As one of the most-used web based email systems, Gmail has recently gone through some changes that Google hopes will enhance your email experience, but instead, has a lot of users shaking their heads.
In this video we take a look at the two biggest changes, Inbox tabs and the smaller compose window, and show those who don’t really care for these features, ways to (almost) turn them off.
Gmail Changes…
Click the video below to play…
The two buttons at the lower right
let you go FULL SCREEN or CHANGE QUALITY
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As always, I’d love to hear about your own personal experiences with using Gmail. You can leave your comments below!
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Hi John,
I have both an aol and gmail account and I really enjoyed your explanation of the changes in gmail. I am going to immediately remove the special boxes for incoming mail. I especially notice I am missing birthday reminders of friends since they are coming from FB. Keep up your informative videos, so helpful! Thanks.
Hi Peg…
Glad you found the video useful. Once nice thing about the new Gmail tabs is that they DO let you turn them off and on as you feel works. I had someone else comment (over on YouTube) that they liked having the tabs on… and that it was keeping some of the rif-raf out of their main inbox. So I guess it goes both ways!
I still personally like having just ONE tab that everything goes into.
Take care!!!
John Lortz
Dear John,
I have been out of town and returned to the NEW gmail. First, I do not have a direct connect to gmail…must insert the word and proceed. THEN, the confusion why the additional emails on iPhone are NOT READILY VIEWED on my computer??? THEN, I scroll down to discover your newsletter and immediately open it. ALL MY QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED! W
Hi there…
Great to hear that the video helped! I’ve heard a lot of stories from folks trying to deal with the Gmail changes, most of them negative. Changes we don’t care for are never much fun, but at least there are work arounds in this case.
Glad, though, that you got things straightened out!
Take care…
John Lortz