Email Search, Mobile Search, Twitter Search | CloudMagic http://blog.cloudmagic.com Search across Twitter, Gmail, Google Apps, Docs, Calendar and Contacts from Desktop or Mobile. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:07:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 CloudMagic now has Safari Extension http://blog.cloudmagic.com/2012/02/14/cloudmagic-now-has-safari-extension/ http://blog.cloudmagic.com/2012/02/14/cloudmagic-now-has-safari-extension/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:53:42 +0000 Chirag http://blog.cloudmagic.com/?p=457 Although you can use our service at CloudMagic.com, nothing can match the ease at which you can access your data when you add the CloudMagic extension to your browser. When you add the extension, a floating search bar appears in Gmail and Twitter pages. It’s right there when you need it the most. Keyboard shortcut and context menu further helps save time.

Today, we are happy to announce the availability of CloudMagic Extension for Safari. Download it here.

To conclude, thank you all for overwhelming response for the last release. We are always asked if we are adding Facebook, Evernote, Dropbox, Tumblr, etc. to CloudMagic. We assure you again that all those requested services and many more are in our wishlist. We will keep you posted on their availability. For frequent updates please follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook.

Cheers,
Team CloudMagic

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Bravo, now what!

“Searching on mobile sucks, is there something like CloudMagic for mobile?” We get that a lot. We ourselves missed CloudMagic while on the move and started working on CloudMagic for mobile.

We’re really excited today to launch CloudMagic’s blazing fast search across mobile devices. Now you can find anything in just a second from your smartphone. Embedded below is a quick intro video.

We have worked very hard to deliver search results under one second, we hope you enjoy the speed. Please give it a spin and let us know your feedback.

CloudMagic for Mobile – iPhone App Store, Android Market
CloudMagic for Desktop – Chrome Web Store, Firefox Add-ons

Cheers,
Team CloudMagic

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1. Search as you think, and don’t think too much

Don’t be shy to search for a phrase, partial address or an area code of telephone number that you know exists in what you are looking for. CloudMagic will instantly search through all parts of your Google Apps / Gmail (from, to, subject, body etc.). For example – I was looking for my hotel reservation email and the first thing that came to mind was the price of the room. So I search for ’319′and there I see my reservation details. Another example – I’m not good at remembering names of the people that I’ve met just once, but I recollect the company they work for and that’s what I search. You can also use advanced search operators (from:, to:, filename: etc.) to separate wheat from the chaff.

2. Add multiple accounts and services

Add all your Google Apps / Gmail / Twitter accounts, so that you can quickly search through all your content in one go. You’ll no longer have to remember where Charlie’s video was shared and you’d be surprised how the accounts you seldom use have very valuable information in them, which CloudMagic will pop up for you. (You can always choose to display search results across all accounts by going to Preferences > Enable Combined Search)

3. Use the various access interfaces CloudMagic gives you

You can search in various ways using CloudMagic. You should pick the one that suits you most based on what you search :

a. Search bar inside Gmail.com/Google Apps mail or Twitter.com – the most popular access method

b. Full page search – comes in handy when you need larger previews and less clutter

c. Chrome’s Omnibox – no matter what page you are browsing, type C, space in the address bar and start searching in CloudMagic. The results will start appearing in suggestions section of Omnibox. Keyboard shortcut fans love this.

d. Chrome’s Browser Options – similar to Omnibox, you can use this no matter which page you’re on.

e. Browser context menu – the good old right click thing

4. Place the CloudMagic search box right

The CloudMagic search box can be moved around, by simply dragging it. The default spot is most convenient for me, but if you want to move it to a better spot, you should. You could also simply replace your Gmail search box by clicking on “Replace Gmail Search” in the CloudMagic search box drop down menu.

5. Note to Firefox users

We are always building more into CloudMagic. Unlike Chrome, Firefox does not automatically update the add-ons. However, it will prompt you when there is an update. If updates are not prompted automatically, look for “Automatically check for updates” option in Firefox Tools> Advanced> Update.

I hope these tips will help you enjoy CloudMagic even more. Tell us if you have more tips, we would love to hear from you.

We are very thankful for the overwhelming response since we launched. This comment sums up the kind of feedback that we’ve received:“If you’re using Gmail, and not using CloudMagic, you’re shortening your effective lifespan, plus sapping the economy, by wasting your precious time.” – James Fallows, The Atlantic.

You can follow us on Twitter or Facebook to stay updated

Cheers,
Rishit

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You know it. Lets jot down why?

  • It’s slow
  • It can only search for tweets sent in the past 10 days
  • It cannot search for direct messages
  • It’s not easy to search for tweets in your timeline
  • It’s not search-as-you-type like Google Instant (I know this is too much to ask for when the search itself is rudimentary)

CloudMagic is an answer for all this. Today, CloudMagic extends its search speed & simplicity to Twitter. Although CloudMagic cannot solve Twitter search as a whole, it helps you search for all your tweets/retweets, direct messages & tweets in your timeline – all of this search-as-you-type. Needless to say you can search for your tweets even when you are offline. Twitter is the first non Google service that CloudMagic is indexing & below is the consolidated list of all supported services:

  • Gmail
  • Google Apps Email
  • Google Docs
  • Google Apps Docs
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Apps Calendar
  • Google Contacts
  • Google Apps Contacts, and
  • Twitter

Yes, one search bar & you can search across all these services instantly!

Up to 100 times faster search results

CloudMagic is known for speed. It is already fast. Well, that doesn’t stop us from making it faster. Our internal tests have shown that the current release serves search results up to 100 times faster than before. Thanks to those optimizations under the hood. We believe that every collective second you save adds up to the overall search experience.

Easy & fast access to data = less frustration = more productivity!

We are excited about this release & would love to have your feedback. On a closing note, what other services would you like on CloudMagic?

Cheers,
Chirag
Team CloudMagic

PS: As new changes need reindexing of your data, the search results may not appear immediately after update.

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This is a bug fix release. CloudMagic prompted the intro video for existing users. What’s the point in introducing CloudMagic to someone who is already using it? Oops, we apologize for that! Click here to download the release with the bug fix.

Cheers,
Team CloudMagic

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This is a bug fix release. CloudMagic didn’t work for some Firefox users as the index got corrupted. In this release we have made some architectural changes to fix this issues. Download the latest release from here.

Cheers,
Team CloudMagic

]]> http://blog.cloudmagic.com/2011/07/22/cloudmagic-2-72-released/feed/ 0 CloudMagic 2.71 – Past Calendar Events Search http://blog.cloudmagic.com/2011/07/06/cloudmagic-2-71-past-calendar-events-search/ http://blog.cloudmagic.com/2011/07/06/cloudmagic-2-71-past-calendar-events-search/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:41:47 +0000 Chirag http://blog.cloudmagic.com/?p=279 Hi,

This is a minor release. We added Calendar support with the last release. With this release we are providing an option to search for past Calendar Events. Click on “Show past Events” to look for old Calendar Events.

Show Past Events

This release also contains some bug fixes.

Download the latest release from here.

Cheers,
Team CloudMagic

PS: As new changes need re-indexing of Calendar & Contacts, you might not see search results immediately.

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You have always loved the blazing search speed of CloudMagic. As one user puts – How can I forget the myriad hours I have saved [searching] with CloudMagic? We have been continually adding new online services under CloudMagic. With every new service added, not only are you saving more time but also reaching the data easily.

Easy & fast access to data = less frustration = more productivity!

Although there are tens of services to be indexed, what our users missed the most was Calendar. Today, we are happy to announce the support for Google Calendar. Whether it is “important meeting with your client” or “date with your partner”, you don’t need to juggle between tabs or wait for minutes for the results. Its there right in your CloudMagic – fast, easy & integrated (works offline too) search for your online data. With the addition of Calendar we have covered most of the widely used Google Cloud services. Listed below are the supported Google & Google Apps account services:

  • Emails
  • Contacts
  • Calendar
  • Documents
  • Spreadsheet
  • Presentation
  • Form

CloudMagic Calendar Search

We are excited about this release & would love to have your feedback. Twitter support is coming next.

Download the latest release from here.

Cheers,
Team CloudMagic

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Thanks for such a overwhelming response to our last release. We gave you more interfaces to access CloudMagic. You wanted to hide the ones that you don’t want. With this release you can hide CloudMagic search bar inside Gmail’s &/or Google Doc’s interface.

Printing a document in Google Docs printed CloudMagic search box as well. This releases contains a fix for this.

Cheers,
Team CloudMagic

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The most awaited feature offline search is out. You can access super-fast search of CloudMagic when you are even offline.

This release also boasts of usability enhancements. Now you can access CloudMagic in many more ways. Use it the way you like it. With this release you can search in CloudMagic through Chrome’s Omnibox & Browser Options (toolbar popup).

In Omnibox type ‘c’ & hit tab (or space) to activate CloudMagic & enter the search term.

You even get instant search results in the Omnibox drop-down as you type.

Just click on the CloudMagic Browser Options icon to see CloudMagic search bar. Just by using this feature for a week, I personally saved a lot of time, as I can access the search results without opening Gmail’s interface or switching to the tab where its open. No matter what you are browsing, CloudMagic’s search results are just a click away.

To summarize you can access CloudMagic’s super-fast search results through following interfaces.

  1. CloudMagic search bar inside Gmail’s interface
  2. CloudMagic full page search bar
  3. Chrome’s Omnibox
  4. Chrome’s Browser Actions

Firefox users can find the following shortcuts to access Interface-2 listed above:

  1. Toolbar
  2. Tools menu
  3. Context menu

We are excited about this release & are eagerly looking forward to your feedback.

Download the latest release from here.

Cheers,
Chirag
Team CloudMagic

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