Showing posts with label skinning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skinning. Show all posts

26 May 2008

Give Gmail a new skin

We love ourGmail, and in fact have not needed to use any other email provider or service since we moved to the UK. We get it fast, reliably, anywhere we are at a computer connected to the internet. It goes with us, waits for us, and handles spam better than anything else we have seen. I can get my mail on my mobile phone, someone else's PC, in internet cafe's, etc. It is great.

Users of Firefox (I use Firefox on my personal machines - alas work is currently IE7 only) can install a nifty little plugin that will reskin your Gmail.

Loads a little slower, which might annoy, but I like the look. No doubt the folks at Google have tried all kinds of things and have settled on simplicity, speed, and their corporate style - but this is an option when it all gets boring. The plugin is called Better Gmail 2, and you can get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6076

14 February 2008

LIven up your Gmail

Gmail is one of those rare things unanimously loved by everyday web users and tech-heads alike. The possibilities are endless. It can be anything from a simple email client to your central nervous system on the web. How far you take it is up to you. Each day seems to ...
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