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Google Switches Gmail to HTTPS

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | Media, Technology | No Comments

After reporting censorship attacks coming from China, Google decided to converted all their Gmail traffic into HTTPS.   Although HTTPS traffic costs considerably more, Google made a wise choice in improving their service by providing secure email.  There are setting to turn it off if you’re already using a secure connection.

Check out Google’s Official Gmail Blog for the announcement.

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Gmail: Mark All Unread Mail as Read

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | General, Tutorials, Web Design | 1 Comment

For the longest time I had 648 unread message in my gmail account. When I created the account, I didn’t use it as much as I do now, so it got polluted with unread messages that I never really planned on going back to read. I finally discovered a way to get my unread count back to 0, which delivers the impression that my inbox is clean.

Step 1:

• Log into your account

Please don’t make me include this…

Step 1a:

• Click: Select: All

Step 2:

• Click: Select all ### conversations in Inbox

Step 3:

• Click: More Actions > Mark as read

Microsoft’s New Search Engine – Bing

Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | General, Technology | No Comments

Microsoft is preparing to release Bing.com – a search engine where the results are organized in a logical order, rather then how most search engines do it – by popularity.

Bing tries to help deal with search overload by helping you find the best choice faster. By breaking results into logical categories and highlighting answers directly on the results page it helps a user make the best decision. There’s many different sections of Bing such as health, shopping, images, videos, maps and more. Using Bing for flights allows you to search across multiple airlines (like other search engines) but also provides a “price prediction” tool that shows you the best time to buy your ticket.

Check out a Bing introduction video here.

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