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How to View Images in GmailJuly 3

When you sign up for a newsletter, or an RSS feed, using your email, you may not always be able to see the images in a post or message when receiving it in Gmail.

Why Gmail ‘hides’ images

To protect you from spam and other malicious emails. Apparently, spammers and scammers use images in emails to see whether your address is real or not. By not showing the images, Gmail is actually protecting you to some degree from these threats. However, when you know a message is from a reputable sending, like for example if you signed up to the Google Tutor RSS feed, you can set up your Gmail to display images from the same sender each time.

Displaying images in Gmail

There are some easy steps to assure you can see the images you want to.

1. If you want to display images only once: At the top of your email message, you will see a blue bar with two links. The first one says “Display images below”. By clicking on this, images for this one email message only will be displayed, and not for any other emails you will receive from the same sender in the future.
2. If you always want to display images from a particular sender, simply click on the second link that says “always display images from sender@senderyoutrust.com”.

Here are two screen shots showing before and after clicking either of the links:

In the first screenshot, the im

Drag and Drop your emails to labels with GmailJuly 2

So I logged on my Gmail account today, and I noticed something different. Aside from the loads of email I got, there was this huge reminder from the Gmail team showing me the new features they just rolled out.

Interesting huh? I, for one, loved the fact that the Gmail team moved up the labels above the chat window. It makes more sense, really. And here is the rundown of the changes:

1) New location for labels
You’ll notice your labels in a new location on the left of your inbox (or on the right, for those of you using the Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu versions of Gmail). Instead of having their own section, your labels are now above your chat list, grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system labels.

2) Label hiding and showing
You now have control over which of your labels show. We’ve done our best to get you started by automatically showing the labels you use most and hiding the rest. Label hiding is my favorite new feature, since it saves me from having to look through labels I rarely use. If I ever need to reach any of my old labels, I just click the “more” link.

For those of you who created label names like _stuff or ++todo++ to force your most-used labels to the top of the list (come on, you know who you are, I did it too…), you don’t have to come up with clever tricks like that anymore.

3) Drag and drop
Now this is t

Neverland Ranch PhotosJuly 1

Ever since Michael Jackson passed away, we’ve been getting a lot of visitors here looking for info on Michael. That’s probably a bit surprising since this is a tech blog, but most of this is from a really old post about his Neverland Ranch address on Google Maps.

Today I noticed a LOT of those people are looking for MJ info are looking for photos of Neverland Ranch so I’ve put together a few of the best images in this post.

Neverland Ranch Photos

Neverland Ranch Gate

Neverland Ranch House

Neverland Ranch Ferris Wheel

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Send forbidden files back home using GmailJune 30

So if you have some files you want to email home but they are .exe files, and as we all know, everybody’s favorite email client is in the habit of blocking any executable files to prevent people from sending malware to their friends, unintentionally or otherwise.

Gmail’s Flash-based attachments grabs your files as you select them, including any .exe program files or other items that will eventually trip Gmail’s security filters. When sending fails, the draft, and the server-stored attachment, are still there. So you can just attach your files via gmail, save your files via draft and when you go home you’d see your files in the draft folder, which could be right-clicked and downloaded with ease.

And great news as well, Gmail has increased its file storage size to 25mb! So you can send and receive messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size, but you may not be able to send larger attachments to contacts who use other email services with smaller attachment limits. If your attachment bounces, you should invite them to Gmail.

However, Gmail’s Flash uploader, at times, doesn’t allow people to upload files that are larger than 10 MB. The error message is “attachment failed” and Google’s suggestions aren’t very helpful. Switching to the basic uploader in the settings solves the problem, but it’s more tedious to upload multiple files.

Use Gmail to consolidate your email addressesJune 25

If you’re anything like me, you probably have around a dozen emails from different services. There’s Yahoo (I think I have five of them), there’s my work email (I have three!), there’s that service from my ISP which I barely use, the ones from the other blogs I run, and my Gmail. (okay, 3 Gmail accounts. What.) Maybe that email account I opened up way back in 1997 is still active, I don’t know. Honestly, I lost count.

So if I, the ravishingly handsome internet-savvy Google savant that I am, can actually get overwhelmingly confused by the sheer number of email addresses that I handle, I wonder how it goes for you guys. Sheesh, it must be a nightmare.

Fortunately, I discovered waaaay back that Gmail has a nifty way of helping you consolidate all those email addresses into one. It takes a bit of work setting it up, but I tell you, the pleasure of logging into one inbox as opposed to twelve is totally frakkin’ worth it.

So first off, we need to make sure that your Gmail account is capable of fetching your emails from your other accounts.

Set up mailforwarding. Many email providers offer free auto-forwarding to other accounts. Log into your non-Gmail account and set your Gmail address as the forwarding target. If your other account doesn’t offer forwarding but supports POP3 access, you can use Mail Fetcher in Gmail to automat