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Posts Tagged ‘Gmail’

Gmail Attachment Alert: Another Reason to Love GMAIL

By Shayan Khan • Mar 14th, 2010 • Category: Technology

From previewing the text, XML, PDF and other file formats to security to drafts to everything, Gmail is the darling and it has really made email a fun, when everybody is twittering, facebooking and googling.
How many times is it that you composed an email to send your CV to employer. You wrote cover letter in [...]



Gmail will Kill Facebook and Twitter

By Sumaira Bajwa • Feb 10th, 2010 • Category: Technology

Google may be adding new social features to Gmail that would allow users to more quickly and easily share status updates and media the Wall Street Journal reports, citing ‘people familiar with the matter.’
Gmail’s new feature would make it ‘a little more like Facebook,’ says the Wall Street Journal’s Jessica Vascellaro (see video below). ‘Google [...]



Facebook’s Project Titan: A Full Featured Webmail Product

By Sumaira Bajwa • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Technology

Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it’s known as Project Titan. Or, unofficially and perhaps over-enthusiastically, the Gmail killer.
Facebook messaging has been the bane of users’ existence for years. My first [...]



Google Chrome + Gears : I dont Need Windooze

By Sharafat • Jul 16th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Well strip out the windows, have a personal machine, personal  in the real sense and enjoy the computing. Take back your machine from the Micro$oft and that is courtesy to another giant and future monopolistic (perhaps) Google. Their new browser, Google Chrome OS has all the bells, whistles, ammo and weapons and smoke to blow [...]



Google Outage : Lessons Learned

By Sumaira Bajwa • May 17th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Well, the world panicked as the single point of failure in the Internet failed. Google failed for a while and people were unable to access the Gmail, Analytics, Docs and many other of the services. The source of the disruption? A system error that sent a bunch of Google (GOOG) Web traffic to Asia and [...]



Iranians defeat Yahoo Mail!

By Kourosh Ziabari • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

It occurred in November 2007 when the Yahoo governors attempted to remove the name of Iran from their supporting countries in signup page lists using the pretext that US imposed some sanctions on the country.
While it was already announced officially that the US exports to Iran has became tenfold despite of [...]



Gmail Blog’s Birthday in Pakistan Too

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Misc

When we launched the Gmail blog exactly one year ago, our goal was to provide you with new feature announcements, insight into how the Gmail team works, and tips on how to become a Gmail ninja. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading our posts, and to celebrate our birthday, here’s a look back at the past [...]



Think Wise, Act Absurd

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I was checking out my email in the Gmail inbox, when I came across the following
Quote of the Day by  Anatole France - “It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
 
That has got me in a jam. Mian Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari are thinking wisely and in that [...]



Eyewashing is Over

By Ali Yar Khan • Mar 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics

I was checking my mail at the fantastic gmail account, when at the top, I saw this quote:
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
That should be the mantra which needs to be told to our newly elected leaders. Since 18th February, we have heard enough rhetoric and [...]



Play your mobile a notch higher

By The Pakistani Spectator • Apr 19th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Every thing has evolved and the seemingly small global village has gotten even smaller. The Google Maps mobile application enables finding your way from one location to another pretty much a one click job. For us in Pakistan though we cannot enjoy the whole idea yet we can always take a look at our town [...]