Archive for the 'Gmail' Category

Gmail: You have been signed out of your account

Have you encountered this message in Gmail or any Google product you know you are logged in? You might have panicked the first time you saw it, and even felt disappointed once you read what Google says what it is.
Symptoms: Your Chat window shows this error:
‘Chat is disabled. You have been signed out of Gmail. You [...]

How to Change Theme in Gmail

I was just chatting with my friend an hour ago in Gmail when I noticed the borders turned to a darker shade of blue, and the edges got sleeker. I immediately asked my friend if he noticed any difference with his Gmail, and he said no. I told him what I saw and won’t believe [...]

Gmail Logs Activity Information

“Oh no! I forgot to sign out from my friend’s PC!!!”
Has it happened to you? Well if you have closed the browser, there’s no need to worry, but what if you have not? And worse, what if you have clicked ‘remember me in this computer’ before you have signed in?
So, if the owner of that [...]

Enable Gmail Labs Features

Do you constantly check your inbox for new emails? Or compose messages every five minutes? Or chat with your co-workers, and with friends endlessly? In short, do you admit that you are an email addict? Well then, there’s no doubt you need to take a break in using your Gmail. Grab some soda, or chips [...]

How to Import Your Yahoo! Address Book to Gmail

I was once an active user of Yahoo Mail, until I switched to Gmail a year ago. Since most of my friends only send a bunch of chain mails, I didn’t thought of bringing my Yahoo Address Book to my Gmail account. I didn’t want to receive senseless emails in my Gmail anyways, even though [...]

What’s up with Google?

Gee.. it has been 18 days since I posted an article for GM. My bad… but I was busy doing some offline work. Anyways, since you haven’t heard from me for a long time–with just one post within a month–I guess I owe you updates. So, here’s a wrap-up of what’s interesting about Google last [...]

How to Block a Sender in Gmail

If you are receiving messages from someone you want to ignore, and marking their messages as a spam won’t do, then ask Gmail to automatically delete their messages as it arrive in your inbox. Here’s how:

Simply mark the checkbox next to the kind of message you want to ignore forever.

Then go to the ‘More Actions’ [...]

How to Change Gmail Password

Before, this was also a puzzle to me. But after I figured how to do it, I felt like an expert in Gmail. Well, just kidding. Yet I was really happy sharing this to my friend when he was asking how to change his password. Changing the password in Gmail is really just a simple [...]

A Creative Russian Gmail Ad

A few days ago, I was busy browsing videos about Google in YouTube, and found an interesting Gmail advertisement created by the Google Team from Moscow, Russia. It seemed they had wasted their time considering all the technology available right now, but for me the team did an amazing, brilliant job!
And when I just woke [...]

How to be Invisible in Gmail Chat

I really wanted an invisible mode feature in Google chat since I started using it. It’s obviously not all the time I wanted to show to my chat friends that I am online. But since there was no option to be invisible in Gmail chat, I should either be online and get distracted with unwanted [...]