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Firefox with Greasemonkey: Gmail Compactor replaces Gmail’s standard top-left links-Compose, Inbox, Sent Mail, etc.-with clear icons, while also moving the search box underneath, saving left-hand space for links, labels, and other widgets.

You’re trying to check for important messages on your iPhone, Android, or other Java-friendly phone. The thread about the next book club meeting has devolved into a Phillip Roth argument that’s spawning 8 new pundi-mails per hour. What to do?

Microsoft recently announced POP3 support for all Hotmail users, finally freeing your email to be used anywhere-even from the vastly superior Gmail.

Use Gmail? Get Xoopit! Upgrade Gmail to search, browse & share files, photos & videos. Use Google Search while composing mail in Gmail. Get information about people in a Gmail conversation. Xoopit works for Gmail, Google Mail and Google Apps users.

If you’re all about reaching Inbox Zero, you’re probably used to immediately archiving an email once you fire off a reply to someone. With Gmail Labs’ new Send & Archive feature, it’s a no brainer.

If you’ve been on the internet for any substantial amount of time you’ve likely accumulated your fair share of email addresses. Old school addresses, an assortment of free web-based addresses from Hotmail and Yahoo, and so on all contribute to you having too many addresses and little desire to keep checking the old ones.

Synchronize the built-in calendar and address book on your BlackBerry® with your Google account. Get your Google Calendar events to your device Synchronize your Gmail contacts Be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound and vibration using your BlackBerry’s native calendar

Google’s beloved web-based email client has always been ripe for third-party design customization, but now Gmail is officially riding the interface customization train by offering 30-some new themes to spice up your inbox.

Mount Gmail account as a remote disk drive with free utility Gmail Drive Config. It works with Gmail Drive. Yes, it’s all very experimental, and Google could probably make it all go poof with a few keystrokes from some command line prompt in Mountain View.

AOL wants you to check your Gmail and see what your Facebook friends are up to – the company just prefers you do these things from its site. In an effort to increase user loyalty and bring more visitors to AOL.com, AOL is taking a step in a new direction by adding outside content, including [...]