When looking for an apartment, Craigslist can be your best friend. But despite the plethora of posts, the search process can be frustrating. You have to check the listings constantly so you don’t miss out on any posts—which means at least daily if you are looking to move to one of the big cities. You usually end up looking at some of the same exact posts because you forgot where you left off last time. And even when you are lucky...
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This week, Google announced the launch of a new optional feature: read receipts. Apparently the feature was heavily requested on Google’s Product Ideas, and this time Google answered. Read receipts inform senders whether their messages have been read and allow recipients to acknowledge that they received something. The receipts are either automatically generated when a message is opened or manually approved, depending on the...
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If you are looking for ways to schedule text messages, there are a few dedicated web services out there like TextMeLater, OhDon’tForget and TextMemos. They will require you to register and set up an account with them, but are otherwise fine ways to schedule a text message. But if you are like me, a Boomerang user (well, you should be if you already aren’t), who loves to schedule everything inside Gmail and prefer to have...
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Update: March 15, 2011, 4:53 PM: This issue is now (mostly) resolved! Google has pushed an update to their OAuth signin flow. When you are presented your account selection screen, choose your Gmail account, and everything will work. If you use both Gmail and Google Apps Mail in the same browser at the same time, you may be experiencing issues signing into Boomerang or The Email Game. You are impacted if you are taken to an account...
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Etacts recently announced some great news – they’ve been acquired by Salesforce. Unfortunately, that means that both Etacts and EmailOracle will shut down service today, January 31st. If you depended on their integrated, social CRM service for Gmail, you’re probably finding a replacement service to migrate to and here’s our guide to help you with making your selection. Etacts has three primary functionalities as...
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I have a problem. Maybe you have it, too. I’m always behind in my emails. I shouldn’t have this problem. After all, I check my email every minute of the day. In fact, I’m surprised that my Gmail screen hasn’t been burned into my retinas yet. I guess I’m a procrastinator. Therefore, my New Year’s Resolution is simple: get to an empty inbox every day in 2011. Think I can do it? Here’s my plan. I’m going to tackle my email overload...
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