Keep Your Notes in Gmail

December 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment

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Use Gmail?  If you do, you have a free cross-platform, accessible anywhere-you-have-access-to-the-web perfect place to keep your lists. 

When I say lists, I mean the important ones.  There are plenty of useful programs and services for keeping track of the old to-do list.  I’m talking about the real ones like grocery lists, and errand lists and the “honey do” lists.

Just start a new message, give it a title, no addressee necessary, type your list and when you’re finished save it as a draft.  Your list will always be available from a computer on the internet as well as your Blackberry, G1 or iPhone. 

If you don’t use Gmail, you should.  Sign-up for it here.

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Lazy Gmail Replies – Use Canned Responses

October 23, 2008 By 2 Comments

gmail_logoIn retrospect, I’m still kind of annoyed at myself for writing about the recent Gmail feature Gmail Goggles — it really was kind of stupid (it challenges you with math problems if you try and send emails late at night when you might be worse for alcohol).

I hope I don’t feel the same way about Canned Responses.  This new feature to Gmail is available through the Labs menu which showcases new “experimental” features that you can use in your Gmail.

It allows you to save standard replies that you can give to your Gmail message.  While I can’t see this feature being very useful in personal email.

“Thank you for your proposal of marriage, but…”

More useful might be if you use your Gmail for your business and need to send any kind of repetitive messages, like the kind that are often used in customer service situations.

More about Gmail Canned Responses[via WebMonkey]

Comment about whether Canned Responses is as stupid as Gmail Goggles.

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Zoho Mail – Lots to Like

October 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment

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You’ve probably noticed that here in Enquiring Mimes-land we like Zoho.  They have built a great suite of free web products and they keep offering something new.  They have just plugged one of the largest holes in their productivity suite by releasing Zoho Mail.

With their obvious competition with Google and Google Docs, Zoho need to provide their users the kind of mail support offered by Gmail and in many ways they have bested Gmail, by providing functionality that includes the best of webmail and the best of traditional email readers like Outlook.

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It used to be called dialing while drinking

October 7, 2008 By 2 Comments

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Now the problem is emailing while drinking.  Nothing can be worse than having a couple of martinis with the folks from work and deciding it’s finally time to send an email to an ex- or to finally set the boss straight.

The Google gang has come to your rescue with Google Goggles.  If you choose to use this functionality in your Gmail (it’s in the Labs menu), when you try and send an email at a suspicious time on say a Friday or Saturday night (this is configurable), you’ll be asked a series of small math problems (you can set the difficulty) that have to be successfully answered before the message will be set.

If you keep the difficulty set to low, you’ll have no problem answering the questions without a calculator, but it will stop you long enough to think – do I really want to send this note?

Via webmokey

Also, if you don’t keep up with slang – “Beer Goggles” is an expression meaning that possible “romance” may set in later in the evening when other people start to look better to you as a result of your imbibing a few beers.

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