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This article was written on October 10, 2008 by CyberNet.

One thing Google has really done a good job of is implementing a few unique features into Gmail that other mainstream email services don’t offer. To give you an example, IMAP support. Of course some services do offer it, but many, especially those that are free, do not. Not only does Google offer IMAP support for free, they recently “Turbo Charged” it and have gone above and beyond what many ever expected them to do when they requested such a feature.

This new “Turbo Charged” IMAP Support allows you to, as Google describes it, “fine-tune your Gmail IMAP experience.” By fine tune, they mean, you have the choice over which labels you want to sync in IMAP. This is really helpful for those of you who have tons of labels, or you get a lot of one mail sent to one particular label. Choosing which labels you want synced is as simple as checking and unchecking boxes.

To access these advanced IMAP features, you’ll first have to enable “Advanced IMAP Controls” from the Labs section in Gmail. This is the same place you may have gone to enable those Google Goggles we talked about the other day. Once it is enabled, you’ll be able to go to your settings and configure everything the way you would like it to be.

Overall we’re impressed with this new Advanced feature! If you’d like to get more details about it, checkout the Gmail Blog to see what they have to say about it.

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This article was written on March 23, 2007 by CyberNet.

Keyboard shortcuts help perform tasks faster than normal, but one thing always seemed to be missing from my Gmail Inbox. I have always wanted a keyboard shortcut to delete email messages in Gmail and it looks like Digital Inspiration has found one.

Once you are either viewing a message or have a message checked, just press Shift+3 (that would correspond to typing the pound “#” sign) and the message(s) will instantly be sent to the trash. Despite Google not putting this in their list of keyboard shortcuts, this does indeed exist natively without any scripts or hacks.

This made me think about what other email solutions are using for keyboard shortcuts. Yahoo! mail cleverly uses the Delete key which is a lot more intuitive than Google’s. More Yahoo! mail keyboard shortcuts can be found here for those of you using that service.

Then there is Hotmail. I searched and searched for Hotmail keyboard shortcuts, but couldn’t find any documentation officially produced by Microsoft. The only thing that I could really find was a script that someone made to create shortcuts for deleting and moving to the next/previous message. This would require that you’re using a browser, such as Firefox (with Greasemonkey) or Opera, that can use custom scripts on a site-by-site basis.

Windows Live Mail, unlike Hotmail, does have a small amount of keyboard shortcuts available including the Delete key to trash messages. I was actually expecting Live Mail to have the most keyboard shortcuts out of any of the services, but it took me about 15 minutes to find the list of shortcuts and the result was disappointing.

So that kind of leaves Gmail as the odd one out of the bunch. They do have a keyboard shortcut available to delete email messages, but it is not intuitive like the one for Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Mail. I know that Google says you should never delete an email, but let’s face it, not every email is something we should keep forever.

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It had to happen. When Google showed off a new and revolutionary Gmail Motion control scheme yesterday, it failed to fool most people, but it didn’t fail to catch the attention of some motion control geeks with Kinect cameras on hand. Yep, the FAAST crew that’s already brought us a Kinect keyboard emulator for World of Warcraft has taken Google to task and actually cooked up the software to make Gmail Motion work. All your favorite gestures are here: opening an email as if it were an envelope, replying by throwing a thumb back and, of course, “licking the stamp” to send your response on its way. Marvelous stuff! Jump past the break to see it working, for real this time.

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On Monday, Google expressed its belief that its email users in China were experiencing “a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail.” Now, as is par for this thorny course, the Chinese state has come out with a terse rebuttal, saying simply that “this is an unacceptable accusation.” The retort was, says the BBC, part of a regular news conference on Tuesday and it doesn’t appear that any more time was spent on the subject. Which is odd since most people would tend to act to prevent something they see as unacceptable — but then we suppose China already has a pretty long list of folks it’d like to shut up, Google’s just gonna have to get in line and wait its turn. There’s a good citizen.

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Last week we noted, with a growing sense of disquiet, how China was busying itself with locking out VPN access within its borders and, seemingly, preventing people from using their Gmail accounts. Google has now given a public voice to those concerns, noting that “there is no issue on our side. We have checked extensively. This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail.” Other Google tools, like the Person Finder for Japanese tsunami survivors, have also exhibited intermittent issues. China’s goal in these attacks is reportedly to stifle online revolutionary chatter inspired by Egypt’s successful democratic revolt, though the nation’s said to be taking a more clandestine approach than previously by making its alleged sabotage appear like a software problem instead. Guess it’s time to prepare ourselves for another battle of wits between these two.

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