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Behold the power of GMail again Priority Inbox revealed

It took a lot of effort for e-marketers and operators to actually find the way to go through GMail, and end up as a mail inside the Inbox, and not into Junk folders. GMail was actually a beta thing, it wasnt until 2009 that Google launched its alpha version, but for the pain of many mailers, newsletters, e-zines, etc... to comply with GMails junk filters was hell of a challenge since its early stages (back in 2004). Worst of all, those great filters were one of their great features, everyone wanted a GMail account, but as most of Google important apps, there was an "invitation" stage, where just few users could test and use it. There are now 176 million monthly users/accounts, which means... its a BIG potential client cluster, still, its hard to break junk filter has been also evolving, learning, catching. If any follows the "anti spam" rules, their mail will pretty much have a 25% chance to go all the way down into the Inbox. So, e-marketers, bulk mailers, and frie...

Be in sync with your GMail Inbox with CheckGmail

I use GMail as my primary email account. I receive lots of email everyday from comments on blog post to university assignments and lecture notification . Now whenever i am using windows I usually keep myself signed into GTalk, as GTalk has this nice feature of showing a small notification window whenever new email comes into your inbox. However even though Google has been porting a number of their programs from Windows to Linux platform till now they have not ported GTalk on the Linux platform . Now since i spend significant amount of my time on the Linux platform i had to keep my GMail account always open in the browser and keep refreshing it periodically to check for any new mail this was frustrating as well as tiresome till i discovered this nifty little application CheckGmail. CheckGmail basically stays in your taskbar and whenever any new email comes it shows a small window informing you about it and clicking on the window actually opens the browser and takes you to the email. To ...