George on January 29th, 2009

If you ever take your laptop to places yuo can’t get online, or if your desktop doesn’t always have a connection (or if you are on dialup) you might appreciate this new feature in Gmail Labs – Offline Gmail.
Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. [...]

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For you IMAP email users out there New in Labs: Advanced IMAP Controls talks about Gmail’s newest customizations for you through Gmail Labs; filtering which labels to sync or not, marking messages for deletion now allows either immediate deletion or a more traditional IMAP delete when folder is expunged option, and you can choose from [...]

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George on October 8th, 2008

Google’s new lab feature by Jon Perlow, a Gmail engineer called Mail Goggles (New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret) has what I agree is a good idea, but possibly could be implemented better.
Many have surely sent emails we later regretted whether it be late night ramblings or angry retorts. A quick google [...]

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George on September 20th, 2008

I like that Google continues to innovate and try to improve things, and today I read New in Labs: Right-side Labels and Chat where Emily Chang, a Gmail Engineer, unveils a cool new Gmail feature in Gmail Labs – Right-side Labels and Chat which lets you set your labels and/or your chat window to the [...]

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George on September 14th, 2008

Gmail continues to evolve to serve us Gmail users better. Recently they rolled out 3 new ways to reply in Gmail (New in Labs: Reply add-ons) and 3 new experiments with label (New in Labs: 3 experiments with labels).
3 NEW WAYS TO REPLY
In a nutshell you can now:

reply to only the text you select (no [...]

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