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Muhammad Umair
Here r some of cool 5 other uses of Gmail other than just mailing:
1. Use Gmail As A Free Online File
Format Converter
If you want to convert any
office document to HTML
format , think of nothing other
than Gmail .
You don't have to install third-
party application like PDF 2HTML or Adobe Acrobat for this. You
can convert doc, xls, ppt, rtf,
pdf files and the new Microsoft
Office 2007 formats like docx,
xlsx and pptx to HTML ,
absolutely free by using Gmail. Just attach the document to a
mail and send it to yourself.
When you receive the mail open
it and click "View as HTML".
2 . Use Gmail As An MP3 Player
If you want to try out a new
audio player, try Gmail!
Send an mp3 file to yourself and
see that Gmail contains an option
to play it . Clicking it will open a
flash MP3 player using which you can play the song without
downloading it.
3. Use Gmail As Your OpenID
You can use your Google account
username and password to login
at a number of sites like Zoho
and Plaxo . But what about the
sites that accepts only a URL as
an OpenID field? Welcome to openid-
provider.appspot.com . This site,
built on Google App Engine, allows
you to create a OpenID URL from
your Google Account Credentials.
Login with your Gmail username and password and the site will
provide you a URL like http://
openid- provider.appspot.com/,
which you can use on regular
OpenID accepting sites.
4. Use Gmail As Your Online Storage
Gmail provides a virtually
unlimited online space that
normal users find impossible to fill
up with emails alone. So why not
use the remaining space as your
personal online file storage area?
GMail Drive is a shell extension
for Windows that adds the Gmail
storage as a disk in My
Computer. All operations that
you normally do with a regular hard drive - copy, paste, drag
and drop, works for Gmail drive
too. Just that the data is not
residing in your computer but
high up in Google clouds.
Linux users can try out GmailFS which provides similar
functionality as GMail Drive in
windows. Using this tool, you can
mount your Gmail storage space
as a file system and transfer
files between them just like any other disks.
5. Use Gmail To Play Snakey
If all that emails are making you
bored, try the game that comes
packed with Gmail.
Gmail labs contains a game - Old
Snakey , that you first need to
enable from the settings pane in order to play. Go to Gmail
settings -> Labs and set the Old
Snakey radio button to enabled.
Now, return back to inbox and
hit the '&' key to start the
game.
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