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Gmail Labs - testing ground for experimental features

2009-02-05T14:26:55Z

Gmail engineers come up with new ideas all the time.
Gmail Labs is our place to try them out and get your feedback.
None of the features are really ready for prime time yet, so they may change, break or disappear at any time.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=29418

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Video Thumbnails for GChat

2009-02-04T13:53:52Z

Gmail Chat has a feature that allows you to play videos from YouTube and Google Video without opening a new page.
If you paste a link to a video from YouTube or Google Video in a conversation, Google shows a clickable thumbnail that can trigger an inline video player.

try it
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V08wdxzL2Cw&feature=dir

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gmail

2007-07-24T13:25:37Z

I need a gmail account.

any invities ? please

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migrating inbox?

2007-06-06T17:46:10Z

I've been poking around on the Gmail help forums but haven't found the answer I'm looking for:

I have two Gmail accounts. One is a nickname I got a long time ago, one is my actual full name. I have been mainly using the nickname one for all personal email for a couple of years now, and that is the one most people use. I have been, up until today, forwarding all mail from the full-name account to this one, which works fine. The only place I really was using the full-name address was on my resume and things like that. I am now wanting to switch the mainly using the full-name account, and I have flipped the forwarding to have all the nickname mail forward to it. So far so good. I've even exported all the contacts from the nickname account to the full-name one.
The only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to bulk-move all the archived and Inbox messages/conversations from the nickname account to the full-name one without forwarding them one by one, so that I don't have to keep toggling between accounts (since they won't let you login to multiple accounts at the same time) to dig up old stuff. I generally archive all bill-paying/banking/crap-I-might-need-later messages, so there is alot of Important Crap in the nickname account that I need to keep. Yes, I know it's not a very sophisticated filing system, cut me some slack.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!!

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Check this out!!! gDisk

2006-12-24T22:02:35Z

http://www.freemacware.com/

just search for gdisk.

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Why do i get a microsoft passport login for gmail?

2006-06-04T18:11:13Z

Does anyone know how to "fix" this?

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Mighty Joe's Google - Tried and True!

2006-06-04T16:57:12Z

Hey Everyone,
Google is growing so quickly and coming out with so many great applications and other people are developing all kinds of cool stuff, that I decided to create a BLOG that I think everyone that is into Google will really enjoy. Please check it out and let me know what you think! Also, there are no ads, no spam, no need to register.... Just a lot of good Google information. Also, I have "best of breed" sites for freeware and Firefox extensions so if you are into those you can take a look at them as well!

Sincerely,
Mighty Joe

http://mightyjoesgoogle.blogspot.com/
http://mightyjoesfree.blogspot.com/
http://mightyjoefirefox.blogspot.com/

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Control your PC with GMail

2006-05-31T12:43:07Z

GMail Remote Command is a program that allows you to command your pc remotely, sending only an email to your Gmail account.

So why not just use VNC?
What if VNC isn't running on the host machine...you forgot to set it be fore you left the house...
Use GMail Remote Command to start it my gmailing the command line.

Check it out
http://www.gianniamato.it/grc/

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Google Calendar Now Available :)

2006-05-31T12:16:59Z

www.google.com/calendar

YAY!

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gmail in opera

2006-04-13T22:31:23Z

are there any plans to make it compatible with googletalk and chat.

i always run into these small little hiccups and it's annoying. it'd be nice if i didn't have to use IE for gmail and opera for everything else.

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Gmail Spam Filter

2006-02-18T00:52:32Z

Ok, this isn't a Hack...
At 1st Gmail seemed a pretty cool thing, and it still is.
But all the Spam coming in. I'm trying to introduce my boss to the benefits of Gmail, but I'm embarassed by all the Spam.

GMail is not learning a thing from my reports and filtering

Fernando Cassia has noticed this too
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29331

Right now I have 6854 Spam messages. That's from the last 30 days. Most are what Gmail has filtered out and some I have manually filtered.
If you like go to my profile page ("Spam" in the left column) and take a look at the messages left un-filtered.

I did some research on how Gmail filters Spam.
It seems that the more you log in, the less Spam you get. Here the theory.

You log in and see Spam that wasn't filtered out and you report it as Spam. You and maybe 200-300 other Gmail users. Gmail now will filter this Spam for the other thousands of Gmail users, since a couple hundred of us think it's Spam.

Aaron Dragushan of Wondermill agrees with this theory and further suggests
"Gmail quietly reaches into the inboxes of those other 49,750 people and gently nudges the message into the spam folder. Their key insight was that because they're a web-based email provider, they don't so much "deliver" mail as make it available for viewing. All the people who haven't logged in or refreshed their browser window haven't actually "received" the message yet. If you were to make it disappear, they'll never know it was there, and don't have to trip over it. Huzzah!"

Therefore, those people who either don't look at their Gmail everyday, or let the Spam pile up without reporting it---are the helping Spam get through.

I'm now working on other ways to better help Gmail Filter Spam.

Maybe RSS Feed of Top One Hundred Spam phrases?

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paranoia?

2006-02-14T13:42:00Z

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/04414489.asp
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IS THERE A company anywhere within these United States with a better public image than Google has? We love it. We need it. We use it — more than 200 million times a day, by some accounts. The unofficial slogan — "Don’t Be Evil" — epitomizes everything we want in a business relationship. And more often than not, Google lives up to those words.

But there is another side to Google, and it’s one that the company would just as soon you not think about. It’s what happens each and every time you look up a piece of information. An old boyfriend. A political organization you heard mentioned on television the night before. A possible vacation spot. Or maybe you’re a student trying to track down a terrorist group’s Web site for a paper you’re writing. Or a church elder who likes to look at hard-core pornography. Or you’re seeking information on how to grow your own marijuana. Who knows?

Google knows. According to Lauren Weinstein, an Internet activist and privacy expert based in Southern California, Google keeps track of every search that’s made, as well as the Internet location of the computer from which the search is taking place — and then it stores that information for possible future use. Moreover, he says, it would not be terribly difficult to trace those searches to the person who made them. That’s you and me.

Such tracking is common on the Internet, of course. Amazon.com knows what kinds of books and music you like, and it puts those products in front of your eyeballs at every opportunity. Internet-service providers such as America Online and Microsoft’s MSN collect enormous amounts of data about their customers. Same with Yahoo!, which — with personalized services such as My Yahoo! — is also more zealous than Google about trying to get its customers to sign up and thus identify themselves.

For all anyone knows, Google is handling private information more responsibly than many other corporations are. So why single out the Internet company everyone loves? For two reasons: first, it’s so ubiquitous that it’s the only online service that virtually all of us use regularly — 10, 20, 50 times a day; and second, the famously sparse user interface exudes an aura of anonymity. You don’t have to register — you’re not even asked to register — for the basic Google services we use all the time, such as searching for Web sites, news, and pictures. At Amazon, you know you’re being watched. But you might be surprised to learn that Google is watching, too.

"Google has some wonderful products. I use it all the time. I’m as dependent on it as anyone else is. But that doesn’t change anything," says Weinstein. "The ‘Google is so neat’ kind of haze that surrounds this has blinded people into failing to think one step beyond."

WEINSTEIN, THE motorcycle-riding co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility, first publicly questioned Google’s privacy practices last month with a post on his weblog (lauren.vortex.com) titled "The Dark Side of Google." Among other things, he wrote, "Google has created a growing information repository of a sort that CIA and NSA (and the old KGB) would probably envy and covet in no uncertain terms — and Google’s data is virtually without outside oversight or regulation."

Here’s how it works, according to Weinstein. Every computer attached to the Internet has something called an "Internet protocol," or IP, address, which is a string of four numbers separated by decimal points. At work, your IP address is likely that of your company’s dedicated network; it never changes, and anyone who obtained that IP address would be able to trace it back to your workplace, if not necessarily to your desk. At home, if you’re using an Internet-service provider such as AOL or EarthLink, you have what’s known as a "dynamic" IP address — that is, your IP address changes on a fairly regular basis. Still, a Google search could be traced back to you if someone knew you were using a particular IP address at a particular time — information that Google does not have, but that your Internet provider does. Someone armed with a subpoena — say, an FBI agent who’s curious about your interest in chemical warfare, or your soon-to-be-ex spouse’s divorce lawyer — could pay a visit to your Internet provider to find out who was using what IP address when. That is exactly how the music industry has busted illegal file-sharers: investigators cruise services such as KaZaA and LimeWire looking for the IP addresses of computers on which copyrighted files are available for download. After they’ve got that information, they need only pay a visit to EarthLink or wherever to match the numbers with names.

And that’s assuming you have your Web browser’s cookies turned off. You don’t, do you? Neither do I. Cookies, which are little bits of data stored within your browser that are automatically sent to Web sites that request them, provide all kinds of information about you — information that makes it extraordinarily easy to track you down. The reason Google uses cookies is perfectly benign — it’s how the service manages to tailor advertising to your interests, thus making money while you search for free. Leaving cookies turned on improves our Web-surfing experience. Many services, including Google, warn users that their sites won’t even work properly without cookies. Only a paranoid would turn them off, right? Well — maybe not.

Perhaps none of this is particularly surprising. But Weinstein offers an additional wrinkle that ought to give anyone reason to pause: he claims Google is actually storing all this stuff so that it can go back and conduct, say, market research or develop new products. Or, you know, respond to that subpoena. This struck me as truly innovative and troublesome, so I asked Weinstein how he knows this. His response: "My source on this is a former highly placed Google person whom I have met with face to face. To protect him, I have not publicly stated his name. But I am satisfied personally, having known him for many, many years. He certainly would have been in a position to know. That’s as far as I can take that, unfortunately."

Now, it wouldn’t be fair to disparage Google on the basis of anonymous information once removed. But the thing is, the company doesn’t deny it. I sent an e-mail to Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s senior policy counsel and a person who had been described to me as the company’s privacy guru, someone who’s enlightened about such issues. But rather than respond, he forwarded my e-mail to the company’s public-relations staff. After several days of polite back-and-forth, company spokesman Steve Langdon sent me an e-mail statement that I quote in its entirety: "Privacy is an issue about which Google cares very much. In all the products we develop, we pay very close attention to how the products and their features relate to user privacy and we make design decisions and policies to protect privacy. Google also provides users with information about privacy in our privacy policies that are posted on our web site."

That’s true. The most relevant part of that policy would appear to be this: "Google collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services." But claiming that your IP address and cookies are "non-personally identifying information" is, at best, a gross underestimate about what a skilled investigator could do with it.

"When you amalgamate all the results of this sort of tracking, especially if you’ve got a dedicated IP address where people can zero in on a specific household, a remarkably clear picture of who you are and what you think and what you believe" can be assembled, says Steven Rambam, a private investigator based in New York who uses online databases for much of his work. "Everything that you’re interested in and everything that your daily life is focused on can be recorded and tracked back to a particular machine." (And, as we’ve seen, even a dynamic IP address is no protection if your Internet-service provider can be compelled to turn over its records.)

Last July, for NPR’s On the Media program, Rambam demonstrated how easy it is. Within 10 minutes, he had found co-host Brooke Gladstone’s Social Security number, previous addresses, how much she’d paid for her current house, even the name of her sister. Rambam told me that he supports the idea of public information being publicly available. (One fun fact he dug up last year: liberal activist Michael Moore was registered to vote in two states, Michigan and New York. That information made its way to TheSmokingGun.com, a cornucopia of entertaining invasions of privacy.) "Frankly, I think the average person has a right to see if their nanny used to be child molester, if their tenant stiffed the previous three landlords," Rambam says. "There has to be an intelligent balance, and, frankly, I think that’s where we’re at right now."

By contrast, Rambam explains, the trouble with data collection by commercial services is that customers haven’t really consented to it. "My bugaboo," he says, "is that it needs to be consensual and not sneaky." (The Google privacy policy is not hard to find, but it’s long and doesn’t exactly make for gripping reading. Have you read it? Of course you haven’t. I have — but I hadn’t until recently, and then only for the purposes of researching this article. Nor have I read the privacy policies of other services that I use.)

Gladstone, who was on the receiving end of Rambam’s investigative efforts, told me that she felt "a kind of generalized queasiness, a kind of tightening in the pit of my stomach" to see how easy it was to dig up personal information about her. She adds, "I suppose you could go off the grid, but that’s just not the way most of us want to live. I like my credit card, I like having a cell phone, I like participating in the financial institutions to the extent that I have a mortgage. I like to partake of the fruits of our democracy. But now it’s all so easy. It isn’t that a lot of these records weren’t public before. It’s just that it’s instant and it’s global."

And that’s exactly it. You don’t want to be bothered to protect your identity. Life without privacy is seductive — first because you don’t necessarily realize how compromised your privacy has become, but second because it’s nice to visit Amazon.com and get those book recommendations tailored to your interests. It’s great to log on to AOL and see the weather forecast for your small part of the world. It’s helpful to be shown custom-delivered advertising when you search on Google.

"The dark side of Google is actually part of the light side," says Kevin Bankston, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in San Francisco. "All of these companies are trying to move toward trying to personalize your Internet experience and make it a better Internet experience. But that means collecting and studying an enormous amount of information about you. In many cases, consumers are willing to make that trade-off."

In other words, Orwell was wrong. Huxley was right. We’re not losing our privacy because the forces of evil and oppression are taking it away from us. We’re losing it because we’re giving it away, whether we know it or not. What we’re getting in return is stuff, convenience, information, an easier way of life. And we like it.

SEVERAL YEARS ago, a computer-privacy expert named Latanya Sweeney tracked down confidential information about former Massachusetts governor William Weld’s health from a database of state-employee insurance claims that was supposed to be anonymous. She knew he lived in Cambridge. With that as a starting point, she obtained publicly available voter-registration records, and then used those to make the match. Other electronic alchemy was involved, too, obviously, but the point is that she had no problem doing it. "Only six people had his birth date, only three were men, and he was the only one in his five-digit zip code," Sweeney told Newsweek in October 2000.

Sweeney, who is now director of the Laboratory for International Data Privacy, at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, did not respond to e-mails or a phone call seeking comment. (However, she has posted some very cool photos of herself on her motorcycle at privacy.cs.cmu.edu/people/sweeney. What is it about privacy activists and motorcycles?) You’ll find some pretty creepy things linked from her Web site, too. Like CameraWatch, a compilation of webcams at universities, cities, beaches, even jails. The other day I sat transfixed, manipulating a camera by long-distance as a student walked across one of the campus quads at George Washington University. Did she even have a clue that she was being watched?

According to Sweeney’s Web site, there are an estimated 10,000 such cameras in public places across the US. Cameras are catching traffic violators — and, reportedly, occasionally causing accidents, with drivers slamming on the brakes so as to avoid a roboticket. And it’s not all government and big business, not by any means. Spyware has invaded our computers, watching what we’re doing and reporting back to sleazoids unknown, or surreptitiously turning our computers into untraceable propagation machines for e-mail spam and illegal file-sharing. Combined with the data-collection activities of Google, AOL, Amazon, Yahoo!, et al., it can seem as though we have already crossed the threshold into a perpetual state of surveillance.

And it’s getting worse, all in the name of more service and greater convenience. Late last year, Google announced a new project to digitize millions of books at academic and public libraries, including 40,000 volumes at Harvard. Older books whose copyright protections have expired will be available in their entirety; newer books will offer some highlights so you can see whether they’re what you’re looking for. How great is that? Yet, soon, the books you read can be added to the personal data about you that will be available online. Take out a Google Gmail account or use Google to browse Usenet groups, and you’ll become a registered member of Google — making it that much easier to tie you to your online activities. Amazon is rolling out a service called A9.com that takes customized search to another level — but only if you register. For that matter, what about those discount cards you carry for the grocery store and the pharmacy? Sure, you save money. But there’s another kind of cost: your every purchase is tracked.

In such a world, the notorious Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act almost seems obsolete — or, maybe, supercharged by initiatives being undertaken by private industry. Section 215, as you may recall, allows government agents investigating terrorism to conduct secret searches of records from libraries, bookstores, doctors’ offices, and the like with minimal judicial oversight. It won’t be too long before Google and Amazon will have amassed exactly what the feds are looking for. And if there is another major terrorist attack, you can be sure that investigators will want to know who’s been reading what books online — information that would be impossible to obtain, obviously, if it involved cash-paying customers in the non-virtual world. Now, granted, if there were, say, a ricin attack in the Washington subway system, it would be hard to argue that government agents should not have access to any records that might help them find the perpetrators. The point is that ever-improving technology is making such clashes between public safety and civil liberties all the more likely to take place.

Ari Schwartz is associate director of the Washington-based Center for Technology and Democracy, which advocates for a whole range of privacy protections. For example: under current law, Web-based e-mail services such as Gmail or Microsoft’s Hotmail, which store your mail on a remote server, are less protected from the prying eyes of the government than e-mail that you download to your own computer, as is generally the case if you’re using a program such as Microsoft Outlook, Entourage, or Eudora. Schwartz’s organization wants to eliminate those anomalies. But what’s essential, Schwartz says, is for Congress to take a more comprehensive approach to privacy. "At some point," he says, "we need to create something that’s more general so that we don’t have to write a new privacy law for every new technology that comes along."

How likely is that to happen in an era dominated by Republicans? Despite the party’s pro-business leanings, Schwartz is reasonably optimistic. For instance, the new chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce is Representative Joe Barton, a Texas Republican who, along with Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey, is a co-chair of the Congressional Privacy Caucus. Barton’s predecessor on Energy and Commerce, former congressman Billy Tauzin, a Louisiana Republican, was hostile to privacy concerns, in Schwartz’s view. And Schwartz believes that Barton’s counterpart on the Senate side, Alaska Republican Ted Stevens, could prove to be a friend of privacy as well.

Markey shares Schwartz’s optimism, saying that polls show more than 80 percent of Americans are concerned about privacy, a finding that crosses partisan lines. He points to past accomplishments, such as an amendment to the Child Online Protection Act that prohibits the use of information gathered from children for marketing purposes, as a sign that Republicans and Democrats may be able to work together. Markey’s goal: legislation that would mandate greater disclosure of data-collection efforts, as well as the right to opt out. As for Google and companies with similar practices, Markey would like to see a law mandating that personal information be destroyed after a certain length of time, as is already the case with cable companies.

"I think there is a chance this year," Markey told me. "The more people learn about any potential privacy invasion, the greater the likelihood that Congress, as a stimulus-response organism, will do something about it."

Still, it would be wise not to hold your breath. Business interests, Markey says, do not want these protections. And neither the White House nor Republican congressional leaders are likely to stand up to them.

POKE AROUND Google, and you’ll run into an endless list of superlatives. As of this past Monday, the service boasted that it was searching 8,058,044,651 Web pages. There are encomiums to its founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who thought up the math behind Google as Stanford graduate students in the mid 1990s. There is information for investors — a reminder that, last year, Google’s IPO was the biggest Internet stock-market sensation since the dot-com crash of a few years ago. Last Friday, Google’s stock closed at $199.97 — quite a leap from its $100 opening in August.

Google, like the Internet, has made our lives easier and arguably better. For many of us, it’s impossible to imagine having to return to a time when we couldn’t find almost any piece of information instantaneously. But we’re paying a price for that. We’re paying with our privacy, our identity. For someone determined to look, there are no secrets anymore.

Sometime late tonight, someone, somewhere, will visit Google or Yahoo! or MSN or whatever and start searching for something he hopes no one will ever find out about. But he is being watched. Not by humans. Not in such a way that his search can be automatically traced back to him. Still, it’s all being recorded, and the pieces are there, so that someday, someone with the necessary incentive, skill, and legal authority can put them all together and figure out who this person is. Perhaps a life will be saved. Perhaps a life will be ruined — tragically, unnecessarily. But that’s the nature of the new world in which we live.

It’s a chilling reality.

Dan Kennedy can be reached at dkennedy@phx.com. Read his Media Log at BostonPhoenix.com.

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Get a Gmail Invite

2006-02-02T03:31:18Z

http://nicktech.blogspot.com/2006/02/free-gmail-invites.html#links
In case anyone whos viewing needs one

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Transferring To Gmail

2006-01-17T23:40:47Z

Seems to be a couple of ways to migrate to the Gmail.
This makes sense because Gmail is all about store vast amounts of email and using their search tools.

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trouble today?

2006-01-05T22:48:08Z

anyone else having trouble logging in?

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Want more invites?

2005-10-08T05:31:46Z

I've noticed a direct link between sending feedback and the number of invitations I can give out. You folks should try it too.

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undo archive???

2005-09-12T02:43:13Z

i accidentally hit select all and archive

i lost my most recent 100 emails.

wher are they?

how do ii get them back in my inbox?

please help!!!

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No sending mp3s?

2005-05-25T23:44:27Z

Really? I have not been able to send or save as drafts mp3s. What's up with that?

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What's Your G?

2005-05-24T23:30:26Z

Wanna share your Gmail address?

I'm funnypages@gmail.com

if you use gmail...just use 'funnypages'

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beta forever?

2005-02-05T05:27:33Z

i know that when they released it, there were only a few specific avenues in which you could subscribe.

is gmail ever going to come out of beta testing and are they ever going to "officially" come out and allow people to sign up? or do you think they will continue using the existing users as invitees?

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Talking Gmail

2005-02-05T02:12:17Z

I'm working on a way to make Gmail talk.
Maybe just alert and say the email headers.
But maybe more.

I know Microsoft Agent fairly well.

and there is Elvis at http://www.naturalvoices.att.com

but look at http://vhost.oddcast.com

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Gmail Mailing Lists - Group Contacts

2005-02-05T02:10:02Z

Gmail doesn't support Groups in your Contacts, but you can use a work around to hack a "Group List" by doing the following:

Create a new Contact and name it something like "Tribe Friends"

In the "E-mail" field, enter your list of email addresses in the following format:

hackerfriend@gmail.com>,<abnegative300@hotmail.com>,<carolyn@hotbabe.com

Cafeful to remember this:
--> You must enter ">,<" (without the quotes) between all addresses

--> Be sure NOT to include a leading "<" or trainling ">". This is intentional, because during auto-complete, Gmail adds these characters to the beginning and end of the full string that is in the e-mail field.

--> Also, there should be no spaces in the string.

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lists vs. subfolders

2005-02-05T02:02:19Z

bear with me please, i'm much much more used to using Outlook.

I would like the opportunity to move stuff out of my inbox if it's from one person or a tribe, etc. i haven't found a way to make mail show up only in a label and not in the inbox, and also haven't found a way to make folders. is there a workaround for this?

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google Vs NewYork times

2004-12-12T05:26:37Z

google will be our superBro.
do you mind?
http://letitblog.com/epic

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Gmail Hacks Itself

2004-11-25T14:11:46Z

I logged onto gmail this morning (11/25/04)
to find THIS!....

https://gmail.google.com/?dest=http%3A%2F%2Fgmail.google.com%2Fgmail

Welcome to Gmail

A Gobble approach to email.

In 1621, a few hundred Pilgrims and Native Americans sat down to celebrate a bountiful harvest. The feast lasted three days, and included fowl, venison, fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, and plums. There was no pumpkin pie, however. There was also an alarming lack of user-friendly webmail services.
Now, 383 years later, it's once again time to celebrate what has come to be known as Thanksgiving—a time to gather with family and friends and give thanks for all that we have. We have many things to be thankful for. But mostly, we are thankful for you—our users—who remind us of why we work so hard all year and why we love what we do. That's better than all the dried fruit and clams in the world.
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for making our approach to email yours.
Gobble gobble,
The Gmail Team
Gmail Sign In
Gmail does not currently support your browser.
See browser requirements for Gmail
or sign in anyway.

Learn more about Gmail.

A few words about privacy and Gmail.

©2004 Google - Privacy Policy - Program Policies - Terms of Use

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Wanna talk more about Gmail Hacks

2004-11-16T09:24:38Z

Hi members i came to know about a forum which is dedicated to Gmail and Orkut. Jst join the Forum and share ur feelings about gmail and orkut. You will also get free invitations of gmail and orkut from the members of the forum. Lots of softwares related to gmail are posted there and will be posted in future. Also u will come to know about the latest hacks about Gmail and u can post ur own. On successful completion of certain posts u will also be eligible for free WebHosting, Apple's Ipod and lots more attractive prizes.

So plz kindly join

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It's ok if u don't use the refer link. But i will appreciate your move
if u will signup through this refferal link.

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auto archive by date?

2004-10-18T17:31:23Z

i'd like to be able to automatically archive any conversations idle for more than 3 days... anyone know of how to do this?

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Pop Goes the Gmail

2004-10-17T18:42:45Z

http://jaybe.org/info.htm

"Pop Goes the Gmail is a program that sits between the http://gmail.com web server and your email client, converting messages from web format into POP3 format that a program such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird can understand."

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multiple contacts filter

2004-10-08T17:45:59Z

to create a filter for multiple contacts use "|" (w/o quotes) between the email addresses. i.e.:

pam_@hotmail.com|hacker1_@yahoo.com|wired_@yahoo.com

works great for grouping different contacts to one label, etc.

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Keep track of your Tribes with Gmail

2004-08-28T13:36:20Z

What I did was when back thru my settings and set certain Tribes to send a Digest. Now I should be able to filter and label them.

I can use this to quickly catch up on some of the Tribes I don't visit often.

Plus I can now SEARCH all those postings for words and names. Is that sexygal over in The Older Women for Younger Men Tribe talking about me again? -- Now I can search and find out.

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Blog

2004-08-19T14:25:38Z

I'm playing with a blog about this...

http://funnypages.blogspot.com/

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Sort Unread Mail

2004-08-17T12:50:33Z

Because Gmail allows 1 Gig of mail, your Inbox will become cluttered eventually - beyond anything you imagine now.

Unless you are filtering and have a label for everything you will have alot of read mail mixed with the unread mail. Here's how to make sure the new stuff gets your attention:

First create a Label named unread. It can only be named "unread" because Gmail Automagically then puts your unread messages under that label.

Once you click on an unread message and read it, it disappears from the unread label.

Next

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Use a plus for filtering - FEATURE not a Hack

2004-08-15T20:00:34Z

If your gmail account is
myname@gmail.com
you should be able to use the PLUS method

Try changing your Tribe settings to MyName+tribe@gmail.com

Now you can set up a filter and direct all you tribe mail to where ever you want.

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Use a dot for filtering - FEATURE not a Hack

2004-08-15T14:23:12Z

If your gmail account is
myname@gmail.com
you really got more than that.

You can also use My.Name@gmail.com

This is useful if you set up a filter and use/give this form of your email address for certain contacts.

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GMail instant messaging?

2004-08-15T13:43:34Z

I've seen a couple of attempt to hack gmail into a (kinda slow) instant messenger.

looking for hooks & pipes

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Viewing the JavaScript Code

2004-08-05T13:58:09Z

You can view the GMail javascript code by logging in to GMail and doing a view-source. Inside that source you should see a link near the bottom that looks like this:
/gmail?view=page&name=js&ver=9b13d59dd3d703c3
now just add gmail.google.com in front of that

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Compose Special Messages with JavaScript

2004-08-05T13:44:08Z

This creates a new message for gmail.

javascript:u=location.href;t=document.title;s='';x=document;y=window;if(x.selection){s=x.selection.createRange().text;} else if (y.getSelection){s=y.getSelection();}else if(x.getSelection){s=x.getSelection();} d='http://gmail.google.com/gmail?view=cm&cmid=0&fs=1&tearoff=1'; if(t){su=t;}else{su=u;}d=d+'&su='+escape(su);if(s){d=d+'&body='+escape(u)+escape('\n\n')+escape(s);}void(window.open(d,'gmail','toolbar=no,width=700,height=700'));

details and demo at
http://trenchant.org/plugins/

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Compose Mail

2004-08-01T15:21:26Z

Right now if you click on a mailto: link, your local email cliet opens up, right.

But what if you want to use your Gmail?

Some Hackers have figured out a way...

http://www.rabidsquirrel.net/G-Mailto/

G-Mailto is a utility that automatically associates "mailto" email links on the web with GMail. This will open up the GMail compose window instead of opening up something like Outlook Express that doesn't work with GMail (yet).

If you are not logged in, it will bring you to the GMail login screen and redirect you to the compose window after you log in.

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Gmail as an online backup system

2004-08-01T15:09:48Z

With all that space why not back up parts of your system?

lo-tech way would be to email the files to yourself as attachments.

Or check out http://ilia.ws/archives/15_Gmail_as_an_online_backup_system.html

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Not really Hacks...

2004-08-01T14:53:06Z

There are a few things that aren't really hacks, but useful anyway.

After we get gmail setup, all the old email messages transfered and _a notification system setup we will be good to go.

check
http://torrez.us/archives/2004/05/23/272
for the taskbar notifier-thingy

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