A small team at Google Chicago is developing ways to make it easy and free for users of Google’s services to migrate their data out of Google products for use elsewhere.
Read more...September 17, 2009
March 23, 2009
Unsending in Gmail (Finally!)
Gmail’s new “Undo Send” feature gives clumsy/hoteheaded emailers a 5-second window to take back their misspoken words. Once enabled through Gmail Labs, the feature offers two opportunities to undo a send – either while the send request is processing, or in the 5 seconds after the email has already gone through. We’re happy to see the undo feature finally make its way into Gmail (it was the one thing this writer remembers fondly about her old AOL account), but are wondering why the short timeframe? (Gmail says they’ll be extending the grace period to 10 seconds in the future – [...]
Read more...February 5, 2009
Google Software Goes Offline
While companies like Microsoft, Adobe and Apple have been evolving their desktop software so that it can extend onto the web, Google has been striving to make it’s web-based software available when a user doesn’t have web access. Users have been able to sync their Google Docs software for a while now – allowing their wordprocessing, spreadsheet and presentation software to be used offline through a browser. Now Google have announced that their popular email system can be used offline too. Like desktop software, users can access the latest sync of their emails through a browser, work on them and [...]
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