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iGoogle Gets Makeover-Plus Style

September 8, 2011 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Google’s personalized homepage has a new interface inspired by Google+. Google is on a roll with unifying their online applications to bring them in line with the styling of Google+. The redesign follows in the footsteps to the changes recently made to Google Calendar and Gmail, and Google Docs and Sign-In.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google Tagged With: Gadgets, Google+, GooglePlus, iGoogle, redesign, widgets

Google Apps Status Dashboard Released

February 26, 2009 by Paul Spoerry 1 Comment

Gmail had a major outage early Tuesday morning: for about two and a half hours starting at 1:30 am PST while many of their users in the US were asleep, many people couldn’t access their email. Lots of people around the world who rely on Gmail were disrupted during their waking and working hours.

In response to its extended outage, Google has just launched the Google Apps Status Dashboard. The dashboard offers an at-a-glance look at the system health of most popular Google services, including Gmail, Google Calendar, and the company’s suite of web-based document editors. Google has been pretty good about responding to down time with blog posts alerting users with status updates, but having a dedicated page seems like a much better solution (especially for users who don’t follow Google’s blogs).

Google Apps Status Dashboard

As you can see above the dashboard lists most of Google popular services, a date range (you can view older date ranges as well) and an icon displaying the status for the individual service. The status icon will indicate: No issues, Service Disruption, Service Outage, and Information Available. Clicking the symbol in the table will allow you to view more detailed information. There’s also an RSS Feed icon shown on the page, however… it says “Coming Soon”. This too would be handy, unless you’re using Reader of iGoogle to fetch your feeds and one of those services is down as well.

Filed Under: GMail, Google, iGoogle, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: iGoogle

GMail officially gets themes

November 20, 2008 by Paul Spoerry 1 Comment

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There’s even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers — it’s not exactly practical, but it’s great for testing out your geek cred. We’ve also done a minor facelift to Gmail’s default look to make it crisper and cleaner — you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.

Note that so far this has not shown up on the Google Apps version GMail. Bummer…

Original GMail blog post here.

Filed Under: Gadgets, GMail, Google, iGoogle, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: email, google, iGoogle

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