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Gmail gets a new look and a redesigned interface

Gmail gets a new look too: New themes, Smart search box and more

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Gmail has been revamped and now has a new look. It is a part of Google‘s transitions to provide a rich new user interface across all its products, now Gmail has climbed aboard too.

Lets check out what new features have been introduced in the Gmail‘s interface.

New HD themes:

Firstly there are a lot of HD themes for you to check it out. I tried out some of the nice themes like Beach theme and Ocean theme. I loved those two a

lot. Go ahead and personalize your mailbox now.

Gmail's new look - new HD themes introduced

Smart Search Box:

Next feature is the search box. It is a whole lot smarter now. There is no need for you to remember anything. Just enter any word that you are searching for in a mail and Gmail will list out all the results for you.

Gmail's new look - smart search box

You can also filter your search criteria by providing the recipient’s name or an approximate date interval you received that mail. Gmail also gives you the option to search it from All Mail, Spam, Trash and other boxes.

Easily identify your conversations:

The next new change is the redesigned conversations. You can now see profile pictures embedded right beside your specific conversation. Now it becomes more easy for you to identify the person with whom you had a conversation.

Gmail's new look - redesigned conversations

Choose the appearance for your mails:

There’s also been a change at how you look at mails. Whether you want your mails to be spaciously arranged or in a cozy fashion or prefer a much more compact one. You can set it right away by accessing the Gears handle and choosing your arrangement according to your needs.

Gmail's new look - customize mail appearance

As an added advantage Gmail will automatically resize itself if you resize your browser window, so it looks nice in all cases.

Customize your chat area:

The last feature is the customizable chat area. Now you can resize your labels and chat box. For people who chat a lot you can leave the box to show up all the time or if you don’t chat a whole lot often you can hide it by accessing the chat icon in the lower left area.

Gmail's new look - resize chat area

So these are the new changes the Google team rolled out on Gmail today. If you enjoyed these features as much as i did, don’t forget to post a comment and share your views with us.

Source: Official Gmail Blog

Gmail Preview Pane launched

Gmail Preview Pane launched. Browse mails faster

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Gmail just yesterday launched its new gadget or shall i say a Labs feature, the Preview Pane. As the name suggests its use, the widget is used to preview your mails rather than opening them completely.

Gmail Preview Pane enable

To enable this feature just goto your mail settings, select the Labs tab. Enter preview as your search word. Click on the Preview pane result. Mark the Enable checkbox and click Save changes.

gmail-preview-pane-settings

When the page gets reloaded, you will see a small list button at the side of your navigation buttons. Just click it and you will be shown with a dropdown box. Select Vertical Split or Horizontal split according to your desire. A new sidebar will be launched. Just click on any mail message and you will be previewing it on your preview pane in no time.

Gmail Preview Pane in action

Quite an easy way to check your messages isn’t it? I for one think its very arduous and time consuming to sit and open each unread mail and press back to return to the inbox. With this feature a lot of mails can be read in a short time.

Folks at TechCrunch and Mashable are regarding this as a messed up and an incomplete product but i beg to differ.

Tell us what you think about this new contraption! Is it a GO or a NO-GO?

4 Gmail labs that aren’t worth a Penny

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I recently came across a post on 5 Gmail labs you should enable to increase productivity. Well, this is an article response to that post. Gmail labs, though known for it’s innovations and awesomeness, has on the other hand also launched a few lab features that are… not worth a penny. Here’s the top four:

1. Back to Beta

Heh, not required – is it?

Back to Beta
Back to Beta - worth a penny? 😉

2. Old Snakey

Who’d like to play the old snakey game when tonnes of official mails are unread yet?

Old snakey game in Gmail
Old snakey game in Gmail labs

3. Signature tweaks

Signature tweaks - Outdated lab in Gmail
Signature tweaks - Outdated lab in Gmail

Yes, an outdated lab feature this one. After Gmail has introduced HTML signatures by default, this lab isn’t worth retaining it’s position on the labs as Gmail’s stable site without any labs has been tweaked.

4. Default text Styling

Default text styling - A lab feature for the egoistic Gmail'ers
Default text styling - A lab feature for the egoistic Gmail'ers

Facebook doesn’t allow users sending HTML mails though they can view HTML e-mails, I’ve seen many people opting for their @facebook.com mail address lately. Let us not leave them envious by sending HTML mails to them – let’s learn to be generous, my friends. 😛

The above listed were the Gmail labs that I most hated. Let me know in the comments which of the Gmail labs do you hate and which one you love.

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What is Fb.com all about? [Rumor]

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And yes, the breaking news all o’er the web is that Facebook acquired the domain fb.com, earlier today. But what was puzzling me is not why Facebook took this domain, but I wonder what is fb.com going to be used for?

Facebook's newly bought domain fb.com
Facebook's newly bought domain fb.com

What I’ve Spotted

I made a status update which you can find at http://www.facebook.com/murugappan.meiyappan/posts/168365589853827

When I replace ‘facebook.com’ with ‘fb.com’, again it redirects to the same status update. [See: http://www.fb.com/murugappan.meiyappan/posts/168365589853827]

I suppose, let me say I wish fb.com can be used as a URL shortener to point permalinks just like each article is given it’s unique URL in StumbleUpon’s su.pr.

What they say

Mashable said this may be intended for E-mail address for facebook employees similar to Yahoo! using yahoo-inc.com for their employees. Some say it is only for internal use, some say it will be made public in few weeks. Some say it is a good move, some say this move wasn’t as necessary.

Well, this rumor’s hitting nine walls and Facebook freaks have started to go psychic at it. We are looking forward to hear from facebook about this. Also, we’d love to hear from you on this news through your comments. 🙂

How to access Gmail older contact manager

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We all are aware of gmail getting a new look and there were many people started criticizing about its change in the contacts tab, and Chaaps’ major author Shaquille Ray was one among them. Here’s how you can access your old and favorite contacts manager:

Access older gmail contacts manager
Click the highlighted text to access the older contacts manager
  • Log in to your Gmail account
  • Scroll down to the footer
  • Next to turn off chat and turn of buzz you can find older contacts manager, click it and you can now access the older contacts manager!

Are you one among those who are disappointed with the new interface or who are happy with the new interface? Do let us know your thoughts about the all new gmail.

Add Images to your Gmail Signature [Now default in Gmail]

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Just a couple of days ago, I had written an hack regarding how to add images and custom HTML to your gmail signature without the use of any extensions or add-ons.
But now the gmail team themselves are allowing to add images in signatures.

Google WYSIWYG signature
Google's WYSIWYG signature

Here’s how to configure it:

  1. Head to your gmail settings
  2. Under Signature, you can see a WYSIWYG editor
  3. Edit your signature and save the changes
  4. There you go, you are done with creating your gmail signature.

But still there is a limitation: You can add images only that are hosted on the web and cannot add images from your desktop. We strongly recommend that you upload your pics to flickr or picasa and then give its URL rather than use some other third-party image hosting services.

Anyhow bloggers and IT professionals may consider to stick to the canned responses method, as they might have two mailing streams: personal and official.

Though this is a very good move by Gmail, Which method are you looking forward to? The default one or the canned responses method? Drop your views in the comments.

Add custom HTML signature in Gmail [No extensions]

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We all must be aware of Firefox and chrome extension WiseStamp used to add a signature at the end of any email. Here is another method to add signatures in Gmail:

  • Head your address bar to Gmail labs
  • Enable Canned responses and Inserting images
  • Go to Compose mail and prepare your signature just as you compose any other email:
Custom signature is composed
Custom signature is composed
  • Select all text by pressing Ctrl+A
  • Click the Canned responses drop-down list next to Insert Invitation button
  • Click New canned response under Save
  • Give a relevant name and save it
Saving the signature
Saving the signature

And now you are done saving your signature. Whenever you want you can insert that particular signature into your email by clicking the canned responses drop down list and click the saved signature’s name under Insert and your done! You can create as many signatures as you want that too with images and many other eye-catching features enabled. Isn’t that pretty amazing?

Which one do you prefer – Riding on an extension or something stored right in your Gmail account? I hope you like the latter better. Do let me know in the comments.

Gmail Pops Hover Card for your Messages

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Gmail is The Most Used Email Service on Web. Gmail was kept in beta for more than 5 years. and came out of it very recently. Even After Coming out of Beta, Gmail has continuously tried to make updates.. Say, Integrating Google’s Sharing Service “Buzz” by placing it just below the inbox.

Today Gmail has done a New addition (You Can Call this as a Minor Update) by Introducing first of its kind Hover Cards for your Messages.. If you Hover Over any Messages on your Gmail account you can see a small Hover Card Popping up with the details of Email, like email ID, Recent Conversations etc.. Here is how the Gmail’s HoverCard looks like.

The Hover Card Looks Similar to Gtalk’s Contact Card as it uses the Same Design. It Consists of Email id and Two Clickable Options “Email” and “More”. You can directly compose Emails by Clicking on “Email” option or Expand “More” to Find “Recent Conversations” and “Send SMS” options!

With This Update one could still easily navigate by just hovering and choosing the Right Option!

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Soon 7400 Mb of your GMail Free Space will be Consumed by Buzz

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Gmail is the Leader of all Email Services on Web. Gmail has Integration of GTalk, POP3, IMAP and Provides a Free Space of 7400+ Mb.

Gmail Recently launched Buzz, which is a Twitter/Facebook like Sharing service.. where you share your Status Updates and your Follows can like and Comment your Updates…You are also allowed to Integrate your Picasa Albums, Twitter and many other accounts and feeds with Google Buzz… Buzz provided you a feature to follow anyone on Buzz … and you could see their live news feed on your Buzz Section….

Buzz’s Activity is Drastically Increasing day by day… with increased number of people whom you follow.. you are obviously stuffed with their updates straight to your Gmail’s Buzz Section…

If You have Forgot let me Remember you… Though Gmail boasts that it is a Free Email service with Free Storage.. But only provides Free Storage Upto 7400+ Mb.. Later You will be charged some $$$ to extend the Free Space!

Having Said That, Buzz’s Hyper-activity could Soon Ruin your Free Space on Gmail. If You want to Check How Much Free Storage is available for you on Buzz, Just Navigate down in your Gmail’s HomePage to see The Available Free Space and Spent Space…

I found that 2% of Free Space was Consumed from past one month and I suspect it is all due to Google Buzz effect! Soon You and Me will be Notified by Google to Upgrade the Space Paying some $$$ for space! How is That? Would You Go for it?

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Gmail Gadgets For Social Networks

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Millions of people around the world access the internet daily. Most people use the internet for Email, Instant Messenging, and playing games. Out of the millions of us out there we all seem to choose to use Social Networking sites like; Facebook, Bebo, Myspace, Twitter, ect…

But at least every user on the internet use’s an email account. On April 1, 2004 Google released Gmail. But at the time it was by invertation only. Over the past 5 years Google’s Gmail has has provided millions of users a email address.

Back in 2009 Google added “Add a gadget by its URL”.This gadget is used by a large majority of Gmails users. The application allows users to added a Gadget to the Gmail user interface.

I don’t know about you but sometimes i dislike having Mulitple tabs in a browser open all at one time. Well the Add By URL gadget has helped me reduce the need of  Tabs.

Today i will be showing you how to Add  a couple of  Social Networking gadgets to your Gmail Account, but you will need Gmail Standard. To change to Google Standard, login to Gmail, scroll to the buttom of the page, and click on “Google Standard”. This may take some time to load for slow internet users

1. Simply login to your Google Account and click  on “Settings” which is located in the upper right of the Gmail interface.
2. Now click on “Labs“, which is the third options from the right.
3. Scroll to the very buttom of the page
4. locate “Add any gadget by URL” and than hit the “Enable” button on the right.
5. Click “Save Changes”

Gmail should than reload and return to Settings if not click settings again. and this time go to “Gadgets”

Now depending if your already using Gadgets you may have to find the Add By URL gadget. Once found simply copy and paste any on of the URLs below to added various social network tabs to Gmail.

By adding the Social Networking tabs you just have to click the sites name in Gmail and than click on the sites gadgets which is located in “Gmail” on the left hand side once the url has been inputted.

To add and of the social networks below simply Copy and paste the URL’s into the Gmail “Add By URL” gadget.

Facebook
http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/104971404861070329537/facebook.xml
—————–
Twitter
https://twittergadget.appspot.com/gadget-gmail.xml
—————–
Digg
http://digg.com/goog/ig.xml
—————–
MySpace
http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/100080069921643878012/myspace.xml
—————–
Flickr
http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/100080069921643878012/flickr.xml
—————–
Orkut Scrapbook
http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/105297062528314471242/doomer_orkut_scrapbook.xml

Now if for some reason after using the gadgets Gmail will not work click on the URL below to remove all Gadgets. This will remove all from your Google Labs Gadgets.
https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0