GMail is open for everyone!

[piccolomondo]

GMail Now Open for Everyone - After a while where subscriptions were only possible in certain countries, GMail has announced that it opened registrations for users from across the globe.

Get your address for free, here. No invite needed. Enjoy!

[piccolomondo]

You can do all this stuff using the ‘Show search options’ button. But if you like doing things simple, quick and using your keyboard then these tips might just be useful.

1. Some standard tags to find e-mails (their function can be easily deduced):

from:

to:

subject:

label:

All you have to do is type it in the search box like so:

from:co_worker@domain.com

or maybe

to:beloved_wife@gmail.com

You can see the people you’ve sent emails to that have an email address with gmail by searching:

to:*@gmail.com is:sent

2. Another search criteria is filename:.
After it, you can add the name of a file attached to a e-mail, putting there only the extension and it will find all the files with the given extension.


3. The has: search option is particularly useful when searching for all mails with attachments. In essence, you do has:attachments.


4. A interesting combination is in: and is:.
It tells Google where to look ( inbox, spam, anywhere but it does not work with the ’sent’ folder) and is: has several values (starred, unread, read).

You can use them separately or you can come up with expressions like:

in:inbox is:unread

5. Try this too:

sent:Wednesday

6. You can also use google common search terms like

intext:

7. There are also several searches you will find easy to understand:

before:date (yyyy/mm/dd)

after:date

cc:

bcc:

Now that you know this basic syntax you can evolve using combined searches like:

to:abcdefg subject:hardware

from:abcdefg before:2006/01/23 subject:games “WoW” price

There you have it, the possibilities are practically infinite.
*** It works also with Yahoo! and hotmail.

[Cheba_Mami]

gmail does not care much for privacy, right? mail is scanned and read and advertisements are sent based on mails, right?

[piccolomondo]

gmail does not care much for privacy, right? mail is scanned and read and advertisements are sent based on mails, right?

<paranoia>
As so Yahoo does with its 1pixel gif 
and probably many many other web services...
</paranoia>

[Cheba_Mami]

ahh ok How about hotmail?
well maybe gmail is not that bad.

[piccolomondo]

ahh ok How about hotmail?
well maybe gmail is not that bad.

Hot-bl**dy-mail? What's that?

[piccolomondo]

GMail to hit 3.5 GB Storage Space. Google has updated the code to calculate storage space for five years into the future, stopping at 3.47 GB. The new code goes up to 2012.

The Gmail login page updated to reflect new targets for the amount of space each account gets. The counter on that page is always counting up, and you can actually see what it is counting to.

With the new update, here’s the new space targets and how many days until that much space is hit by the counter on the page:
2800MB: Already reached
2835MB: In 18.22 days
2980MB: In 384 days
3125MB: In 749 days
3270MB: In 1114 days
3415MB: In 1479 days
3560MB: In 1845 days
The last target is 3560MB, which is about 3.47GB of space. But that’s over 60 months (5 years) away!