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At last Google enables access to multiple Google accounts, well mostly.

Published on August 5, 2010 in Google, social media and technology. View Comments

Do you operate more than one Google account? Have you ever needed to use both at once and had to inconveniently sign in and out to switch back and forth between the two? Most annoying, isn’t it?

Previously the options have been to constantly sign in and out of different accounts like that, or use a second browser (which I found didn’t seem to work well between Firefox and Safari), or use Chrome Incognito.

Multiple Google Accounts

Google has announced on The Official Gmail Blog that we can now enable a feature that allows us access to more than one Google account at at time, well mostly. After enabling the feature, you can sign into two other accounts from the sign in menu. However, Google is calling this an advanced feature for a number of reasons:

  • Not all Google services support multiple account sign-in yet. These are the Google products that do: Google Code, Google Calendar, Gmail. Google Reader, Google Sites, Google Voice. Apparently, Google Docs will be added soon.
  • The mobile versions of these products do not support multiple accounts in the same web browser. They will default to the first account you sign in to.
  • Google products not included above will also default to the first account that you signed in with, using your current web browser session.
  • Offline Mail and Offline Calendar will be disabled. You may lose any unsent mail.

These issues aside, I think it’s still a welcome addition and long overdue, especially if you have separate personal and work accounts. To enable the new feature, visit google.com/accounts and click the “Edit” link next to “Multiple sign–in”.

Have You Checked Out Gmail Labs Yet?

Published on May 26, 2009 in Google, social media and technology. View Comments

I’ve come to like Gmail a lot, which I’ve been using for 9,000 emails or so now (that I’ve kept anyway). It seems to just keep getting better. I use it on both computer and mobile, and I also have my Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar synched with my iPhone contacts and calendar. Being able to do this saves quite a bit of time in itself, it’s very useful.

If you use Gmail, have you checked out Gmail Labs yet? Do you know about these extra features that are being added to Gmail all the time. They haven’t exactly been shouting about the new “experimental features”. You have to go into the Gmail Settings and then hit the Labs tab, and then enable each feature you like the look of.

Some of the many new features include: YouTube, flickr and Picasa previews in mail, mark as read button (which should have already been standard in my opinion), multiple inboxes, search autocomplete, insert images, superstars (additional stars), picture in chat, quote selected text, forgotten attachment detector, go to label, offine mail  and undo send. That’s right UNDO SEND, which stops messages from being sent for a few seconds after hitting the send button, for those accidental emails that you send and then regret moments later. Now you can’t tell me that isn’t useful.Ha.

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