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How to Access Gmail Offline using Google Gears

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Access Gmail Offline using Google Gears Few months ago, Google released Google Gears. Wordpress uses Google Gears to speed up the Administration Pages.

What is Google Gears?

Google Gear is a extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers that allows to navigate on compatible websites offline and synchronize when going back online.

Today, Google has rolled out a new Gmail feature called "Gmail offline functionality". With this feature, Gmail users with Google Gears installed can access Gmail in offline mode (i.e when not connected to the Internet). This functionality of browser-based offline access to Gmail will be available to everyone in few days.

What is Gmail Offline?

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29.01.2009 How-To, TipsNTricks 17 Comments

Gmail can be skinned with colors and themes!

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Most of us might have been observed that Gmail has introduced themes to get a new look to Gmail. I think most of them are now bored of Gmail with same old look (sky blue color).

You can now switch to one of the 30 themes available through the Themes settings.

I was surprised to see this yesterday evening when i opened my mail box.

You can change your Gmail themes through your Settings page:

Just look on the top right corner. you will see Themes link.
Select one of the themes to change the look of your Gmail

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21.11.2008 TipsNTricks 21 Comments

How to open multiple Google Talk on a single PC

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

If you have got two people wanting to login to their Gmail account to access Gtalk and chat with their friends on a single PC. What do you do ?

You try Logging in chat with friends after sometime log out and have the other person logging and chat.

Here is the tip to have multiple instances of Google Talk:

Create one copy of the Google Talk shortcut on your desktop - leave the original intact.
Right click on this shortcut and choose Properties. The Target box will show you the path of the EXE for Google Talk - something like "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe"
Change this to: "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex
and click OK.