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Several months ago, we wrote about how to use Gmail to check your various email accounts from across the web, so that you have one single inbox to check. That post contained handy tips on how to get other mail into Gmail, how to organize it, and how to send messages from within Gmail as if you were using the external account. To get other mail into Gmail, that procedure used POP3 to periodically pull mail from those accounts.

One flaw in Gmail is that you can’t specify how frequently your account will pull down that mail. Gmail determines this frequency based on how often it discovers mail in those accounts when it checks. Lifehacker recently had a tip on how to increase that frequency. But what if you want to eliminate the delay entirely? Here are a few tricks to keep in mind.

You might remember our post on Threadsy Beta way back in January. Threadsy is a great web app that pulls all of your email, Facebook and Twitter info into one neat little interactive package, and even gives you some detailed multiple social network info on your contacts. In May, Threadsy went live to the public with a slew of new features, and has added even more in the last week. It’s safe to say that Threadsy is growing fast and doing well, so if you tried it and dropped it, you might want to look again — and if you haven’t played with Threadsy yet, we recommend you check it out!

Here’s the shortlist of Threadsy’s new features, some detail on their latest updates, and a few things we would still like to see:

One of the great features of Google’s Gmail is the ability it gives you to customize your Gmail experience using Google Labs. Labs features can be accessed by clicking on the green beaker symbol at the top right of the Gmail screen. Some Google Labs features fall into the “cute” category, but several of them are useful, and can make you more efficient. Here are the top 5 Labs features that can make you life easier.

Remember, back in the day, when email was one-dimensional? The good ol’ days when all you had to do was remember one contact list and deal with one inbox? Well, those days are long gone, buddy. Today, we are in a world of social media: connecting and sharing with the planet at large in as [...]

A few weeks back, Google unveiled the long-awaited push Gmail for iPhone and Windows Mobile. Push Gmail is part of the Google Sync package, which is still in Beta and previously offered only Google Calendar sync and Google Contacts sync. The calendar and contacts features have been working fairly flawlessly for some time now, aside [...]

This tip will be so unnecessary for many of you that I almost hesitate to write it.  I am always amazed, though, at how freely some people give out their email addresses, and the email addresses of others.  My wife knows that this is a pet peeve of mine.  When I see an item show [...]