Want to save a single email from gmail to disk, in a readable format for Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail? Here's how: 1. Open your browser and log into your gmail account. 2. Open the email you want to save. 3. On the top-right, there is a little triangle next to the "Reply" button. Click that, and select …

Philipp Lenssen from the Google Blogoscoped blog does some iterations on the Google Mail userinterface while he investigates the question "What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?". He ends up with a userinterface which is very much like the hotmail I knew before I replaced it with my current gmail …

Yup, you've guessed it. User error. There I was in my last post complaining that gmail was down, while actually my ADSL modem needed a good reset. At work, I could access gmail, and when I got home, I had the same problem as yesterday. I cleared the browser cache, still no result. Then I resetted my ADSL modem, and …

Great, gmail is down for days now. I really hope it will return soon, so I can back up that mail to my server. By going down, Google showed me how much I came to rely on them, while they're actually unreachable when something happens, and I don't even have backups of my own mails! I really like gmail and the way it …