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Chrome Gmail Desktop Notifications For Email And Chat Messages

January 28, 2011 by bharath

gmail desktop notifications sample

We always want to get notified for new emails (read Gmail), right? Probably because we can’t always stay online or even if we are online, we just can’t keep the Gmail window open and keep looking at it. That’s why there are so many services out there offering these kind of email alerts (both offline and online). We had earlier covered how you can get free Gmail SMS alerts whenever a new email arrives. When you are online you can just install one of those widely available desktop notification application to get alerted for new emails and chat messages.
But, wait! Google has listened to us, Google has recently integrated the desktop notifications for email and chat conversations into Gmail. But the catch? You should use Google Chrome to make this thing work. The Gmail desktop notifications is based on HTML5 and even though the most of the modern browsers support HTML5, it’s just available for Chrome! But as a Gmail fan, I would like to see this feature extended to other browsers in near future. Okay, lets get into the details about how to enable the desktop notifications in Gmail if you are using Google Chrome.

1. Login to your Gmail using Google Chrome.

2. Click on the Settings link found towards the top right corner of your inbox.

3. Under the General tab, locate the settings for “Desktop Notifications”.

4. Choose the right options for you. You can get notifications for both chat messages as well as usual email messages or for just important mails.

5. Click the Save Changes button once you are done.

Gmail desktop email alert

That’s it! You will get the notifications for new emails or chat messages like the one shown above. In case, if you want to turn these desktop notifications off for your Gmail account, select the respective options in the step 4. Note that desktop notifications isn’t available for Google Apps users yet.

[via] Official Gmail blog

Disable Facebook Notification Emails

May 12, 2010 by bharath

Many Facebook users while signing up, normally ignores to setup their notification settings that they normally ignore to setup notifications settings and as a result, they start receiving too many emails for various actions taken on Facebook involving that particular user.This at times may be annoying for those who usually spends good amount of time in Facebook involving in many actions in the social networking site.If you want to disable such notifications from Facebook, this is what you must do:

1. Login to your Facebook account , under the Account menu on the top right screen, click on Account Settings.

2. Now under the My Account, click on the Notifications tab.

3. Check against the notifications for which you want to notifications via email or SMS.Uncheck against all to stop receiving all email notifications.

That’s it, you will now be able to control your email and SMS notifications as you wish.

You might also want to read our guide on how to setup Facebook page for your site.

Drag And Drop Attachments Onto Message In Gmail

April 19, 2010 by bharath

Gmail has announced yet another small but really a time saving feature to its users.Now you can just drag and drop attachments from your PC, onto the message in Gmail while you are composing it, provided you are using either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6.

To add attachments to your email, just open the folder, where the target files (attachments) are located and now tile your windows so that you can see both the explorer window and resized browser windows.Now just drag the files on to the browser window and they will automatically be attached to your message.Follow the screenshots given below:

As of now this new functionality is only available in Firefox or Chrome.But Google is planning to extend this to all other browsers as soon as they support this feature.

Via Official Gmail Blog