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Friday, October 16, 2009
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Google Docs Previews Make Sense Of Docs Links

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | You may get a lot of Google Docs links emailed to you, but their URLs tell you nothing about what’s inside. A new Gmail Labs feature shows you the name and a text preview of Docs files shared via Gmail. More »
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
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Remove Labels From Gmail For Smaller Screens

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | The latest Gmail Labs offering does something that Greasemonkey hackers (and our own Better Gmail extension) have long found useful—hide label tags from the inbox, freeing up more screen space for subject lines and message previews. More »
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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Tasks Graduates From Gmail Labs, Google Calendar Gets Labs

4:30AM Adam Pash | Gmail Lab’s popular Tasks feature—which integrates a to-do list with Gmail and with Google Calendars—has officially graduated from Labs and is now incorporated with Gmail by default. More »
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Communicate

Gmail Inbox Preview Shows Message Blurbs While Loading

9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Gmail Labs’ newest feature, an “Inbox Preview” on the loading screen, might just be the best thing that ever happened to email checkers working off a shaky or slow connection. More »
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Friday, May 1, 2009
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Gmail Google Search Box Inserts Links Without Clicking Away

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | So often, writing an email involves opening a new tab to look up something, copying the link, then heading back to paste it. Gmail’s latest Labs feature consolidates that process with pop-up Google searches. More »
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
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Gmail Adds Suggested Recipients

8:00AM The How-To Geek | Gmail Labs adds a new feature to save time when composing messages—it can now suggest contacts based on the groups you email most often. More »
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
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Gmail Time Zone Notifiers Prevent Badly-Timed Long-Distance Calls

9:00PM Kevin Purdy | The newest Gmail Labs feature gives you a small red or green indicator next to contact names, aiming to help you avoid an Oops-it’s-3:30-a.m.-over-there-sorry phone call. More »
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Google Maps Search Gadget For Gmail Does Quick Address Lookups

7:30AM Adam Pash | Weblog ReadWriteWeb features five great Gmail Gadgets that add new functionality to Gmail through the “Add any gadget by URL” Labs feature, including one handy gadget that puts Google Maps inside Gmail for quick lookups. More »
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Friday, April 3, 2009
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Gmail Search Autocomplete Makes Searching Your Inbox A Breeze

9:50AM Adam Pash | Gmail Labs has released a great new Search Autocomplete feature today that can give search suggestions for all kinds of Gmail searches, from simple search-by-contacts to more advanced search queries—like for specific attachments. More »
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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Gmail To Get Multilingual Translation

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google hasn’t made it official, but PC World/IDG News Service and the Google Operating System blog are totally convinced that Gmail will get multi-language, on-the-fly translation of their email messages at an event in Brussels to celebrate Gmail’s fifth birthday. The screenshot above, hot off Google’s servers, seems to give away the meaning of Google’s event description as having “a European multilingual angle.” As soon as it happens, you know we’ll try it out; in the meantime, we’re wondering if Gmail has anything else in store to release today. More »
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