Google Mail gives you effectively unlimited storage space (currently 5GB, but Google have promised to keep throwing disks at the problem), so it is no surprise that canny geeks have devised a number of techniques and tools to use a Gmail inbox as a sort of file system.
GSpace is such a tool for S60 3rd Edition phones - give it a Gmal login and it will let you up and download files to and from it - effectively working as a ‘drive’ or virtual memory card.
A free version of GSpace allows files of up to 1MB be stored in your Gmail cloud, but the registered version allows any size of file and to connect to an unlimited number of Gmail accounts.
There is a Firefox plugin available that allows you to easily access or update your data via a web interface on your PC, which is handy.
The update adds support for operating in poor reception areas (basically, the ability to cache loads of sent mail, to be delivered when you next have a signal) extra shortcut keys, numerous bug fixes and performance tweeaks and - FINALLY - support for multiple accounts, even Google Apps accounts.
The only thing better than this for me would be a native Symbian version. Anyone? Bueller?
Here is a nice man in a shirt from Google, explaining how things work.
Android news site Android Authority is reporting that T-Mobile is planning to offer the new T-Mobile G1 phone with free access to Google’s Gmail service.
The G1 (aka the HTC Dream) is the first on the market to offer Google’s open source mobile OS. If true, G1 owners will be able to pick up their mail via Google without any charge to their data tariff.
The service is expected to be ad-supported, but then so is the desktop version of GMail. In fact, the ads are pretty low-key compared to other ‘free’ email providers. Could this be the secret weapon that will boost the Android pone, and give Google a nice jolt of ad revenue into the bargain?
I alluded to this yesterday in a post about Google’s iPhone activities, but now it’s official. The company has announced that it’s made new improvements to its suite of web apps for iPhone, just a month after launching iPhone-friendly versions of Search, Gmail, Calendar and Reader.
The improvements include a tweaked user interface to make the applications easier to use on the iPhone’s touch-screen, while Gmail has been given a speed boost, with emails showing up automatically, and an auto-complete feature for your contacts. Calendar now has a one-month view, which I’m guessing works a bit better on the iPhone’s screen.
The coolest new stuff is the launch of iGoogle for the iPhone though, providing an iPhone-friendly version of your customised homepage, complete with weather, stock prices and news feeds. Meanwhile, you can also customise your Google iPhone apps using tabs, making it easier to switch between them.
Now the bad news: it appears to be US-only, as when I try to go to www.google.com on my UK iPhone, it redirects me to the Google.co.uk site, which isn’t iPhone-whizzy. Sort it out Google! Us Brits want access to these cool web apps too…
Having stuffed yourself silly on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, what better way to pass the time until drinking yourself silly on New Year’s Eve than downloading a new application for your mobile phone? Answers on a postcard please, but in the meantime, check out our pick of five top Java apps…
1. Gmail (pictured)
Google’s mobile Gmail app truly is a thing of beauty. Well, simplicity and efficiency anyway. It provides an excellent stripped-down interface to your Gmail webmail account, with all manner of keypad shortcuts to make it quick to archive and delete messages from your phone. It also has nifty features like allowing you to search your most-used contacts first when composing emails. Read more
Want YouTube on your phone but fed up with only have the (very) limited selection currently available for mobiles? With hours of video being uploaded every minute on YouTube you know it’s going to take them a lifetime to configure all of them for mobile phones.
Luckily some enterprising developers have managed create a streaming media player plug-in that’ll let you browse ALL YouTube videos and watch them on your smartphone.
The plug-in works by converting YouTube videos to play on Windows Media Player installed on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based smartphones.
To set it up you simply need to go to the YouTube Pocket website, download the YouTube player to your smartphone and you’re away.
The people behind YouTube Pocket have also developed other mobile services including a Gmail viewer and MySpace music player for mobile phones.
Before it launched, the iPhone’s virtual keyboard was one of the most speculated-about features in Apple’s handset. Could a touchscreen keyboard possibly be as easy to use as a physical keypad, whether for writing quick texts, longer emails, or entering web URLs?
In short, the answer is ‘yes’. Although by no means perfect, the iPhone’s on-screen keyboard works well, and while you wouldn’t want to write long documents on it, for all the functions described above it’s fine. Which is a surprise, since the keys look small compared to the average big man-thumb. Yet an efficient auto-correct feature ensures you don’t type gibberish.
Google Mail gives you effectively unlimited storage space (currently 5GB, but Google have promised to keep throwing disks at the problem), so it is no surprise that canny geeks have devised a number of techniques and tools to use a Gmail inbox as a sort of file system.
I alluded to this yesterday in a 
Having stuffed yourself silly on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, what better way to pass the time until drinking yourself silly on New Year’s Eve than downloading a new application for your mobile phone? Answers on a postcard please, but in the meantime, check out our pick of five top Java apps…
Want YouTube on your phone but fed up with only have the (very) limited selection currently available for mobiles? With hours of video being uploaded every minute on YouTube you know it’s going to take them a lifetime to configure all of them for mobile phones.
