Mar 20
Microsoft might have succeeded in plugging a big leak in its Windows 8 department, but it might have unwittingly waded into a more shady legal department. Responding to concerns on … Continue reading
Jan 30
The email systems at Yahoo have been hacked this week and Yahoo has issued a warning to the public on how to make due with the situation. Starting with a … Continue reading
Oct 07
Providing free e-mail addresses is big business for many large web companies such as Google and Yahoo. The web giants don’t make money off e-mail addresses or the e-mail service itself, but they do make huge amounts of money by selling ad space inside the free e-mail services. You may recall that Yahoo found itself […]
Sep 13
Probably realizing that they can catch more fish with a bigger net, Microsoft announced the immediate availability of IMAP support for Outlook.com that will make Microsoft’s e-mail service compatible with countless applications. Outlook.com originally had only the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol, leaving out users who have their own favorite e-mail apps that do not have […]
Jun 19
Evernote Web Clipper’s new Gmail function saves copies of emails and attachments
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Keeping your Gmail account organized isn’t that hard when you can tag and star emails. Evernote Web Clipper’s new function, however, promises easier access to missives you deem particularly important. Once the Chrome extension is installed, it saves any message you want along with its attachments in just one click. One note, though: you’ll need a premium account to search through any attached documents. Note that the Gmail clip will look like a garbled mess (especially if it’s a lengthy thread) on Web Clipper’s preview screen, but on the Evernote app or web portal it will appear nicely formatted. If you think this new function can help you wrangle an increasingly unruly Gmail account, hit the source link below for more info or look for the extension on the Chrome Web Store.
Via: The Verge
Source: Evernote
Jun 17
Hotmail and Outlook.com have long supported linked email accounts for organizing messages. However, Microsoft now sees connected accounts as tempting targets for hackers — so tempting, in fact, that the company is severing those links as a safety measure. Within the next two months, Outlook.com will move to using its alias system as the only way to handle multiple accounts. Users will have options to forward email and send messages from other addresses, but they won’t get to control multiple accounts through one sign-in. Microsoft will start unlinking accounts in late July, so those who’d like a more orderly transition to the safer (if less convenient) approach will want to act quickly.
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft
Source: Outlook Blog
May 23
There have been calls for an iPad-native Mailbox app virtually from the get-go — some of us want to get to inbox zero on a bigger screen, after all. The team has clearly been listening, as the free Mailbox 1.3 update now supports Apple’s larger gadgets. While there isn’t much mystery in the new version for anyone who has used both Mailbox and other iPad email clients before, power users should appreciate seeing full messages while they swipe away at their inbox. We’re still waiting on Mailbox support for other platforms — and services beyond Gmail, for that matter — but iPad owners can get some satisfaction at the source link.
Filed under: Tablets, Internet, Software
Via: Mailbox, AllThingsD
Source: App Store
May 06
Google has updated its Gmail app for iOS with a feature that many users most likely have been begging for. The app now redirects links to other Google apps, such as YouTube, Google Maps, and Chrome. Any links that appear in an email in the Gmail app will automatically go to one of these three apps if installed on your iOS device.
iOS isn’t too friendly on letting users choose what app that links open in — iOS simply defaults to Safari and other default apps, which a lot of users don’t like particularly. However, Google seems to be taking matters into their own hands by adding the ability to choose whether or not links in emails in the Gmail app open up using one of Google’s other iOS apps.
You can choose these settings in the app by individually choosing whether or not you want a certain app to be used when opening up links. Previously, you want have to find a jailbreak tweak that could let you choose what app you wanted the link to open up in, and you still have to do that for some apps, but at least Google users can now have deeper integration in iOS.
This update comes after Apple cut ties with Google by removing the default YouTube app and Maps app from iOS 5 and replaced it with their own solution. Google eventually released native apps, like YouTube, Google Apps, and Chrome, all of which can be integrated with Gmail in this new update.
Gmail for iOS update links Google apps directly is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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May 03
Google has been increasingly integrating its services with one another more and more over the past year or so, but it seems that there’s always more integrating to do. The search giant has announced a new tweak in Gmail that lets users add events to their Google Calendar if Gmail detects a date or time in the email.
Any dates and times mentioned in emails will now be lightly underlined. Clicking on a date or time will pop up a box where you can schedule that meeting or coffee date and add it to your Google Calendar right from Gmail. It’s a simple feature, but knowing how many meetings are scheduled through Gmail, it could come in extreme handy.
The feature is only coming for US users at the moment, and it’s expected to roll out over the next week, so if you don’t see it pop up today, it may not get to you until later. As for those in other countries, Google says the feature will arrive for other languages sometime in the future, but no solid timeline was given, sadly.
This brings Gmail and Google Calendar even closer together, but frankly they need to be fully integrated with one another if Google wants to attract the minds of more business folks out there. Currently, many of the business-centric email clients like Outlook support email/calendar integration, but we think Google will eventually make this happen sooner or later.
Gmail tweak lets users add events straight to Google Calendar is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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May 02
Microsoft announced today that its slow transition from Hotmail to its new Outlook.com is now complete. Microsoft has replaced its aging Hotmail service with its new Outlook.com email site, moving over some 150 petabytes of emails and information is just six weeks, according to the company. It’s now official that Hotmail is dead.
Microsoft also boasts that 400 million users are now using Outlook.com, which seems like a crazy amount of users for such a new service, but it got off to the right foot when over a million users signed up for Outlook.com within the first few hours. Of course, that could’ve just been to reserve the username that they wanted so that no one else would take it.
Microsoft first launched Outlook.com over the summer last year as a new email service that would eventually replace Hotmail and open the doors for more features to be included. Case in point: Microsoft announced two new features on Outlook.com today. Users now have SMTP available, so it’s easier to send email from different email addresses, and there’s also deeper integration with SkyDrive.
SkyDrive integration is no surprise, as we knew it was bound to happen at some point, but this will give Outlook.com users the ability to save attachments directly to their SkyDrive, as well as easily attach files to emails that are in SkyDrive. This is essentially the same thing that Google does with their Gmail and Google Drive services. If you want to learn more about Outlook.com, you can check out our hands-on of the service.
Outlook.com transition complete: Hotmail is dead is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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