This is pretty nice. Google just announced a new feature called ‘Preview Pane’ in Gmail (including Google Apps users).
The feature does just like it sounds. It allows you to preview your mail in a horizontal fashion. This is a really smart move, as it enables you to use a wide-screen monitor more effectively.
As a side-note, this is somewhat similar to what Mail.App in OS X Lion.
What do you think? Do you prefer the old style, or this new view?
Not to long ago, Ela Iwaszkiewicz wrote a blog-post titled “Protect yourself from scams by knowing who really emailed you” where she tells the story about how someone tried scam here to gain access to her bank account. Ela obviously called the bluff, and the article is about how she did this using Gmail’s built-in features.
The article is very Gmail-centric, but the same concept can be used in most other email clients.
In Apple’s Mail.app for instance, you can view the raw message source by going to View -> Message -> Raw Source (or by pressing ⌘⌥U).
Once in the ‘Raw Source’ mode, you can follow along and see that the email was actually sent from whom it claims to be. That said, this is somewhat tricky for the average user, and Gmail’s web interface makes this a lot easier.
The bottom line is that no serious business would ever ask you for your username or password, or any kind of sensitive information over email (or at all). You should also make sure you are running an updated web browser. Recent versions of Google Chrome and Firefox comes with great tools to helping you to stay safe.
Google just announced a pretty neat feature to the Gmail interface. You can now select what ‘inbox style’ you like to display. The options are:
The different styles are rather self-explanatory. For more information, see the original blog-post. We think this is a pretty nifty new feature to combat information overflow.
Two days ago, we ran a post about Gmail’s new web interface. It was intended as a brief note to our users pointing back to Google’s original post.
Little did we know that this particular post would get 10k visitors in 48 hours. Most users appears to be confused, thinking we were Google and asking us for various features. We are not Google, nor are we affiliated with Google in any way.
With that said, you can actually get Gmail’s new interface today.
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Through YippieMove we get in touch with many enthusiastic Gmail/Google Apps users. If you spend the majority of your day starring at your webmail client, the small details matters a lot. When Gmail reveals a radically redesigned interface, we know people will vent their opinions. Some will love it, and others will hate it.
Screenshots of the new interface can be found here. What do you think? It certainly aligns with the interface of Google+.
