I am a huge fan of Gmail, but one of the downfalls up to this point is you could not access email offline. Gmail labs has come to the rescue again as they have started to roll out offline Gmail. You will have to enable this feature when it is available for your account. Gmail is actually using Gears in the background to cache your email locally. When your browser looses connection to the internet it will revert to your cached account instead of showing nothing. The one thing to remember is that this feature is very experimental so don’t be surprised if you run into some issues.
Gmail Official Release
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-offline-gmail.html
Gmail YouTube Video On Offline Mail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOAZaIaeIrI
I was recently at a VM User’s Group (VMUG) meeting and heard mention of using Google to isolate searches to one website. I assumed this was possible, but I hadn’t looked into it. For instance, VMware’s website search is not as good as using Google to search the VMware website. To focus Google’s search to one specific website, type the following in the Google search:
searchstring site: sitetosearch.domain
example:
esxcfg-vmknic site:vmware.com
If you are addicted to email like me you are always looking for new tips. If you are using Google Toolbar 5 for either IE or Firefox you can make you life allot easier. You can add the Gmail custom button which allow you to get new message alerts, previews of your mail, and the search box that can help you find messages in your Gmail account. To see the full post head on over to the Gmail Blog and check it out!
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/tip-your-email-wherever-you-are-on-web.html
