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I RECENTLY had the misfortune of trying to access Gmail over a slow Globe Tattoo connection. It was sheer torture to watch the progress bar crawl erratically toward completion, only to have Gmail choke and cough up an error message that told me what had become painfully obvious: my page was taking too long to load.
Google suggested that I try reloading the page (did not work) or use the basic HTML version (ugly, with limited features). Annoyed by the constant struggle simply to log into Gmail, I looked for ways to speed it up without resorting to the HTML version, which still feels awfully slow because of the way it refreshes the screen.
Fortunately, there are a lot of speed-up tips online. Some of them work better than others, and some of the advice is outdated because Google keeps updating the way Gmail works. Here are some that seem to help.
ARE you getting the most out of your Gmail account?
Google, which has been offering the free Web mail service since April 2004, has compiled a list of tips to turn you into a Gmail ninja. I’ve chosen a few of the best tips and added a few that Google has left out.
IN the four years since Gmail was introduced, Google has done much to improve its free Web-based e-mail service. Still, there are a number of ways it might be improved. This week, while watching the progress bar crawl toward completion on a slow connection, I realized that speeding access to the inbox is one such way.
I’VE been a fan of Gmail ever since Google launched the test version of its free Web mail service in 2004. At the time, Google created quite a stir by offering one gigabyte (GB) of storage while Microsoft was offering a paltry 2 megabytes (MB) on Hotmail and Yahoo had a 6MB limit on its free e-mail service. The two have since caught up, and Yahoo now offers unlimited storage—but since I haven’t come close to using up my 2.8 GB on Gmail in the last two years, and I really appreciate the ability to quickly search through all my e-mail, Yahoo’s latest move really wasn’t a big deal to me.
There are many ways to make more effective use of Gmail, Google’s free e-mail service. Last week, we looked at some log-in tips and a makeshift groups feature for the contact list. This week, we’ll look at a few more.
Nobody but Google knows how many users there are of its free e-mail service, Gmail. More than a year after its April Fool’s Day launch, however, one thing is clear: the joke’s on Yahoo and Microsoft, whose established free e-mail offerings have been left in the dust by an upstart that’s still in the beta (or testing) stage.
I spent a good part of the last weekend cleaning out my mailbox.
I had to because I had hit the 40MB limit on the e-mail account assigned to me by the university where I teach.
If I still used a POP mail program like MS Outlook, the relatively small storage limit wouldn’t be a problem. I could suck in all my mail and store it locally on my hard disk then delete the files on the server.
FOR a week now, I’ve been testing out Google’s free Web mail service, which is on a limited preview run worldwide.
First announced in April, Gmail is different from other Web mail sites in several important ways.
