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How to: Generate Google Apps Desktop Icons

Are you a Google Apps user?  If so, would you find it useful to have desktop icons for your Google Apps Gmail, Calendar, and Docs? I’m not sure how new of a feature this is, but Google Apps now has an easy way to add cool looking icons to your desktop.  Once your icons are […]

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How To: Use Gmail As Your Personal Assistant

Gmail Search I was speaking to a friend this morning who has a lot of usernames and passwords for a lot of different online applications and software.  He needed to create a new Gmail account which added another username and password for him to create. He got frustrated, understandably, because he said, “how in the […]

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Gmail Is Down – Sort of…

Gmail is down – again! But it’s not totally down! I am still able to send and receive email just fine.  The problem is isolated to my contacts, which is also directly affecting my chat. Here’s what Google has to say when you get this specific error: Contacts temporarily unavailable Print Your contact list is […]

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Google Apps – How To Set Up Gmail Active Sync on iPhone

How to sync Google Apps email on your iPhone The Google Mobile Blog just announced today the addition of Gmail to their active sync products for the iPhone. Prior to today, the active sync / live push functionality was reserved only for Gmail Calendar and Google Contacts.

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How Google Talk For iPhone Can Save You From The Text Messaging Rip Off

It’s no secret if you own an iPhone! You can’t get unlimited text messaging with your data plan.  Not to mention you now have to pay $30 per month for the data plan, which wasn’t the case when I purchase my first generation iPhone 2 years ago. So if you do a lot of texting  […]

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Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server

The Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server users is now available! Official announcement here I have a friend that works for a law firm, and they are all assigned a BlackBerry where the content, emails, calendars, etc… all flows from a server that is assigned to all BlackBerrys. When Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry […]

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How To Use Gmail As Searchable Database

Using Gmail as a personalized, and fully searchable database for your own data storage needs. There are lot’s of different uses for Gmail that go far beyond email.  For example, Gmail has features such Chat, Tasks, Contacts, and even Google Docs integration. However, I wanted to tell you about how I use Gmail also as […]