How To Attach Files To Gmail Messages Quickly And Efficiently ?

It's time consuming effort when you are attaching multiple files from your computer and send it comfortably in Gmail. Any time you compose a new message, you have to click the ‘attach a file’ link, then burrow down into your computer, pick one file, and click ‘select’. Uff! this is really a nasty situation if you have less time to spend waiting...this is annoying and inefficient.

Gmail recently enabled a feature for Mozilla and Chrome users. Instead of browsing your computer to find files to attach, you can now just drag and drop files into your Gmail messages.

First, make sure you are using Firefox or Chrome. This will not work in Internet Explorer, at least not yet.

Open the folder on your computer containing the file you want to attach. once you have that window open, click on the file and drag it into the space near where the attach file link is in Gmail.

Just drag in the file...

...and Firefox will upload it to GMail. I know there isn't much to show you, but this book review is uploading...

                                                    ...and when it's done, it looks like this.

If you are attaching several files from the same place, this can save you a great amount of time. Gmail, for all of its advances, does not allow you to select multiple files to attach at the same time with the CTRL or Shift buttons. So, dragging and dropping files is a nice, and quick, alternative.

Google's Gmail PC-to-Phone Call Service

The Google Voice project has gone a long way from just simple voice call recording. Skype geeks must be trembling already because the Gmail Voice Call feature, Gmail’s PC-to-Phone calling, is doing well. Google’s Gmail new feature that lets you do voice calls to landline and mobile numbers right from your e-mail account is pure genius. No need to download and install a separate application like you do with Skype and other VOIP services. Gmail is not yet as popular as Hotmail or Yahoo Mail but with the introduction of this PC-to-Phone calling feature, it might just double its subscribers within the year.Skype should feel very threatened, while it enjoys more than 500 millions users now.

The new PC-to-phone feature is integrated into the chat list on the Gmail page. Making a call is actually very similar to starting a regular chat or video sessions. Once a user has clicked on the “Call phone” button on the top of the friends list, a telephone key pad appears—after that, a user can dial the number (by clicking on the numbers with a mouse, copying or typing a phone number) and start a conversation.

And what about the prices? Calls to the USA and Canada will be free, and to make a call to some other country, users are asked to pay strikingly little money—for instance, a voice conversation with a friend in Australia, France, Germany or the UK and more will cost only $0.02 per minute (the full list of rates can be found here).

Photo Source: popsop.com

Source: Google.com

Evolution of Email : As Explained By Microsoft.

Email, as a means of electronically sending messages between two people, is said to have began at MIT in the 1960s. The system was crude, and basically amounted to different users leaving notes for each other stored on the same shared computer. This was a precursor to today’s method of sending an email across a network, which, incidentally, was created not too much later.

The First Network Email

The backbone of our current email system began with ARPANET, near the end of 1971, by Ray Tomlinson, an ARPANET contractor working for Bolk Beranek and Newman. ARPANET was the network created by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense during the Cold War. Tomlinson’s goal was to take his existing basic messaging system, SNGMSG, and take it to the next logical evolution, indicating for a given message which user was at which of the network’s computers.

The History and Evolution of Email

Below given a link in an infographic by Microsoft, which shows how Email has evolved over the last few decades.

For more visit Here

Image Credits: focus.com and microsoft.com