A Much Better Online Storage Alternative

E-mail, Technology December 6th, 2009

Go Aruna logoIt is inevitable. Online storage is catching up really fast. As the storage prices reduces day by day, online storage capacities grow faster. Look at the key players in this niche. DropBox is probably the most known and used online storage service at the moment, starting with a 2GB storage. Microsoft is also in the “game” with their SkyDrive online storage system, which offers a whopping 25GB! However the bottom line is all these services give you a storage limit. On top of that they further limit the upload file size. A better alternative? Go Aruna! [Read more...]

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Speed Up Gmail Loading Time

E-mail, Technology November 27th, 2009

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Do you think you wait longer than you should for Gmail to load? That is the time from you clicking the “Sign in” button to show your inbox. If you ask me that, I’d say yes! Why, you may ask. It’s because Gmail used to load much faster for me, of course. What really has changed then? Nothing much from Google’s side other than them reducing the number of HTTP requests to four, which should speed up the loading time. As such, the change to reduce the loading time could come from our side. There are few tweaks you can do to speed up Gmail loading time. [Read more...]

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Sending e-mails from different aliases via Gmail

E-mail May 31st, 2008

If you are like me, you would probably have more than one e-mail account. One for business, another for family and friends etc. Sometimes you may find it difficult to send a e-mail to someone who you correspond with your other e-mail account. For example if you want to forward a business tip you received from a newsletter in your personal e-mail account with Gmail, and want to forward it to a client, you may have to first forward it to your business e-mail account and then forward from there to your client. What if you can simply select the e-mail alias you want to send, from within Gamil? [Read more...]

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Sorting Gmail e-mails with filters

E-mail May 29th, 2008

Have you ever wondered if you could sort incoming or old e-mails in your Gmail account? Did you know it is possible? If not then read on this guide, which explains you how to configure your Gmail account to sort incoming and existing e-mails.

Labels feature of Gmail can be used to make this more effective. If you haven’t created any labels yet, you can do so by ticking on the box in front of an e-mail and selecting ‘More Actions‘ drop down box. There you have the option to create a ‘New label.’ You can label your business e-mails, product reviews, newsletters etc. Now let’s look at how to filter incoming and existing e-mails to have these labels applied automatically and other sorting facilities in Gmail. [Read more...]

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