Gmail

Macworld's Gmail Coverage

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  Review: Google Gmail e-mail software Google's Gmail is a lot like Google's Web search: simple, no frills. But Gmail has a nice feature set that makes it a nice choice for online email—as long as you don't mind the contextual ads that Google displays on the Gmail Web page.
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  Share a common Gmail inbox If your company or department uses a single Gmail address that needs to be monitored by multiple people, there's a Google Apps add-on that can make that happen.
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  Gmail's 'Bob' features help you avoid e-mail blunders Google's Gmail service has enabled two new features that prevent you from sending a message to the wrong person and forgetting to include someone on the senders list.
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  How to make Gmail work well with Mail Apple's Mail and Gmail don't get along very well, as anyone who has tried to use the latter with the former knows. They each take very different approaches to managing e-mail, but with a little configuring and planning, you can work out the kinks.
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  Google trots out Gmail feature to auto-label Google will start a public test of a new Gmail feature that will automatically label certain types of mass and automated e-mail so that users can more easily recognize and assign proper priority to them.
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  Google Gmail is back -- except for power users Google said that Gmail service has mostly been restored some four days after an outage -- except to those heavy users with "very large" inboxes.
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  Google still working to restore Gmail service Two days after tens of thousands of Google Gmail users lost their e-mail, chat histories and contacts due to a buggy software update, the problem still is not fixed.
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  Google adds pop-up alerts to Gmail People who use Gmail with the Chrome browser can now be notified via desktop pop-up alerts whenever they receive a new e-mail or chat message.
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  Google Cloud Print lets you print GMail content from your mobile device AirPrint may not be ready for primetime, but that's not stopping Google from coming up with its own competing service called Cloud Print.
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  Choosing between MobileMe and Google MobileMe and Google offer similar capabilities, but which one is better? While there’s no single answer that’s right for everyone, Joe Kissel offers several factors to keep in mind when making your decision.
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  Sync data using MobileMe or Google As soon as your collection of Apple devices running OS X or iOS expands to two or more, the issue of syncing personal data is bound to come up. Joe Kissel looks at how to make it work with both Apple's $99-a-year MobileMe and Google's free services.
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  Google to let Apps admins disable 'conversation' mode Google Apps users will be able to turn off Gmail's contentious ""conversation" view which consolidates e-mail threads in a single inbox entry.
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  Tweak Gmail Priority Inbox to include filtered e-mail Gmail's Priority Inbox learns what mail is important to you and floats it to the top of your inbox. But what about messages that you've created filters for? PCWorld's Rick Broida shows you how to tweak Priority Inbox to include filtered messages.
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  Gmail glitch resends messages multiple times Gmail users are complaining that Gmail is resending some messages multiple times to recipients.
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  Voice calling coming to Gmail? You may be able to dial phone numbers and carry on voice conversations directly through Gmail Chat as early as Wednesday if rumors of a Google announcement pan out.
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  Google improves Gmail contacts manager Google is rolling out improvements to Gmail's contacts manager, the component of the webmail service that users like the least.
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  Gmail signatures get fancy with rich text editor Tired of your bland plain text Gmail signature? Gmail signatures now support rich text format. Here's how you can transform your contact information into an eye-catcher.
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  Five things to do before leaving for vacation Heading out of town? Take care of a few critical tasks--from backing up your data to setting up remote access--and you can leave your desk behind without a second glance.
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  iOS 4 adds support for Gmail archive feature Instead of irrevocably deleting e-mail, Gmail introduced a unique archive option when it debuted in 2004. Most e-mail clients don't play very well with it, but Apple made the effort in iOS 4 to officially support archiving messages with Gmail.
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  Drug-dealing spammers hit Gmail accounts Google is investigating a growing number of reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate Gmail accounts and then using them to send spam messages.
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  Gmail spam uses fake addresses to spread malware Spammers are using fake Gmail accounts to clog up in-boxes, making Gmail.com the most abused domain name, according to Commtouch's quarterly report.
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  Gmail gains new iPad-friendly layout Opening Gmail on an iPad will result in a completely retooled layout designed specifically for Apple's new device.