Gmail Up to 2gigs!

[rtdgoldfish]

Starting Friday, Google will now be updating all Gmail accounts to 2gigs of storage. Way to compete with Yahoo Mail now offering 1gig. I love Gmail more and more every day.

Link: Google Doubles E-Mail Space

 

[Daveway]

HAHA. i think it's funny. Right when Yahoo! tries to catch-up, Google DOUBLES the storage. Thats awesome.

 

[PlaceofDis]

awesome! loving GMail more and more, now hopefully they will always keep POP3 access free

edit: or is this just another April Fools prank? i think i should just go to bed

 

[grapes911]

Gmail is great. I can't think of anything else they could do to make it better. Unlimited storage?

 

[clayj]

Crazy... so now I'll be using 5 MB of 2 GB. (I don't use Gmail much...)

 

[watcher2001]

Starting Friday, Google will now be updating all Gmail accounts to 2gigs of storage. Way to compete with Yahoo Mail now offering 1gig. I love Gmail more and more every day.

Link: Google Doubles E-Mail Space

The funny part is the link to yahoo announcing it.

 

[edesignuk]

VERY good. I love Gmail, and it just keeps getting better. They now also have a rich text editor for composing mail

 

[Timelessblur]

well I like the increase my gmail account is getting but I really like the fact that yahoo is going upto a gig because that means my main account though SBC is going to go up to a gig in storage as well (as well as be earily on the list of the yahoo accounts that get upgrauded since it is a paid account because they are my ISP).

 

[tech4all]

This better not be some April Fools joke! I'm already confused by all these status changes and the mods sigs changes.....

EDIT: Why is there a number that gets bigger and bigger on the Gmail site?

 

[sethypoo]

Weird, it's going up bit by bit. See the images below.

I went from having 1101MB available to having 1102MB available.

 

[watcher2001]

Weird, it's going up bit by bit. See the images below.

I went from having 1101MB available to having 1102MB available.

Mine is doing the same thing. Almost as if they are allocating the space in pieces.

 

[watcher2001]

I'm already confused by all these status changes and the mods sigs changes.....

Hey, I just noticed that too. What gives? Is there a list somewhere???

 

[tech4all]

Hey, I just noticed that too. What gives? Is there a list somewhere???

Look in the Community Discussion forum for "Gar!" and the Macrumors feedback area. Something to do with Aprils Fools day or something. Actually for me its not April 1st for another 24 minutes.


EDIT: And the mods are all talking "Pirate"

 

[sorryiwasdreami]

This bit-by-bit increasing is a bit strange. My account currently says "You are currently using 156 MB (14%) of your 1133 MB."

I wonder what it will be tomorrow?

 

[edesignuk]

Mine is "growing" too (OMG Google is ALIVE!!!). 1135MB currently, but gaining a few meg evertime I check on it.

 

[goodtimes5]

I think that's pretty cool. They don't want to overwhelm the system or something so they do it bit by bit.

Google issued its own statement on its website. Also note the napkin drawing they have - it's genius.

 

[watcher2001]

I think that's pretty cool. They don't want to overwhelm the system or something so they do it bit by bit.

Google issued its own statement on its website. Also note the napkin drawing they have - it's genius.

I can't find it!!! Do you have a link?

 

[goodtimes5]

The statement.

I also came across the Google Gulp: http://www.google.com/googlegulp/

 

[Mav451]

Yeah, well its 8am over here, and I got 1304MB of total storage. Are will still debating if this is a April Fools thing or not?

 

[hcuar]

The login page makes mention of the storage increasing today to 2GB and over. In fact the login page shows the storage space increasing 1 MB at a time. They are calling it the infinity plus one storage model.

yup... the counter shows the actual storage amount for every user.

 

[qzak]

yup, just go straight to gmail.com and on their main page you see the live counter counting up. that is an awesome idea and awesome way to implement the new space. good marketing guys

 

[Mechcozmo]

If you care... this is the function that it is using to make the numbers go up....

function updateQuota() { 
  if (!quota) {
    return;
  }
 
  var now = (new Date()).getTime(); 
  if (now < START) { 
    setTimeout(updateQuota, 1000); 
  } else if (now > END) { 
    quota.innerHTML = 'Over 2000'; 
  } else { 
    quota.innerHTML = format(((now - START)/(END - START)*1025) + 1025); 
    setTimeout(updateQuota, 50); 
  } 
}

 

[saabmp3]

Yeah, it's just using your system clock for it's time variable. Set the time to anytime after april 2nd and you'll have 2 gigs instantly. There's no ramp up or anything, this is just part of the marketing.

BEN

 

[minton]

Any news on gmailfs for the mac? I always wanted to get a virtual gmail drive to show up on the mac desktop (2 gb network drive? That would be nice). I posted a tip on macosxhints to use gmail as an online backup system, but gmailfs would be even cooler.

 

[nightdweller25]

WAIT, WHAT!?!?!?

Can you do that? I was just wondering if I could upload my files there so i can see them in my Gmail for transferring files from home to school. So, can it be done? And if so, please be precise and explain how...I REALLY REALLY WANNA KNOW HOW!