The Gmail thread

[Anakha56]

http://lifehacker.com/5741771/minimalis ... ehacker%29

Minimalist Gmail is the Best Gmail Tweaker for Chrome Yet

Chrome: Adding extra features to Gmail isn't a new idea, but Minimalist Gmail for Chrome is the best tweaker yet: You can hide items, add row highlights, and even change the five Google links at the top of the page.

We've been pretty big proponents of extensions like previously mentioned Better Gmail for Chrome, but Minimalist Gmail adds even more tweaks to our favorite mail client. Don't be fooled by its name—while you can remove a lot of Gmail's interface elements, you can also make it more powerful.

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Doesn't work on Google Apps accounts, unfortunately

[D3PART3D]

Doesn't work on Google Apps accounts, unfortunately

Notifications > Google Apps domain?

[Stuart]

Google, we have a problem. About 150,000 Gmail account holders woke up to a nightmare this morning, with all their e-mail, attachments and Google Chat logs gone. What happened?

Google explains that “less than 0.08%” of all Gmail users were affected by the bug, which completely reset accounts, even down to the detail offering a welcome message to those users when they first logged on today. They, and especially visitors to the Gmail Help Forum, were not amused.

But there’s good news here. The way Google is explaining it on its Apps Status Dashboard: “Google engineers are working to restore full access. Affected users may be temporarily unable to sign in while we repair their accounts.”

In an earlier message, Google wrote, “For those Gmail users reporting missing messages, our engineers are working to restore them as soon as possible.” So maybe this is not so bad after all. As long as Google restores the messages, all we had was a big scare. Will Google restore all the messages? We’ve contacted a Google spokesperson, and will let you know when we hear back.

There's also a link at the Mashable article to a little app called Gmail Backup. Unfortunately the link is dead. Yay!

Edit: It's entirely possible that someone already posted this. I never even searched.