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Google to Unveil “Priority Inbox” for Gmail

By Ryan Deal posted August 31, 2010, 11:51 am | 0

Google is set to unveil a new feature to its Gmail service that aims to separate a user’s important emails from the ones that do not get read often.

The new feature called “Priority Inbox” will help users focus on messages that matter without having to set up complex rules, Google said in its official blog.

The Priority Inbox application splits the inbox into three sections: ‘Important and unread’, ‘Starred’ and ‘Everything Else’.

“As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most and which messages you open and reply to,” the company said.

Google said Priority Inbox will roll out to all Gmail users, including those who use Google Apps, over the next week.

You Can Now Make Calls from Gmail

By Alan Tilghman posted August 26, 2010, 11:07 am | 0

Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if you could call people directly on their phones?”

Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail.

Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates. We worked hard to make these rates really cheap (see comparison table) with calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan—and many more countries—for as little as $0.02 per minute.

Dialing a phone number works just like a normal phone. Just click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name.

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Gboard Turbo-Charges Your Gmail Experience

By Ryan Deal posted May 20, 2010, 9:58 am | 0

So you get tons of emails a day and you’ve realized that managing and transitioning between emails has become a pretty time intensive process that you’d give almost anything to eliminate. Ok, so not almost anything, but if you really would like to streamline your Gmail experience and shave some time off your day, Gboard is here to help.

Just plug it in via USB and turn on your keyboard shortcuts in Gmail. You’ll be able to star, archive, spam, or trash emails with the press of a single button. How easy is that? There are 19 shortcuts in total, learn ‘em all and you’ll be faster than speeding bullet, or at least faster than you were before.