Unhandled Perception

This guide will help you to switch from your current email provider to Gmail and shows you how to make most of it. That being said, if you already use Gmail, why not have a quick look of last few chapters that have a few handy tips even for advanced users.

You have to signup to get the PDF but for someone really looking to exploit the power of Gmail it may be worth it.

Article: http://www.makeuseof.com/…

PDF Direct Link: http://www.makeuseof.com/…

Media reported that the secret project, named as Project Titan, will offer @facebook.com email addresses for users. The reports also added that the Project Titan can be regarded as ‘Gmail Killer.’

The special November event of Facebook is expected to held at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The event will surface Project Titan, which will change Facebook’s entire messaging system.

Link: http://news.oneindia.in

Gmail to support Drag and Droping of file into emails. Support for now will be in Chrome and Firefox only. Pretty cool that these two browsers can support it – more reason to move to a better browser if you’re still using IE.

Link:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/…

Email as a technology has been around for decades, and thanks to wide spread adoption and popularity, it isn’t in danger of disappearing. Check out the five most popular email clients to help you wrangle your email.

I’m looking forward to the new features of Outlook 2010.

Link:
http://lifehacker.com/…

Neowin has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail “hack” or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been posted online.

An anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers to share code snippets. The details have since been removed but Neowin has seen part of the list posted and can confirm the accounts are genuine and most appear to be based in Europe. The list details over 10,000 accounts starting from A through to B, suggesting there could be additional lists. Currently it appears only accounts used to access Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail have been posted, this includes @hotmail.com, @msn.com and @live.com accounts.

This is why every online account I have has a different, strong password. I use RoboForm to manage all the passwords so I don’t have to remember them.

Link:
http://www.neowin.net/news/…

Now you can send bigger attachments in Gmail, as Google increased the maximum attachment size from 20 MB to 25 MB.

Link:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/…

Not sure who else to add to that group email? Gmail Labs now has a useful “suggest more recipients” feature that suggests contacts that you might want to include in a group email based on the people you’ve grouped together as email recipients in the past.

For example, if you often send family emails to your mother, father, husband, sister and brother, when you start composing an email to your mother and father, Gmail will suggest adding your sister, husband and brother. The feature is triggered only after you’ve added at least two recipients to the email.

Link:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/17/…

The signatures for Outlook are stored in the folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

Now all you have do to is go to the folder and make a backup of all the files. Each signature will have three associated files (.htm, .txt and a .rtf file).

Simple if you know where to look.

Using a tool provided my Microsoft called ‘Outlook HTML and CSS Validator‘.

The Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 HTML and CSS Validator helps you check for valid/supported HTML before you send HTML-based e-mail.

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/…

Gmail already lets you create filters based on a combination of keywords, sender, recipients, and more in your incoming messages. Turn on Canned Responses in Labs, and you can set a filter to grab one of your saved responses, create an automated reply, and hit the Send button for you.

You can set up different automated messages for different keywords, just like you said you wanted. (We’re friends, so I trust you to use this power responsibly.)

How to Enable it:

1. Click on Settings in the top right corner of Gmail
2. Click on the Labs setting
3. Enable Canned Responses
4. When you are composing an email a Canned Response option will appear. This lets you save the email as a canned response.
5. For auto-replies you would setup a filter (under the account settings) using the saved canned response.

Link:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/

The Gmail CAPTCHA has been cracked—albeit not easily—raising new concerns about spammers’ ability to abuse Google’s e-mail services. Websense Security Labs pointed out the security breach late last week, noting that spammers have a lot to gain by being able to use bots to automatically sign up for new accounts.

Link:
http://…/gotcha-captcha-gmail-bot-detector-system-cracked

You probably know how to create multiple email aliases in Gmail by adding the plus symbol and dots to your Gmail username but there’s something more interesting.

When you create a Gmail account, you actually get two email addresses – one is the regular @gmail.com while the second email address has @googlemail.com in the domain.

Link:
http://…/gmail-email-alias-two-separate-gmail-address/

Koolwire makes it very easy to convert documents to PDF by following these basic steps:

• 1. Create an email and attach your document to convert
• 2. Send the email to pdf@koolwire.com
• 3. Wait for the return email with a PDF attachment

In my test I sent a Word document containing a high-res image and some text. Within 2min I received an email back with the PDF attached (named the same as the Word doc). Quality was great.

Link:
http://www.koolwire.com/Default.aspx

The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.

• Outlook 2007 – Poor rating
• AOL Webmail – Excellent rating
• GMail – Poor rating

Surprised?

Link:
http://www.email-standards.org/

Your child can now have a safe email account, giving you complete peace of mind. Parents have the ability to control and monitor their children’s activities from anywhere.

Options:

• superior spam filtering
• receive email from contact list only
• send email to contact list only
• receive email from siblings
• email a copy of outgoing messages to the parent
• email a copy of incoming messages to the parent
• remove inline images
• remove links in emails
• allow specific attachments such as: images, pictures, video, mp3s, zip, pdf, word, excel, power point, etc.
• customizable bad word filter
• delete individual attachments without deleting the the whole email
• adjustable threshold (control aggressiveness of spam filter)

This is perfect for getting kids into the internet slowly and without fear. Its so important to let kids get used to the internet and teach them about safely using the tools that are now available and necessary.

Link:
http://www.zoobuh.com/

Kids login here:
http://kids.zoobuh.com/