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Gmail is continously improving with new features. ZDNet’s Google Blog is now reporting new features will be added to the gmail accounts. One of the features is that you can now delete all spam with a single click. This is probably not groundbreaking. I however like the second feature, which is the ability to add filters to exisiting emails. Up to now it’s only been possible to add filters to incoming emails. This new features makes it a lot easier to organize your emails.

If you, like me, have multiple email accounts and receive hundreds of emails every month, this is very helpful. Earlier you had to use searching and go through pages of search hits to add labels to lots of emails. Now you can do this is in a filter.
I use labels frequently in my gmail accounts. Yes, I have two accounts. One for rss feeds and one regular. Google Operating System has a list of things you can do with this new feature.

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I finally got my google analytics account after 4-5 weeks of waiting, and it’s indeed something worth waiting for! It’s still in beta, so you have to wait for an account, but why not sign up now. I’ve been trying different stats scripts for my sites, but this one has all the known features and adds a lot more! It seems like google has been in contact with lots of network operators and have mapped the ips to the customers location. I must say I was kind of shocked when my local address popped up in the geo map overview! It’s also looking a lot more neat now with in depth grahps and charts. I like that. If you want to read more about Google Analytics, check out the Google Analytics Review.

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As probably many of you, I’m now using G-Mail on a regular basis. I was not a fan of web based email-readers before, but with G-Mail it all changed. It’s neat and simple, fast, flexible, got filters and labels and all the functionality I need. I now forward all my emails to my gmail-address, and I then don’t have to check them all. I always keep one tab in my brower(s) open. This is, in my opinion, at least as good as keeping Thunderbird or Outlook Express open at all times. I always keep a browser window open. If not I get notifications from the G-Mail notifier or Google Desktop.

But one the strongest argument for me to choose G-Mail is still the filtering possibilities. This way I can filter, label, archive, forward etc. easily. I don’t have to manipulate config files, forward files on the server etc., but the option is easily accessible through the settings menu. I also use G-Mail as an rss-reader. I subscribe to feeds at R-Mail, and filter them (skip-inbox and add label). I use a seperate gmail account for this. Some of the filters forward search hits to my main account.

The latest addition to my G-Mail tools is G-Mailto. By installing this software the mailto: links will be redirected to G-mail. For those of you using firefox there’s a plugin called GMailCompose. Pretty neat

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If you read rss-feeds and haven’t heared about this, go visit this page.

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I was just googling too see if my own web page showed up, and this page turned up.

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