Aardvark is a crowdsourcing platform for asking and answering questions, that was recently acquired by Google. When a question is received, Aardvark finds the perfect person to answer it by looking through your social connections, and others who have a …[Continue]
New Features Available for Gmail Users
Last week Google released a number of new Gmail features to the public, taking them out of Gmail Labs, which is a beta or testing platform. These include message color coding, search autocomplete, forgotten attachment detector, YouTube previews, and vacation …[Continue]
Are You Buzzing?
Google recently announced Google Buzz, a social media platform that integrates social networking into Gmail and other Google products. To check it, login into your Gmail Account and look for Buzz in the left-hand column. Is this going to impact …[Continue]
How to Use Gmail to Manage Email Newsletters
Email newsletter subscriptions can pile up, and the start of a New Year is as good a time as any to finally unsubscribe from email you don’t want to receive. Here’s a Gmail tip for finding most subscriptions in your …[Continue]
How to Recover a Hacked Google Account
Amit Agarwal is a professional blogger, and despite what he knows about choosing secure passwords, his Gmail account was hacked. Going through the recovery process to regain control of his Google accounts, he learned some interesting things. In this article …[Continue]
How to Use Google Voice Mail with your Existing Phone Number
Although it is still only available with an invite from an existing user, Google Voice recently opened up their free voice mail service for use with your existing phone number. With Google voice mail, you get voice mail messages with …[Continue]
What is Google Wave?
On October 1, 100,000 lucky users got an invitation to preview Google’s new real-time communication platform: Google Wave. It combines email, instant messaging, chat, project management and social networking in a client that sits within the browser. To learn more, …[Continue]
How to Automatically Archive Old Messages from Your Gmail Inbox
Email experts advise against using your email inbox as storage and instead suggest frequently cleaning it out and storing old messages in archive folders instead. For Gmail users, here’s a filter that will move all messages older than a certain …[Continue]
