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[How to] Update Google Calendar with Text Message or SMS

Tech2know — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:35:47 +0000

Whomsoever uses Gmail, must be aware of Google calendar. This is a very useful tool which you can use to maintain your appointments and other important schedules. You can also share the schedules with your friends. Sharing of schedules makes it very easy for you to plan an outing with friends.

You can activate Google calendar via Settings—>Labs tab—>Google calendar gadget.

Well, the calendar gadget is now activated in you Gmail account and you can view the same at top left corner in your Gmail account. . But, this post is not about how to activate calendar. Its about how you can update your Google calendar via text message. Yes, this can be done very easily. First you have to configure Google calendar for this feature. Below are the steps :

1) Login into your Gmail account

2) Click on ‘Calendar’ at top left corner. This will open the calendar.

3) Click ‘Settings’ at top right corner.

4) Click on ‘Mobile setup’ tab.

5) Now you need to select country, your mobile number and carrier. Carrier is your mobile number service provider.

You can see full list of supported carriers for your country by clicking here. For India below is the list of supported carriers :

Aircel Cellular Limited
Bharti Airtel Limited
BPL Mobile Communications Ltd
IDEA Cellular Limited
Reliance Telecom Limited
Spice Communications Limited
Vodafone

6) On clicking ‘Send verification Code’, you will receive a code on the mobile number which you have mentioned in ‘Phone number’ field.

7) Fill that verification code in ‘Verification code’ and click on ‘Finish setup’.

How to send event updates

Send a text message to “GVENT” (48368) with information about an event, like “3pm cappuccino at Borrone’s,” and this event will be added to your calendar. Just like the “Quick Add” feature in Google Calendar, GVENT will pop the event into your calendar in the right place. You’ll get a text message back confirming the details of your event. Or, send the word “day” to “GVENT” to get a text message response containing all of your scheduled events for today, “next” for your next scheduled event, or “nday” for all your events scheduled for tomorrow. You can learn more about GVENT in the help center

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Google Adds Drag and Drop Feature in Gmail For Attaching Files

Tech2know — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:16:56 +0000

We all know that the normal procedure to attach files in Gmail is to click on ‘Attach a file’—> ‘Select the file’—>Click ‘Open’. Google has just added another new feature in Gmail which will enable us to just drag and drop files for attaching the same in Gmail.

Currently the feature is enabled for Chrome and Firefox browsers. Google will enable this for other browsers as soon as they support this feature.

Below is a screen shot of the feature :

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Google Added Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek in Gmail

Tech2know — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:41:56 +0000

Continuing with its quest to add new and useful features in Gmail, Google has added two more labs features to help in enhancing the user experience. The two features are ‘Nested Labels’ and ‘Message Sneak Peek’.

You can activate both the features via Settings –> Labs tab.

1) Nested labels

You can create complex hierarchies of labels if that’s the way you like to organize your mail, and you can expand/collapse labels to save space. You’ll always be able to tell whether a given label contains unread messages in its collapsed child labels by looking at whether it’s bold or not.

2) Message Sneak Peek

This feature will enable you to preview messages to get a glimpse on what they contain and maybe take immediate action without opening them.

Once you enable this feature, right-clicking on a line in your inbox shows a preview pane with the message in it as shown below

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How to Insert Pictures in Gmail

Tech2know — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:27:09 +0000

Well, all of us must have used Microsoft outlook some time or the other and very well aware of its feature through which we insert images in mails. Its quite easy. Yesterday night I was composing an mail in Gmail and unknowingly started to find an option of inserting images. The outcome was obvious. I didn’t find any such option. After some time I thought that this option is indeed not available in Gmail.

Luckily I tried ‘Labs’ in ‘Settings’ and bingo!! There it is. Yes, option of inserting images in Gmail is not activated by default. You need to enable it manually. Following are the steps :

1) Login to your Gmail accounts

2) Go to ‘Settings’.

3) Click on ‘Labs’.

4) Enable ‘Inserting images’ and save.

Now, click on ‘Compose mail’ and you will notice a new button adjacent ‘Insert Emotion’ as shown below :

Click on this button and insert images in mails by either uploading the image from your computer or from a URL.

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How to Attach and Send files in Gmail While you are offline

Tech2know — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:32:07 +0000

Yes friends. From now onwards you will be able to attach files in Gmail even if you are offline. This new feature as was rolled out yesterday only, by official Gmail blog team.

“If you have Offline Gmail enabled, you’ll notice that all your mail now goes through the outbox, regardless of whether you’re online or offline. This allows Gmail to capture all attachments, even if you suddenly get disconnected from network. If you’re online, your mail will quickly be sent along to its destination.”

You won’t have access to this feature by default . Below are the steps to enable the feature.

1) Enable it manually via ‘Settings’—>’Labs’—>’Enable Offline’. Below is a screen shot of the ‘Offline’ option in ‘Labs’.

Save the changes after selecting ‘Enable’.

2) As soon as you save the changes, Gmail will restart. Then you need to click on ‘Offline’ link which will appear on top right corner of your mailbox on the left side of ‘Settings’. Click on ‘Offline’ link. A popup will appear which asks for the installation of ‘Offline access for Gmail’ as shown below.

3) Just click on ‘Next’ and click on ‘Allow’ to let offline mail store information on your computer.

4) On clicking ‘Allow’, it’ll take a few minutes for ‘Offline Gmail’ to install on your system. After installation, ‘Offline Gmail’ and your online Gmail will synchronize. Time taken in synchronizing depends upon the number of mails in your online inbox and size of attachments. In the mean time you can choose the locations(desktop, Start menu, Quick launch bar) where you want to place shortcut of ‘Offline Gmail’.

And you are through with enabling and installation of the feature.

What is the Use :

Well, the biggest advantage is we can attach files even if we are offline. So, no need to worry if the connection suddenly goes off while you are attaching a file. The trick is, when you attach a file offline, the mail with the attachment resides on you computer locally. On sending the mail to intended recipient, the mail gets stored in ‘Outbox’ within ‘Offline Gmail’ locally.

Once the connection is restored, ‘Offline Gmail’ and your online Gmail synchronizes again. The result is, mails stored in Outbox of your offline Gmail will be sent and newly received mails in online Gmail inbox are copied to ‘Offline Gmail’.

You can also view old mails by yourself, show them to your friends, download an attachment if you have lost previously downloaded one without even thinking of connection.

That’s it for now friends. Try this new feature and share your opinion via comments.

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