Free calling within the US and Canada through 2012 | Google Voice Blog
I’m glad to see Google will be extending their free Google Voice service through 2012!
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Google Voice Blog: Make and receive calls in Gmail
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This is awesome! Now I can really save on those cell phone minutes and avoid poor cell phone call quality!!
Nested labels now in Gmail Labs!
I know a lot of people have been waiting for this feature for a long time now, including myself! Now we can all go crazy categorizing our emails and losing track of stuff just like in Outlook. Fortunately, Gmail still has an awesome search capability so even if you bury your emails into nested labels, hopefully you’ll still be able to find them.
New in Labs: Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek
Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:27 PM
Labels are more flexible than folders because a given email can have several labels but can’t be in several folders at the same time. A highly requested feature for labels, though, comes from the world of folders: the ability to organize labels hierarchically.
If you think this might be useful to you, go to the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, look for “Nested Labels,” enable it and click “Save.” You’ll then need to name your label with slashes (/) to make it the child of another. For example, let’s say you wanted to create a simple hierarchy with a “Home” label, and inside it a “Family” and a “Vacation” label. Just create three labels with the following names:
Home
Home/Family
Home/VacationYou can then create “Home/Family/Kids,” “Home/Pets,” etc., to get something like the screenshot on the left. If you had the parent label “Home” before you don’t have to create it from scratch.
You can create complex hierarchies of labels if that’s the way you like to organize your mail, and you can expand/collapse labels to save space. You’ll always be able to tell whether a given label contains unread messages in its collapsed child labels by looking at whether it’s bold or not.
Please note that this lab doesn’t play nicely with the “Hide Read Labels” lab. You might not get exactly what you expect if you have both labs enabled; for example, the collapse/expand icons won’t always appear when they should.
Microsoft® Exchange to Google Apps
I’ve done Exchange migrations to Google Apps before. This will make things much easier!
Now it’s easy to switch to Google Apps from Microsoft® Exchange
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Today we’re making it a lot easier for customers of Microsoft Exchange to go Google with Apps. Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange is a new server-side tool that migrates your company’s email, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. With the tool, migrations are: • Easy: set it up in just 4 steps • Efficient: select the combination of mail, calendar and contact data that you want to move, with the option of doing so in phases • Fast: migrate hundreds of users at the same time • Painless: employees can continue to use Microsoft Exchange during the migration without interruption or any involvement on their part As Paul Lovett, Project Manager for the Google Apps project at New Zealand Post, described, “We are a very calendar-bound organization, so Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange was the missing link in our migration strategy, allowing us to perform a server-side migration of our calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange 2003. We moved our corporate executive team first which required spot-on accuracy and a quality product, and Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange met that high bar.” The tool has been a boon to our Google Apps partners as well. Mayooran Rajan, CTO of Revevol Consulting, noted, “We work with companies with 100 to 20,000 employees. This tool will help us move our clients to Google Apps faster and more efficiently, helping us save them time and money.” Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange works with Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007, and both on-premise and hosted Exchange. It’s available free to Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers here. If you’re considering the switch from Microsoft Exchange, you can find resources to help make your decision here. Also, for those who have already gone Google by making the switch to Google Apps, you can share your experiences and spread the word at www.google.com/apps/spreadtheword. Live webinars: Learn about Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange best practices and customer experiences Posted by Abhishek Bapna, Product Manager
