Tag: GMAIL-LABS

You'd think Google would have had this search thing down by now, but the search functionality within Gmail lacked some much needed (and requested) features. A recent addition to Gmail Labs hopes to fix this and make searching within mail much, much better. In April, Google announced that you could search the web from Gmail without leaving the page. You could even add the search results you ...

Gmail's auto-complete address feature is kind of awesome. I can't remember the last time I actually looked up a contact's email address before sending a message in Gmail. Instead I just start typing their name and Gmail usually locates the address within a few characters. But there's a downside. Sometimes you'll have more than one contact with the same first name. If you've ever sent a message ...

Thanks to GMail on my iPod Touch I've gotten used to a label-free view of my inbox. The actual subjects of the message I receive are much more important to me than seeing how my filters auto-sort things. Let's face it, by now most of you probably know whose messages get labeled as what. Don't need the multitude of multicoloralism cluttering your inbox? Head over to the labs page and turn on ...

Google is rolling out a handful of changes to the way it handles labels in Gmail. First, labels are moving into the top left-side navigation area, right by your shortcuts for inbox, sent, starred, and other items. You can also choose to hide some labels while showing others. Probably one of the biggest changes is that users will now be able to drag and drop messages into labels. In other words, ...

Gmail may have a simple look and feel, but there's a lot of JavaScript running behind the scenes. And that means that even if you're using Google's own web browser, it can take a while for Gmail to load properly. But what if you need to see what's in your inbox right now and you cannot possibly wait? There's a new feature in Gmail Labs called Inbox Preview that will actually show you the 10 most ...

There's a new experimental feature in Gmail labs that you probably didn't know you needed until it existed. OK, you still probably don't *need* it, but it's a great example of how a service like Gmail can take the information it automatically gathers about your behavior and use it to make the simple act of sending an email easier. Here's how it works. If you enable the "Suggest more recipients" ...

Google has added the ability to turn on autocomplete for the Gmail search box. In order to enable autocomplete, you'll need to visit the Gmail Labs section and enable Search Autocomplete. Once enabled, you'll notice that when you start typing anything in the search box Gmail will start to offer suggestions. If you enter the first few letters of a person's name, for example, you should see a ...

I don't know about you, but I've gotten so used to the Beta label in Gmail that I don't really take it seriously anymore. Sure, Gmail is still a work in progress, but it's been pretty reliable with just a few hours of downtime over the last few years. But there's beta, and then there's Gmail Labs, which is a collection of admittedly experimental add-ons and tweaks for Google's email service. The ...

The GMail crew has been doing a great job of adding useful features of late -- some of them right into GMail, others in Labs. If you haven't clicked on the little green beaker in the top toolbar yet, there are plenty of excellent features worth turning on. Here are 10 that I find particularly useful. Offline Arguably the most powerful feature available in labs right now. Offline access requires ...

Word came down today from the official GMail Blog that several new preview options had been added in GMail labs. Included are YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and Yelp, and you can choose to activate previews on a per-site basis. The previews may not always work - my test attachment, Tay Zonady's epic YouTube video Chocolate Rain, failed to appear in both Firefox and Google Chrome. I did succeed with my ...

First they rolled out themes, now Google has decided to give us free reign over the look of our Gmail inbox. That's right, you're no longer limited to Google's 31 pre-made themes - you can now fully customize your color scheme. The template allows you to choose colors via a panel of presets, or you can click the + symbol to access the full range of available colors. The preview updates instantly ...

Gmail lets you sort messages by labels, starred items, or other items like sent mail, inbox, spam or drafts. But up until now there's been no way to see all of that information on one page. You had to apply one filter at a time, or do one search after another to bring up all the information you were looking for. Multiple Inboxes changes that. The tool is part of Gmail Labs, which means you can ...

Sure, Gmail's been in beta since is launched almost four years ago. But you know that Google has thoroughly tested the email service at this point. And before publicly rolling out any features, the company conducts thorough internal tests. But now Google is getting ready to let the general public get in on the action with the launch of Gmail Labs. Here's how it works. Starting tonight at 6pm ...