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A malware campaign that targets a number of established services and websites has been reported this week.  It aims to fool the users of the particular service or website to providing their debit card data.

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Gmail is amazing. It's chock full of more shortcuts, settings, and features than you could shake a stick at. Even if you consider yourself a Gmail ninja, though, there are quite a few tricks you might not know about (and some that Google didn't even intend). Here are our top 10 clever tricks built right into Gmail.

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I think it says a lot about the current state of email that we have so many startups trying to change the way we do it. Gmail has been a key player for many years now. With features like threaded messages and filters, they’ve kept ahead of the game; but the feeling still seems pretty unanimous. Email sucks! Someone has got to burst this bubble and, when they do, they are going to make a mint.

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Many of our users say the accuracy of our spam filter is one of the key reasons they love Gmail. And while we think you should never have to look in your spam folder, we know some of you may want to know why the messages there were marked as spam.

So starting today, we’ll be showing a brief explanation at the top of each of your spam messages. Simply look at any message in your spam folder and now you can find out why it was put there and learn about any potentially harmful content within the message.

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WriteThat.Name recognizes signatures as soon as you receive an email and updates your address book.

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The next time you open up Gmail in Chrome keep an eye out for the prompt above, which uses HTML5 to finally close the gap between the way Google's browser handles mailto: links and its popular email service.

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Gmail is the best email client around, and chances are you use it all day, every day. It's also filled with tricks, shortcuts, and time-saving tools you can use to kick the crap out of your email. Today, we're going into exhaustive overdrive, covering all our favorite Gmail tricks, both old and new. Even if you already consider yourself a Gmail ninja, there's bound to be something here you haven't yet discovered.

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Last year we introduced HTTPS by default for Gmail and encrypted search. We’re pleased to see that other major communications sites are following suit and deploying HTTPS in one form or another. We are now pushing forward by enabling forward secrecy by default.

Most major sites supporting HTTPS operate in a non-forward secret fashion, which runs the risk of retrospective decryption. In other words, an encrypted, unreadable email could be recorded while being delivered to your computer today. In ten years time, when computers are much faster, an adversary could break the server private key and retrospectively decrypt today’s email traffic.

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Google's redesign of Gmail is now available for users who want a more streamlined look and more customization options. You are able keep the old look for now if you want.

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We keep your address book up-to-date
As soon as you receive an email,  we recognize the signatures and update your address book.

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As we move to Google Apps for Education at my school I gave a quick 10 minute talk at a staff meeting on 5 Gmail Tips for Teachers.

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"The great thing about web apps is that you can access all of your information on the go, and we’ve introduced ways to use Google Apps on a variety of devices like mobile phones and tablets. But it’s inevitable that you’ll occasionally find yourself in situations when you don’t have an Internet connection, like planes, trains and carpools. "

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If you’re a long-time Gmail user, you might be using a lot of its powerful features. You can do quite a number of things by fiddling with the Gmail URL as well.

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You’ve probably already improved the lives of your friends and family members by helping them switch to Gmail, but what about that one friend who still hasn’t made the switch? It’s time to take a stand and stage an intervention.

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It's relative to you. If you normally have 40,000 unread messages in your inbox, what's 50 more? But if you usually have nothing in your inbox, then 50 unread messages is a big deal. courteous.ly keeps a log of how many messages it sees to get a feel for what's normal for you. That's why the service takes a few hours to warm up: it needs to understand your patterns.

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Welcome to "Gmail Tips: The Complete Collection" Here you will find all the Gmail Tips posted to GmailTips.com. I hope they help you in your continued use of Gmail!  Note that his is an archive of Tips and articles written since May, 2004. As such, specific features, issues, and opinions many have since been changed, updated, or corrected. In the near future, I will try to indicate on each affected article or Tip where changes may have occurred, and where later Tips preempt previous Tips. Until then, just sit back and enjoy the read!

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Create a legitimate gmail account at http://mail.google.com/. (e.g. username@gmail.com). Then, you can use that base account to "trick" web applications that require e-mail address to create user accounts. The way it works is that you add a + and a student name/alias after the gmail user name (e.g. username+sara@gmail.com, username+tom@gmail.com, username+chris@gmail.com, etc.)

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Instant search for your online data

Now available for Gmail, Google Apps Email, Google Docs & Contacts
Coming Soon: Support for Twitter & Facebook

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If you've ever wanted to make Gmail look just so for your personal tastes, today is your lucky day: Gmail has added a new "Create your own theme" option and tool where you can select background images and then choose your theme's colors.

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"Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. "

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