Gmail Priority Inbox

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Welcome to Priority Inbox! By automatically separating out your most important messages, Priority Inbox makes it easy for you to read and respond to the messages that matter.

Get through your email faster

Try reading and replying to the messages in the "Important and Unread" section first. Mark anything that requires follow-up with a star, then go through the "Everything Else" section. If you leave Priority Inbox, you can return to it by clicking the link next to Inbox on the side navigation of Gmail. How it works Gmail's servers look at several types of information to identify the email that's important to you, including who you email and chat with most, how often you email with these people, and which keywords appear frequently in the emails you read.

Train Priority Inbox

If Priority Inbox makes a mistake, you can use the buttons to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important, and Priority Inbox will quickly learn what you care about most.

And more…

• Customize Priority Inbox: You can change what type of email you see in each section (like switching the "Important and Unread" section to just "Important"). Just click on the section headers or visit the Priority Inbox tab under Settings and choose to "customize inbox groups."
• Use filters to guarantee importance: If you want to be absolutely sure that some messages are always marked as important (like email from your boss), you can set up a filter and choose "Always mark it as important."
• Search by importance: If you want to see all the messages that have been marked as important, both read and unread, do a Gmail search for "is:important."
• Switching back to your old inbox: If Priority Inbox isn't for you, you can easily switch back to your normal inbox by clicking "Inbox" on the left or hide Priority Inbox altogether from Gmail Settings.

To learn more about managing your email with Priority Inbox, check out the Gmail Help Center.

– The Gmail Team

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Picasa new with Picnik edit your photos

For some time now, Flickr users have been able to use Picnik to edit photos in-stream without leaving the app. Now that Picnik is a Google property, Picasa users will have roughly the same advantage.

 

As of today, Picasa Web Albums users will be able to use Picnik’s editing tools without ever leaving their accounts.

Google acquired Picnik back in March. While Picnik’s free web app lacks the fuller features of tools like Aviary’s Phoenix, its simplicity makes it an appropriate complement for online photo-sharing sites.

On Picnik’s web app, users can crop and resize photos and adjust brightness, saturation, contrast and other attributes free of charge. The Picasa implementation will also let you add stickers, apply special effects and use advanced tools.

Edited photos can be saved as new images in your Picasa Web Album, or they can be used to replace the original image.

Here’s an example of what the app will look like and what you can do with it:

 

 

Although Flickr is a Yahoo property, Flickr users are currently still able to use Picnik to edit images from within the Flickr app “in Picnik mode,” as well. It’s unclear whether users will lose this functionality, but such seems unlikely at this time.

What do you think of the Picnik/Picasa integration so far?

Upload Photos To Facebook From Google Picasa

By 

Aatif | June 29, 2010

Here’s a useful plug-in that will help those particularly who use both Facebook and Google Picasa. Uploading and sharing photos through Facebook is one of the most popular social networking activities, and if you often rely on Google’s Picasa to keep your photo collection organized, nothing can be more convenient than to show off that last weekend party by uploading the pictures to Facebook directly from Picasa.

Picasa Uploader is a free plugin for Picasa which adds the ability to publish your selected photos directly to Facebook. All you need to do is associate your Facebook account with the uploader, and with one click of a button your photos will be online in no time. Please note that you need at least Picasa 2.5 or later for this to work.

Using the plug-in is simple. Once you click ‘Install Plugin” (link provided at the end of this review), you will be prompted with a dialog box with a new Facebook button. Select it and click Add, and the button will appear in your Picasa tray. 

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New USB Cable Tricks Your Phone Into Becoming A USB Modem

By Chris Scott Barr

If you have a phone with an unlimited data plan, it can be frustrating when the carrier won’t allow you to use your phone as a modem. After all, if you’re paying for unlimited data, why shouldn’t you be able to use it as you please? One company has designed a very special USB cable that claims to let you do just that.

Pretec’s new H220 Intellicable cable has a built-in flash drive, which contains a special suite of software. This allows your computer to trick the phone into thinking it’s a USB modem. Thus, free internet for your laptop. The software takes care of all the necessary communication handshakes in roughly 10 seconds, with nothing actually being installed on your computer. It’s supposed to work with most phones that use either mini-USB or micro-USB. We’re not sure when this will be available, or for how much, but it sounds like it would be worth looking into.

[ Pretec ] VIA [ EverythingUSB ]

Finally you can move the Gmail icon column to the left side

May. 27, 2010 (1:45 pm) By: Christian Zibreg

Ever wanted to be able to move those message type icons in Gmail from far right to the leftmost side? Now you can, thanks to a new Gmail Labs project dubbed “Move Icon Column.”

According to a post over at the Gmail blog, you can finally move the icon column to the leftmost side in your Gmail message list. That’s a great time-savior that lets you distinguish the various types of items in your inbox more easily, such as attachments, saved chats, Buzz posts, calendar invitations, etc. Makes you wonder why it took so long, doesn’t it?

Since this is an experimental feature, you must enabled it under the Labs tab in Gmail Settings by clicking “Enable” next to the “Move Icon Column” project and hitting “Save.”

Read more at the official Gmail blog

Christian’s Opinion

You’d be forgiven for thinking a little things like this doesn’t deserve our attention, but heavy Gmail users on large monitors know very well how annoying it can be to constantly look at the far right side of the Gmail window just to check if the message came with attachments or if Google Buzz spammed you again. It’s been a glaring omission that set apart Gmail from desktop email clients which usually put those icons on the leftmost side.

When you think of it, Google has been progressing Gmail at a rapid pace in most aspects but user interface customization. I always wanted to re-arrange the Gmail interface to suit my personal preference, but that’s only possible with the navigation sections on the left side. Your message view is pretty much fixed in place and you can customize only a few cosmetic things. While most other webmail services allow me to freely rearrange and resize columns, Gmail is still stuck in the last century in this regard. Come one Google, how difficult could it be?

Read more: http://www.geek.com/articles/google/finally-you-can-move-the-gmail-icon-column-to-the-left-side-20100527/#ixzz0pEHFmyHJ

Google Talk Bots

You can do lot of interesting stuff with Google Talk like get alert notifications, save bookmarks to delicious, manage web calendars, set reminders, write blogs, and so much more.

Such features can be easily integrated into Google Talk through ‘bots’ which, in simple English, are like virtual friends who are online 24×7 and will always respond with a smile to your questions or requests.

Here are the eleven most useful ‘bots’ that transform Google Talk into a more useful program:

1. imfeeds@gmail.com – Add this IM Feeds bot as your Google Talk buddy and you’ll be able to read any blog or website that syndicates content via RSS feeds.

To subscribe to a website in GTalk, simply send a new IM message that says "sub labnol.org" where labnol.org is the site address that you want to read inside Google Talk.

2. friendfeed@bot.im – This secret bot lets you post to FriendFeed from Google Talk. You may submit either hyperlinks or text messages.

3. imified@imified.com – This imified bot turns Google Talk into a real powerhouse.

You can post bookmarks to delicious, send messages to Twitter, submit blog entries to WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger, manage events in Google Calendar, shorten long URLs, run whois and so on.

4. inezhabot@gmail.com – Like IM Feeds, iNezha bot helps you read feeds inside Google Talk but this is slightly more versatile. For instance, you can simply say "digg" and it will show a list of all feeds that match that search term so you don’t have to type (or copy-paste) feed addresses.

5. Translation – This is a free service from Google that helps you translate words from a foreign language into your native language. Just add the relevant bot (e.g. hi2en@bot.talk.google.com for Hindi to English or en2hi@bot.talk.google.com for English to Hindi) as your buddy, send him a message and it will get translated instantly.

6. Use Google Talk with Twitter – Invite twitter@twitter.com to become your friend in Google Talk and verify your account. Now whenever you IM this new friend, the message will automatically publish on your twitter account.

7. Set Task Reminders – If you need to remember something important,Google Talk can send you reminders for that event.

Just add timer to your Twitter friend’s list and then add twitter@twitter.com to your buddy list in Gtalk. Now if you want to get a reminder after 50 minutes, send a direct message to twitter  like "d timer 50 pick kids from school" and a reminder will automatically pop up in your Google Talk after 50 minutes.

8. Transliteration – If you want to chat in your mother tongue (like Hindi or Tamil) but feel more comfortable using the English keyboard, Google Transliteration bot will come in handy.

For instance, add en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com to you friend’s list in GTalk and all messages you type in English will get transliterated in the language of your choice.  Available only for a few Indian languages.

9. Xpenser – With xpenser, you can record travel expenses via email, SMS or even Google talk. Add xpenserbot@gmail.com as your buddy and send a message like "lunch 33.2 with Bill Gates" and that will be added as an expense to your online spreadsheet that can be accessed from anywhere.

10. Ping.fm – Like Imified, ping.fm is one of the most useful Google bots out there especially if you are a social networking or micro-blogging addict.

Add pingdotfm@gmail.com to Gtalk and you can communicate with twitter, jaiku, wordpress, identi.ca, facebook, myspace, bebo, friendfeed, linkedin, tumblr, plaxo, friendster, delicious and more.

11. Meshly – Add meshly@gmail.com as your friend and you’ll be able to post web link to your Meshly account via Google Talk. You can also add tags, categories and description to your hyperlink via Gtalk itself.