Robert Conner keeps his friends’ phone numbers and snailmail addresses in Gmail. He asked me how he can access this information offline. The trick is to sync Gmail’s contacts with another contact ...

When you send or receive mail to or from someone in Gmail, a record of that person's name and email address is made in Gmail's contacts list so that you can quickly refer to people you've contacted.

Just because the Gmail web interface went down doesn't mean that Gmail is entirely down—often you can continue to access your account using one of the alternate web interfaces, which often are still ...