This is a guest post from Boomerang customer and professional photographer, Greg Goodman. Boomerang Beginnings We all know Boomerang is an incredibly useful email tool. What you may not know is how awesome the Boomerang team is! Last December, I had the fortune of photographing Boomerang’s holiday party. As a regular user of the app, I felt like a fanboy while getting to know the kind, down-to-earth, funny and inspirational group of...
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The average email user receives 147 emails every day and spends over 2 ½ hours a day on email. Unfortunately, most of us have a hard time keeping up. In a recent episode of his new podcast StartUp, Alex Blumberg, producer for This American Life and co-founder of Planet Money, admitted to having over 78,934 unread emails in his inbox! And he’s not alone. Most people have piles of emails in their inbox (including, but not limited to,...
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It’s finally here! We’ve heard your feedback and our most requested feature is here: Bulk Boomerang. That’s right, now keeping your inbox clean just got that much easier. You can Boomerang, one, three, or ten messages directly from any folder within Gmail. 1. Just mark the check box of any message you would like to schedule for return, 2. Click the “Boomerang” button, 3. Select a time or enter a custom...
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We have gotten quite a few requests over the last year for Boomerang to support Safari. With the recent release of version 5.1, Safari supports all of the pieces required to run Boomerang. So Boomerang now supports Safari as well. Technically speaking, it’s been out for a little while already while we were testing it. For the past 2 weeks, if you happened to visit the Boomerang download page while browsing on Safari, you might...
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We all have muttered something along those lines (usually with a $@*! thrown in) while searching for a particular message in our inboxes. Sometimes finding an email you need is like finding the matches. You see that box of matches all the time around the house when you don’t need it, but when the electricity goes out, it’s nowhere to be found. Emails have a way of doing the same. When you don’t need a message, you...
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Today, we’re excited to announce a deeper integration of Boomerang with Google Apps. Introducing the Boomerang Contextual Gadget: Because it is a contextual gadget, a Google Apps domain administrator can now install Boomerang for his or her entire domain. From then on, the Boomerang service will be available for all users instead of only in browsers that have the plugin installed. Installing the contextual gadget is easy; just...
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