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Attachment fails in Gmail???
When you upload attachments to Gmail, you may get error messages saying “failed to attach!”. If you come across such error message first thing you need to do is, installing latest Adobe flash player.
You can get latest Adobe flash player from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ . In given address you can check whether you’re having the latest version of the flash player. If you don’t have one, please install the latest version.
Google says this feature is not supported in Linux; therefore Linux users will have to wait some time.
If you’re already on latest version of Adobe Flash Player (as I’m writing this article, latest version of flash player available is version 10.0):
- Switch your attachment settings from ‘Advanced attachment features’ to ‘Basic attachment features’ (click Settings and select the General tab to change this setting). Save your changes and try to upload your attachment again.
- Try another browser: if you’re on IE then install Firefox or Chrome and check the feature on it.
- Disable your proxy: Most of our home users don’t use this feature, so don’t worry.
- If you continue to have trouble after following these suggestions, report it here.
PS: Now you can upload up to 25 MB to Gmail 
, but make sure your mail receiver also using Gmail, because if he can’t receive 25 MB attachment then no point of sending a mail with 25 MB.
Insert Picture in Gmail
I still remember the early days we have to use many work around to insert a picture in Gmail’s web interface. Now Google Labs has come up with a tool which enables picture insert in Gmail interface.
First enable this feature in Labs as shown in the figure.
Now go to compose mail, you’ll see a new feature to upload a picture.
Make sure you’re in rich formatting mode, or it won’t show up. Click the little image icon, and you can insert images in two ways: by uploading image files from your computer or providing image URLs.
Keep in mind that Gmail doesn’t show URL-based images in messages by default to protect you from spammers, so if you’re sending mail to other Gmail users, they’ll still have to click “Display images below” or “Always display images from …” to see images you embed.
Gmail allows you to type in Tamil
Long time back Google has introduced transliteration (NOT translation) for five indian languages including Tamil and Hindi. Later they integrated this feature to many of their products such as Blogger, Orkut, iGoogle etc.
Advantage of transliteration is you don’t have to learn any keyboard layout. If you type “namaste” transliterate service will transliterate this to “नमस्ते.” Similarly, “vanakkam” in Tamil will become “வணக்கம்.”
Though it’s a wonderful feature if you continue to use this you’ll get addicted to this service and will not be able to continue with normal typing layout. Therefore use is when there is no other way to type in Tamil.
Now Google has integrated Transliteration in Gmail too. It’s so good that we can directly type in Tamil, especially when we are in Net café or office.
To enable this feature go to settings. (See the image below)
Change Title bar Title when using Gmail
As we know Gmail labs providing new features every day. Now they’re allowing you to tweak your title bar title. You can change you title bar title in settings.
Title Tweaks that changes the order of the elements in the browser title bar to put the more important things first. Once you turn on Title Tweaks from the Labs tab under Settings, your browser title bar will display something more like “Inbox (3) – Gma…”.
That way you can see how many unread messages you have even if the window is minimized.
Location details in your Gmail Signature
Now you can add your location in your Gmail signature. First go to Gmail Lab and enable “Location in Signature”.
Now come to general tab under settings and check the box for “Append your location to the signature”
Click on Save Settings
Now go and compose a mail, you’ll see your location added on your signature. This feature is running using your IP address. Using your IP address Gmail can track from where you logged in to Gmail.
Location in Signature
In case you use proxy or some other methods to access Gmail; it’ll fail to track your location details incorrectly.
t’ll use your public IP address to determine your location, so it may not always be that accurate. For example, if you’re at Heathrow airport, IP detection may put you in Germany. If you want more accurate location detection, make sure your browser has a version of Gears that supports the location module. That way, Gears can make use of wi-fi access point signals to recognize that you’re actually in London.
How to list down the mails that you haven’t opened so far in Gmail
For ages I’ve been looking for a way to filter out only the unread mails. I couldn’t find out a way to do that till one of my friends in office helped me.
Type is:unread in search box and click Search Mail.
Now Gmail will show you all the unread mails!
Unread mails are listed after the search
You no don’t have to click next and next and next to search for unread mails in Gmail. If anyone know a method to track down unread mails in Yahoo mails, that’d be grate.
Spam Free Gmail – Take advantage of Googlemail.com
- Image via CrunchBase
How many of you know that when you sign up for a Gmail account actually you sign up for 2 emails addresses.
Your first email address will be as we know someone@gmail.com, but you’ll be entitled to another address, that is someone@googlemail.com.
You may ask what different does it makes???
Yes, it does make difference
You can leave your gmail.com domain in public virtual world and give your friends and family only the googlemail address. Make sure you print your googlemail address on visiting card.
Now its time to create a Filter in Gmail and filter all the mails that come to googlemail domain, so you’ll never miss a single mail that you received from your friends and family.
Let the spammers mess up with gmail.com address while you enjoy Googlemail address.
This stuff will work as long as spammers don’t start to spam Googlemail domain.
Wish you for a spam free Christmas and New Year 
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Themes for Gmail from Google
There are several third party script based themes available for Gmail but now we have official themes for Gmail. Yes, Google has announced Themes for Gmail.
Today morning in Twitter I saw people are talking about themes in Gmail so I logged onto my Gmail account and found following notification is on the top. I clicked it and activated the mountain theme.
As of now this feature is not available to all Gmail accounts because I’m using two Gmail accounts but this theme feature is available only on one email account. I hope Google will expand this feature to all others too.
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To activate a theme manually go to Settings -> Themes. Then select your favorite theme. That’s it; you can have a customized view of your inbox. If you liked this feature as I do, Give me a five then.
Video Chat inside Gmail
Now video chat is available inside Gmail. This is a great feature and I’m sure no other web based email portal ever came up with such innovative technology.
You need to install a plugin for your browser then only you’ll be able to do this video chat inside Gmail.
As usual, Google is one step ahead of their competitors.
Now Gmail in Tamil & Other Indian Languages
At last Google has given long awaited Tamil Interface for Gmail. Whole interface is now given in Tamil and some dominant Indian regional languages (اردو (Urdu) , मराठी (Marathi), हिन्दी (Hindi), বাংলা (Bangla), ગુજરાતી (Gujarati), ଓଡିଆ (Oriya), தமிழ் (Tamil), తెలుగు (Telugu), ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) and മലയാളം (Malayalam). I think this combination would cover nearly whole Indian population. Read more
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