Boomerang

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If you are looking for ways to schedule text messages, there are a few dedicated web services out there like TextMeLater, OhDon’tForget and TextMemos.  They will require you to register and set up an account with them, but are otherwise fine ways to schedule a text message. But if you are like me, a Boomerang user (well, you should be if you already aren’t), who loves to schedule everything inside Gmail and prefer to have...

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If you’re anything like me, you have a giant stack of business cards you’ve accumulated at conferences and events somewhere in your office.  I have two such stacks, and I never contacted the majority of the people in them, nor do I remember anything about who they were or why (even if!) they were interesting. I’ve been working on a system to streamline handling the stack of cards for quite some time, and I finally hit one...

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Boomerang service fully restored

Boomerang service fully restored


Posted By on Apr 23, 2011

Boomerang is now back up and running, and all the messages that were scheduled to be delivered during the outage were sent/returned as soon as we were able to get access to them again. Thank you for your patience during the outage, and please email us (support@baydin.com) if anything still seems off.

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We’re back up… sort of… Boomerang is running again, but because of the AWS outage, we weren’t able to access messages that were scheduled using Boomerang within the last 9 days. When AWS services resume normally, we hope to be able to recover the missing messages. In the meantime, please check the Manage Boomerang screen and compare it against your Boomerang label and Boomerang-Outbox label to see if there are...

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Update: We are back up! (4/22 10:58 AM PST) We will update more info on what impact this outage has on scheduled messages very soon. Our service is was unavailable starting 4/22 morning because our hosting provider, Amazon AWS, is having widespread outage that affected many web services. The AWS outage started yesterday and they still haven’t restored their service. We weren’t impacted yesterday and thought we were safe...

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Boomerang is Ready for Firefox 4

Boomerang is Ready for Firefox 4


Posted By on Mar 22, 2011

Firefox 4 is here and Boomerang is ready to work with it! Just download Firefox, visit http://www.boomeranggmail.com/download.html in your new browser (Firefox 4 to be precise), and you’ll get a Firefox 4 compatible version of Boomerang. As always, if you have any issues with the new updates, please feel free to email us at support@baydin.com. We’re here to help! P.S. After you download, make sure you stop by the Firefox 4 Twitter...

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Update: March 15, 2011, 4:53 PM: This issue is now (mostly) resolved! Google has pushed an update to their OAuth signin flow. When you are presented your account selection screen, choose your Gmail account, and everything will work. If you use both Gmail and Google Apps Mail in the same browser at the same time, you may be experiencing issues signing into Boomerang or The Email Game. You are impacted if you are taken to an account...

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A few hours ago, we started getting emails and tweets from users about Boomerang disappearing. As it turns out, Google started rolling out their new menu bar to a subset of users and by now, it may have rolled out to everyone. If you haven’t got one, it looks like this. It’s pretty, isn’t it? We set to work making Boomerang work perfectly with Google’s new & shiny menu bar. And we have pushed out the latest...

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Boomerang for Gmail will be down starting at 10pm PST on Thursday 2/17 for maintenance and infrastructure improvements. We estimate that the service will be unavailable for one to two hours. Any emails you scheduled during the downtime will be returned/sent when service resumes.

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Guide to Etacts Alternatives

Guide to Etacts Alternatives


Posted By on Jan 31, 2011

Etacts recently announced some great news – they’ve been acquired by Salesforce. Unfortunately, that means that both Etacts and EmailOracle will shut down service today, January 31st. If you depended on their integrated, social CRM service for Gmail, you’re probably finding a replacement service to migrate to and here’s our guide to help you with making your selection. Etacts has three primary functionalities as...

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