Random thoughts and observations
I’ve added three new Gmail Labs features to my Gmail account. They are: Default Text Styling: This enables a user to change the default font and text size. Got the wrong Bob? “Doh, have you ever addressed an email too quickly, and included Bob (your boss) instead of Bob (your friend) by accident? If you’re [...]
I’m sick of receiving spam emails claiming to be from the Commonwealth Bank. They have been flooding my ymail address for weeks and now they’re infiltrating my Google hosted email as well. I’m not even a customer of the Commonwealth Bank. But every message needs to be read and marked as spam, which wastes time [...]
I’ve picked up mgorey user names with Yahoo! and Windows Live to replace goreymedia and mjgorey (hotmail) respectively. That means my user name is now mgorey across all the major messaging services: Gmail, Yahoo (ymail), Skype and MSN (live). Full contact list here. I’m also experimenting with Nimbuzz, which aggregates IM accounts and makes them [...]
I just noticed my Gmail storage has increased to 7132MB. I’ve been hooked on Gmail for several years now and feel fortunate I got in early enough to register with a simple user name. I took the liberty then too of registering my children. They might thank me for it one day. Google Docs is [...]
Most Gmail users around the globe have commented already on Gmail being down for a few hours. Apparently Twitter was flooded with Gmail comments and on Google itself the system failure was one of the most searched terms over that period. For Australians, or me at least, it was only a minor inconvenience. I noticed [...]
