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- Jellybob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For the folks complaining about not having the new features yet, Google are probably doing the smart thing and rolling them out over a period of time - that way if anything turns out to break the server farm GMail doesn't go offline until they can get a few hundred servers rolled back.
- strangeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1direct link:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html - anthonyretro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"anyone who has gmail should probably try inbox.com you get 2 gig of free storage and that's without the advertisement (i think, i'd have to check to be absolutely sure)"
Actually, I like the ads. I just find it funny to see what advertisements show up for my email. When I'm writing a paper for a religion course and have to email it to my professor and I have an ad on the side saying that voodoo is real and here is why, I can do nothing but laugh. - Rosewood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Still no way to detach a conversation. Iow, newegg sends me a very similar email for every order I place and when I do a few close together, they all end up in one conversation. Blah!
Also, nested mode ftw. - howie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Declin, have you tried Opera Mini for mobile phones? It can log into Gmail.
- ChrisSoutham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Couldn't help but notice that 'Move to Trash' has changed to 'Delete' :)
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm about to stop using Gmail until they allow formation of contact groups.
- gllmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I didn't see the new features on my gmail account.
- revoked, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's funny because the RSS feature they say GOOG is copying from YHOO has been around for a very long time (my gf's gmail has had it for ever... but not mine... so sad)
- thatsiebguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing new in mine. I still don't have the RSS feature either.
- Bluezdood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm sorry but these new 'features' were rather anti-climatic. When Google makes a notifier that handles multiple accounts, then I'll get excited. Until then, I couldn't care less.
- CorpT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My wife has had the WebClips for a long time too, but I never have. Always thought that it was strange. Guess it was just some accounts and not others.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They finally started deleting my old e-mails last night too. I had about 30 from between two months and 10 months old and they were finally wiped out. If you hadn't noticed, there's always been a message at the top of the trash folder that says "Messages older than 30 days will automatically be deleted"
- dtbond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dont have any of the "new" features either
- incognegro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Someone I know who just got Gmail last week has the web clibs, but I have yet to get them and I signed up back in June '04.....wtf
- ((PolyAst)), on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Weird...
I've had the whole RSS Web Clips thing for months... Just go to your mail settings page. This is "attempting to mimic Yahoo!?" Big deal. Who needs it if you've already customized a Google IG homepage anyway? - maxlew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah am i the only one who can't see these updates
- samwyse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I, too, have had Web Clips for months now, tracking Engadget, Slashdot, Slate and Techbargains. (I guess I should add Digg to my list, since I spend more time here than on /.)
And a PS to chriskzoo: you can put information in the notes field for members of the group. Later, search your contacts for that data, do a "Select All" on the results, and hit "Compose". - trampish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had the RSS feature for several months now. I think they introduce features slowly, not all at once?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0REALLY old news. (all of it)
these features have been in the FAQ (and ive had them) for about 3 months. im guessing google just expanded their beta testing this author's account
and he felt compelled to write a ***** article about it.
ps- the UPS tracking recognition is really useful. when you get a package notification you just click to track oh my! - meekar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0um, that was to aries
- meekar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0most likely, as I don't have them yet
but Move To Trash has changed to Delete ... it still moves it to the trash tho - DrumsNWhistles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I noticed the "View as HTML" tonight for the first time. Haven't seen the WebClips feature yet -- and I'm not really sure I care if I get my RSS feeds with my email. One of the reasons I use Bloglines is because I like having the feeds separate from email. Keeps my information overload to a minimum.
- manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not that it's really that big of a deal, but when GMail says they can display as HTML OpenOffice documents, they're referring to OpenOffice 1.1 docs (*.sxw), not OpenDocument (*.odt). A tiny gripe - but just about any time Google decides to add more features to my free e-mail account, I'm more than happy to accept their goodwill.
//still the best web-based mail on the internet, IMHO - Presentlight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I still have all of my emails dating back to January
- boyced, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've not got the tab either, and the 'move to trash' hasn't changed as ChrisSoutham has said.
Anything I need to do? contact? - bcnewman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If anyone is wanting the ability to create contact lists (like me) here is a suitable workaround for the meantime:
http://gmailtips.com/tips/gmail_tip_26_creating_a_pseudo_address_group!_2.html - Friedbeef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No webclips here for me... not that I'm complaining... what's with all these web-based RSS aggregators which are closed up....
I really need to be able to IMPORT and EXPORT your feeds.
www.netvibes.com so far is the only one that allows me to do it (and is to me so far the best web-RSS reader of the lot) - ripcrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't know about anybody else, but this page took 312.156 seconds to load for me. WTF is up with Google Analytics holding up the page load. Is it just because I'm logged in? Firefox 1.5
- Tyrel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I never would have noticed that "Move to Trash" has changed to "Delete", because I have never used that function... wasn't that the point of Gmail? Never delete?
If it's spam and somehow ends up in my Inbox anyway (rare), I "Report Spam" (so it then gets deleted in 30 days anyway), and if I have read the message and have no intentions for reading it in the next few days, I "Archive". If I think it's a message that might be important to me in the future (maybe contains my digg login/password so I don't forget), I star it and then archive. E-mails that may remain important to me in the near future (tracking numbers, etc) remain in my Inbox until they are no longer important. There is no reason to delete. You people are crazy ;-) - jmholloway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Man, I was one of the first gmailers and I dont have any of the new features yet. >_
- Nation, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Link Directly to the Source: Save people time by linking directly to the original news story."
I am sick of people linking silly blog posts that say less then the page they are talking about. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why would you want to use a free email service without ads? How will the company survive? You'll just end up switching to another email address when the company start charging or go bankrupt.
- stevec5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They should fix the memory leaks in Gmail so it doesn't take all my memory when I run it!
- bpapa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah I don't know what this is all about, I've had an RSS reader in my Gmail account since like the spring. It's not new.
- srhull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Post a pic. I have had my gmail account since the beggining but do not have the WebCLips/RSS tab in settings.
- listrophy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0/me is working on a Firefox extension to virtually support groups in gmail. Hopefully it should be out after the weekend. :)
How's that for a new feature? - reedjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had Web Clips for a LONG time now (over three months).... It seems like another way for google to add advertising. It is pretty cool how you can add your own RSS feeds though.
- LawrenceDudley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I'm a bit confused.. on that page it says that you can "view" file attachments, such as pdf, office, etc. as HTML, especially useful, they say, while you're on a mobile phone... WTF, doesn't google realize they should make a mobile version of gmail page before they start making features for it? yahoo mail even has that, for goodness sakes!"
Erm... Yeah, gmail has an html-only version. I don't own a phone that doesn't display html, and for those of you with WAP only phones, there is no way a WAP page could display an average PDF however far it is cut down - WAP pages are often a maximum of a few KB, so unless you want to keep clicking next, next, next, then don't bother.
Come to think about it, most new phones have PDF viewers anyway! - ferrell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well that's nice and all, but when in the hell is Google going to add a 'SORT' feature??? Ever try to clean up your inbox when you have thousands of emails sitting there? Adding a sort feature would take this job that takes HOURS and turn it into one that takes minutes!
- manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had the webclips for a while as well. For me, the big new feature is the "view as HTML" option. I use OpenOffice's native formats, and I use my account as a GMail drive - being able to view those documents anywhere, including public computers that don't have OpenOffice on them, is rather useful to me.
The only problem is that about half of my documents are saved in the 1.1 format (*.sxw), and the other half are in the OpenDocument format (*.odt) from when I started using the 2.0 betas, and GMail only converts the 1.1 formatted files. - kwelling12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had web clips since like 2 weeks after the first reports were out about it. None of this is new to me. Don't know what the big fuss is about.
- quastor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What it seems like people are missing here, is that Google often releases new features for GMail out to only a few users to test them prior to adding the features in for everyone. That's why some people here have had Web Clips for months, while some of us do not yet have it. Personally, my account has had View as HTML for a few months, and I didn't actually realize it wasn't a common feature.
Everyone should be seeing these features appear within the next week or so I'd imagine. - vanlandw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I got "webclips"....just more advertising I guess...at least it can be disabled...
- CPedison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Once Google starts allowing users to send and receive .exe files, It will be perfect.
- Phoenixfury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sorry if I'm a bit off topic here, but I think at this point, the only new features they can add to Gmail that I'd appreciate is if they can create a version that works on the PSP better, and a built in virtual keyboard as well. This likely won't happen, but man they'd make many frustrated PSP owners pretty happy (and possibly even PDA owners) if they did this.
- figvam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Err.. who's copying who? I've had this web clips feature for some months now, apparently they were beta testing it.
And why link to some stupid zdnet blog instead of the real page? - nschroedl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Wait until something is actually released or announced, this jumping at shadows stuff is lame.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0move to trash > delete...
no digg - Tweedledee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I've had Web Clips since the day after I got Gmail, some time early last year.
Lame. No digg. -
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