GMail, Facebook and Apple
May 21The three of the most discussed "brand" on tech blogs. Besides Twitter, that is.
Well what's new? GMail is getting more and more far ahead its 'lousy' competitors Ya-boo-hoo and really-not-Hotmail. GMail is totally pwning the rest. Now GMail labs comes with 'Inbox Preview' while your GMail is loading.
While Gmail is loading, a simple, static preview of your inbox with your ten most recent messages is displayed. Turn it on from the Labs tab under Settings, and if you're on a slow connection you'll know from the start if it's worth the wait.
Next up, Facebook. SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM. So many people using facebook, many more scams coming out to steal your passwords and spread the fire, steal others' passwords. Moral of the story, never input your passwords anywhere except the url with facebook domain! OR DON'T SPEND TOO MUCH TIME WITH YOUR DEAR FACEBOOK!
Sites like FBAction.net, FBStarter.com, nutpic.at, bests.at, areps.at, kirgo.at, simply asks for you to input your Facebook username and password, with a design that looks similar to that of Facebook.
Don’t give this site your information. If you do, it will proceed to send all of your friends a message telling them to go to there, and hence, the scam will continue to spread like wildfire. Just like what happened on MSN.
Lastly, Apple. This is exciting! Techcruch reports that More evidence of the Apple Tablet surfaced today. Woohoo. Another addition to the mac family?
Read about it here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/21/what-we-know-about-the-apple-tablet-so-far
That's it for the tech update!
No Reason to Not Switch to GMail
May 13Import your mail and contacts from other accounts
Gmail users can be a passionate bunch. Many of us have, at one time or another, encouraged or cajoled friends and family to join us @gmail.com. But switching email accounts can be pretty painful. It's like getting out of a relationship. You have so much baggage — years of emails and contacts, memories of past Christmases and Valentine's Days — so the easier your new email account can make it, the better. My wife flirted with the idea for two years before she finally took the plunge with Gmail. The reason she finally made the switch might also convince your friends that it's a good time to adopt a shiny new Gmail address.
Gmail now migrates email and contacts from other email providers, including Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL, and many more. It's much easier to make the transition now that you can bring along all your old email and contacts. You can even have your messages forwarded from your old account for 30 days, giving you time to take Gmail for a test drive while you make up your mind.
This new feature is available in all newly-created Gmail accounts, and it is slowly being rolled out to all existing accounts. It'll take longer than the few hours or days that most Gmail features take to get out to everyone. You'll know it's on for your account when you see the Accounts and Import tab (formerly just called Accounts) under Settings.
Switch! Switch! Switch!
You’ll Never Need To Delete Another Message
Apr 03Happy 3rd 5th Birthday to GMail !
I really have no clue why some people are still using yahoo and hotmail. I seriously can't stand those clunky webmail anymore. Oh well, people can stick to their own choices, but mine is better! 
Oops…
Mar 19What's so great about Gmail? We've got yahoo, hotmail, why do we need to sign up for another email service and risk not remembering anymore of our passwords?
See, a while back my mom has always had others read and reply her e-mails. She had never once touched a keyboard on her own. It used to be a yahoo mail, then a company e-mail address and she always got her assistant to print any important e-mails for her to read, and then she will read out whatever she wanted to reply and tell her assistant to type that out and send.
But things changed after I got her first Gmail for her. Not voila extreme kinda change, but she started reading funny emails forwarded by her friends, then she started reading her important mails with someone helping her. Not long after that, she started getting online on her own, messing up the computer, forwarding funny e-mails to her kids and friends, and she even gtalked me!
Haha, anyway the main point of this post is this one feature from Gmail Lab, the Undo button.
So let's say you got impulsive fingers like mine, just itching to click send, and a few seconds after that you realized something needed to be added, or something's misspelled, or sent gossip to the wrong person! So in that few seconds, you can click Undo and then yeay the 'Sent' is undo-ed!
Haha but be careful, the Undo button only comes a few seconds after you sent the e-mail, not forever!
There you go, another reason for using Gmail, besides the fact that it is by far the coolest webmail in this era. Hoho. Even my ucdavis.edu email uses Gmail. How 'bout that?
