I love Gmail.  I’ve been using it as long as it has been around.  Beyond my personal mail I use Gmail for all of my blogs and websites thanks to Google Apps.  I use various plugins and tools to make my Gmail experience more user-friendly and after doing some research for a post on making Gmail work for you in ways you never imagined I came to the conclusion it had already been done by others so I wouldn’t waste my time.  Instead I’ll just give you a few links to great articles on making Gmail, well, better than it already is.

Make Gmail a Social Networking Hub from Micro Persuasion

Become a Gmail Master from LifeHacker

One extra tip: use https://mail.google.com (note the “s”) and everything from login (which always is) to sending mail will be encrypted.

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