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10 More Experimental Features You Should Enable From The Gmail Laboratory

5:00AM May 25, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

We’ve highlighted Gmail Labs features you should enable before, but you’ll find more than 20 useful features hidden inside Gmail’s Laboratory, and Google’s releasing new ones all the time. Here are 10 more powered-up Gmail Labs worth enabling. More »


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Gmail Lets You Manage Other Mail While Your Messages Are Sending

9:45AM April 26, 2011 | Kevin Purdy

New in Gmail’s Labs section is a feature that’s a saving grace for anybody waiting out a big attachment or slow server. Once activated, “Background Send” lets you move on to reading and managing other messages, while Gmail continues sending your messages behind the scenes. More »


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Gmail Adds Unread Count In Favicon To Gmail Labs

8:30AM January 26, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

Chrome and Firefox: Fans of Gmail tweakers like previously mentioned Better Gmail and its Chrome counterpart, Minimalist Gmail, will love the newest addition to Gmail Labs, in which you can show your unread count in your Gmail tab’s icon. More »


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Top 10 Gmail Labs You Should Enable

4:00AM January 2, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

As if Gmail wasn’t powerful enough, you can find all sorts of goodies and extra features in Gmail Labs. The list is pretty massive, so we’ve narrowed down our 10 favourite labs to help increase your email productivity. More »


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Preview Google Maps Links In Gmail

10:30PM June 8, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

Just out of the Gmail Labs is a Google Maps preview function, which appends a miniature map — with full scaling, zoom and other Maps features — to the bottom of any message containing a Maps link. More »


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Move Gmail Message Type Icons To The Left

10:00PM May 26, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

Gmail’s latest Labs offering is a tiny little thing, but perhaps a great one, especially on larger screens. Enable “Move Icon Column”, and your attachment, calendar and other message icons move to the left of your subjects from the right. More »


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Change The Delay Time On Gmail’s Undo Send

10:00PM May 17, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

A helpful reader noticed a new setting in Gmail that’s popped up since the Undo Send lab appeared in Gmail. You can now change your undo buffer period to five or 20 seconds from the default 10-second wait. More »


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Gmail Adds Nested Labels, Sneak Peek To Labs

9:25AM April 9, 2010 | Adam Pash

Google added two new features to Gmail Labs today: The often-requested Nested Labels – for those of you who like folder-style label nesting – and “Message Sneak Peek”, which provides a quick look at an email when you right-click the message in your inbox. More »


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Gmail Adds Search Autocomplete, Navigation Shortcuts, Attachment Detector

2:35PM February 25, 2010 | Adam Pash

Gmail has officially integrated several of our favourite Labs-only features into Gmail proper, including previously mentioned features like search autocomplete, Go to Label (one of the biggies in my Gmail master redux), forgotten attachment detector, YouTube previews, and more. More »


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Gmail Google Search Button Makes Link Pasting Easier

12:30AM February 2, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

The Google Search box in Gmail Labs makes it easy to quickly search and paste results into an email without ever clicking away. If you don’t like sidebar clutter, a button on your email toolbar now offers the same search-and-paste convenience. More »