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Ever wished you could make Google's Gmail or Google Reader interfaces look just a little bit different? Now, there's an easy way you can.

Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich release may only be a couple of months old, but already, new flourishes are starting to show up in the software.

José 'PepeOlalla' Olalla (pictured) seems like a happy camper this week. He's the CIO of the huge banking group, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). BBVA has just signed a deal with Google, which will see the multinational bank migrate 110,000 users to Google Apps -- the cloud-based collaboration platform. Let's take The Long View...
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Google usually offers tweaks to its various online apps in dribs and drabs, without much notice -- a new feature here, a slightly revamped one there. But its new redesign of Gmail, Google is pushing out several rather radical changes in one swell foop.

Try these five simple tweaks to tune up Google's new Gmail interface and optimize it for your use.

Google has re-introduced its offline functionality for Gmail and Google Apps. And, oh boy, it's a mess. I seem to be saying this a lot recently, but it's as if Google has stopped caring about what its users actually need. Instead, it's running headlong into a project that doesn't have user requirements at its heart. Allow me to explain, in The Long View...
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A front page story in the New York Times about the recent hacking attacks on Gmail accounts contains errors of both omission and commission. A great opportunity to teach some Defensive Computing was lost.

With a couple of minutes of configuration, you can make your Android Gmail notifications do a whole lot more.

Update: Google's Gmail fail is still causing users anguish, as many as 35,000 consumer Gmail and Google Apps users have been affected since Sunday. Google has had to resort to restoring from tape, which must hurt a bit. The company blames an update to its software for losing the replicated cloud stores.
Google says the problem causing an outage in Gmail and Google Apps is still in-play for some users. It blamed an errant software update for nuking all online copies of a few users' data, causing it to go back to the backup tapes. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers try to visualize 0.02% of a user base. Not to mention Celebrity facial Photoshops are the stuff of nightmares...
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The cloud has failed roughly 150,000 Gmail users, whose e-mails have been deleted and accounts disabled by a mysterious glitch.

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As I've been cultivating my attitude of gratitude this Thanksgiving week, I realize that some of my joy -- or at least enjoyment -- in life comes from various forms of technology. OK, if not enjoyment, drudgery reduction for sure. And I'm grateful for that, too.

Mark Zuckerberg wants to re-invent email. Oh, and he wants all that valuable Gmail data for himself.
Facebook is expected to announce 'Project Titan' later today. Rumor has it that it's Zuckerberg's 'Gmail killer' and everybody gets an @fb.com address, Oprah-style. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look hopefully under their chairs. Not to mention the amazing AT&T change-of-address mail-bomb FAIL...
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Unleash the lawyers! Looks like we have a DOI SaaS MSFT M&C RFQ GOOG conflict... Google is suing the Department of the Interior, claiming that a Request for Quotation was unfair. The company says that the RFQ -- for cloud-based messaging and collaboration services -- was written to favor Microsoft. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers don't seem entirely surprised. Not to mention a ludicrously geeky, talent-show joke...
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Google's introduced a new setting to disable Gmail's Conversation View -- but don't expect the thread-free setup to show up on your cell phone just yet.

A top Gmail designer hinted at some possible upcoming refinements for the service's powerful recent upgrade at a recent presentation in Zurich.