gMail and CloudMagic for Searching

Now that you’re using gmail, do you ever find yourself writing a message, but needing information from a previous message or from your Contacts? It can be annoying to save the current message as a draft, (1) or open a separate copy, (2) just so you can search (3) for what you need.

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Why gMail? Labels Not Folders

Labels in gMail

Most email applications let you set up folders for storing messages you want to save. You have to decide what category your message fits into, if you want to keep it (but not in the Inbox), make sure you have a folder with that name, and store the message there. Then, when you want [...]

Why gMail? Other eMail Addresses

Years ago I had a Hotmail address as well as an address based on my service provider and one for the institution I worked for. Three email addresses:

one I could open on any wired computer, as long as I remembered the exact address and my password for it (didn’t always happen),
another I could open on my [...]

Google Search Cheat Sheet

Want a quick and easy lesson in sophisticated searching? Check out, bookmark, and/or print outhttp://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html

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The Many Uses of Google Apps

I firmly believe that re-inventing the wheel (often done on the web) is superfluous, so when I find useful material, I don’t re-create it, I give credit and link to it.

Richard Byrne at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ has great, easy-to-understand information on what’s free on the web, aimed especially at teachers but useful for others too. One of his recent [...]

Google Search’s Market Share

Fascinating information about Google Search from TechCrunch – [...]

Adding Notes to Cloud-Stored Bookmarks

I like to save the URLs of sites or pages I might need in the future. Because I have had to change computers from work to home and because I’ve had computers crash and die, I like to keep my bookmarks in the cloud, that is, I like to use web applications to save my bookmarks, [...]

A Very Different Search Engine

Google is a good first place to search, but Wolfram Alpha goes places Google doesn’t, and you should add it to your searching strategy, especially if you’re a student, or engage in business transactions, or if you are just a curious person.

Actually, Wolfram Alfa calls itself an “Answer Engine” and that is accurate. You can ask [...]

gMail Labs – and “Canned Responses”

Sending the Same Message with Small Changes

When you want to send messages that are almost exactly the same to many people, but you want to make small changes, you could copy & paste and alter and send to individuals. Or you could use the Google Labs feature, Canned Responses.

Google Labs is found by clicking the icon of [...]

More gMail: Sending to Many People

Sometimes we need to send a message to many people, and gmail makes that easy. Here are two situations:

Sending the same message to a group of people and respecting their privacy; and
Sending the same message with some small changes for each person in a group of people.

Sending the Same Message to a Group of People and [...]