Online

You Can Finally Make Email Links Open In Gmail With Chrome

No, Google. I won’t let you invade my priv– wait what. What is this. Oh wow. I can finally open email links or ‘mailto’ URLs in Gmail? It doesn’t annoyingly open up the mail app I never use? Wow. Finally! This is long overdue! Yep. If you’re using Chrome, you can make e-mail links open in Gmail now.


February 23, 2012
Online

Did The Inventor Of Email Not Invent Email?

According to a bunch of geeks who mobilized from all corners of the digital world, V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai is has been masquerading for years as the pioneering mind behind email.


Mobile

How To Quickly Open Saved Email Drafts In iOS

Here’s a tip for you iPhone users: if you want to quickly open your last email draft in iOS, just hold down the compose email button for a few seconds. Your last email draft will open up right away. Nice.


February 22, 2012
Software

Aussie Ex-Google Engineers Turn Your Gmail Trickle Into A Torrent

Gizmodo AU

Three ex-Google engineers have engineered a solution that turns gmail into a more Facebook like torrent of constantly shifting replies.


January 31, 2012
Online

Webmail Giants Team Up To Stop Phishing Scams

Cooperation is a rare thing in the cut-throat world of technology, but some of the world’s biggest email providers are teaming up to help cut the incidence of phishing scams.


January 27, 2012
Online

German Parliament’s Email System Taken Down With A Single Click

What happens when you reply to an email in which the entire German parliament is looped in? You send that mail server into complete and utter chaos, which, I would assume, brings der legislative machine to a screeching halt.


January 25, 2012
Online

Google’s Broken Promise: The End of ‘Don’t Be Evil’ [Updated]

In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users across all services — email, search, YouTube and more — sharing information with no option to opt out.


January 16, 2012
Mobile

Brazil Government Says Answering Emails After Hours Is Overtime

Gizmodo AU

The alarm goes off. You roll over, bleary eyed and turn it off. You sigh — it’s another day of work. You pick up your smartphone — it’s 6am, but you decide you should probably check what important emails have come through overnight. You respond to a couple of urgent requests before stumbling out of bed and hopping in the shower. And if you were in Brazil, you’ve just earned yourself a nice little bit of overtime…


January 6, 2012
Online

The Ultimate Annoying Email Deflector Shield

Marketers. Exes. Bosses who somehow got ahold of your personal email address. Sure, you could make a filter or click ‘report spam’ (as if that actually does anything…), but wouldn’t it be better if they just stopped emailing you altogether?


December 7, 2011
Online

Make New Gmail Look More Like The Old Gmail

Do you hate the way Gmail looks now? You can make it more familiar with very, very, very little effort.