I really like the new priority inbox feature in gmail/google apps, but am I the only one so far that is having wrong counts? Or maybe I’m just not following how it is supposed to count them.
Take a look:
The label shows 5 unread messages, but the “Important and unread” area says it has 8. I counted them and there are 8 for sure. While I am writing this it changed so the label says 10 and “Important and unread” shows 13 with 13 real messages.
So what’s up with the label number being off?
Google labs have released “Mail Googles” in order to make you think about the email you’re going to send before sending it, but only when you’re sending this within the hours you pre-select.
You can read more about this completely asinine labs project on the Gmail blog should you have a desire to.
Finally, after looking forever for a way to do over-the-air sync between Gmail for contacts & calendar with my Windows Mobile powered phone, I have found a solution. Well, 2 solutions to be exact.
- Free Option: NuevaSync.com appears to be a new start-up that does just this. It also works with the iPhone and iPod touch apparently, although I don’t have either to test with. It uses the pre-installed ActiveSync so there’s nothing additional to be installed, and can run immediately when configured. I’ve had limited success with actual sync, with issues that mostly appear to be caused by time-outs while sync is happening. I find that 3-4 attempts usually results in one successful sync, although a few times it’s taken more than that. So for people that don’t need instant, mission-critical sync this is an option. Some of the benefits are that you can sync with any calendar that you have read&write access to, but I have yet to figure out how to select which calendar to write to when adding on my mobile. It appears to go directly into my primary every time. Their status tools are good and the browsing is super light weight, and appears to be mobile friendly so you can set this up from your mobile device if you wanted to.
- Paid Option: GooSync.com has a free option, but it’s quite limited. Their paid option is £19.95 per year and appears to add a few more features that the above NuevaSync. I used their free option for a while, and the sync speed was rather slow for me, and I wasn’t crazy about their program that you had to install. It won’t let you schedule sync when you’re on the free version, and the program is a little clunky. It always worked fine, so I would think that someone who had more of a need to sync routinely would be happier with this service than the one above.
Anyone else have other suggestions how to sync calendar and contacts between Gmail and Windows Mobile?
For quite some time I couldn’t figure out how to search through the spam folder in gmail (and google apps mail) unless your search found no results in the other folders. Well, it’s actually really simple now that I figured it out. Sure, I could have read the instructions but that takes the fun out of it, and it wasn’t all that important anyway.
Here’s how to search through your spam folder in gmail – it also works in google apps mail.
In the search box, type your search like you normally would, just ad “in:spam” to the end of it. So if you were to search for “password” and wanted to search just the spam folder for a password recovery email or something similar, type “password in:spam” without the quotes, of course. You can also reverse it, if you wanted to because that’s the logic that works with your brain, so try “in:spam password” and it does the same thing.