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Gmail Rocks (more) with New Themes

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Like I said before Gmail rocks! Now they’ve (almost) added themes, so I can now choose different themes for different browsers. Since I mainly use about 6 browsers on 3 different computers that’s really cool for me. Also this should let me see at-a-glance whether our laptop is logged into my wife’s Gmail or mine – yes I *could* just read the email address as Gmail loads but that’s less fun and certainly not worth a post here!

Okay, so here are this blogger’s early on favorites:

Source: Ripped from Google

Source: Ripped from Google

MORE READING, read the entire Gmail post, themes aren’t yet available everywhere:
Spice up your inbox with colors and themes

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5 Responses to "Gmail Rocks (more) with New Themes"

  • Eyebee says:
    November 20, 2008 at 9:17 am

    I’m more than happy using Gina Trappini’s Better Gmail2, along with Google Redesigned from Globex Designs. That combination gives extra functionality within Firefox, and I don’t use any other browser for Gmail/Google Calender in any case. Having looked at these new themes, while some of them look pretty, that’s about all they do. In other words they are eye candy. Now, on a public facing website this can be important, but on a machine that only I see, it doesn’t matter a jot!

    I am aware that these themes will show up on IE for example, but I only ever use IE for testing purposes and never ever as a working browser, as it’s too darn slow, and insecure in any case (even IE8).

    Chrome is ok, and fast, but until Google allow it to have the plug-in functionality of Firefox, it’s not going to get much use here either.

  • The Gmail Email Reminder? says:
    November 22, 2008 at 12:18 am

    [...] consisting just of subject lines. My favorite recent Gmail feature is themes (check out my favorite Gmail themes), that became available in my Gmail account the day after I blogged about [...]

  • George says:
    November 22, 2008 at 12:43 am

    I like Globex Designs Gmail Redesigned as well, but I like a change now and again. I hope that Google works on other parts of their themes beyond the backgrounds and other limited colors changes already added.

  • RaSh says:
    November 22, 2008 at 3:03 am

    Since I use Chrome these days to read GMail, it’s an amazing feature for me :)

    From the themes, my favorite right now is Beach. It nicely blends into different color schemes with time :)

    Would love to know which ones you like. Check out my post here!

  • George’s Technology Blog » Blog Archive » Gmail Theme Color Chooser says:
    February 22, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    [...] themes have offered pre-selected color schemes in Gmail Lab’s Themes since November of 2008, but now you can design your own Gmail color scheme from within Gmail! [...]

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