Google announced last week that they will start rolling out the ability of Google App Administrators to require a 2 step verification process for logging in. Many of us are used to this with company VPNs when using a RSA SecurID. Google is offering many options for the 2 step which is great. The […]
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Gmail Labs: Advanced IMAP Control
Gmail announces a new Lab feature for Advanced IMAP Controls. These new options will allow you to better control your IMAP experience down to the label level.
Read moreGmail introduces Mail Goggles
Do you have a tendancy of sending emails late at night that you really shouldn’t? Maybe after a long night out drinking? Well the Gmail team has just rolled out Mail Goggles which may come to the rescue. Once activate Gmail will prompt you with a couple simple math problems before an email can be […]
Read moreGoogle and Talk Like a Pirate Day
If you were not aware of it today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. To help ensure that Pirates can search for the content they are looking for online Google has added support for the pirate langauage to their search engine.
Read moreGmail: Forgotten attachment detector
This week Gmail made availible in the Labs one of the more helpful options, the Forgotten attachment detector. Atleast twice a month I seem to forgot to attach a file and it always seems to be one of those more important emails. Hopefully this will help.
Read moreGoogle Creates Comic Book to explain Chrome
Google released a comic book to help explain Chrome.
Read moreGoogle Launches New Browser – Chrome
Google recently announced the launch of their new browser. I downloaded it as soon as it was availible. I have been very impressed with it. I figure if I am running GMail, Reader, and Analytics in a browser I might as well do it in a browser designed by Google. Good to see some more […]
Read moreGmail and SSL
Google adds a new setting to Gmail to allow the user to specify that all their activity should be done over a SSL connection. You could change the URL before manually from http to https, but now you can have it done automatically. This allows you to encrypt the data the transfers between your computer […]
Read moreGMail Updates Contact Manager
One of the things I have found annoying with GMail is that it would automatically create contacts based on my email activity. I have ended up with a full contact manager that has some people in there many times. Well the GMail team announced today that you can now turn off the auto create function […]
Read moreGMail doing more to fight phishing
GMail has announced that they have rolled out stricter criteria for verifying emails from eBay and Paypal to ensure they are really coming from them. eBay and Paypal are now signing all their email with DomainKeys. GMail used to just display a message above the email warning you that the message may not be from […]
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