Much more than an email
Gmail has gone through many phases, updates and improvements. Currently, for me, the best there is to Gmail.com, which has a messaging system useful with a highly intuitive interface that makes it very easy to use. It also has many other applications, such as text editors that we can use online, chat to communicate with our contacts, photo storage, etc …
Free mail is Google, which allow us to POP3 possibilities, allowing us to access mail remotely, and IMAP, which stores the mail on a server and access it from any PC with network access.
REGISTER
Before, her years ago, when I made my gmail account, it was necessary to have an invitation to do so. As I have understood, now, that invitation is not necessary, but you can get your gmail account simply by accessing www.gmail.com>> Create a new count and providing the data there orders. In any case, it remains inside the system to send invitations to your colleagues, so do not know whether it will be necessary eventually, because with a gmail account and I was plenty enough for me, for now, and I did not need to create another.
SOME FEATURES OF GMAIL
Capacity: This email has a storage capacity of more than 7GB, and, according to the company, this figure will increase over time. For what I use, plenty enough for me and me, and I use it a lot. For now, all these years, I have not had the need to use more capacity than the mail included as default.
Language: Currently, the gmail interface, offers 40 languages, so that nobody complains about it. I use it in English, by custom, but you know you can also choose the Castilian, among others, that its management will be more comfortable.
Maximum size of messages: The maximum size allowed for mail sent is 25MB, which has been between the text and files you want to attach. Not too much, and typically forces compress the files you want to send attachments, but for text messages only, gives more than enough.
APPLICATIONS
CALENDAR
Accessed through the link that appears at the top left of the screen to access our email. Like other applications of gmail, clicking on the link, we redirect to another tab (if you’re using Mozilla Firefox) or to another page (if we use the internet explorer). There, a schedule will have to consult our dos. The calendar, by default, is divided into hours and days of the week, showing a week per page, taking it up the most space on the page. (Also can be customized to display day, month, 4 days, or phonebook). On the left, will the entire month and the other calendars you have selected. He even gives the option to add the calendars of other friends to get them better located.
Add Task: You have improved so that only have to click on the day and time you want to add the task and write anything for the sandwich comes out as a form.
Create Event: Another option to create events, would be using the button specified by that name and add those features, such as date, time, activity, and, if they so wish, to invite others to be participants of the event.
Phonebook: Search for pending events after a certain date.
Use the calendar is very simple and intuitive. He sends you mail notices if so specific, very visual, almost everything is on buttons and links, and it works pretty well.
DOCUMENTS
This is one of the aplicacions of Gmail that I use more regularly, and it seems to me almost seamless. This is a text editor to manage virtual documents online. It also allows sharing of documents we are dealing with collaborators, allowing entry to the document in “read mode”, to simply see what you are editing but can not change anything, or “write mode”, which besides being able to visualize the changes that occur in real-time document may interact in it, editing it. For work in groups, this seems a great advance, since it facilitates group work without the group having to go to meet, though of course everything always gets better person, but if circumstances can not, this facilitates the progress of the work instead of having to be putting it off.
The look with which to us is quite similar to the inbox of an email, except that what we observe in this case the rows that are before us are the documents that we have saved.
Share documents with colleagues: Whether inside or outside the document, simply use the Share option>> Invite People>> To edit / To view>> Mail the collaborator. The employee must also have a gmail account. Given the option to send an email to warn him of the invitation, or not, and expect to find it for your records. If we choose the option to notify the employee by mail, we may also send our own mail a copy of the invitation, thus we are sure that the mail is not astray, but I send this in my mail a copy of invitation I use rarely, but if I can say it works because you once gave me to use it.
Spell: Like almost any text editor, spell checker has to be selected to tell us, pointing in yellow, the words that you believe we have made a spelling mistake. Sometimes it is because he knows the words, in others is that we will have really Confused is not 100% reliable, but if 90%. When it finds a fault, will give us options that he said the words, we would have written, some options are laughable, but are the least.
Options: Options that are inside the document, the most we can find in almost any text editor: Open new document, edit, save, insert ….
Save the document: The document, in case we forget, it will automatically safeguarding X time. If an error occurs because the connectivity fails, it fails the server (which also happens sometimes), or because several contributors have tried to overwrite the same part of text alerts.
WEB
With this option, we redirected our mail directly to the main page www.google.es while maintaining our open user session.
READER
It gives the option to create groups with your friends. This, in all my years with the mail, I have not used yet, so I can not say too much about their operation.
MORE
Apart from these, it includes other applications that can be found in a dropdown list which moves “more” (more in my case). In this dropdown list are: Photos, Sites, Groups, Images, Youtube, videos, maps, etc …
INBOX
On the page that greets us when we access our mail, we find, in addition to the links that redirect us to the applications that gmail account, a number of options which we drive through our mail.
At first, we find the Inbox (Inbox), which shows the emails sent to us. Appear marked in bold those you have not yet accessed.
We also have the options of:
Sent Mail: Where are the emails we’ve sent to others.
Trash: Where are the emails that we have discarded, either because we have considered as spam, or because we have removed from the inbox. This folder allows us to recover a mail in case of accidental erasure. The emails that arrive in this directory will remain in the system for a period of 30 days after the expiry of that time are eliminated.
Drafts: Place where to save drafts of emails we wrote before being posted.
Starred Mail: It’s a way to mark our favorite emails, either by importance, or whatever it is. Besides these mails, a yellow star appears indistinguishable from the rest in the inbox when we are in it. To mark it as “mail star,” we just have to click the star next to it to stain, and you’re marked.
Spam: Tray where everything is stored does not exceed the spam filter our mail. Sometimes we need to seek shipments there are some pages that really do not consider as spam, but gmail has so chosen.
CONFIGURATIONS
Using these settings, gmail allows us to customize our mail so that we find it easier (or attractive) management. How to access the mail configuration is via Settings, located at the top right of the screen, right next to where it appears our mail. Here also are options for Help (Help) and Sing out (close the e-mail our session) I will comment only those settings that seem to me more interesting, useful or curious. To do this, use the following legend:
>> “That we will set”: “From where setting”
Comment
>> Language Settings>> General
Here is where we select the language with which we want to handle the mail. As stated above, currently the gmail interface with a choice of 40 languages. Among them are: English – Spanish – Filipino – Catalan – Euskera – etc …
>> My Picture: Settings>> General
This is the photo that we identify. If you do not charge any photo, it will appear to the typical gray doll already known in many other pages. This photo can be changed at any time and allows us to select the privacy we want to give (for all the world / for my contacts in chat)
>> Import mail and contact: Settings>> Accounts and Import
It allows us to bring us to our gmail account and mail the contacts we have in other mailings, such as yahoo, hotmail, AOL, etc …
>> Themes: Settings>> Themes
Change the wallpaper settings we see in our mail, from the most sober you up the most fun.
GMAIL SEARCH
This email allows us to search our mails, in our documents, or online through a keyword. This makes a big difference when we are looking for something specific and we can not find it. Besides being a full time saver.
CHAT
Unlike other mail, and in line with hotmail, the mail has a way to keep conversations with our contacts in real time. You do not have as much paraphernalia as have given the msn, the icons are quite limited, they do not hum, to share pictures you have to use the mail …
However, it works much better than msn, but occasionally gives in and makes you hang grace. Service is available video / audio call, which does not usually make mistakes and have much better quality than other services.
Well, there are options for determining status (busy, available, away) and use of nick and subnick typical of other chats.
The truth is that it’s fairly easy to use and very understandable.
OPTIONS FOR THE POST
Contacts: There is a place for the organization gmail contacts, so that it is easier to locate. Here we have the ability to sort by lists as they come from the contacts, and thus not then find someone that we do not know where it came from, which I in no gmail, but hotmail has happened to me once in a while XD . In addition, the system itself gives us options as they could finish the mail recipient when you start typing your address in “To”, which also greatly facilitates things.
A copy of the mail: When sending an email, we can send a copy to other email address by adding the CC, and if you also want the primary recipient does not find out who else we are sending a copy of the email, we have the option BCC.
ENDING
Since I started using gmail, email became my favorite, because it is very intuitive, very useful because it has many options and because it offers greater possibilities than other mail. Messaging system is very easy to learn, but take time to find all sides, to drive for him to learn the basics to use us in hours in an afternoon. Compared with other post, its capacity is quite high, it is not the same as a usb lead, we have much more in capacity, but allows us to use our online archives and documents. It facilitates team work, having the option of running two or more people at once the same document.”’Very customizable”’, so that we can choose the options that we like to use. Falls are minimal. Does, that’s inevitable, but usually tends to work much better than others. That if, when you give to “fall”, do it constantly until he gives for failing to fail. Chat has a fairly complete system with which to communicate with contacts who have added to the mail. Their search system makes finding the data we need from time to time the minimum time lost at any time and etc, etc, etc. ….
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