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Awesome: Gmail gets an undo button. Now undo your sent mails

Mayank — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:12:29 +0000

Whoa, what a surprise. Just when you think how awesome can Gmail get, they spring a new feature that is even more awesome than the previous ones. This time it is something revolutionary.

Gmail has introduced an “undo ” button which lets you undo your sent mails. If you sent the mail to a wrong person or forgot to add a cc or bcc or if you forgot to say something in the mail, or iof you forgot to attach a file or add a link, now you can just undo the sending, edit the mail and send it again. Revolutionary I say.
When you press the “send” button, Gmail will actually delay your your sending by 5 seconds and during that time you will be shown an “undo” button to correct any errors and send the mail again.

My only gripe is that it makes my Gmail slow, otherwise,simply superb.
BTW, Gmail also introduced Flickr, Picasa, Youtube and Yelp previews in mail. So when somebody sends you links of any of these Google services, Gmail will automatically detect it and show you the content, right in your mailbox. You will not need to open another window!

To use Gmail undo, or Flickr /Picasa/ Youtube/ Yelp previews, go to “Labs” option in your Gmail and enable the Labs features you want to experiment with. If you havent checked it out already (which is highly unlikely), do check it out today, as it has many amazing features, like themes, multiple inboxes, offline Gmail, appending your location to your emails and many more

New in Gmail: Select multiple files and a progress bar

Mayank — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:01:27 +0000

Gmail has been in a phase of dynamic improvement ever since Gmail Labs was introduced. Labs has given us so many amazing features like ability to access our emails offline, multiple inboxes,new themes,mouse gestures,creating a Google document,sending SMS’s via chat (US only) and many other features. (Ten Gmail Labs Features You Should Enable)

So whats new in Gmail currently is that you can now select multiple files to send at once. You can hold key to select individual files or you can press to select multiple files in a folder, just like you would do normally.

And the part i liked the best,you finally get to see a progress bar! I dont know why such a basic functionality was missing from Gmail for so long. I love my Gmail even more. (Even though there was a Gmail outage recently on 24 Feb which lasted for couple of hours and the Gmail web interface was broken. Though it dissappointed me a little but i was anyway able to access Gmail via IMAP. Also, the web interface was back online quicker,although in bursts,in Google chrome thanon other browsers )

Google adds more kewl features to Gmail

Mayank — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:16:36 +0000

Today(its referring to 6th June when i was writing this post and i could not publish it as got stuck because of some problems.This is processed from a draft) i noticed a new tab in my settings page when i was looking to edit my settings. If you go to your settings page, you will notice a “Lab” tag at the end.

Click on it and you will be happy to find some kewl additions to your already cool Gmail.

SCREENSHOT:

Current experiments are as shown in the screenies:

There is plenty you can discover yourself better.So, CHECK IT OUT.

There is even a snakes game(that Nokia kind). You can have customized shortcuts mapped to your key board keys or you can use mouse gestures to perform a particular task.

More experiments will be made available over the course of time.

Innovative Google, always thriving for improvement(thats why they are always in “Beta”). Thats why we love them.