Gmail now gives you the option  not just to call people using gmail/google talk  on their computers but now you can call any phone in the U.S. and Canada free for the rest of the year and you can call people in the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan and many more countries for as little as $0.02 per minute (see rate table). Just click on the call phone at the top of your chat list in gmail  and dial a number or enter a contacts name

Note: You do need to have the voice and video plugin installed for it to work click here to install it.

Michael

Gmail video chat now works on linux, so for all you linux users just vist click here to download the new plug in.

Note: Voice and video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions

Michael

Hi All,

I have just added a new page to my blog, it is the question page. If you have any questions you would like to ask me you can ask me there or you can email me at michael.blog.public@gmail.com

Michael

There is a much easier way than doing the regesity hack to cancel the tour balloon in windows xp.

If you have done a clean installation of windows you will be bugged by the ‘Take The Tour’ balloon. So you just click on the bubble then press cancel when the box pops up, its that simple!

This information was submitted by Joshua Cao

Michael

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To get started, open Calendar and click on the “Tasks” link on the left hand side :

To create a task with a due date in Calendar, click on an empty space in month view or the all-day section of week view, and be sure select the “Task” option.

You can modify a task’s due date by dragging it to a different date, just as you would with a regular calendar event
To mark a task completed from within Calendar, just click on the task’s checkbox.
To keep track of due dates before they arrive, there’s a “Sort by due date” feature (That is really handy!!) available in the actions menu at the bottom of the task list.

On my blog recently I have added a new feature to my blog called the feedback form. When you visit my site on the side there is an image that says feedback. If you could please fill out this form before you leave my site that would be great.

Your Feedback is greatly appreciated!

Michael

Just say for an example if you forward all your work email to Gmail, you can use Multiple Inboxes to see your two accounts separately within the same browser window. Here’s how:

1. Turn on Multiple Inboxes from the Labs tab under Settings.
2. Set up a filter to auto-archive all mail sent to your work or school address.
3. Customize one of your multiple inboxes to show mail sent to your other address. To do this, go to the Multiple Inboxes tab under Settings and set up one of the panes to search for mail sent to your other address.

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TIP: you can use a “custom from” address so that replies will be sent from Gmail but as if they’re from your other account. This way no one will know the difference.

This is still a experimental feature so it may have a couple of bugs.

To set it up

1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.

2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.

3. Click Save Changes.

4. After your browser reloads, you’ll see a new “Offline 0.1″ link in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don’t already have it.

Here is a interesting video that the gmail team made that covers all the features of the new gmail offline labs feature.

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