By JortK on June 8, 2011
Google Calendar has become indispensable for organizing my own time and sharing my schedule with friends and coworkers. But what about letting others know about my preferred availability? Likewise, when I look at my hairdresser’s online calendar, I wonder why I can’t just book the open slot instead of remembering to call during regular business [...]
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By JortK on May 30, 2011
(Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog) Email is just as much about the people you communicate with as it is what you communicate about. We think it can be helpful to view relevant information in context, which is why over the next two weeks we’re rolling out a new people widget located on the right [...]
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By JortK on May 20, 2011
From the beginning, we designed Google Talk using open standards so that you could connect to your friends and family using any chat product, making communication as easy as possible. A few years ago, we announced our partnership with AOL which made it possible for people to chat with AIM users right from inside Gmail. [...]
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By JortK on May 13, 2011
(Cross-posted on the Code and Chrome Blogs) A little less than two years ago we set out to make computers much better. Today, we’re announcing the first Chromebooks from our partners, Samsung and Acer. These are not typical notebooks. With a Chromebook you won’t wait minutes for your computer to boot and browser to start. [...]
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By JortK on May 9, 2011
If your calendar ends up full of many different types of events (film nights, lunch dates, and doctor appointments, for example), there’s now an easy way to categorize them using colors. Just click on an event, then click the colored square in the top left of the pop-up bubble and pick a new color. If [...]
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By JortK on May 6, 2011
Gmail used to have a limit of 10,000 contacts. For most of us, this was way more than enough, but we heard from some of you who use Gmail to communicate with more than 10,000 people. We want you to be able to store all of your contacts in a single place, so starting today, [...]
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By JortK on April 20, 2011
(Cross-posted from the Google Mobile blog) Sometimes when I’m using Gmail on my phone, I delete a message by mistake or label it incorrectly. Sure I can fish the message out of my Trash or remove the label and apply the correct one, but that takes several steps. Even just a few seconds is usually [...]
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By JortK on April 15, 2011
Themes in Gmail are great — there are tons to choose from and they give your inbox a personalized look. But we’ve heard from many of you who thought it would be even better if you could give Gmail an even more personalized look and create themes completely on your own. For a while, you’ve [...]
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By JortK on April 8, 2011
Ever since I joined the Gmail team, my friends have been eager to tell me, “I love Gmail! Except for this one thing…” And every day, Gmail users share their “one thing” that would make Gmail better for them through our suggestions page. While we enjoy creating new solutions to old problems with features like [...]
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By JortK on April 6, 2011
To use Gmail Motion, you’ll need a computer with a built-in webcam. Once you enable Gmail Motion from the Settings page, Gmail will enable your webcam when you sign in and automatically recognize any one of the detected movements via a spatial tracking algorithm. We designed the movements to be easy and intuitive to perform [...]
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