For about a week, Google had that annoyling little ‘contact’ box that would appear when hovering over an email or contact address. They finally decided to remove the box because people were unhappy with it — and I’m very thankful they did.
side note: I’m enjoying having RSS feeds in the header, anyone else like them? :)
Seems michael agrees.
Gmail recently added the feature to be able to store ‘chat’ logs within your gmail account. Along side of this addition, Gmail also gives you the ability to actually chat while in the Gmail interface. It’s quite a cool feature in case you want to chat with a buddy on GTalk and you don’t have GTalk installed on your computer. I used it a couple days ago and I really liked it, it’s a fun feature.
As of yesterday, Google Talk has been integrated into Google Mail (GMail) so that you can access any chat logs from conversations held using Google Talk. You need to go into the settings of your GMail account in order to activate these options, but these options are now available for anyone to use. This provides easy access for anyone that wants to keep their chat logs global. I for one, keep all my GAIM logs and it would be nice to be able to keep them global. I will consider moving over to GTalk once AIM protocol is enabled and ready for use. Another big kicker for me is that GTalk will need to have the ‘alias’ feature available like GAIM has. Oh wait, it already does! Splendid. GTalk will be the best ‘chatting’ client out there, in my opinion. With global chat logs in your inbox and the flexibility it provides, GTalk has a great future.
So you login to gmail and the spiffy AJAX gets you in. You may look at your inbox and see nine new messages and click one…mark as read and then maybe read another that is important. While you look at the other 732 emails in your inbox, you may want to take a look at your spam box just to see if something accidentally was caught as spam that was good. I, for one, know that I do look because often it will catch something good. If you look at the recent GMail feature list, you’ll notice that they implemented an RSS feed reader. Being as funny as Google is, they thought they would give you some spam that may actually taste good.
This might make for a good meal for the average starving college student like myself. We need a good meal here and there and if Gmail can provide that, heck I’m for it.
Anyone notice some changes in GMail recently? I certainly did. Google recently added some features to GMail such as an RSS feed agregator so you can view the latest headlines from your favorite websites. GMail also added in a virus scanner for attachments.
How does the virus scanner work?
The virus scanner activates once you view an e-mail and there are attachments to the e-mail. It will say ‘Scanning for viruses’. After it completes the scan, it keeps a cache or it remembers that it was already scanned so GMail never scans the file twice to be efficient and save time.
How do the RSS feeds work?
To add/remove RSS feeds from your account, you need to go to Settings->Web Clips and then you can toggle all your options there. You can add custom feeds or use pre-defined feeds. An example would be to add: http://weblogs.rssplanet.com/google/feed/ to that ‘Search by topic or url:’ box and then hit search, after that hitting ‘Add’ will add a new RSS feed. This can be done for just about any blog or website. It’s a nice feature to keep you updated while you’re reading your e-mails. It also gives you an option of showing it on top of your e-mail or elsewhere.
Another good job done by Google’s GMail team!
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