More than three years ago I got a Gmail account for no other reason than it was the cool thing to do. Gmail was in beta, invite only and fairly exclusive. The first month that invites started to be sent out, each user would get five to give to friends and family. [...]
After more than thirty minutes of seeing errors while trying to send a message in Gmail, whatever was ailing the server seems to have been fixed. Being that Gmail is still beta, it makes me reflect on an earlier article, what if Gmail shuts down. I rely on Gmail probably more than [...]
As of about 10:50am EST, Google’s web based email Gmail is dead is not responding. What makes it worse is that Google Groups are giving a 500 Internal Server Error when trying to view them. It took more than 10 minutes to get my email to load properly, trying to send a message [...]
AIM, also known as AOL Instant messenger, is still my instant message software of choice; I’ve been using it for what seems like forever and have several hundred contacts in it. Google’s Gmail has a chat feature built in, no need to download software, so this works in a pinch, but only if the [...]
For more then seven years now I have been using email hosted through one of my domain names, if not several. I made the move for several reasons, one of which was when I started photography on a more serious level; having a Hotmail account didn’t seem so professional. I enjoyed a spam [...]
Google has made some changes to their homepage, www.google.com/ig in the last few hours. I’m not sure yet if this has cached across the whole world, but here on the east coast of America it has. The Google Homepage allows users to login with their Google account (formally only known as a Gmail [...]
If you are not already using Firefox, get it, simple as that. The Gmail Space extension will load into your status bar and allow you to easily upload files to your Gmail account. With nearly 3GB of storage space, I find myself uploading common things I may need at home, work, and at friend’s houses, [...]