Google has recently integrated AOL’s popular AIM instant-messaging service in to Gmail. Since February 2006, Gmail Chat is available and now Gmail users can get connected to AIM through a drop-down menu on the Gmail Web page. To try this, look for the big red banner on the top left when logged in to Gmail. In the right navigation, you could click on the upside-down triangle next to "set status here" in your Gmail chat and choose "Sign into AIM" from the drop down menu. Once you’ve got in your AIM log-in data, your AIM contacts would automatically appear intermingled among your Gmail contacts, and you could then select an AIM contact and chat with them directly. Google is on the way to roll out a fresh feature on the English version of Gmail; however other language version on Gmail will be available soon.

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Today I almost said Goodbye to spam in my Gmail account. Gmail is my favourite email service since it’s launch back in April 2004. The only thing I complain about Gmail is its User Interface. I didn’t mean their technology or features I mean their look. When it comes to GUI my vote goes for Yahoo! though I hate their banner ads and the text links. They are more keen to sell ads than to provide their email as a service. But Gmail considers their email as an addon or a service. Hence they use only text ads and no image ads too. I wont complain about that too as they are relevant to the topic.

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Wow it’s nice to see that Gmail is now offering 5 GB (or 5000 MB) of Free Web Storage. And hence it clearly beaten Windows Live Hotmail in storage. Microsoft earlier increased the free storage of Windows Live Hotmail from 2 GB to 5 GB. But still Yahoo! rules in terms of free space as it offers Unlimited amount of free space.

I’ve read that Gmail’s New Version Is Now Available. On reading that I checked my Gmail account after clearing all my Cache and Temporary Internet Files but it didn’t worked. And I found that it’s available to select users only. Then I found that someone from Digital Point posted the same. I created my Gmail account when they launched that service back in April 2004 itself. So the new version is not for available for old account. Then I checked one of my recently created Gmail account. Wow! It’s available for me. So if your Gmail account is a recently created one then the next version of Gmail is already available for you. I didn’t noticed this earlier as I’m forwarding all mails to this account to my default Gmail account.

What’s New In Gmail 2.0?

The basic look and feel remains the same but they added some new useful features. Now you can use your browser Back and Forward button to browse through various pages. That’s not all you can even bookmark specific emails. The Contacts manager have changed a lot. It has got a new look as shown below. Want to try the new Contacts manager? Try it here even if you use the old version of Gmail as it’s a different application. See the below screen shots for additional changes to Gmail.

More Gmail 2.0 Screen shots:

Gmail 2.0 Chat Options

Message Options

Select a Picture Options

Contact Options

Have You Ever Tried To Send An Executable File Using Gmail?

I guess your answer is Yes! If yes, then most probably you have come across the following message.

So I will tell you how to send an Executable File such as .EXE using Gmail. The easiest way to do so is by uploading the file to a Free Online File Hosting Service and then include the link in your email. So that the recipient can download the file from the link provided.

Sending An Executable File Using Gmail Hacks

It involves sending a file by changing its extension. So that Gmail never know that it is an executable file. WARNING: This method is against Gmail’s Terms and Conditions and they may terminate your account. But it works!

Simply follow the steps below,

First go to the Folder Options on your Windows Based PC and then Uncheck the option that says “Hide extensions for known file types” and click Apply (Just to see the current extension of the file). Now you can see the “.exe” text next to your file. Just rename that to another extension. For example JPG as shown below.

Now Compose your new email message by attaching the new renamed file. Click Send! And,

Related:

Google Adds Free IMAP Support To Gmail
Google Gmail Now Offers More Than 4 GB Of Free Storage
Gmail Is Going Offline

Better late than never! Google finally adds free IMAP support to Gmail (Learn how to set up IMAP). Don’t know what IMAP is? IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol which is the best way to access your emails from a third party Email client. It synchronizes your account information in an efficient way. Let’s say you read a new email using Gmail and then Starred that message from your iPhone and finally archived it from your Outlook Express. Now, check your inbox again using Gmail.com and see all those changes reflected in your account. Cool Isn’t?

More Insights:

Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP

For the past few years, we’ve offered POP access, which is similar to IMAP but lacks one critical feature: your changes made on other devices aren’t seen in Gmail when you log back in. Instead you are presented with a list of unread mail, and you must re-read and re-sort everything. For this reason, as soon as I started at Google, IMAP was one of the first things I asked about. Since then, I’ve seen countless blog posts, requests, chats, and just about everything else asking, “Are you guys ever going to do IMAP?” Well now I can say: Yes. Yes, we are doing IMAP. In fact, we are doing it for you for free on all devices and platforms.

Gmail Now Has IMAP Support

Once the configuration settings are changed, everything users do through e-mail on their iPhones and desktops will be immediately visible on the other device because the changes have been stored on a server. The feature works for several e-mail applications, including Outlook Express, Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003, Apple Mail, Windows Mail, and Thunderbird 2.0.

Gmail’s Latest Trick: IMAP, Therefore I Am

Google’s Gmail Web-based e-mail service is rolling out a terrific, free and overdue feature: The ability to synchronize your Gmail account to the desktop mail program of your choice. This includes more than just your inbox, such as all of your messages and all their labels, complete with records of which ones you’ve read, replied, forwarded or starred for follow-up.

On October 13th, I have posted that Google Gmail Now Offers More Than 3GB Of Storage but today Gmail hits 4000 MB or approximately 4GB Free Storage. So in less than 10 days we’ve got additional 1 GB of Free Storage. Many thanks to Google.

Moreover Google has increased the free storage quota for Google Apps users so now Google Apps Gmail now uses the Gmail’s storage counter. So now Google Apps basic users have over 3.5 GB of free online storage instead of 2 GB. And it’s increasing at at faster rate. It’s a welcome to Google Apps users as 2 GB is nothing for business users.

So, What’s Your Storage?