Google Tweaks Gmail to Combat Facebook, Twitter

By Mehwish Khan · Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 4 Comments

Google Tweaks Gmail to Combat Facebook, Twitter

Google has injected social networking features into Gmail as the world’s No. 1 search engine seeks to fend off competition from Facebook and Twitter. Google introduced a new product dubbed Google Buzz that allows users to quickly share messages, Web links and photos with friends and colleagues directly within Gmail. In addition to the Buzz features...

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How to use official & non-official emails on Windows Mobile

By Reality Bites · Monday, Jan 4, 2010 0 Comments

Email service can easily be used with windows mobile, Android and Apple iPhone devices. All you need is EDGE enabled above devices and some IT permissions in-case of official exchange server emails. How Emails works on Windows mobile? Get EDGE settings from mobile operators. TAP or select SMS/Messages from menu on your windows mobile. Select Options...

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Get SMS Notifications with Google Calendar

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 0 Comments

Get SMS Notifications with Google Calendar

Google’s Gmail happens to remain a top visited website, and those who rely on Gmail rarely closes it. Gmail Labs comes with an option to Keep Google Calendar Gadget open all the times – with what you can easily add/edit your schedule, meetings, reminders and so on with Google Calendar. Go into Gmail’s settings-> Labs and enable Calendar...

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Get Free yourname@yourdomain.com Email Addresses Just like Gmail

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Dec 2, 2009 20 Comments

Get Free yourname@yourdomain.com Email Addresses Just like Gmail

Yesterday Zohair Chohan (a ProPakistani writer) asked me to create him a ProPakistani.PK email address. He was little hesitant as he thought it could cost us disk space of bandwidth. However, it’s not the case – and the reason is Google Application. Today, I am sharing the idea of Google Application which is apparently unknown to many web masters...

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Get Free SMS alerts for Incoming Emails – All Networks Supported

By Valentine Aaqil Mahmood · Monday, Nov 23, 2009 54 Comments

Get Free SMS alerts for Incoming Emails - All Networks Supported

A friend shared a nice site with me, that can actually send you SMS notification for each incoming email. Site is pushinbox.com- with this website, you can configure your mobile number to get email notifications on your cell phone – and yes, this service works with all cellular operators in Pakistan (self tested). Here is the mechanism: You will...

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How to Make Gmail Emails Available Offline

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Oct 19, 2009 0 Comments

How to Make Gmail Emails Available Offline

It may be recalled that many corporations, especially educational institutes are now using Gmail as their primary email tool, while general internet users are also following the trend and shifting from Yahoo/Hotmail to Gmail. Today we will learn on how to enable Gmail work offline too, just in case you don’t have internet connection, or may be Gmail...

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Getting Gmail on your Mobile Phone

By Mehwish Khan · Tuesday, Oct 13, 2009 0 Comments

Getting Gmail on your Mobile Phone

Checking Gmail on your phone isn’t reserved for those of us with extra fancy mobile devices -  sure, it’s easier to use Gmail when your iPhone has a touchscreen or there’s a downloadable app built especially for your BlackBerry, but Gmail is available on almost all mobile devices today. If your phone has a data plan, it can get Gmail....

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Ufone Blocks 'Email To SMS Service' For Gmail Users

By Valentine Aaqil Mahmood · Thursday, Aug 27, 2009 0 Comments

Ufone launched its ‘Email To SMS Service’ a few years back. Since the start Yahoo and Hotmail email service providers were blocked. So at that time Yahoo and Hotmail users were unable to utilize the service provided by Ufone. Perhaps they blocked these two email service providers because they were quite famous and mostly used at that time...

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Never Give Away your Email Password to Anyone!

By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008 0 Comments

Yasir Butt has reported that he recieved an Email apparently from Gmail customer Care Center, in which the email asked him to supply his email password in order to ensure their safty…! All readers, please note that Do Not Reply to any such emails, and never give away your password to anyone; Google’s official customer support will never...

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Find Location of Email Sender Using Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail

By Aamir Attaa · Saturday, Aug 9, 2008 16 Comments

It often happens that we are interested in knowing the approximate location (city name at least) of the person who have sent you an email on your Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail account. Well, many may not know, but yes you can have the city name of the sender using certain information that comes with your email. When you receive an email, you receive more...

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Google Announced Remote Signout to Help Protect Gmail Accounts

By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Jul 8, 2008 0 Comments

Google has announced added security features for Gmail that will enable its users to find out if their Gmail account is logged in at any other computer or not. For example, if you checked your Gmail account at your campus library and you moved away without signing out of your account then you may find this new feature very handy through which you can...

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Gmail Does Not Recognise Dots in Email Address

By Aamir Attaa · Friday, May 16, 2008 0 Comments

I have been using Gmail since May 2004. During these almost four years, I didn’t know a very interesting feature of Gmail. I just thought to share with those who may find it new addition to their knowledge. I sent an email on a.a.m.i.r.7@gmail.com, and surprisingly, the email landed in inbox, while my email address is aamir7@gmail.com! The mail read...

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