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Gmail With “BIMI” Means More Logos

Tim July 12, 2021 4

Gmail announced this week that BIMI is inbound in a more widespread capacity, which for us consumers, means more logos in place of letters when you see a new email pop into your inbox. BIMI is Brand Indicators for Message Identification, which not only allows...

Google Chat Can be in Your Gmail App Now

Kellen April 5, 2021 11

I'm still not sure that Google has acknowledged the imminent death of Hangouts and the sneaky availability of Google Chat in recent weeks, but the rollout of Chat to more users in more places continues. If you happen to be the most productive human on Earth...

Google Shutdown Inbox 2 Years Ago and I Still Miss It

Kellen April 3, 2021 29

There are few apps that have come and gone over the years that I've truly missed as much as Google's Inbox email app. The blue-toned smarter inbox with intuitive gestures and a more organized layout has been gone for two years now, yet I still wish I could...

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 61

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 33

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 12

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 7

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...