Yesterday was a day of outages for MobileMe and Gmail. Apple's MobileMe, which had a rocky introduction to begin with, saw a four and a half hour mail outage yesterday. MacRumors mentioned this outage yesterday but also took a look at MobileMe's overall uptime which is about 96%. That's not an impressive number when you put it into perspective. Over the

If you use iGoogle, you'll  be happy to know that there are actually options to backup, export or import your iGoogle personalized homepage. Here's how:

1. Go to the settings page for your iGoogle homepage found at www.google.com/ig/settings
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and look for the Troubleshooting and Export/Import sections as shown below:
   
   

You'll need to decide whether you want to just manually

On multiple times, I, like many of you, have asked "why on Earth is Gmail still in beta?" It's been around for over three years now, don't you think it's about time? I thought it was, but now I'm starting to understand why Gmail is still in beta. There are numerous people over at the Gmail Help Discussion Group

Tutorial Thursday

There have been plenty of occasions where I have been left wondering if I had lost everything in my Gmail account. If you don’t know about any of those situations that I’m talking about, just view all of the past occurrences that we have written about. People have lost every email in their account numerous times, and how do you know that you’re not going

Googling Google just posted about a Gmail suggestions site that I haven’t seen before. Previously I have always referred to this suggestion site that lists about 12 different options for you to choose from. Now, however, there is another suggestion site that has way more options available!

The reason why this is important is because the new site has one option in particular that really needs to

For the last 5–hours (maybe more) my Gmail account has been inaccessible, and it is times like these that makes me worry that I could have just lost all of my emails. Sure, I have seen Gmail outages before, but when they are as extensive as this one it really makes me question the stability.

If I try and login to my account it just sits on the

Gmail is at it yet again and this time they are performing magic tricks that many of us have never seen first-hand...they are making your email messages disappear before your very eyes! Hey, I never said it was a positive magic trick, now did I?

TechCrunch reported on this happening earlier today and received this response from Google regarding the situation:

Regretfully, a small number of