With thanks to Syd Low of email service Alien Camel: Gmail is now offering email forwarding. But perhaps more importantly, as Syd points out, it’s free for the testing period, meaning it’s likely that Google is going to start charging, at some point, for email (or perhaps for certain extra features).
A couple of other options for email users looking to kill off spam, viruses etc. Walla.com (thanks, Rob) is a free, 1 gigabyte thing with a very simple sign-up process. Nevada-based Komodo (love the name, love the lizard) said yesterday (PDF file) its “unique email services are being tested internally starting this week”. This is… Read More »
If you want to, I mean if you really want to, you can add some weird sound effects to your incoming email. Chapura, better known for its KeySuite Outlook synchronization software, today launched Email Sound FX, “an Outlook add-in for customizable sound notification of Outlook email on a Windows-compatible PC”. Users can then assign sender-specific… Read More »
Just how intrusive are the contextual ads in Gmail? Not a new question, I know, but there are some stories appearing that seem to belie Google’s claims that emails would not be mined for more sensitive subjects. Take the following examples I received from one friend: Emailing a friend about a chicken dish she’d just… Read More »
A new version of The Bat! is now on the rafters. The developers, RitLabs, promise a new look user interface, the chance to replace the default interface glyphs with those of your own preference, better message filtering, special deal for students and, for the next 3 months registered users of The Bat! version 1 and… Read More »