Hard drives fail from time to time… and while it’s sometimes possible to recover some or all of your data, there are times when everything effectively disappears. That’s why it’s a good idea to back up all of your data on a regular basis. You can do that with a spare hard drive connected to […]
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Gmail for Android adds unified inbox (view Outlook, Yahoo, and Gmail accounts together)
Google’s Gmail app for Android is more than just an app for viewing Gmail messages. You can also add Exchange, IMAP, or POP email accounts from other services… and starting today you can view messages from all of your email accounts in one place. Google has updated the Gmail app with a unified inbox, among […]
Google Inbox is a new (invite-only) tool for managing email
Google is launching a new email app called Inbox. But it’s not just a client that lets you read your Gmail messages. It’s designed to help you pick out the messages that matter most from a flood of email and do more with the data gleaned from those messages. Inbox groups messages into bundles, shows […]
Lilbits (5-20-2014): Where’s the Surface mini?
Microsoft introduced a new Surface tablet today… but while many folks had been expecting a small “Surface mini” tablet, what we got was the biggest model yet. The Surface Pro 3 has a 12 inch screen and while an entry-level model sells for $800, higher-priced models go for as much as $1949. So what happened […]
Lilbits (4-09-2014): New looks for Firefox OS and for Google’s Android apps
Spring is finally here, and apparently it’s putting mobile software developers in the mood to redesign the look and feel of their apps and operating systems. Some of the designers of Mozilla’s Firefox OS are providing a sneak peek at an upcoming redesign of pretty much all of the graphics in that operating system, while […]
Gmail kills the need to click “display images below”
Back in the mid 1990s internet bandwidth was scarce and you might have found yourself telling your web browser only to load images upon request. Now that broadband is common, images, video, and other graphics have flooded the internet, and preventing images from loading means preventing a huge chunk of the web from loading. But […]
Lilbits (12-05-2013): Seeing the world through Google colored glasses
Google has been promising to deliver a version of Google Glass that will work with prescription lenses for a while, and now we’ve got a first glimpse of what that will look like. The company is reportedly working to partner with at least one eyewear company, and there may be more — so we could actually […]
Running Google Apps on the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX (Gmail, Play Music, etc)
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX 7 and HDX 8.9 tablets have high-resolution displays, fast processors, and tight integration with Amazon’s app, music, book, and video stores. But they also let you side-load third party apps that don’t come from the Amazon Appstore, and Android Cowboy has figured out how to use that feature to give Amazon’s […]
Gmail, Google Docs now support handwriting input
Google has added support for handwriting input to Gmail and Google Docs. You can use a mouse or touchpad to enter text, but this’ll really come in handy if you’re using one of Google’s web apps on a touchscreen tablet that doesn’t normally support handwriting input as a form of text entry. At launch, 20 […]
Yahoo Mail update brings conversation view, themes, more
Yahoo is rolling out a major update to its free email service for web and mobile users. The latest version of Yahoo Mail takes some of its cues from Gmail, which isn’t a surprise since Yahoo’s new chief Marissa Mayer was a major player in the Google empire before moving to Yahoo. But in some […]