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How to Access Gmail When It’s Down – Gmail – Lifehacker

Last week’s Gmail outage is just the latest in a long series of outages in our favorite webmail application, but you don’t have to let that stop you from accessing your email and getting things done.

Access Gmail Through Alternate Modes

Just because the Gmail web interface went down doesn’t mean that Gmail is entirely down—often you can continue to access your account using one of the alternate web interfaces, which often are still accessible even when the regular web interface goes down.

via How to Access Gmail When It’s Down – Gmail – Lifehacker.

Tags: access, Gmail, Lifehacker

Seven Easy Ways to Integrate Your Google Apps – Google Apps – Lifehacker

The information you keep in Google apps like Gmail, GCal, Reader, and Voice doesn’t just live in one place. Check out a few easy but non-obvious ways to plug different Google apps together and share their data and features.

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Tags: GCal, Gmail, Google Apps, Google Reader, Google Voice, integrate, Lifehacker

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).

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

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

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:

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

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

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