Ian Sinke

Posts Tagged ‘Gmail’

Spam Recipes in GMail

In Internet, Software on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 9:59 am

The GMail web app is supported by “featured content” – a sneaky way of saying text link ads – at the top of every page. Among the more interesting ads are those in the spam folder: they are all links to recipes that have spam (the food, not the emails) as an ingredient. There don’t seem to be very many spam recipes on the internet, however. The only four I am seeing:

Gmail gets IMAP

In Internet, Software on Friday, November 2, 2007 at 10:13 am

I’ve been using Gmail as my primary email account for a while now, but I’ve never bothered syncing it with Outlook, partly because Gmail’s web interface is great and partly because Gmail didn’t support IMAP. However, as of yesterday, the Gmail team has added the IMAP support they promised to Gmail.