Gspace is an extension that allows you to use your Gmail Space (4.1 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system. The interface will make your Gmail account look like a FTP host.
After the installation, you’ll get an option called “Gspace” in your “Tools” menu, which opens the GSpace window.
It’s great for storing/sharing files with your friends. Also very good to backup photos and music files (as you can view/listen to them from Gspace).
For those of you using newly released Firefox 3, or willing to give it a try, you can take advantage of a new feature that lets you set Gmail as the default for all email links — those that contain “mailto:” in them. If you’re like me and don’t have a default email client set up, then clicking these links typically launches an installation wizard for a destkop mail client, or opens some email software that you don’t actually use.
Now you can configure Firefox to launch Gmail when you click on email address links and avoid the hassle.
1) Go to Gmail and sign in.
2) While in Gmail, copy and paste the following into your browser’s address bar and hit enter.
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")
Google Apps users can use this code (but be sure to replace yourdomain.com with your Google Apps domain name):
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto","https://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")
3) Click “Add Application” when you are prompted. Congrats, you just added Gmail to your browser’s list of mail clients.
4) To set Gmail as your default, click on this link and you will be prompted with a dialog box listing available email applications. By selecting Gmail and checking “Remember my choice for mailto links” you won’t have to tell your browser again. (You don’t actually need to send an email after you click that link.)
Archiving moves messages out of your inbox and into All Mail, letting you tidy up your inbox without deleting anything. Messages you archive can be found in All Mail, in any labels you’ve applied, and by searching Gmail. When someone responds to a message you’ve archived, the conversation containing that message will reappear in your inbox.
To archive messages:
1. Select a message by checking the box next to the sender’s name.
2. Click Archive.
If you have a conversation open, you can archive it by clicking Archive at the top of the page.
To move mail back to your inbox:
1. Click All Mail.
2. Check the box next to the sender’s name.
3. Click Move to Inbox.
Labels do all the work of folders and give you an extra bonus: you can add more than one to a conversation. Once you’ve created a label, you can view all the messages with that label by searching, or by clicking the label name along the left side of any Gmail page.
To create a label:
1. Select the message(s) you’d like to label by checking the box(es) next to the sender’s name.
2. Select New label from the More Actions… drop-down menu.
3. Enter the name of the new label in the text box, and click OK.
The selected messages will automatically be categorized under the new label.
To edit a label:
1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Edit labels at the bottom of the Labels box.
3. Click rename next to the label you want to edit.
4. Enter the new label name, and click OK.
All the messages categorized under your old label name will now be categorized under your new label.
To delete a label:
1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Edit labels at the bottom of the Labels box.
3. Click remove label next to the label you want to delete.
4. Confirm that you’d like to remove the label by clicking OK.
* Removing a label doesn’t delete the messages previously categorized with that label.
