As an early user of GMail, I'm impressed with the constantly
increasing range of extra facilities available. A nice one is 'Chat' -
if you are online to GMail at the same time as someone else on your
list who has a gmail address, you can chat (type messages) live with
them through a chat box which comes up automatically when the sender
makes a chat request.
We used it several times recently when our boys were in Central
America or Iceland and happened to be online (at an internet cafe) at
the same time as us.
And to this facility, Google have recently added vision capability. If
the sender of a chat has a webcam (as built in on all recent iMacs
etc), you can see the sender live in a small window at the top of the
chat box, and of course they can see you if you wish. The chat box can
also be 'popped out' away from the gmail page, and this makes the
vision box larger.
David Noel
2009 Feb 22
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From: Philippe Chaperon <laut...@westnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: GMail & effective mail filtering
Date: Fri Feb 20 23:07
Hi Glen,
Well, it took me quite some time to find the toggle, but I had to use
Firefox instead of my Safari 1.3.2. Must say that I'm using OS X
10.3.9 at the moment. So possibly the latest Safari will not have that
problem.
Whatever, I'm extremely happy with GMail. As usual the best advice is
from WAMUG'ers (or WAMUGgians??).
Thanks again, much appreciated.
Kind regards and good night to all.
Philippe C.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Glenn Nicholas <gl...@om4.com.au> wrote:
>
> Phil,
> At the top of every Gmail text box (while you are composing an email)
> there is a toggle - Rich formatting (if you are in plain text mode) or
> Plain text (if you are rich text mode).
> Glenn.
>
> 2009/2/20 <laut...@westnet.com.au>:
> > Dear WAMUG'ers,
> >
> > Well, after over 7 days of using GMail to filter all the rubbish which
> > was appearing in my mail, I am glad to say that I do not now have any
> > problem! One big bonus, I do not feel inadequate in any field!!
> >
> > To those who suggested GMail, many thanks. Not only do I receive my
> > filtered mail from my Westnet account, but I can also send mail from
> > GMail having my Westnet address. Very convenient in some cases. And to
> > my surprise retrieving my mail is very fast indeed.
> >
> > One small but unimportant problem, I do not know whether I can send my
> > messages via GMail in 'text' format. I have tried looking into this, but I
> > can only see HTML formatting for outgoing mail. Which means that I have to
> > go to my normal email application to send to the lists accepting only
> > 'text' messages. But I can live with that.
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