GMail Top Tips

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

We have decided throughout this month to do a short series of posts briefly discussing our favourite features of GMail and how to use them.  Such features including the purpose of archiving emails and downloading other email accounts into your GMail account.  All very practical! Look out for our GMail top ...

Email vs Social Media

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

The BBC recently posted an article about how some are saying Email will be a thing of the past, as current teens and younger are using email less than they use messaging systems on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ or the less popular Bebo and ...

Which Smart Phone?

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Which Smartphone is the best ... that is almost an impossible question to answer but we have our opinion just as many others ... and we have simplified who we think each phone particularly suits! If you agree / disagree then leave a comment!   Apple iPhone Without a doubt it was Apple ...

20 tips for Google +

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Google + is a new project by Google to help connect people together in simpler ways!  Read our 'Google Plus' article highlighting the features of Google +. We recently read an article on tech radar that we thought was worth sharing, and so here are our favourite 3 tips from the ...

Our top 4 Google Labs for GMail!

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

What is Google Labs? Google Labs offers a range of creative ideas and features that can be trialed by Google users as a prototype, then feedback can be given back to see if they were popular or not.  From this, new developments and improvements can be made to ideas by Google ...

Google stops supporting Internet Explorer 7 and more!

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

Google announced recently that it will no longer support a number of older browsers, more prominently Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, Apple's Safari 3 and Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 and anything older than these versions. What does this mean? If you are using one of these browsers then unless you update you will ...

Why migrate to Gmail?

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

There are lots of reasons why I could tell everyone to use Gmail instead of Yahoo, Hotmail or any of the ISP provided services, but this post is specifically about migrating your company, charity or other organisation to Google's mail system. So what does this mean for me? We are simply talking ...

Google Wave

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Google Wave is a brand new online tool from Google! Check out the video above to find out what it does! Here at Brandstar we're extremely impressed with this new piece of technology and genuinely think that it is the future of emails.  There is still a long way to go ...

Boxbe

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Boxbe is a service which we discovered recently and think it's well worth a try.  The video above gives a good clear representation of the email application itself.  Boxbe describe their service as the following: "Boxbe is the social brain of your inbox.  It works with your existing email addresses, reduces ...

What’s the difference between a Search Engine and a Web Browser?

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

So what actually is the difference between a Search Engine and a Web Browser? A web browser is a program (such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome) which you use to look on the Internet with, in other words...the software you're using now to view this post. A Search Engine ...