Grab your smartphone, Boomerang Mobile is here! We’ve been working on it for months, and we’re thrilled to be able to bring message scheduling and email reminders to your phone. Boomerang now works on iPads, iPhones, anything Android, BlackBerries, and dozens of other web-enabled phones. The mobile version has all the Boomerang features that you’ve come to rely on in the Desktop version — Scheduled Sending,...
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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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As much as I love Twitter, I have always hated the 140 character limit. Yes, I know. The limit encourages real time spontaneous sharing, light banter, and fluid commentary. I acknowledge Twitter’s role in breaking news of revolutions and natural disasters. I didn’t imagine where Twitter would be today when I started out with it but it’s a big part of my online identity now. But aside from link sharing and instant...
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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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Hey everybody! Just wanted to share the email we sent to our beta customers, hopefully it answers some of your questions and gives you a kick… We are excited to announce that Boomerang for Gmail has graduated from Beta and is now a 1.0 service! The plugin should update automatically, and you should notice many improvements (more details below). Now that our beta period has ended, Boomerang is incorporating new pricing...
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Howdy folks! I’m thrilled to announce that we deployed Boomerang for Gmail 1.0 tonight! The team worked incredibly hard, over very long hours to put together the release. We’re really proud of how smoothly the improvements make everything run, and we hope you’ll enjoy them! As part of our conversion from a beta service, we’re also announcing new pricing plans. For more information about the new plans, check out...
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We released some awesome new features last night (6/21) to Boomerang for Gmail. You should see the changes the next time you load Gmail. If you do not see the changes, try restarting your browser. Here are some details: Streamlined Boomerang and Send Later Menus The “At a specific time” window is now integrated into the menu. We hope that this will make it easier for you to specify a custom time and reduce a couple mouse clicks...
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Updated at 6/21 9:18 PM PST We are deploying improvements and new features to Boomerang for Gmail currently. The service will be available shortly.
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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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If you’re anything like me, you have a giant stack of business cards you’ve accumulated at conferences and events somewhere in your office. I have two such stacks, and I never contacted the majority of the people in them, nor do I remember anything about who they were or why (even if!) they were interesting. I’ve been working on a system to streamline handling the stack of cards for quite some time, and I finally hit one...
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