Oct 11
I don’t really put much thought into e-mails. Some notes are quickly sent without any salutation, a few are carefully crafted but most of my e-mails just start with Hey or a person’s name. Am I being judged for my e-mail salutation? More »
Oct 11
The next Gmail app for Android will have new features, according to a video posted at Android Police. The new app will support pinch-to-zoom, one of the most requested features. Also added into the mix is swiping to archive and delete items, letting you simply flick away messages as you scroll through your inbox.
As you can see on the screenshot below, you can choose what action to apply to the new swiping feature, either having it delete the message, archive or delete, or you can disable the feature if you’re concerned about an accidental swipe sending a message to the trash unbeknownst to you. The default setting is “Archive or Delete.” In the default setting, swiping a message in the inbox will automatically send it to archives, while swiping a message in Sent or All Mail will send it to the trash.
The last new feature is the ability to report an email as phishing. These build on the features that were added to previous versions of Gmail for Android, which included easier access to recent labels, swiping to flip between conversations, notifications for individual labels, and offline syncing for up to 30 days of messages. Presumably, Gmail 4.2 will bring about some bug fixes, as well, as did 4.0.
This is a leaked version of the app. When Google releases it, you’ll be able to update your current Gmail app from your smartphone via the Play Store. If the leaked app is released in the wild, you’ll be able to run it if you have a rooted phone running at least Ice Cream Sandwich. Until either of these things happen, we’ll just have to be patient while dreaming of pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-delete goodness.
[via Android Police]
Gmail 4.2 for Android brings pinch-to-zoom is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Oct 11
Who would have thought of marrying knowledge from more than 60 years ago with modern communications – through the clever implementation of an unbreakable cipher from World War 2 into emails. The Vernam cipher was developed all the way back in 1917 by AT&T engineer Gilbert Vernam alongside U.S. Army Captain Joseph Mauborgne, where this cipher was used to protect relayed data in the second World War. Captain Mauborgne further strengthened the cipher through the implementation of genuinely random keys which will not repeat, and Singaporean company Rune Information Security Corp. decided to be inspired by his work by delivering an e-mail encryption system that they call Deadbolt.
The Deadbolt system comprises of a USB stick which will plug into your Mac or PC, where all that is required after that would be a few clicks in order to secure data, and it can be used with either the common OpenPGP encryption or the Vernam cipher. Email is not the only thing it secures, as your Facebook, Skype, Gmail and LinkedIn messages will also fall under a similar umbrella of protection.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Surge in Yahoo Mail Spam?, Sony Pictures France hacked,
Oct 09
Gmail has had an automatic message translation feature for awhile, but now it’s really stepping up its game for multilingual users. The popular email service has added more than 100 virtual keyboards, transliteration and IMEs to help you communicate in as many as 75 languages, which is a quite the improvement over the five languages it supported before. Simply enable “input tools” in Language under Settings, and you’ll see an Input Tools drop down in your toolbar. Select the language you want, and away you go. You can also add the Input Tools function elsewhere via a Chrome extension, a Windows desktop client, or an Android app. Now, if only Google would sort out your upcoming exams in Chinese 201…
Gmail goes multilingual with Input Tools, now supports 75 languages originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Oct 01
As Google continues to improve other areas of its broad ecosystem, it’s always great to see that the company hasn’t abandoned its search simplification roots. A spokesperson for the company told us, “we recently added the ability to search within Gmail attachments as part of our ongoing efforts to improve search.” This potential time-saver plays nice with Word docs, PDFs, PPTs and many other file extensions. Currently in its infancy, some of your older attachments may not have been indexed yet, so you might not be able to “share” last year’s term paper with your younger sibling until Google brings the feature up to speed. However, if you’re just looking to locate that recently received Word doc filled with notes from your study buddy, then have at it.
Gmail now searches attachment text, homework hoarders rejoice! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Oct 01
Early iOS 6 adopters report problems getting Exchange push email: are you affected?
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We all know about the central issue surrounding iOS 6. For the suits and ties among us, however, there’s a potentially more glaring problem with Exchange support. Some users quick to upgrade to Apple’s latest mobile OS report losing automatic push delivery of their email, requiring that they check for themselves to get any fresh messages. The issue isn’t carrier- or device-specific, and attempts to reboot, reconfigure or restore devices are at best temporary fixes: what flows smoothly at first runs dry several hours later. Apple technicians are aware that the flaw exists, but it’s tough to know if and when engineers will have a fix — the company typically waits until it has a solution in hand before it goes on the record. We’ve reached out to Apple for a possible comment all the same. In the meantime, let us know if your Exchange access (or push data as a whole) is going awry.
[Thanks, Daniel]
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio/Video, Tablets, Mobile
Early iOS 6 adopters report problems getting Exchange push email: are you affected? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep 30
The Head of Homeland Security Stays Secure by Not Using Email, At All [Cybersecurity]
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If you’re super concerned about cybersecurity and keeping your information and personal rendezvous private, there are plenty of measures you can take. If you’re super hardcore, you can do the same thing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano does: just don’t use email. More »
Sep 24
The extremely popular and loved by many iOS and Mac email client Sparrow will be getting a much needed update soon. After being acquired by Google we later learned the popular app would get a feature freeze, and no further updates would be coming with what they called a ‘bug fix only’ status. Today however we learned of an upcoming update many Apple fans should be excited to hear about.
The popular app will be getting a much needed update that will allow for full iPhone 5 and iOS 6 support. Today the Sparrow founder Dominique Leca posted a quick tweet to his Twitter page that should ease the minds of all those who’ve recently upgraded to an iPhone 5 and was worried that larger screen wouldn’t get the proper support.
He was rather brief sadly and only mentions that “iPhone 5 support is coming soon to Sparrow” but didn’t give any further details or dates. A recent update for Sparrow on Mac brought that lovely Retina and OSX Mountain Lion support, so this was expected in a way — even after the acquisition by Google.
The Sparrow team was originally acquired to help achieve a bigger vision and improve Gmail but it looks like they’ll still be doing a little here and there for Sparrow on the iPhone. While we probably shouldn’t expect new features from them, little updates like supporting the latest and greatest smartphone from Apple should be included — and we’re glad to see that coming. Do you still use Sparrow for your go to email client?
[via TheNextWeb]
Sparrow iPhone 5 support coming soon is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sep 14
Recently some iClouders have been having trouble with the service’s email. The downtime made a bit of a mess for the roughly two million users it affected, but now Apple has apologized, and assured everyone that all the screwed up emails have made it through now. More »
Sep 11
Stroke can be quite a disabling disease if it is a serious case, and for those who have had the language centers of their brain impaired, even everyday things that we used to take for granted such as writing or typing e-mails end up being difficult tasks. Since necessity is the mother of all invention, an enterprising inventor decided to take one of Microsoft’s Kinect systems and developed an email interface based on it, so much so that his mom, a stroke victim, is able to send simple emails to her friends as well as family. You can view the hacked Kinect system in action above.
Chad Rubles is the brain behind this idea, where he did a dry run with an Arduino-based physical interface initially, but decided to throw in a more digital side to the system by creating a “Kinectified” software interface instead. The user interface has a virtual dashboard that carries with it a host of emoticons, a series of level or intensity buttons, and a green arrow and red X. You can then choose from one of the current crop of nine emotions, and when you arrive at the level of said emotion, generate and send the e-mail with said arrow. The red button refreshes the dashboard, and simple gestures are all that is required to get the job done. Nifty, no?
Microsoft’s Kinect system does seem to be one of the more flexible systems out there to be tinkered with, don’t you think so?
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Kinect turns Google’s Gmail Motion April Fools joke into reality , Nissan rolls out Kinect-powered showrooms across the US,
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