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Calling from Gmail will remain free through 2012

Many Gmail users take advantage of the Call Phone option within the email client to place calls for free in the United States & Canada or pay low rates for international calling. For individuals without unlimited voice minutes or a landline, the ability to call for free anywhere in the United States and Canada is more »

Google+ now available for those with Google Apps accounts

Google has officially announced Google+ support for Google Apps accounts. The support will need to be manually turned on for your organization before you begin (directions can be found here), and nicely done, Google is allowing those administrators to enable Google+ for everyone or for select users. Otherwise, once the support is turned on, users more »

Google begins testing additional Inbox styles in Gmail

It looks like Google is beginning to test a few new inbox styles within Gmail. In other words, this may or may not be in your Gmail account yet (or ever). Anyway, as you can see from the above image, those with the option available will have a drop down menu next to their Inbox more »

Google adds “Undo” action for select functions in Mobile Gmail

If you’re using Gmail on your phone, you’ve probably experienced accidentally deleting a message by mistake or labelling it incorrectly. While you can always recover these deleted messages from your Gmail Trash folder and put it back to your inbox. Or remove the wrong label and apply the correct one. While this is all good, more »

Google announces Gmail email & chat desktop notifications for Chrome users

Just yesterday Google announced that an unread message count icon was now available by way of Labs for Gmail users running Firefox or Chrome. And now they have returned with another Gmail goodie, except this one is only for those running Chrome — desktop notifications for email and chat. The notifications can be turned on more »

Gmail adds unread message count icon by way of Labs

As someone who generally has Gmail open in a tab all day long, its these little tweaks that make it a more enjoyable experience. That said, information at a glance is a good thing and the latest addition in the Gmail Labs does just that — allows you to see how many unread messages you more »

Google enables Gmail delegation to anyone

Google seems to be giving Gmail some attention lately. After giving out second chances to accidentally deleted Gmail contacts, here’s another nice feature which will be very useful for those who maintain multiple Gmail accounts or for those who wants to share their accounts to somebody else. The new Gmail delegation allows you to authorize more »

Gmail, by name is coming to the UK

In a story that feels as if it should have happened years ago, UK users will soon have Gmail. Of course, they have had Google Mail all this time, so really the change is just in name only. But the good news is that those in the UK will soon be able to sport a more »

Chrome extensions we like: Google Mail Checker Plus

Like all things Google I am quickly becoming more and more of a fan of Chrome. In fact, the only thing keeping me from using it full time is the lack of extension support on the Mac side. But Chrome has replaced Firefox as my default browser for the times I am using a PC. more »

Get caught up in technology with InterrupTech: September 7, 2009

Welcome back to InterrupTech. Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry. We cover Take Two’s $20M settlement, Apple’s 09/09/09 event, the GMail fail, Skype gets sold, and plenty more.