Day: July 7, 2008

Soruce :- Gmail BlogSpot

When we launched the Gmail blog exactly one year ago, our goal was to provide you with new feature announcements, insight into how the Gmail team works, and tips on how to become a Gmail ninja. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading our posts, and to celebrate our birthday, here’s a look back at the past year and a recap of our 10 most read tips:

10) Have Gmail do your laundry – How to suggest new features for Gmail. We always like hearing from you.

9) Tips for importing old email to Gmail – A post on how to make the switch to Gmail as seamless as possible.

8) Edit contacts right from your chat list – When we released the newest version of Gmail, it came with some new bells and whistles. This one will help you clean up your chat list and change contact information quickly.

7) 2 Hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address – You can insert certain characters to your email address to get additional names out of it — all of which still make it to your inbox.

6) How to find any email with Gmail search – To take the best advantage of Gmail search, we explain how to use search operators so you can find any email the first time.

5) 5 little-known Gmail features you may not yet know about – When we released the newest version of Gmail, there were a bunch of really useful features people didn’t yet know about. So we told you about them.

4) Top 10 little known Gmail features (and Part 2) – In this post, we explained ten Gmail features that people generally didn’t know about. From “custom from” to creating events in Gmail, this post goes over key features any serious Gmail user needs to know.

3) Getting Gmail anywhere: IMAP versus POP – A lot of people choose to get Gmail on mobile phones and destkop mail clients, so we went over the two most popular ways people do so and showed the key benefits of using IMAP — which we’ve provided for free since the fall.

2) 3 Gmail Labs features that will spice up your inbox – This post covers how to enable and use the most popular Gmail Labs features: Superstars, Pictures in chat and Quick Links.

1) 9 reasons to archive – From the sophisticated to the snarky, these tips fueled the most viewed post in Gmail blog history. If this doesn’t get you to archive, then we don’t know what will.

Thanks for reading this past year, and we hope to provide even more tips this year — so stay tuned