5 Turn Gmail into an MP3 Player
In the interest
of convenience,
Gmail has its own
built-in audio
player for use with
file attachments.
You can put it to
work as an online
MP3 player by
using labels and
mail filters to sort
your files.
First, set up a label called MP3.
Next, set up a filter that searches for
MP3 content by clicking Create a Filter
at the top of the screen. Enter “mp3” in
the “Has the words” field and check the
box marked “Has attachment.” This will
search for any messages with music
files attached (including any you may
have uploaded using the GMail Drive
Shell Extension mentioned earlier). Now
click Next Step and check the boxmarked “Apply the label” and choose
the label MP3. Now any time you want
to pump up some jams, you can click
the MP3 label on the left side of your
screen and pick a tune from the list.Need a music player in a pinch?
Gmail’s built-in audio player
becomes a searchable music
library with the addition of a filter
and a label.Email Impersonator
Just because you’ve
switched to Gmail,
that doesn’t mean
you have to give
up your old email
address. Gmail
lets you send mes-
sages that appear to
come from another
address. In the set-
tings pane, click
Accounts and then
choose “Add another
email address,” then
enter the address
you’d like to use. To
prevent you from ruining someone
else’s life by masquerading as them
on the Internet, Google will send a test
message to verify that the address
belongs to you. Then you can choose
to make that new address your defaultidentity, so nobody needs to know that
you’re really sending from Gmail. To
complete the transformation, set up
a forwarder for your other address’s
account, so that all of your mail reach-
es your Gmail account.You don’t have to settle for an @gmail.com email
address. Use the Account Settings screen to config-
ure Gmail to use any address you like.dates from each of your imported
messages. However, you can still find
imported messages by date, because
the original received dates areretained within the body of the mes-
sages. So simply searching for “Nov
06” will help you find all messages
from November of 2006.