3 Best Gmail Tips: How to Use Custom Gmail Addresses | How to Use Gmail as a Hard Drive | How to access GMAIL without Internet

Use Custom Gmail Addresses

You can make up an unlimited number of arbitrary email addresses to use. You can use all these addresses when making a purchase online or want to track a conversation or anything else.These email addresses you can create using plus-addressing.

Simply append a plus sign (+) and any string of letters or numbers (meaningful to you). For e.g. my mail id is amarjitsingh1984@gmail.com. Now I can create as many custom emails as I can. For all my online shopping’s, I am using amarjitsingh1984+shopping@gmail.com and to follow any comments stream online I am using amarjitsingh1984+comments@gmail.com. I can further create subtags such as amarjitsingh1984+News+hacking@gmail.com & amarjitsingh+News+cricket@gmail.com.

The magic of these email address is that all plus-addressed emails I am receiving to my mail id amarjitsingh1984@gmail.com itself only. Here I can use filters and labels in Gmail inbox as per my convenience.

Some of my favorite uses of plus-addressing are:

· Informing my mates for biking trip: I am inviting all my Venturous Bikers Team usingamarjitsingh1984+bikers@gmail.com and copying myself a copy to keep track. To finalize a trip, it takes around 20-30 days, so I can easily keep track all emails.

· Subscribing News Letters: All my newsletters I subscribed using unique mail ID. For e.g. useamarjitsingh1984+quickonlinetips@gmail.com to subscribe www.quickonlinetips.com newsletter & using amarjitsingh1984+hacking@gmail.com to subscribe hacking sites news letter.

Use Gmail as a Hard Drive

GMail Drive (http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm) provides 2+ gigabytes of storage allotted to your Gmail account right onto your desktop. It looks and feels just like a regular hard drive, and it’s not available locally of course. This drive is networked.

Open http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm and in download section, you will see Gmail Drive. Download it and install.

Enter your Gmail username and password and click the OK button to log in. Your drive will be ready to use. Simply drag and drop the data and files to and fro between your local drive and GMail Drive.

NOTE: Mac OS X (10.3 or above) users should check out the freely available gDisk (http://gdisk.sourceforge.net) that adds a Gmail-powered drive to your desktop.

TIP: Using this Gdrive, no need to stick with pendrive or any other external drive. Go to your friend’s place, open Grive and copy paste the required data. Now come back to you system and open it. SO SIMPLE.

How to access GMAIL without Internet

Using this gmail tool, you can access all you gmail mails even when you are not connected with internet also. Similarly like we are using outlook for or official purpose, you can use gmail. All you mail you send while offline will be placed in you outbox and automatically send when you connected to internet.

Once you turn on this feature, you need to download gmail gears on your system. As long as you stay connected with internet, this gear will continuously synchronize the cache on local system with gmail server .

Just follow these steps to get started:

· Click Settings and click the offline tab in your gmail inbox.

· Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.

· Click Save Changes.

· A POP up window will open asking to install gmail gears on your system. Click install

· After your browser reloads, you'll see a new "Offline" link in green in the upper righth corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don't already have it.

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