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Gmail for mobile 2.0 – use Gmail offline on your mobile

I’m sure a lot users use Gmail on their mobile like me. Gmail as such is one of the best email solutions one can use for personal mail and with Google for your domain the service is a viable one for small companies as well.

Gmail had an application for the java enabled mobiles but there was a demand for something faster, more robust and easier to use. Two days back the Gmail team released Gmail for mobile version 2.0 for J2ME-supported and BlackBerry phones. The new application can be downloaded from m.google.com/mail

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Tags: 2.0, email, gmail, mobile

Fight spam with googlemail.com

Though Gmail usually does a good job as far as spam is concerned some mail does get through which is spam. Sometimes the opposite happens. The mail that is meant for me lands up in the spam folder in my Gmail account.

I was looking for options which could help me fight spam and also ensured that the mail that was meant for me was delivered to me when I saw an email from someone on the blog which had hidden@googlemail.com. What interested me was the googlemail.com domain. I thought maybe Google had a special domain for paid or premium customers.

Anyhow I searched on the Internet for googlemail.com and one of the results was a post on lifehacker. It turns out that when you sign up for gmail you get two email addresses. Example if Barack Obama was to sign up for a gmail account using the username “barack.obama”, he would have two email addresses barack.obama@gmail.com and barack.obama@googlemail.com.

There are some tricks explained to read the full post click here….

Tags: easter egg, gmail, hacks, trick, tutorial