Over a year and a half ago Google launched Gmail Labs. A platform where Google engineers can come up with new features for Gmail and add it to Gmail Labs where millions of users can grab it for enhanced user experience and for user its a new thing to try out. Gmail Labs, was one of the important and probably the best move from Google which is very popular among the users now a days.
Till now, there are 60 Labs features available in Gmail, where many features are very useful and some are not. It's a total opt-in and customized feature, so user can activate or deactivate according to there usage patterns.
The early bird were Gmail Task and offline Gmail who graduate first from the labs & Right-side Labels was first to retire. Today, another six are graduating and five are retiring from Gmail Labs.
Graduating:
Let's see, what kind of updates graduates are getting.
Now Go To Label integrated with Search Auto-complete into the search box, so now you're able to search, from mail to contact names to labels.
Many times we all forget to attach a file to the email and send it then sheepishly send another email with the forgotten attachment. here, Forgotten Attachment Detector save you from that embarrassment. It looks for phrases in your email body and subject line, that suggest you meant to attach a file and alerts you if it looks like you forgot an attachment.
Probably, many of your friends often email you YouTube video links. Instead of having to clicking on the link and wait for a new window to load before you can watch the video, Gmail shows inline YouTube previews right below the message. All you have to do is click the play button and enjoy the video without leaving gmail.
Custom Label Colors, which allows you to assign custom color to labels and you can create color based labeling system in Gmail. there are around 4000 possible color combination to choose.
If you specify in advance that, on which dates you'll be away in vacation responder then, you won't have to remember to turn on the vacation responder. It will send automated emails on the specific date you already choose to your contacts.
According to Gmail, Over the next few days, you'll see Muzzle, Fixed Width Font, Email Addict, Location in Signature, and Random Signature stop working and disappear from the Labs tab and new graduate will be part of default Gmail so you won't be able to disable it.
Many user like the new graduates and many don't like it. personally I like the location based signature. It was a good feature, when you roam place to place, it adds location into your email as part of signature, unfortunately its going for retirement now. Which labs feature you like the most and which feature should Gmail add or bring back in Labs? Share your point of view with us, in comment.
Till now, there are 60 Labs features available in Gmail, where many features are very useful and some are not. It's a total opt-in and customized feature, so user can activate or deactivate according to there usage patterns.
The early bird were Gmail Task and offline Gmail who graduate first from the labs & Right-side Labels was first to retire. Today, another six are graduating and five are retiring from Gmail Labs.
Graduating:
- Search Autocomplete
- Go To Label
- Forgotten Attachment Detector
- YouTube Previews
- Custom Label Colors
- Vacation Dates
- Muzzle
- Fixed Width Font
- Email Addict
- Location in Signature
- Random Signature
Let's see, what kind of updates graduates are getting.
Now Go To Label integrated with Search Auto-complete into the search box, so now you're able to search, from mail to contact names to labels.Many times we all forget to attach a file to the email and send it then sheepishly send another email with the forgotten attachment. here, Forgotten Attachment Detector save you from that embarrassment. It looks for phrases in your email body and subject line, that suggest you meant to attach a file and alerts you if it looks like you forgot an attachment.Probably, many of your friends often email you YouTube video links. Instead of having to clicking on the link and wait for a new window to load before you can watch the video, Gmail shows inline YouTube previews right below the message. All you have to do is click the play button and enjoy the video without leaving gmail.Custom Label Colors, which allows you to assign custom color to labels and you can create color based labeling system in Gmail. there are around 4000 possible color combination to choose.
If you specify in advance that, on which dates you'll be away in vacation responder then, you won't have to remember to turn on the vacation responder. It will send automated emails on the specific date you already choose to your contacts.According to Gmail, Over the next few days, you'll see Muzzle, Fixed Width Font, Email Addict, Location in Signature, and Random Signature stop working and disappear from the Labs tab and new graduate will be part of default Gmail so you won't be able to disable it.
Many user like the new graduates and many don't like it. personally I like the location based signature. It was a good feature, when you roam place to place, it adds location into your email as part of signature, unfortunately its going for retirement now. Which labs feature you like the most and which feature should Gmail add or bring back in Labs? Share your point of view with us, in comment.
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