Category Archives: Gmail

How Gmail Would Bring People Front & Center?

While sending email, it is treated as the simple message by the senders but it is not so as it tells the story of senders. The changes, just introduced in the Gmail, are about the people and contacts as it was with:

Profile photos in view while conversation
People widget
Integrations with Google+ during the last year.

Following changes are made in the Gmail recently:

Your Quick Access to the contact details are added while viewing your past conversations with the sender of the message
Your improved integration with Google+ circles.

Quick access to contact details
During the process of search for an email address, the results will be displayed in details in addition to the profile photo of the person and the emails sent from and to them. Then you may decide to:

Start a chat
Call the phone
If contacts have Google+ profile, information would be updated rather stayed updated automatically.

Quick Access can be made through:

People widget
Contacts
Chat list in search menu.

How the Circle Integration and Circle Reach is improved in the Recent Changes

As the contact details are added to the search results, some more changes have been made to make circle integration more effective which are:

Profile pictures of the members of the circles will be displayed at the top right of the page when you would select a circle
The search details with the contact details will be opened with just a click of that image.
With the circles supported in search and filters, you may find messages from that specific circle when you would simply type circle:[circle name] in the search box.
Finding of the mail from your selected circles is just easier with has:circle type.
The search can be further refined with other criteria.
So, it is possible to read all the unread emails from the selected ‘Friends’ circle or each message coming from your specific ‘VIP’ circle would be marked, automatically.

As quick details, rolled to everyone, are correlated with many products, it would help the Gmail management to serve the consumers a consistent yet a beautiful experience, and the consumers will feel a pleasant change in all the products. To get maximum benefits from the recent changes, Gmail recommends the users to join Google+.

Source: Official Gmail Blog

Gmail Gets a New Interface – Improved Mail Look, Themes and Advanced Search Among New Changes

Google has finally changed the interface of Gmail. New improved mail design with image of sender, changed toolbar, cleaner, customizable and adjustable interface, adjustable chat and labels column, many new HD Themes and last but not least a new search box with many new filters and search mail or web options.

Google, a search Giant and the provider of one the best mail service available on internet, recently announced many new changes among the interface of Gmail.

Below are the new features which Google claims to have made in Gmail and some of them which I found out:

Gmail users can now control the density of their inbox by selecting between three sizes: comfortable, cozy or compact.
A new cleaner interface
Now, change the amount of options shown in labels and chat columns by adjusting them
Your Gmail will automatically shrink or expand when you resize your windows and even the density of the email would be automatically adjusted
Many new high definition themes are now available to help you personalize your Gmail account
Your full-screen email now shows the image of the sender to help you identifying the sender
Search right from your email and also choose whether to search the whole web or just your emails.
Many new filters to now available to help you narrow down the search results

This new interface is now available for testing and will be made default in few days as expected. You can choose the new interface by clicking the ‘switch to new look’ button at the bottom right corner of your Gmail homepage.

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Gmail Under Hackers’ Attack, Confirmed by Google

On June 1, 2011, Google Blog confirmed that hundreds of gmail accounts have been hacked again, recently.

Following looks to be were the major targets of hackers:

Senior U.S. government officials
Chinese political activists
Officials in several Asian countries, particularly, South Korea
Military personnel
Journalists
Some of the personal accounts

The source of the malware source appears to be from Jinan, China.

It was disclosed when some of the emails were declared ‘undeliverable’; a phenomenon which may prove to be disastrous particularly for the business contacts.

For the purpose, Google introduced two-factor authentication;

Sign in, normally, with your Google Account
Enter verification account, generated by mobile application
Advise by the Google is to choose strong password and watch for the suspicious activity

Please Click to see the movie at YouTube, describing the double verification of account: