

Tags: events, Gmail, Google Calendars, schedules

Hey , Google , get off o’ my cloud

As they tend to do with everything else Google are maintaining a strong presence in the growing market for providing key business software and infrastructure as a service.

Just this month they have elevated their ready-to-use cloud computing product ‘Google Apps’ from beta status sending out a clear signal that this is no longer seen as ‘experimental’ and confers it status as a product in its own right.

Google Apps is a web accessible platform that provides storage and functionality to a business to run a mail server and office documentation editing capability. It’s really made up of three elements: Gmail with domain personalisation, Google Docs and Google Sites.

via Hey , Google , get off o’ my cloud . » Via Consulting.

Tags: Gmail, Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Sites, IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service, Via Consulting

SiliconRepublic.com: Gmail outage blamed on server miscalculation – CIO

For many people who depend on Gmail it must have seemed like the earth stood still … for two hours anyway as the service experience a very rare outage.

Yesterday between 12:30 p.m. PDT to about 2:30 p.m. PDT (that’s 8.30pm GMT to 10.30pm GMT here) Gmail experienced an outage and millions of people who depend on the service for running their business, staying in touch with loved ones or backing up data could not access the service.

It is understood that the problem occurred when Google took a number of Gmail servers offline for maintenance.

via SiliconRepublic.com: Gmail outage blamed on server miscalculation – CIO.

Tags: Gmail, Google Mail, outage, server, SiliconRepublic.com

Google Wave To Splash Down This Fall | jatiN mahindrA doT coM

There’s fresh word this afternoon about when (and to whom) Google Wave will become available. Schools and businesses that use Google Apps appear to be first in a line that should start moving this fall.

A post on the Official Google Enterprise Blog announced, “While the product, platform and protocols are still being developed, we’re extending access to some of the highly collaborative people and communities we hope to benefit in the future – businesses and schools. In turn, we look forward to learning from these Google Apps users, so we can continue to tweak and develop the product as we gain insight from their experiences.”

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Tags: Collaborative, Google Apps, Google Wave, jatiN mahindrA doT coM, rollout

Official Google Blog: Google Translate now speaks 51 languages

We spend a lot of time thinking about how information travels around the globe. After all, there are Googlers living and working in dozens of countries — and we’re pretty sure our products are used in many more. So we’re familiar with the need to translate information across borders, and we’ve been working hard to build the technology to enable you to do just that. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve added nine new languages to Google Translate: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish. That means that Google Translate now supports 51 languages and 2550 language pairs — including all 23 official EU languages.

via Official Google Blog: Google Translate now speaks 51 languages.

Tags: Google, Google Docs, Google Translate, information, languages, localize, translation

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below. Give this 1.5 hours of your undivided attention.

Tags: Collaborative, developer, Google Wave, video, YouTube