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Listing ID: 488
Title: GMail Blog
Description: The official blog from Google's Gmail team..
Category: Internet
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listed on: May 10, 2008 07:42:51 AM
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| 3 new Calendar Labs - 2010-03-10 08:32:00 |
Today, we're happy to announce three new features in Calendar Labs. To try them out, just go to theLabs tab under Calendar Settings. 1. Event flairby Dave Marmaros Want a little airplane icon next to information about your upcoming flight? Or stars next to meetings with your boss? This experiment lets you choose from forty different icons and add one to each Calendar event. Even better, if you invite people to your events, they'll be able to see the icon you added too. After you enable this feature, click on an event and look for the "Event flair" gadget to activate.   2. Gentle remindersby Sorin Mocanu If you keep Google Calendar open all day long, you probably end up seeing quite a few reminders every day. Browser alerts are okay, but I tried to find a way for Calendar notifications to integrate smoothly with everything else. Turn on "Gentle Reminders," and when you get a notification, the title of your Calendar window or tab will start blinking and the event details will stay in Calendar.  If you're using this lab in a supported browser (currently Google Chrome for Windows and Google Chrome beta for Linux), you'll also have the option to get your reminders in the next generation of floating desktop notifications:  After you enable this feature, you can configure notification options on the Settings page. 3. Automatically declining eventsby Lucia Fedorova and Miguel García Have you ever checked your calendar and noticed that someone scheduled a really important meeting during your vacation or at a time when you're not available? Now there's a way to automatically decline events when you're not around. Turn on "Automatically declining events," block off times when you're unavailable, and event invitations during this period will get automatically declined.   |
| New in Labs: Refresh POP accounts - 2010-03-08 17:30:00 |
My little sister recently setup her Gmail account toretrieve messagesfrom her school address, so she can check all of her email accounts in one place. She no longer has to constantly log in to two email programs, and she likes using Gmail's powerful interface for all her mail. However, sometimes she knows an email has already been sent to her school address, and she just can't wait for the next scheduled fetch to have it show up in her Gmail inbox. As any big brother would, I tried to solve this issue for her and millions of Gmail users. Turn on "Refresh POP accounts" from theLabs tabunder Settings, and the refresh link at the top of your inbox will not only update your inbox with your new Gmail messages, it will also fetch messages from any other accounts which you have set up.  Try it out, andlet us knowif you have any feedback.  |
| Fast new windows - 2010-03-01 18:27:00 |
One of the lesser-known features of Gmail is its ability to help with multitasking. Frequently, I find that I need to find an old message while I'm composing an email. When this happens, I click on the "new window" icon to pop my compose area into its own window:  There's only one problem— it's been slow! Today, we're rolling out a change that will fix this (reload your account to make sure you get this change). Now, popping out a window is much, much faster. No more "Loading..." progress bar. There are a number of places you can pop up new windows in Gmail.
Keep in mind that the popped out window does not outlive the closing of the original Gmail window, although we're working on a way to make that better. Unfortunately, we weren't able to make this work in Internet Explorer, so to see the speed-up, you'll need to be using Mozilla Firefox, Apple's Safari, or Google Chrome.  |
