Tag: GMAILLABS

Gmail labels are an absolute godsend for many, making email organization just a little bit easier. Today, two Gmail labs label add-ons, 'Hide read labels' and 'Hide Labels from Subjects,' have graduated from Labs to Gmail proper. Their move to fully-fledged features has also given them the ability to hide just some labels from subjects, allowing you to chose which to show or keep hidden. The ...

Gmail already has an unread message count in its page title, but what if you got too many tabs open to see the title, or you're using Chrome's tiny, favicon-only Pin Tab feature? A new Labs feature called "Unread message icon" takes care of the problem for you by placing your unread count in Gmail's favicon. That way, you'll know your unread count any time you've got a Gmail tab open. To ...

Gmail Labs features are great, but with more than four dozen to choose from, it's gotten a bit tedious scrolling through and trying to figure out which to enable. You could use your Web browser's built-in find feature to locate a specific term on the page, but that's just not very Google. Which is precisely why a pair of Google engineers decided it was time to add a fancy search option on the ...

Gmail Labs is Google's testing ground for experimental Gmail features. Some of the things that pop up in Gmail Labs are so awesome that after a bit of testing it becomes clear that they should become default features available to everyone using Google's email service. Others, not so much. Last night Google announced that 6 features were graduating from Gmail Labs into Gmail proper while 5 ...

Gmail Labs keeps getting better at integrating other Google products into Gmail The latest addition to Labs is Google Docs Previews, which recognizes Google Docs links in your email, and lets you view Docs inline, right from Gmail. To turn it on, go to Settings in Gmail, and then hit the Labs tab. Enable "Google Docs previews in mail." If you're a hardcore Google Docs user, being able to ...

Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition: Find your polling place with Google Maps My Location comes to Wi-Fi Gmail gets emoticons and canned responses Create a neighborhood Trick-or-Treat map with Google Maps Androidaholic round-up ...

Steve Rubel wrote an excellent post about taking your Gmail to an extraordinary new level -- using it as a searchable database by harnessing its rich filtering capabilities and imbuing it with tags. Rather than just using it as an email inbox, you can hit pay dirt if you stretch it to be your personal data mining system. Here's how. First, forget about using the cumbersome label feature ...