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SiMoNsAyS

SiMoNsAyS

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... time to resurrect an old thread...

What's new on Gmail?

Updated: 5-October 2004

Some features we know you've wanted (and one we should have had all along):

    * Gmail Notifier

      Want to know if you've got new mail? Let us do the checking so you don't have to. Find out when new messages arrive, and even see their subjects, senders and snippets, all without having to open a web browser. Learn more

    * Search your contacts

      With the new and improved Contacts list, search for a contact as easily as you would a message in Gmail. Add notes and phone numbers. View messages directly from the Contacts list. Stay in touch with the people in your life more easily than ever before. Learn more

    * Automatic forwarding to another email account

      We're testing a new feature that lets you forward new incoming messages to any email account you want. It's free during the test and you can set it up in seconds. Even set up filters to forward only some of your messages. It's your mail. Get it the way you want it. Learn more

    * And finally... Save Drafts!

      For when you can't find the right words, save drafts and find them later. Learn more

prathapml

prathapml

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Hey everybody, now here's one tool to take Gmail to the next level of utility.

You might have heard of gmailFS for linux - the file-system level tie-in, to use your gmail account for file-storage in an easy way. It allows you to mount your Gmail as a file-system. And its been like 2 months since I heard the first whispers of that project, and was hoping it'd make it to windows as well.

And now it HAS made it to win32 platform as well. And it has all the ease-of-use of any windows app. Here ya go, words straight from their site:

http://www.viksoe.dk/gmail

simple installer - download

GMail Drive shell extension

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GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium.

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

Ever since Google started to offer users a GMail e-mail account, which includes storage space of a 1000 megabytes, you have had plenty of storage space but not a lot to fill it up with. With GMail Drive you can easily copy files to your GMail account and retrieve them again.

When you create a new file using GMail Drive, it generates an e-mail and posts it to your account. The e-mail appears in your normal Inbox folder, and the file is attached as an e-mail attachment. GMail Drive periodically checks your mail account (using the GMail search function) to see if new files have arrived and to rebuild the directory structures. But basically GMail Drive acts as any other hard-drive installed on your computer.

You can copy files to and from the GMail Drive folder simply by using drag'n'drop like you're used to with the normal Explorer folders.

Because the GMail files will clutter up your Inbox folder, you may wish to create a filter in GMail to automatically move the files (prefixed with the GMAILFS letters) to your archived mail folder.

Please note that GMail Drive is still an experimental tool. There's still a number of limitations of the file-system (such as total filename size must be less than 40 characters), and it doesn't make full use of the secure internet protocols available.

I tested it today, and its pretty good! :D
Wow! This is awesome! It's just like i-Drive for Mac but cooler!

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