We told you we are working hard on a bunch of improvements and new features that we’re planning on rolling out over the next couple of months. Last week we dropped the first one and we’ve already gotten a ton of positive feedback from our power users. This week we’re back with a few more updates that we know you’re going to love. So, what’s new? An improved Boomerang by “magic” interface....
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Over the past couple months, we’ve been thrilled with how many people have chosen to upgrade to a paid Boomerang account. We’ve also been inundated with requests for how we could make Boomerang even better. Originally we planned on packaging them all together into a single mega-release to bring our customers to tears of joy and strike fear deep into the hearts of email servers everywhere, but we decided some of them were...
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Email is (still) a problem; we all know it and we’ve discussed a few potential solutions and processing methods here before. But earlier this month, Sam Grobart of The New York Times laid out a coping strategy that offers a fresh perspective on email management. The best part: it’s easy to follow. For those practicing David Allen‘s Getting Things Done (GTD), Grobart’s system might make you anxious just reading about...
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Facebook provides a personalized upload email addresses for you to post statuses, pictures, and videos. To post something immediately, all you have to do is attach the photo or video, include the caption or status update in the subject line, and send the email to your personalized address. So to schedule the post for a specific time, all you need to do is schedule the email to arrive at that time with Boomerang. That’s it!...
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A lot has changed in the mobile world since the days of the Nokia bricks, PDAs and the advent of the flip. Our devices are now half the size and exponentially more powerful. With increased network speeds, advanced operating systems and incredible storage capacities, today’s smartphones are exactly that—smart. Just watch the latest iPhone commercial and try to deny it. So this may not come as a surprise: one in five...
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Boomerang might not be quite as revolutionary as a Double Rainbow, but we like to think that our customers react something like Yosemitebear when he first witnessed that Double Rainbow. Okay, maybe we’re being a bit optimistic… If you don’t have it already, download Boomerang for Gmail to get the ‘Send Later’ button now! You may experience your very own ‘Double Rainbow’ moment. You...
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I can’t believe that it’s already been a year since a 45-minute trip in a rented Chevy Cobalt changed everything. On September 1, 2010, we had 50,000 Boomerang downloads. I had $4000 in the bank, $3000 in credit card bills, and needed to loan the company another $2000. We’d tried and tried again to raise a seed round in Boston, to no avail. Every east coast angel and VC we could reach passed on the deal. We had a shelf life of about...
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Gmail was built by Google, king of the web search, so it’s no surprise that the developers integrated some smart searching functionality. For those of you who aren’t familiar with them already, there are a few tricks that can save you time looking through your inbox—and arthritis from so much scrolling. Even if you already keep organized labels, these tips can help you get there faster and skip the search within...
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We decided it was time to put together a shirt for the team here at Baydin and a few of our special Boomerang users. I started the project as I usually do, with a Google search to get the juices flowing. I was lucky to stumble across an awesome blog post written by Adam Nash from LinkedIn written all about the value of a great company t-shirt for tech startups that was particularly inspiring. Just check out the introduction: The...
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We all know that email is a problem these days. We’ve been wading through our inboxes for years, and the flood of messages shows no signs of drying up any time soon. We are receiving more mail than ever, and spending unreasonable amounts of time on the replies and organization. Over the past decade, numerous companies have sprung up with the intent of developing a solution to make email more manageable. As a result, we now...
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