MailBrowser – A G-Mail Necessity
MailBrowser is an addon that works with Gmail and makes dealing with your contacts and files a real breeze. As most of you know, I am a real fan of anything that works and is free and this qualifies on both accounts.
MailBrowser wants to make Gmail and Google Apps more useful by offering a consolidated view of all your contacts and attachments in a browser sidebar. In this sidebar, you can quickly search for contacts, see the latest emails you received from a specific contact, add calendar events and attach notes and tags to a contact. In many respects, MailBrowser looks a lot like Xobni for Gmail.
In short, MailBrowser stores all your data locally on your hard disk, so no information is ever shared with the service. Because all the data is stored locally, MailBrowser also keeps a copy of all your attachments on your machine. The application also syncs all the data back to Google Contacts in the cloud, so any changes you make on one computer will automatically appear on another machine.
When I first discovered this I was unsure of how this would make my Gmail better, but after trying it, I am sold and have added it to all of my machines.
For more information see the LifeHacker article or watch:
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Categories: All, Software, Tips & Tricks, WWW Tags: consolidated view, G-Mail, gmail, google, Google Apps, Google Contacts, www youtube, xobni
Handling Multiple Google Accounts
Anyone who has more than one G-Mail or Google Voice accounts has most likely discovered what a hassle it can be with logging out and logging back in to get to your information. It got to the point for me that I would run different browsers and have one account set up on Chrome and the other set up on Firefox. Of course now you need to remember which one is where.
Solution:
I was told about this add-on for FireFox that totally makes this a non-problem; CookieSwap! This extension allows you to create profiles and keep track of your various site cookies based on the selected profile. Its that simple. MozDev.org distributes this extension and describe it as:
CookieSwap is a Firefox/Mozilla extension that enables you to maintain numerous sets or “profiles” of cookies that you can quickly swap between while browsing.
I am very particular about what extensions get installed, but this is one that I am finding hard to live without.
Notice: This extension is in Beta and we make no warranty of any kind. It just works for us.
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Categories: All, Google, Tips & Tricks Tags: Firefox, Firefox Mozilla, G-Mail, google, Google Voice, mail accounts, mozdev
