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How Does Gmail Work on Android?

When you set up a new Android device, be it a phone or a tablet, one of the first things to do is sync it with your Google account.Once you've signed in with your account, your Gmail is all ready togo -- whether you're using the Android Email app or the branded Gmail app. On a device that isn't yours, you can still check Gmail in the mobile browser.

Syncing Google Account

When you first open a Google app, such as Gmail or the Play Store, you'll be asked to sign in toyour Google account. If you have multiple accounts, don't worry; you can choose a primary one to sync to your Android device and add more email addresses to the Gmail or Email app later. One you've signed in with your Google account, your contacts will be synced to your device.

Gmail App

Google recommends using the Gmail app for accessing your accounts for the wider range of features available. In addition to keeping your inbox and messages in sync, you can also see labels on your messages,

mark them as important and manage multiple accounts.The Gmail app works by dealing with everything on the servers rather than downloading messages to your phone. If you check your email on your computer, messages will be marked as readon your Android device.

Email App

Tap the Email app, and any Gmail messages in your inbox will be there -- both old and new. The Email app uses Internet Message Access Protocol, which manages the messages on the server, which keeps them in sync to any device you check your email on. If you want to add an extra account, tap the "Settings" button and then "Accounts." You can add both Gmail and other email accounts to the Email app.

In the Browser

If you're on an Android device that isn't yours, or you want to check an email account that you don't want to sync to your device, you can check your Gmail account from the browser. The mobile version of the Gmail website is designed with touch screens in mind. The messages are easy to tap, and all additional clutter such as labels have been hidden. You can still delete, archive, star and mark messages from the browser, as well as reply to and compose new messages.

References

*. Google Support: Overview of Gmail on Android

*. Google Support: Gmail Is Different

*. Webopedia: IMAP

Microsoft users say bye to Hotmail,hello to new Outlook.com

Microsoft has announced that its new webmail service, Outlook.com, is now set to replace Hotmail.com. The software giant said that Outlook.comis coming out of beta testing and is now ready forprimetime. The service, which was announced last July, now has60 million users and will now replace Microsoft's older webmailsystem. Microsoft''s Hotmail, which was originally MSN Hotmail,has been online since 1997. Hotmail users will still keep their Hotmail.comemail addresses and their contacts and emails will all be moved over, they will just nowget a new user interface and all the new features of Outlook.com, ABC News reports. According to the report, Outlook.com was designed with a similar aesthetic to Microsoft''s Windows 8 operating system. It also includes new social features and a sorting option called Sweep, the report said. TheSweep feature moves newsletters, promotional messages and other recurring emails into their own folders or to the trash, it added.

Google Launches Streamlined Image Search

Out With The Old

Currently, viewing an image through Google Image Search is a multistep process. You do the search, see several images and can hover to get a slightly larger thumbnail:

If you want to see a larger version of the image, you have to click on the image, which brings up a bigger version superimposed over the actual web page the image is from:

In With The New

With the new system that’s coming out today, selecting an image after a search brings up the larger version in a central preview area:

This makes it easy to quickly skim through multiple images, rather than the existing system that requires a lot of clicking, then closing windows to go back and select a new image.

Fewer Publisher Visits? Phantom Visits?

The change also suggests that fewer people may visit the actual pages hosting the images, which might be a concern to publishers. Anticipating this, Google’s post about the change says that it has added new ways to reach the image owner’s site that supposedly increase visits:

The domain name is now clickable, and we also added a new button to visit the page the image is hosted on. This means that there are now four clickable targets to the source page instead of just two. In our tests, we’ve seen a net increase in the average click-through rate to the hosting website.

When talking to Google about the change, I was also told that by not loading the hosting page, Google is no longer generating “phantom” visits that were a concern to some publishers, one of the biggest complaints Google said it heard from publishers about Google Images.

“That was causing problems for some webmasters, and so we thought we can do away with that. That’s gone now,” said Pierre Far, a webmaster trends analyst with Google. This, along with new options to reach publisher sites, is “a net win for webmasters,” he said.

Of course, publishers who might not feel this is a net win have an easy solution. They can block Google from indexing their images with just two lines in a robots.txt file, as Google covers here.

When do you get the new look? Google says it is rolling out live now worldwide and should be available to everyone over the coming days.

Happy Pongal