http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Tue, 21 May 2013 17:49:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-wallet-will-let-you-attach-money-in-gmail/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-wallet-will-let-you-attach-money-in-gmail/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 09:00:23 +0000 Ashley Feinberg http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=166569 We already knew Google’s got big plans to become your default money manager, killing the other contenders in the process. But now we’re starting to find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Over the next few months, Google will be rolling out a Gmail option to attach money just like you would with [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/google-wallet-will-let-you-attach-money-in-gmail/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/new-gmail-action-buttons-let-you-perform-tasks-from-your-inbox/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/new-gmail-action-buttons-let-you-perform-tasks-from-your-inbox/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 11:30:55 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=166377 One of the smaller — but nonetheless incredibly useful — new updates from Google is a series of actions buttons in Gmail, which will help you handle tasks without having to send more messages or leave your inbox. The new system will allow you to RSVP to events, review submissions, one-click reply to registration emails [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/new-gmail-action-buttons-let-you-perform-tasks-from-your-inbox/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/your-gmail-drive-and-google-storage-is-now-one-big-15gb-chunk/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/your-gmail-drive-and-google-storage-is-now-one-big-15gb-chunk/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 18:00:17 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=165449 It used to be that you’d have 10GB of storage for your Gmail account, and 5GB to share between your Google Drive and your Google+ pictures. Not anymore: Google just unified all three into a shared pool of 15GB. This is great because now, you’ll be able to make better use of all that space [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/your-gmail-drive-and-google-storage-is-now-one-big-15gb-chunk/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-google-master/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-google-master/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 13:00:25 +0000 David Nield http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=165040 Unless you happen to work for the search giant that created it, Google+ is probably not your social network of choice. Nevertheless, there’s a ton of functionality hidden behind its walls, covering everything from photos to local searches as the influence of Google+ stretches across the company’s multitude of other products. Here’s how to get [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/10-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-google-master/feed/ 13 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/new-gmail-tweak-lets-you-schedule-calendar-events-with-just-a-click/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/new-gmail-tweak-lets-you-schedule-calendar-events-with-just-a-click/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 09:15:08 +0000 Mario Aguilar http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=162916 If like millions of people you use Gmail to schedule meetings, and Google Calendar to keep track of them, this little interface improvement in Gmail is going to save you a bucket of time and headaches. The scheduling workflow in Google products is messy. You’re constantly switching between email messages and your calendar to see [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/new-gmail-tweak-lets-you-schedule-calendar-events-with-just-a-click/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/a-cheat-sheet-of-every-single-gmail-keyboard-shortcut/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/a-cheat-sheet-of-every-single-gmail-keyboard-shortcut/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:00:07 +0000 Kyle Wagner http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160203 Do you use Gmail a lot? Then you need to see this graphic with all the keyboard shortcuts that can make like a million times easier. It comes complete with visualisations of each action, for some reference of what you’re actually accomplishing. The shortcuts aren’t a big secret, but the value of the graph, aside [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/a-cheat-sheet-of-every-single-gmail-keyboard-shortcut/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-evolution-of-gmail-visualised/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-evolution-of-gmail-visualised/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:00:03 +0000 Mario Aguilar http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=156988 On April Fools Day 2004, Google launched Gmail, and it wasn’t long before @gmail.com email addresses usurped the kingdom of Hotmail. Google just posted a nice visualisation of the service’s evolution from a humble beta to a Google Goliath. [Google]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/the-evolution-of-gmail-visualised/feed/ 19 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/rumour-google-babel-pictured-in-alleged-leaked-images/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/rumour-google-babel-pictured-in-alleged-leaked-images/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:15:50 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=156186 Supposed images of a reworked Gmail interface give us a look at part of Google’s new messaging system at the desktop end of the chain — and confirm the Babel name — if you are the trusting sort and believe their authenticity. The images, which Techradar says come from a Google employee running the code [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/rumour-google-babel-pictured-in-alleged-leaked-images/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/gmail-app-update-lets-you-swipe-through-messages/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/gmail-app-update-lets-you-swipe-through-messages/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:40:20 +0000 Leslie Horn http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=153542 There are a couple of new features in today’s update for the Gmail iOS app. First off, you can now swipe right or left between messages. And second, when you select a message, it goes into edit mode, from which you can tap to file an email into a different folder. Not a huge update, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/gmail-app-update-lets-you-swipe-through-messages/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/google-nows-auto-airline-boarding-passes-are-go/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/google-nows-auto-airline-boarding-passes-are-go/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:45:26 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=135337 Google Now, arguably the best thing about owning an Android phone right now, has just gotten a boost in the war with Apple’s Passbook. It’ll now search your email for flight confirmations and grab your boarding passes, plus fire flight notifications at you. Currently it only supports certain airlines, but it’s expanding rapidly. Awesome. [Google [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/google-nows-auto-airline-boarding-passes-are-go/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/new-gmail-app-for-iphone-and-ipad-hopefully-its-way-better-than-the-last-one/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/new-gmail-app-for-iphone-and-ipad-hopefully-its-way-better-than-the-last-one/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:30:34 +0000 Kyle Wagner http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=125393 A little more than a year ago, the iPhone and iPad finally got a Gmail app. It stunk. Even after hurried updates from an embarrassed Google. Now there’s a new app—Gmail 2.0 for iPhone and iPad. The new app has multiple account support (about time!), autocomplete predictions, and improved Google+ integration. We’ll have impressions in [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/new-gmail-app-for-iphone-and-ipad-hopefully-its-way-better-than-the-last-one/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-best-secret-gmail-feature-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-best-secret-gmail-feature-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:15:33 +0000 Jesus Diaz http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=123620 There’s a Google Mail feature you have to use. Seriously. You must. Because copying an entire chain of messages after your reply doesn’t make any sense when people can scroll down to see all the messages, chained one after the other. What makes sense is to only provide the snippet that you are actually replying to. And [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-best-secret-gmail-feature-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/what-do-you-mean-your-email-wont-let-you-send-a-10gb-attachment/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/what-do-you-mean-your-email-wont-let-you-send-a-10gb-attachment/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:30:55 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=123662 Massive email attachments are the scourge of Exchange users everywhere, but not so for Gmail users. You can now send attachments directly from your Google Drive, meaning files up to an inbox-exploding 10GB in size are now go. That’s a heck of a lot of, err, porn work in your mail. [Google via LifeHacker] Image [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/what-do-you-mean-your-email-wont-let-you-send-a-10gb-attachment/feed/ 12 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ten-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-gmail-master/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ten-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-gmail-master/#comments Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:00:06 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=122840 Back in 2004, Gmail rewrote the rules for Web-based email. It had a fast, clean interface, and a jaw-dropping 1GB of free storage. Today, it comes with ten times the amount of space, and boasts many millions of users across the globe. But even if you use it every day, you’re probably not making the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/ten-tricks-to-make-yourself-a-gmail-master/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/this-is-why-google-is-awesome/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/this-is-why-google-is-awesome/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:00:36 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=121481 Not everyone loves Google; some think it’s got way too much data on us all, and they may be right. But Google is still one of the most awesome tech companies in the industry, because it does cool, totally unnecessary things like this. The latest language addition to Gmail is Cherokee. Yep, Cherokee, a language [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/this-is-why-google-is-awesome/feed/ 40 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/how-gmail-took-down-philandering-cia-director-david-petraeus/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/how-gmail-took-down-philandering-cia-director-david-petraeus/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:00:59 +0000 Leslie Horn http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=119575 If you want to get away with something, don’t use Gmail. As David Petraeus and his sexytime lady friend Paula Broadwell learned, thanks to rich data that Google stores from every email, you will be found out. Here’s how it went down in this ironic case: The FBI was investigating Broadwell for some harassing emails [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/how-gmail-took-down-philandering-cia-director-david-petraeus/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/meet-gmails-new-time-saving-compose-window/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/meet-gmails-new-time-saving-compose-window/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:30:53 +0000 Mario Aguilar http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=116335 Google’s rolling out a redesign of the Gmail compose functionality that will save heavy email users a lot of time. The new compose window won’t take up the entire large frame of your Gmail anymore. Instead, it’ll look like a larger version of the Gchat window that you’re used to. As Google points out, going back and [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/meet-gmails-new-time-saving-compose-window/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/google-adds-your-personal-files-to-its-search-listings/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/google-adds-your-personal-files-to-its-search-listings/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:00:31 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=111721 If you’re signed in to Google and have opted in to its new search upgrade field test, the main Google search window can now display results from your Gmail account and list any relevant docs or files it finds stored inside your Google Drive cloud storage area. The upgrade, which requires users to first opt [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/google-adds-your-personal-files-to-its-search-listings/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/steve-jobs-might-have-hated-google-but-google-kind-of-loved-jobs/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/steve-jobs-might-have-hated-google-but-google-kind-of-loved-jobs/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:45:51 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=109800 Obviously the hatred, and determination to destroy one another’s mobile OS, was only one sided between Apple and Google. Steve Jobs might have hated Android, and wanted to annihilate it, but it looks like big G kind of loved Steve Jobs. Just take a look at these hidden tributes to Jobs in Google’s Gmail app. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/steve-jobs-might-have-hated-google-but-google-kind-of-loved-jobs/feed/ 48 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/iran-walks-back-internet-censorship-restores-gmail/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/iran-walks-back-internet-censorship-restores-gmail/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:30:05 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=107209 After seriously flipping out, cutting of Iranian access to Google and basically herding all its citizens into a tiny little government-approved intra-net pen, the Iranian government has softened its Internet ban just a little bit and restored access to Gmail. Though the outcry against censoring the Internet at large was loud, the backlash against cutting [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/iran-walks-back-internet-censorship-restores-gmail/feed/ 12