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Gmail has increased the maximum size for attachments, it is now 20MB. It got a lot more easier to backup your blogs! I keep wondering what if one day Gmail crashes? And all the email data on Google servers (including the backups) are lost? Are you Gmail proof?

We tend to backup everything to Gmail, but have you thought of backing up your Gmail account? Are there any tools to do this? Do let me know if you know of any, I want to backup my Gmail (at least once ;)

Source: Gmail Help

If you are using Gmail you might have faced this problem -where you cannot find a particular email. Maybe you have forgotten to create a Label for it or maybe you didn’t create a Filter that auto-assigns the Label to the email. Whatever the reason maybe, if the email was not assigned Label to it and if it was an email that was received last year, your chances of finding that email will be really slim (unless you know the sender or the senders’ email).

For this reason I have contacted Gmail Team and suggested them a new feature - option to add custom tags to each email. This is how it could look (red text):

This would save time, and make searching and finding emails a lot easier and faster. For example if you receive one-time email from someone, you would just add a tag to that email instead of creating a Label exclusively for this one email.

Delicious.com uses tags to manage links - millions of them. I think it’s time for Gmail to introduce such a feature too. What do you think? I hope Google will consider this suggestion of mine.

Note: Yahoo has solved this issue already: view here.

In any business, in general over time people expect the services of the company and the features of the services to improve. And if it doesn’t then the customer starts to look for alternative companies that offer similar or better services.

Yahoo!Mail

I have been waiting for the attachment download feature of the Yahoo!Mail to improve for some time now. Unfortunately, Yahoo seems to be busy with other things. When these kind of small things that can be fixed easily are not fixed (maybe by one web programmer?) and when customers use them everyday, it can really get annoying. And ultimately the company could end up loosing customers - lots of them, and all because of what? All because of a problem that could be solved by one man.

Today I received an email with the following 5 attachments, see below.

As you can see, to download all the files I need to click one attachment at a time and download them Read more »

Here is an interesting tool to generate xml type of icons for all the email addresses (look to the sample above). click here

Another great feature from Gmail and yet another reason why you should get your own gmail account. This is good for those who have their own domain name. Basically what this feature does is that it gives you option to add your own-domain-name-email to your Gmail account, that means when you send out emails from your Gmail account people will still see your you@domain.com in the From: field rather than you@gmail.com. Here is how you can set up this feature.