Tag: CONVERSATION

Late in 2010, Mozilla delivered the first alpha of Conversations for its Thunderbird email client. The add-on brings Gmail-like threading to your Thunderbird inbox, and it worked quite nicely in our testing. As is the case with an alpha release, however, there were loads of bugs to squash and features to to tweak -- which Mozilla has been doing ever since. There's now a second alpha of ...

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.3 (Miramar) is shaping up to be a pretty significant upgrade to the open-source email app. One thing I always find myself wishing for, however, is conversation view. I've been using Gmail for years now, and conversations have become part of the way I work. A new add-on from Mozilla Labs brings a richer threaded view to Miramar. Once installed, clicking a collapsed thread ...

Dear Gmail, despite our everlasting love for thee, you do have your quirks. One of them, muting and unmuting conversations, has been broken and unusable since the dawn of time -- which is why I was so glad to hear that it's finally been fixed! Now, when you mute a conversation, it actually stays muted! Crazy, I know. A conversation will only bounce back into your inbox if a message is ...

A while back, Henry Blodget caused a bit of a stir by informing the world that he really wasn't a big fan of Gmail's Conversation View. At the time, however, it was love it or leave it -- Gmail didn't have an option to return to an old-fashioned, unthreaded inbox. That's all changed, however, with Google announcing today that you can now go threadless if you so choose. Just head to your ...

Nurphy is a new service that is aiming to move conversations out of email and instant messaging, and instead host them on their service. The site claims that having conversations using these well-entrenched and mostly open services is unwieldy and awkward enough to justify jumping to a new, proprietary service where the only interface available is a web page, with a mobile version of the page ...

While you're waiting anxiously for Google Wave to open to the public, you can find some similar features at Re:Subj, a site that integrates comments via email or the web into a threaded discussion. Re:Subj is quick and easy to start using, with no registration required. Just start an inbox by entering a subject and a message and some email addresses to send it to. Now any recipient can reply to ...

Google has unleashed a new Google Talk Gadget for use on your Google personalized homepage. The Talk client -- still only available for PC users -- can be semi-enjoyed by Mac users with this new Gadget implementation that resembles what PC users have been enjoying for quite a while, although it adds a few slick features. The new Google Talk Gadget shares the functionality of the standalone ...

Among the new Gmail features we told you about last week was another that we managed to miss out on last week, but which could surpass them all in glory: Mute! "If you're subscribed to a mailing list," says Google's help page, "you've no doubt been subjected to the 'thread that just won't die!' If you're part of a long message conversation that isn't relevant, you can 'mute' the conversation to ...

Google today released 5 new features for Gmail, ranging from simple UI improvements to handy "embarrassment-reducing" conversation upgrades (though since they're counting the recently released Gmail app for your phone, it's really 4 new features today). First up is a new Reply button at the top of messages, allowing you to give a shout back without having to scroll endlessly through long messages ...

Mike Sego posted on the Google Blog yesterday that a slick new 'reply by chat' feature has been added to Gmail. Now, if you want to reply to a message and the original sender is online, a 'reply by chat' button will be right next to the now old 'n busted regular reply button. To top things off, the chat history will be saved right in line with the conversation. Awesome. ...