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Guest Post: Using Multiple Accounts In Gmail

Chris — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:55:00 +0000

It’s been a month since this feature has gone live, but I am just now getting to reviewing it: GMail’s multi-account login. It is the perfect feature for those that have two or more GMail accounts that they actively use. I have been running three different accounts, personal, business, and 78P’s, and this feature has removed frustration and mistakes when emailing. Here is a quick How-To in setting it up.

Sign in to one of your Gmail accounts.
Go to the top right-hand corner of the page where it says the address@clubbeyond.org and click “Account Settings.”
Look to the right side of the page at the end of the list, where it will say “Multiple sign in – off” and click “Edit.”
Click the “on” option and click all the boxes, then hit “Save.”
Go back to the “Mail” tab and go again to the top right-hand corner where it says the address of the account you’re logged in as.
Click that and select “Switch Accounts” and click “Sign in to another account”. It will tell you that the second account will be enabled for multiple sign-in.
Whenever you want to switch between the two, click the arrow in the upper right-hand corner again and select “Switch Accounts”, then click the other account you want to switch to.

About Jeremy Smith

Jeremy Smith is a 26 year old youth worker at the Air Force Academy chapel, working for Club Beyond, and attending Denver Seminary for his Master”s of Counseling in Mental Health. He has been involved in Youth for Christ for eight years and absolutely loves sharing the life of Jesus with teens. You can read more from him at seventy8productions.com.

Quick Tip: Stop Spam with Mailinator

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:00:45 +0000

It’s my experience that I can often tell when a site is going to spam me. However, there are those times when I need something, and the site requires me to fork over my email and “verify” it forcing me into the conundrum of deciding between and endless barrage of spam and whatever I think I “need” from the site. This is where Mailinator comes in. You simply give anything @mailinator.com … anything you choose… and Mailinator will have your email waiting for you when you surf over to their website:mailinator.com. Once you check your email you can have it deleted or just leave it and Mailinator will automatically delete the email in a couple of hours.

Of course there are other applications for this like giving a “persistent” teenager the wrong address or giving it to a vendor at a conference to obtain a free glowing pencil topper, but we do not endorse or participate in anything like that here. It’s just a quick tip. And it is FREE!

Tool for Managing Multiple Gmail Accounts

admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:12:48 +0000

I don’t know what my problem is, but I have WAY too many e-mail addresses to deal with. Many of them I have forwarded to/checked by gmail, but that still doesnt solve the problem fully because, for one reason or another, I still have multiple gmail accounts. I have used plugins for firefox over the years, but am irritated at having to constantly have a browser open sucking up resources I’d rather have being used somewhere else.

Finally, an easy app has been released to help monitoring multiple gmail accounts easy. The app is called Notify, and is produced by a company called Vibealicious. They describe it best when they say it’s “like a menu bar app, but better.” Like a menubar app, it lives in the menu bar and changes slightly by adding color and a number when new messages arrive, but once you click, TADA! It pops open a tabbed window showing your accounts with new messages and previews.

It is not without its issues like the fact that it opens some odd google error page when you double click on a message, and it doesn’t automatically log you into the appropriate account when opening up gmail, but it is 1.0. The developers have already slated a .1 release for mid September to include support for google apps and possibly imap which shows a thriving development. It boils down to this: Notify is an amazing tool that seems to be a pretty good answer to my (and your?) multi-account email dilemma.

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It’s all about SPAM

Chris — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:29:39 +0000

I ran across a few items today that made me think about SPAM, one was useful, one was funny.

First the useful one:

YouthMinistry.com posted this article with some tips to deal with it:

6 Tips for Managing Spam

If you use e-mail much, you’ve probably received messages in your inbox about the latest stock price, the discount Rolex watches, or the prince from somewhere in Africa who wants to wire you money so you can send him a check and get him out of the bind that he’s in.

And finally, how I would rather see SPAM dealt with:

Originally posted at: iGlimpse.com

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