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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 )

Multiple inboxes in Gmail

Mayank — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:30:30 +0000

Gmail just keeps getting better and better. This time, its a really useful feature. You can now have multiple inboxes in your gmail.
You can enable this feature from “Labs” tab and then can configure “multiple inboxes” from settings.

You can use it to organise your mails in an even better way. You can set different inboxes for your different lables. You can also set the location of the number of mails that you want to displays in your new inboxes and also set the location of your inbox panels. It looks much clean and organised.
I am already loving this cool new feature of gmail. What about you?

Access Gmail offline

Mayank — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:27:39 +0000

Gmail just gets better and better. This time its something fresh. Gmail users can now access their Gmail accounts even when they are offline. This has been introduced as an experimental feature in labs, which since its birth is giving us many great features to love the mail service even more.
If you are a gmail user, you just need to go to the labs tab and enable the feature “Offline”. Gmail will then locally cache Gmail on your computer using Google gears and you will be able to use Gmail without a internet connection. You can read,label,and even compose mails as you would do normally and gmail will sync your activity when the next time you connect to the internet.

To use this feature, you will need Firefox v 1.5+ or Internet Explorer v 6.0 and up.

Now view PDF’s and send SMS from Gmail

Mayank — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:56:16 +0000

Gmail recently introduced two more amazing features. You can now view PDF’s right from your inside your Gmail. You will see a “view” button against your PDF’s in your mail,you can click the button and view the PDF without needing to download and save the file on your computer!.

Gmail team also introduced another feature few days back. You can send text messages to your friends mobile from Gmail. The problem is that right now you can only send SMS to your friends in US. I really really hope that this feature is opened to users outside the US as soon as possible.

Now get Gmail on your desktop

Mayank — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:05:19 +0000

From now on, to access your Gmail, you will not need to open your browser because Google has just launched a desktop Gmail desktop gadget.

You can check all your mails right from your desktop. Easy,isnt? It currently works with the latest release of Google desktop.

Here is an excerpt from what the official Gmail blog has to say on the new Gmail gadget:

You’ll see that it covers the basics such as reading, searching, and sending messages. You can star messages, use the same keyboard shortcuts, and we didn’t forget about contact auto-complete. It doesn’t take up much space in your sidebar or desktop, and you can also resize it to show as few or as many messages as you’d like.

Pep up your Gmail mailbox with themes

Mayank — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:48:33 +0000

Google products dont stop getting better. After giving some intuitive features like Labs, ever increasing storage, Google has made its users smile yet again.

Google has introduced 30 themes for its customers on 19th Nov. The release was gradually rolled out to all the customers in the next two days (I got the themes today )

Gmail users (me included) have long been using other ways to spice up their Gmail interface using third party addons, but now with this new addition, we wont have to do that.

Here is a screenshot of all the themes:

To see the themes and chose one for yourself, go to Settings–>Themes

From Gmail blog

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.