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Now that I am done with my finals at MC IIUM, I can concentrate on my blog. My exams went well, I hope the results will be good too.

Okay back to Gmail, since I started my free backlinks giveaway contest, I have been getting lots of emails in my Gmail. Since these emails are all contest related, they contain review links in them. So they were kinda “to-do emails”. I had to find a solution to arrange them properly and to mark them, which one is done and which one is to be published in the next batch.

I think I found a solution, at least it’s working for now. Here is what I did:

• 1. Created a filter (Gmail’s replacement for folders) with the name “Free Backlinks”.
• 2. Marked all contest related emails with the above filter.
• 3. Star‘red the emails which had to be published (when they are done, I removed the stars).

This simple procedure allows me to keep track and manage all my contest related emails. All happens right inside Gmail, I don’t have to use some other to-do related software. I thought I would share it with you, do let me know if you use Gmail for things other than email (besides using it as a back-up repository).

Often times, I find myself reading my emails (Gmail) then I want to delete it and go directly to the next one. Unfortunately this is not possible in Gmail. So I have to delete the email, and Gmail would take me back to my Inbox and from there I have to click on the next email to read the contents.

I believe this usability problem could be avoided by just introducing one more button “delete and next” inside the email page. When pressed it would delete the current email and go directly to the next, without going back to Inbox.

Did you notice this usability issue with your Gmail? Or is there a workaround for this that I don’t know? Please let me know if there is.

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.

New Yahoo!Mail which is in it’s beta version is much like Outlook Express. It is divided into three sections: Folders, Email Headers, and Preview Pane. Once you click on the email title it will automatically load the email into the preview pane. Everything is very easy and fast now; compose, reply, and attachements are done on the fly, as opposed to reloading the whole page previously.

If you want to try it out for yourself, you can sign up for it here.

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

That’s right www.30gigs.com is giving away 100% 30GB email. Yes, that’s a lot more than your gmail account. I guess they got the idea of invitation only registration from Gmail, here are some links where you can get your invitations www.30gigs.com/invite/

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.