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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.