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Gmail's Birthday Presents

Posted by Zonk on from the insert-birthday-whistle-noise-here dept.

Jicksta writes "Since today marks the first birthday of Google's online email service, Gmail, the Gmail team is rolling out some great new features. Every user's email account storage has been doubled to an astounding 2GB and users now have the ability to use some new snazzy rich text formatting features including fonts, bullets, colors, and highlighting. Happy birthday, Gmail!"

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  1. Competitoin? by adennis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hmm... I wonder if this could have anything to do with yahoo and hotmail starting to catch up with mail space... One of the many things Google has always been good at was staying ahead.

  2. Drive Extension by Plazzma · · Score: 5, Interesting

    2 gigabytes of storage might be pointless for just email, but it could be useful if you use a Gmail Drive Extension like http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

  3. Re:April 1st? by MPolo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just log out of Gmail. Then you will see the "joke" about the Infinity+1 Email account. Then at the end, they say "April Fool" and link to the new features mentioned in this article. Hence, the two GB is real, it will just take until tomorrow until it is there. (Or at least that's my analysis.)

    The question remains of whether the submitter saw the joke, realized that it needn't be submitted, given the glut of them, and then found the new features, or just clicked on that glowing red "New Features" link at the top of his logged-in page.

  4. Why can't this be a joke? by kickabear · · Score: 3, Interesting
    In every email program/service I've ever used, I've always set it to text-only. If I need to set something apart for emphasis, I've used regular punctuation and correct word choice. I've never needed to use large fonts or colored text to get my point across. Instead of useless features like bold and italics, why not work on a feature such as downloading email from my existing POP accounts, so I can consolidate all my email into one service?


    Props for the increased space, though.

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  5. Re:April 1st? by DJStealth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unix Time Conversion

    Copy/paste 1112331600 and 1112439600 into the above site to test. (I guess the last 3 digits are milliseconds)

    Apparently, it looks like it depends on your system clock! If you want 2GB now, set your date to the future!

  6. And in other news by emtboy9 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Mozilla 1.7.6 seems to no longer be a "supported" browser... unless they are playing some sort of sick prank...

    Yesterday my 1.7.6 install worked fine with gmail, but today I keep getting routed to the "Basic" view with none of the candy that made me like my gmail account in the first place (filters, selections, etc).

    I hope this is some sort of practical joke...

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