Gmail offline

[Kwackerz]

http://forums.pcpitstop.com/index.php?/ ... -offline/=
interesting add on for gmail users

[Samray]

It will download all your mails to your hard drive for offline browsing

Dunno how many years mail I have archived there ... but I do know how little room there is on my hard drive.

[Kwackerz]

It's controllable..

[flatlander]

It will download all your mails to your hard drive for offline browsing

Dunno how many years mail I have archived there ... but I do know how little room there is on my hard drive.

to gain a little bit of space you can try reducing the recycle bin to 1% and also clearing / removing hotfix uninstall files you may want to use something like ccleaner for this. Also remove any unused programs such as old games etc and all your temp files for the browser even on a 40gb drive should recover between 500mb - Xgb not a lot but helps

other things you can try depend on what you are using such as personal folders if you use Outlook etc. If you have a lot of photos and you copy them straight from a camera them they will be bloated you could try using something like Faststone photo resizer for bulk file size redyuction or just open them in paint and click edit and save also if they are in BMP format change them (save them not just rename them) to .jpg

Takes a day out of your life but if its raining and kids are screaming can be a good way to say can't now dear I am fixing the pc

[Kwackerz]

but if its raining and kids are screaming can be a good way to say can't now dear I am fixing the pc

Unfortunately Sam doesnt have that luxury.. Unless I phone him..

Good point about the tmp files though

Zip filing archives helps too although gains tend to be in kb and mb's rather than hundreds of mb's

[Samray]

Still can't understand d'loading stuff in bulk to your HD from online storage. Rather defeats the object of the exercise.

[Kwackerz]

Its mainly aimed at those who use a non permanent connection/wifi. ie: Mobile laptop or.. probably a BT bb connection in cambridgeshire!!

Go online, d/load, work off line, etc

[flatlander]

It is a bit like the synch files idea where you can work on them without a connection as mentioned above and then synch them back to the online.

So say you are going from civilisation to the Fens and will never get a decent signal till doomsday then you may weant access to that address of the seller of thos elusive hangers from ebay....

so local storage would help or simply once you have realised that Google will always keep a copy of all your data and decide you are noot cool with that idea and want it back. you may then need to copy iy locally

[Samray]

My Gmail capacity is 7597 MB ... I can just see you downloading that to a phone.

[Kwackerz]

It's controllable..

..however ive room for that on my phone!

[flatlander]

My Gmail capacity is 7597 MB ... I can just see you downloading that to a phone.

who doesn't have a smart phone well not a good one anyway

[Kwackerz]

In fairness Im a bit of a phone geek, Dell streak and a BB Torch as well as a few lesser ones.. No Iphone though as I dont rate them in the slightest, Unlike Monsieur Alad..

One just can't have enough phones...

[Kwackerz]

Latest offering from the house of Google is Google+ ( Google Plus )

You can read about it here:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ ... -life.html

If anyone would like to join, you can use my free invites here: https://plus.google.com/_/notifications ... SJcF-GU2xs

Theyve just introduced 'games' so people can play angry birds, etc for free

Anyways, info is there, offer is there, help yourself if youre interested as Google+ is invite only at the moment, much the same a gmail was originally.