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They had not insisted on https use earlier as the downside https delay the mail transfer because encrypted data travels slower across the web. They had researched this security aspect / latency tradeoff and finally are now turning https on for all.

They are rolling out https defaults for all. If you set your own https preference from G-mail settings, then it is OK. However, if you do not want default https turned on for performance, you can always turn it off at anytime by choosing “Don’t always use https” from the Settings menu.

It has further been decided that G-mail will still encrypt the login page by way of password protection. Google Apps users whose admin never defaulted, their domains to https will enjoy the same options. For more information on account and computer protection, visit: www.google.com/help/security. They have cautioned to off line G-mail over https users, switching to https may cause problems. Therefore know more on how to pass it.

However Google is gaining popularity fast but it would be long and a great leap for it till they catch up with Yahoo’s No.1 position if they keep growing in the current speed.

ComScore’s latest figures are all about the e-mail market showing Yahoo as 106.2 million users strong. This year it is about to grow into this new market reaching even some more million users.

Google still has a lot of catching up to do but with the current pace they just might in the next year. Microsoft’s Hotmail is also growing fast with 47.1 million users while Gmail only boats of 36.9 million users.

Source: news.cnet

This web-based Gmail version was showed off by Google last week and it also announced that it would be available on their Mobile blog. Joanne McKinley, a mobile engineer at Google says: “You would definitely find it a lot faster to perform various actions like searching, navigating and opening emails.

It will also allow you to open recent messages and compose when there is drop in data network.”

The given new features are quite interesting and it is, indeed, a big step, as Google has quite significantly demonstrated the power of mobile web browser that are being used not only to surf web pages, but also running other web-based applications. One needs not to download this Gmail application via Apple’s App Store or Android market, as it begins to work just after pointing the browser to gmail.com.

Improved Gmail version for iPhone and Android

It is quite significant for Google as Android and iPhone can be supported with one Website that may also support Palm Pre in the coming days. The company wouldn’t need to develop different applications for different devices; it has been already featured in BlackBerry as well as Android and now in the iPhone.

Android and iPhone users will definitely find the new version a lot more detailed than the forerunners. Here is a list of new features that one can find in the new version.

1. It will allow users to select multiple messages and then mark them spam, read or unread as well as archive or delete them.
2. It has a floaty bar that appears to travel with the page while scrolling through some message.
3. It will also allow you to have easier retrieval of older messages that can be done with a given search button.
4. The thing that sets this application apart is the offline access that stores mail messages on the handset with still settling-down HTML5.

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• A new mobile Gmail experience for iPhone and Android

Aside from many other things, this brisk web application can also boast a revamped interface as well as support labels and finally but immensely can provide offline access.

All we can guess, it seems that Google seems to use voodoo or black magic to do all that, but according to Gundotra, HTML5 standards helped to make it happen.

This new development seems quite promising and it will pave a way for further offline enabled applications in the coming days.

People have been messing with Apple’s own apps, so we may have to wait for to get them around for iPhone, however, we can expect it soon in Android, as there are several reasons for such expectation.

The things are done instantly and emails get impressively and precisely answered as well.

It would profit from different keyboards shortcuts, access to various item notes expressly and with some refinements as well.

So, with this firefox extension you will not only able to edit, complete and postpone your tasks, but you can also add some new tasks like emails, contacts and calendar events.

How to install
Remember The Milk for Gmail is quite easy to install, but you have to close all opened Firefox windows after installing this extension and you need to restart the browser. Now it’s time to see your Gmail account and you would find the extension there.

As it’s an .xpi extension, it’s available for Mozilla Firefox. But for some other browsers, an option has been provided in Gmail Labs.

http://www.rememberthemilk.com

How can I mange my tasks?
Once you have installed the extension, you would find a tasks pane at the very right of your Gmail box. The appeared tasks can be customized and allows you to decide the way you want to group or sort your tasks. It’s quite easy to add some new tasks, as all you need to do is to add some new tasks in the given box.

You can easily include new tasks as well as tags. Similarly, if you want to complete, delete, postpone, edit or view some details about the tasks just by moving over some task list.

How can I connect tasks with my email?
Let’s suppose you want to follow up some email or it has some task that you want to remember. You can star or label this message with “To Do”. When some message is labeled or marked with a star, RTM is able to develop a task automatically.

If you want to change the settings for different features, you need to go to the Settings menu in Gmail and then have to click on Tasks. It also allows you to create a task from some email just by selecting Create task from the More Actions dropdown.

Connecting tasks with Google Calendar
You have to check your calendar when marking some due date, when Remember The Milk detects that you are including some task related to some event in your calendar, it talks to Google Calendar and automatically finds out when this task is due.

The good, the bad and the normal
In short, Remember the Milk included some nice and amazing task management dexterities in Gmail. It allows you to easily connect tasks to your emails, contacts and Google calendar dates. All these are makes it a nice addition in Gmail Lab.

But it has some which can be reckoned normal or somewhat bad, as it doesn’t add keyboard shortcuts. You can’t access or edit task notes in direct way.