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Gmail gets experimental offline mode

Published on January 29, 2009 By George

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. [...]

Gmail Adds More Customizations – Advanced IMAP Controls

Published on October 13, 2008 By George

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 [...]

Gmail’s Mail Goggles had the right idea

Published on October 8, 2008 By George

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 [...]

New Home for Gmail Chat and Labels

Published on September 20, 2008 By George

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 [...]

Gmail Labs roll out new features

Published on September 14, 2008 By George

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 [...]