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Gmail is Having Issues Right Now (Updated)

Kellen December 15, 2020 1

Gmail is having a rough week. After seeing a significant outage yesterday, the Google email service is once again struggling. Google updated their status dashboard for services at 1:29PM with the following message: We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting...

Which is Your Favorite of Google’s New App Icons?

Kellen November 10, 2020 63

To kickoff October, Google showed off the future of its products by revealing how much time they spend on the super important stuff: new icons. The new icons have brought out emotions and jokes and memes - mostly memes. The icons are, to be chill about it,...

New Gmail Icon is Here, But It’s the Statusbar Icon You’ll Notice

Kellen October 27, 2020 34

The new Google app icons that were announced as a part of Google Workspace have been slowly rolling out over the past week or so. I've seen new Drive, Chat, Calendar, and Meet icons show up in several places. It's the new Gmail icon that I was most looking...

Google Workspace is Here and That Means New Icons

Kellen October 6, 2020 13

Prepare yourselves, the icon set for all of your most used Google apps will soon change to a much more colorful design. There's actually a lot more to this story, but for most of you, that's the takeaway. The rest of the story is that Google has renamed G...

Random Tip: Change Default Gmail Snooze Times in Google Keep

Kellen September 9, 2020 8

Because Google killed the greatest email app of all time and left us with Gmail, which still lacks some of the features I loved so much about Inbox, I've spent the better part of the past year or so jumping between both Gmail and third party email options. I'm...

Gmail With Chat, Meet, Rooms Tabs is Rolling Out to G Suite

Kellen August 12, 2020 11

About a month ago, Google shared their vision for the future of Gmail, which showed an email experience filled with Chat, Meet, and Rooms tabs. The focus for this new bloated experience was to bring an all-in-one location for you to get all of your work done...

Gmail’s Meet Tab is Arriving on Android, but You Can Turn It Off (Updated)

Kellen August 11, 2020 23

It has been two months since Google first told us that they'd add a Meet tab to Gmail on Android. This new tab would be the first step towards a Gmail future with all sorts of new tabs, including Chat. Google has this vision for Gmail's future that includes a...

It’s Official! Gmail is Getting a Huge Upgrade With Chat and Meet

Kellen July 15, 2020 25

After leaking earlier today, Google has now confirmed that Gmail is getting a big upgrade that includes Google Chat and Meet. Dubbed "a better home for work," Google's focus with this move was to integrate a bunch of their services together for G Suite users...