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As the iPhone evolves, so does Gmail

But none of the recently announced innovations are making my eyes light up like a kid first gazing on his Easter basket. First, from the Gmail Blog: Nested Labels and Message Preview. The Nested Labels thing actually did have me excited as though it were a chocolate egg or perhaps a Peep. But then I [...]

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Web Apps = Automatic Upgrades

While it wasn’t one of the major factors I talked about in my previous post, the following is a quick and easy example of another reason that webapps kick ass: No Upgrade Cycle Google launched Buzz 2 days ago, and already their making changes based on user feedback. But the best part is not that [...]

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Chrome v Firefox: FACE/OFF

So, I downloaded the Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 build since I saw a chart that showed how much faster it is than the version of FF I was running. Unfortunately, that same chart also showed how much faster Chrome 2 and Safari 4* were than even the Beta Firefox build. So I also downloaded the [...]

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Gmail’s Magic Inbox

Google Operating System has found some Gmail code that indicates the coming of a social inbox! So, not only will we have one inbox for Everything, but it’ll be organized by importance (or at least how important Google thinks things are).

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More Google Voice

Gina “Lifehacker” Trapani wrote a post about Google Voice on SmarterWare in which she says: Now that Google Voice supports SMS, you can send and receive text messages from your GV number as well, which is the last piece I needed to finally tell all my friends and family, “Here’s my new phone number.” She’s [...]

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One Inbox To Rule Them All

or: All Your Inbox Are Belong To Us So, there’s a thing called Google Voice (via TechCrunch). And to quote TechCrunch: Google also says that full integration with Gmail is coming, but won’t say when. Personally, having all my email, SMS and transcribed voicemails in a single inbox could be life-changing. Yes indeed. Of course, [...]

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Gmail Is My Home

Image via CrunchBase By disabling the Labs extensions and then reenabling the most important ones, I’ve managed to fix my issue with Gmail constantly resizing the inbox, and now have 4 different (lowercase) inboxes displayed one on top of the other: Inbox (for GTD style collection – even though my library still hasn’t gotten the [...]

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Multiple Inboxes almost allowed me some GTD-Fu

So, yesterday I set up additional mailboxes using Gmail Labs’ new Multiple Inboxes feature. Then I created a label called To Do and added “label:To Do” as one of my other inboxes (well, actually, my only other one). This slight tweak allowed me to move things from my capital-I Inbox to the To Do label, [...]

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