If threading of the email is the only thing that stopped you to use Gmail, now you can turn off the conversations, and see the emails like in Yahoo mail or Outlook.
You will be seeing this option (to turn off Conversation view) in the Settings page soon.
Gmail’s Priority inbox brings your important emails to the tops and make it much visible for you.
How this works?
Gmail automatically tracks the actions you do with your g(e)mails, and identifies the important email messages for you.
1. If you are frequently sending email to Bob, then an email from Bob is important for you.
2. If you always read emails containing “Soccer”, a message containing “Soccer” is important for you
3. The contacts whom you often reply, or whose emails you often “star” are important for you.
4. The emails which you archive without reading / delete are the unimportant ones
5. If you don’t do any of the above, you can use the “Important” and “Not Important” buttons in Gmail, to train Gmail to identify the priority emails for you.
If you are a pro, you can define a filter that tells Gmail, what is important for you.
More about Priority inbox Official blog post
Call from Gmail Official blog post
In order to use Google Latitude from Gmail, you should have enabled Gadgets in Gmail.
Once you have done that, go to the Gadgets tab in Gmail settings.
Give the gadget’s url as http://www.google.com/ig/modules/fv.xml and add.
Now you are set to use Latitude from Gmail. The Latitude gadget appears on the left navigation bar of the Gmail page. When you click on your photo in the gadget, it gets launched in its canvas view (full screen).
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This is an update to my previous post on “View your Orkut Scraps in GMail”, the gadget is updated to have the Canvas view.
Now you can click on the gadget title link to launch it in full screen, canvas view.
Please read my previous post for How to add this gadget to your GMail page.
In one of the previous posts , we saw about how to add iGoogle gadgets to GMail.These GMail gadgets need not be only in the small sidebar, which of less than 200 pixels width.
Since iGoogle now supports gadgets with Canvas view, GMail gadgets can also be with canvas view (full view).
We will see how to develop a simple GMail app, with Canvas view enabled.If you can code html, check the simplest form of a Google gadget below.
The Gmail gadgets are same as Google gadgets, just appearing in the GMail page.For the Canvas view application in GMail, the ModulePrefs tag should look like
Here, we have enabled different type of views, Canvas and default using <Require feature=”views”/>And maximizing the gadget is enabled using <Optional feature=”maximize”/>
Let us now go to the sidebar view part (i.e the default view.It should look like,
The link, javascript:goToView(‘canvas’) can take us to the full view.Even the sidebar can some content which can be coded in the above CDATA section.Now the Canvas view can have the basic form as below.
The complete xml file should be like,
After coding the complete gadget as above, upload the xml file somewhere.
Now, you have the xml file uploaded somewhere, and its url ready.
How to add the gadget application to GMail?
1. In Labs tab, under Gmail Settings, Enable “Add any gadget by URL” feature, Save changes.
2. Now Go to the Gadgets tab in Gmail settings.
3. Give the gadget xml file’s url, and add the gadget. (for eg, http://www.google.com/ig/modules/datetime.xml)
Many of you might have noticed that Google has removed the Beta label from GMail today.
Didn’t notice yet? check your GMail !
(want to Change the theme ?)
In addition to GMail, Google Calendar also is out of beta version.
Not happy with GMail without beta label ? Do you still think GMail should be called beta ?
Google provides an option for that !
Go to GMail Labs
Enable “Back to Beta” !
Save the changes, and You are all set with the Beta label again.
Enjoy GMail Beta !
Since GMail uses Labels, instead of Folders, which many users were not used to, Labels were not used much initially.
Many of the email providers, email clients have the concept of folders. But GMail has Labels which has many advantages like,
1. You need not hide the email message from inbox, if you want to categorize a email message.
2. Adding multiple categories to a single email message was never possible.
Even though Labels have these advantages, users liked the traditional Folders in email.
For attracting users, Google added a button to GMail, called “Move to”, which simultaneously applies label, as well as archives the message. This gave a feel like moving to Folders, but still having the pros of Labels.
Until few days back, a list of labels were appearing below chat box.
Now, these links for Labels have moved above Chat Box, and you also can Drag and Drop emails into Labels.
This hopefully will attract more users to use labels.
Read More:
GMail Blog
Google Blog
(Please also read the updated post for viewing orkut in Gmail in Full view ).
As I mentioned in my previous post, we can add any google gadget to our GMail page.
Let us add Your Orkut Scrapbook to GMail.
1. Go to Labs in gmail.
(Labs are available only in Internet Explorer 7.0+, Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0+, and Google Chrome.)
2. In Labs tab, under Gmail Settings, Enable “Add any gadget by URL” feature, Save changes.
3. Now Go to the Gadgets tab in GMail settings.
4. Give the gadget‘s url as
http://xmlgadgets.com/ig/scraps.xml
and add.
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Add Orkut Birthdays gadget to GMail/iGoogle
Add Orkut Scrapbook gadget to GMail/iGoogle
If there is a link in your email message (GMail), linking to a
Youtube video,
Picasa photo/album,
Flickr photo/album
or Yelp, a preview of the video, photo or photo album will appear in the GMail message itself.
This makes easy for us to view the album, watch the video, browse the photos, etc, directly in the email message.
How to enable in my GMail account?
1. Go to Labs in gmail.
2. Enable “Picasa previews”, “Flickr previews”, “Youtube previews” and “Yelp previews”.
(whatever you want to enable)
3. Save changes
Many of us have used GMail chat gadget’s search box to search for contacts, either to
Chat instantly with someone,
View recent conversations with the contact,
View Orkut profile of the contact or
Send an email to the contact.
Sometime back, When you minimise the chat gadget (by clicking the minus button in the gadget), you will not be able to search the contacts as simply as we do with the chat box.
Now, you can see a most welcome change in GMail chat gadget that, the contact search box is visible even if you have,
Turned off the chat (which just Signs off you from Chat),
Minimise the chat gadget (the search box is still available).
