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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. Not a joke by mirko · · Score: 1, Redundant

    but it's still increasing, I have 1412MB as of yet.

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  2. True story! by BWJones · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Wow, the Google story first non April Fools post of the day on Slashdot. Now all we need is a true to life post on the new Apple PDA.

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  3. Thats Great by CrazyTalk · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Two years old - but when are they finally going to be off of Beta release?

  4. 1406MB == 2GB by scovetta · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1406MB is the same thing as 2GB, since 2GB = 2,000,000,000 bytes (by the definition of hard drive makers), and Google probably just redefined MB to mean 1,422,475 bytes.

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  5. Re:April 1st? by GreyPoopon · · Score: 0, Redundant
    In light of April 1st I have to say I'm not sure if this is legit or not.

    This is probably redundant by now, but the new features are definitely not a joke. I sent email with Rich Text from GMAIL to another email account, and it worked. However, there still appear to be some bugs in the interface. At any rate, tomorrow will tell whether they yank the features away.

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