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We all agree that Gmail is the coolest mail service out here. I recently read from the Official Gmail Blog two more cool features of Gmail. To be honest, I never knew about those before.

1. Suppose your gmail id is kingjacc@gmail.com, then you can aswell receive mails addressed to king.jacc@gmail.com, or k.ing.ja.cc@gmail.com or so. This is because the Gmail system just ignores any periods(.) in between your userid.
2. And here is another nice one. Again suppose your gmail id is kingjacc@gmail.com. Suppose you are using this id for some official use such as ‘customer feedback’or somehing. So now you can append any other word after your gmail id after a ‘+’ sign. So you can use the mail id ‘kingjacc+feedback@gmail.com‘ or ‘kingjacc+sports@gmail.com‘ or so. And if you want to forward to forward your mails addressed to ‘kingjacc+feedback@gmail.com‘ to another email id, if you need. You can configure this in the gmail settings > filters >

Is n’t it cool, checkout now.

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Most of us keep more than one email id. We may be keeping one for personal communication, one for business communication etc. But it is really difficult to keep up with multiple email ids. You have to check all these ids for any incoming message or to send any mail from those.

But now with gmail, you can completely manage your other email ids with a single id. For the case of incoming messages, you can set to forward all the  messages coming to that id to your gmail id.(ie, if you configure to forward your emails, you can read emails sent to jacc@yahoo.com from jack202@gmail.com). So the problem of incoming mail is saved for now. You can find the mail forwarding option in gmail >> settings >>forwarding >>

And if you want to send a mail from another account, that is also possible with gmail. In Gmail >> Settings >> Accounts >> , you can configure other email ids. Gmail will send a confirmation message and once you confirm the ownership of the other email id, you can start sending emails from those ids from your accounts.That is., if you set jacc@intellwiz.com.com to be your additional email id, then after confirmation you can send emails ‘from saurabh@intellwiz.com‘, right from the gmail id- jacc202@gmail.com. Nice isn’t it?

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At last, after a long time of spectulations and gossips, Google has released a browser – The Google Chrome. A beta release now. This move from Google has been said as the first potential move against Microsoft from a well supported platform. Chrome is built with open source components from firefox,webkit etc…Google released the first public beta of  the browser yesterday (2nd September 2008). The beta is available for download at http://www.google.com/chrome. The chrome team reports some entirely new and amazing features of the chrome, that will make Chrome even better than Firefox, (atleast that’s what I thought when I read the cool features of chrome). All the features of chrome are described as a comic (38 pages!) available here. Better read it, it is so much explanatory and so easy to understand.Some of the features of Chrome

• Speed is great, I couldn’t yet find out which is faster – firefox or chrome. Both have competing speed.[Great]
• Web search. Web history. Address bar, all three in a single box.
• A special mode for private browsing incognito mode. – [Good][we can browse 'off history' in firefox too]
• See visual preview of your most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs, every time you open a new tab!. – [Good]
• Create application shortcuts can directly load your favorite online apps -[This feature can be added to Firefox, if you install the addon called 'prism'. Download Prism]
• Every tab you’re using is run independently(as separate processes) in the browser, so if one app crashes it won’t take anything else down. – [Great]
• You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish – [Cool]
• You will be warned when you are about to visit suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe websites.[Available in most other browsers]
• Single Click bookmarking [Cool][Available in Firefox 3]
• Efficient memory usage and great performance. Starts up lot faster than firefox.[Great][I great advantage over firefox]
• A cool and great download manager [Good][Better than firefox]
• An inbuilt task manager (keyboard shortcut: shift+esc) – [Great]

Google Chrome has been reported for several compatibility issues already. Read more on compatibility issues.

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