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February 2010

  • Google™ Mail Multiple Inboxes

    Fri 5th

    Google™ Labs offers a number of additional features to help you become more productive or have fewer headaches in a day. One such feature is Multiple Inboxes.  This feature is strictly a productivity enhancer, but can be very detrimental if not used properly (just making more work for yourself). First step for using this (or [...]

  • Update your browser!

    Thu 4th

    In the last post we mentioned that Google™ wants to push the envelope a bit more and start offering new and faster features through Google Apps™.  This means they want to use the new HTML5 specification – are you ready? If your using Firefox 3.5 (or greater), Chrome, Opera or Safari you should be ready [...]

  • Google Apps™ Browser Requirements

    Mon 1st

    Google Apps™ is trying to roll out new and better features and part of that process includes using the newly approved HTML 5 spec. What this means to you is that your old web browser may or may not support these features. Google™ will be adding a notification to your accounts if you need to [...]

January 2010

  • Google™ Privacy Principals

    Fri 29th

    This is simply a posting to direct you to a new article on the Official Google™ Blog regarding their stance on privacy.  Its a hot topic and we get many questions about it, we wanted to help people find this good piece. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/googles-privacy-principles.html We are involved in the service provider, administrator, and support circles for [...]

  • GMail™ Labs Automation – GreaseMonkey

    Sat 23rd

    So I’m in the process of writing some GreaseMonkey script to automate a “generic” configuration of Google Mail™ Labs for our clients. I’m always interested in what the community comes up with so I wanted to post the Input name attributes for all the items in the form for everyone to use. I will be [...]

November 2009

  • Import Contacts from Google™ to LinkedIN

    Fri 6th

    This is just a quick post reminding you that you can import your contacts from your Google Apps™ Mail account directly into LinkedIN. Here’s how: Log into your Google Apps™ Mail account for your domain. http://mail.google.com/a/[domain name here] Go to your contacts (Left side click on Contacts) Choose Export (Top right of contacts Frame) Under [...]

October 2009

  • Google Analytics™ is getting better!

    Thu 22nd

    If you use Google Analytics™ like many of us, you will be happy to see some of the new features that are either out now or will be soon. There are new user engagement goals, expanded mobile device reporting, new advanced filtering tools, a new unique visitor metric, and analytic intelligence which you can setup [...]

  • GMail™ – Picture in your Signature

    Thu 15th

    We’re happy to report that there is a stop-gap for adding images to your signature in Google Mail™. In order to use this you must be using Mozilla Firefox but it will automatically insert your signature into your email for you. This is an excellent tool to use in conjunction with our Google Apps™ deployments [...]

July 2009

  • Getting Things Done and Google Mail

    Tue 28th

    A great article has been posted on LifeHacker for those using Google Mail. The article walks you through setting up you’re inbox to aid you in being more productive. It makes use of a few Google Labs features and is quite easy to follow if you want give it a try. GTD Gmail Inbox If [...]

  • Google Wave is coming!

    Fri 24th

    So Google Wave has been an interesting concept that we have been following since it was first introduced at the Google I/O conference. What it is in essence is a unified platform for your email, messaging, tweeting, texting, picture sharing, video sharing, document creation use. So right now you’re probably thinking how does it do [...]