5 Other Uses Of Gmail Other Than Email

1. Use Gmail As A Free Online File Format Converter

If you want to convert any office document to HTML format , think of nothing other than Gmail .You don't have to install third- party application like PDF 2HTML or Adobe

Acrobat for this. You can convert doc, xls, ppt, rtf, pdf files and the
new Microsoft Office 2007 formats like docx, xlsx and pptx to HTML ,
absolutely free by using Gmail.
Just attach the document to a mail and send it to yourself. When you receive the mail open it and click "View as HTML".

2 . Use Gmail As An MP3 Player
If you want to try out a new audio player, try Gmail!
Send an mp3 file to yourself and see that Gmail contains an option to play
it . Clicking it will open a flash MP3 player using which you can play
the song without downloading it.

3. Use Gmail As Your OpenID
You can use your Google account username and password to login at a number
of sites like Zoho and Plaxo . But what about the sites that accepts
only a URL as an OpenID field?
Welcome to openid-
provider.appspot.com . This site, built on Google App Engine, allows
you to create a OpenID URL from your Google Account Credentials. Login
with your Gmail username and password and the site will provide you a
URL like http://openid- provider.appspot.com/, which you can use on
regular OpenID accepting sites.

4. Use Gmail As Your Online
StorageGmail provides a virtually unlimited online space that normal
users find impossible to fill up with emails alone. So why not use the
remaining space as your personal online file storage area?
GMail
Drive is a shell extension for Windows that adds the Gmail storage as a
disk in My Computer. All operations that you normally do with a regular
hard drive - copy, paste, drag and drop, works for Gmail drive too.
Just that the data is not residing in your computer but high up in
Google clouds.
Linux users can try out GmailFS which provides
similar functionality as GMail Drive in windows. Using this tool, you
can mount your Gmail storage space as a file system and transfer files
between them just like any other disks.

5. Use Gmail To Play Snakey
If all that emails are making you bored, try the game that comes packed with Gmail.
Gmail labs contains a game - Old Snakey , that you first need to enable from
the settings pane in order to play. Go to Gmail settings -> Labs and
set the Old Snakey radio button to enabled. Now, return back to inbox
and hit the '&' key to start the game.