GMail Canned Responses: answer your email in two clicks

October 22, 2008

If you find yourself typing the same responses to emails time and time again (who doesn’t?) then GMail may have just made your life a little bit easier. Canned Responses allows you to save frequently used messages and paste them directly into your responses, all in a couple of clicks. If you’re using GMail, it should make life a lot easier than saving messages on your PC or in the drafts folder. Here’s a quick video on setting it up:

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Google to protect users from eBay & PayPal spoofs

July 8, 2008

eBay and PayPal have announced today that Google is working to eliminate spoof emails and protect Gmail users from eBay and PayPal phishing. Google are to implement Domain Keys authentication and will reject any email purporting to be from eBay or PayPal and delete it before it even arrives in Gmail users’ inboxes.

Yahoo! were the first to implement Domain Key checking for eBay and PayPal emails back in October last year, and Gmail will join Yahoo! Mail as one of the first to protect their users from phishing.

Michael Barrett, PayPal’s Chief Information Security Officer spoke of Google’s desicion calling it “a significant step forward in our fight to keep consumers safe from phishing and cybercrime”. For me as a seller it’s great news to know that millions more unsuspecting buyers will have their accounts protected. Safe happy buyers spend more, and that’s what eBay is all about.

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