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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.

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

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

Use Firefox to Fix the Web’s Biggest Annoyances – Annoyances – Lifehacker

If you’ve spent more than 5 minutes browsing around the web lately, you’ve no doubt dealt with greedy webmasters assaulting their readers with awful ads and more—but Firefox makes it easy to take back control.

Blocking Unnecessarily Obnoxious Ads

Without question, obnoxious ads are out of control on the web these days—you can barely move your mouse across a page without ads moving around, popping up, taking over the screen or pretending to be a dialog window indicating impending doom if you don’t pay for a system scan NOW. These ads can be put in their place easily, using everybody’s favorite Adblock Plus extension. Lifehacker is, of course, an advertising-supported site—so we’d be grateful if you’d keep us on the whitelist—but it’ll do a charm for those flashing, pop-up-ing, overlaying, obtrusive ads all around the web.

via Use Firefox to Fix the Web’s Biggest Annoyances – Annoyances – Lifehacker.

Tags: ads, blocking, browsing, Firefox, Lifehacker

S4ve.as Makes File Sharing as Easy as Sharing a URL – File Sharing – Lifehacker

Need to share a file quickly and without the hassle of setting up a file server or other dedicated connection between you and the recipient? S4ve.as makes transferring a file as simple as pasting a URL.

Visit the s4ve.as web site, select a file you want to share, upload that file, and you’re given a URL. The URL is good for 24 hours from the time of creation. Anyone who visits it can download the file you’ve shared. You don’t need to be online, the file is temporarily stored on the s4ve.as servers.

S4ve.as is a free service with no restrictions on the size of the file you can upload.

via S4ve.as Makes File Sharing as Easy as Sharing a URL – File Sharing – Lifehacker.

Tags: 24 hours, File Sharing, free service, Lifehacker, S4ve.as, URL

Hostel Hero Books Hostels Via Your iPod | Lifehacker Australia

Hostels remain the cheapest way to score accommodation when you’re seeing the world (assuming security issues don’t drive you to a hotel). iPhone application Hostel Hero lets you search for and book hostels in 150 countries, and stores details of your bookings on the device itself.

via Hostel Hero Books Hostels Via Your iPod | Lifehacker Australia.

Tags: bookings, device, Hostel, iPhone, Lifehacker