Oh, I have mail, Gmail Notification added to Labs!

There is finally a point of keeping your Gmail open in it's own tab in the browser. Now that the Gmail labs have added the title bar tweak in the Gmail labs.






Now you will know if you have un-opened mail to check in your gmail account with a quick glance at your browser tabs.

It's simple to add, just goto settings and then to labs.

Scroll down to Title Tweaks.

by Fedor K Changes order of elements in the browser title bar from "Gmail - Inbox (20) - Uncovered4you@gmail.com" to "Inbox (20) - Uncovered4you@gmail.com - Gmail". This way you are able (most of the time) to see if a new mail has arrived even if Gmail window is minimized.

Set it to Enabled.
Scroll down and save changes.

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Browser title bar tweaks

                

Gmail Multiple Inboxes isn’t combining mailboxes, But!

Almost, So close! Just not true Multi-Inbox handling.

Yes! Turning on Gmail Multiple inboxes in the settings, and then under labs is extremely useful, if collecting email from another address is your goal. But it’s using a filter to assign the To:[Email Address] to a label and archive it, by-passing the inbox.

If you setup  Gmail to include both your inbox and your Label in the view, the effect is a 2 mailbox feel, you still don’t have the ability to manage 2 Gmail email accounts under the same page, but you can still manage the email. You will need to remember that you probably should tag the subject as "on-behalf of" when responding to the emails in the new label view, as the email will be sent out from the current e-mail box.

So yes, Gmail Multiple Mailboxes is useful, just not what I’m looking for just yet.

The Instuctions for setting up your account to turn on Multiple Inboxes: Official Gmail Blog: Tip: Manage several email accounts with Multiple Inboxes, is missing the last step, after placing the TO address, the next step, set it to archive(skip the inbox) and also click the assign to Label checkbox and select a label to place the archive into.

                

Google is working hard to keep your iPhone sync'd!

From the official Google GMAIL blog.

It looks like Google is working hard to make the iPhone more business friendly, well more small business friendly. Large corporations still side in the RIM camp when it comes down to business functionality, but for small business that use, Gmail as their way of communicating and keeping contact's organized. Gmail now has mobile sync which allows you to sync you iPhone with your Gmail contacts. Now lets point out that Google Sync beta is not just for the iPhone, it's just the spin the Gmail blog puts on it, hoping to attract iPhone users with limited contact organization with their phones.

It's also noted that user should back up contacts already on the iphone, as it's doesn't do a merge operation, its a complete refresh of the contacts.

This is the notes for the GMAIL post:

• iPhone users: Google Sync will remove all existing contacts and calendar events from your phone, so make sure to back up (PC instructions, Mac instructions) your data before you set it up.
• Remove contacts that you don't want to sync to your phone. From the "My Contacts" section of the contact manager, select the contact you want to remove, click "Groups" and then "Remove from My Contacts."
• Merge duplicates so friend@theirgmailaddress.com and samefriend@theirworkaddress.com both belong to the same contact. To do so, select both contacts, and click "Merge these 2 contacts." When you merge contacts, your address auto-complete won't work as well as before. We're working on a fix for this, but until that's out you might notice addresses showing up in a suboptimal order in auto-complete, e.g. your friend's work address coming up first when you're used to emailing their Gmail address.

Maybe someday soon, the iPhone will be able to compete one on one with the Blackberries in the corporate market place.




Official Gmail Blog: Sync your contacts and calendar with your phone

                

Everyone luvs Gmail - Get your Gmail stickers to prove your love!

Now, we all love stickers, and for the cost of a postie! You can get some custom stickies from the gmail team..it's pretty simple. Send a self addressed stamped envy to:

Send me some Gmail stickers already
P.O. Box 391420
Mountain View, CA 94039-1420

Your envelope needs to be post marked before Vday! Feb 14th 2009, to get your sticker pack mailed back to you!..

Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers

                

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes

From the Official Gmail Blog: Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes

The idea of tagging is a great way to organize your incoming mail, now you can multi-view the tag folders along side your inbox, creating a multi incoming display. Ok, it's sorta useful. When will the bring in the ability for true Multiple inboxes, the ability to multi-view separate gmail accounts that you manage. Now that would be tre useful.