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10 More Experimental Features You Should Enable From The Gmail Laboratory 
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Seven More Easy Ways To Integrate Your Google Apps 
Top 10 Gmail Labs You Should Enable Firefox/Chrome: Google Contacts needs some work, while Google+ Circles in Gmail was supposed to give you quick access to the people you interact with most, but isn’t terribly useful. That’s where ToutApp comes in — its new Gmail plugin creates a “Relationships” view where you can see the people you email often, a “Groups” view that automatically creates mini project teams after you feed it a couple of emails, and it can even track the emails you send and let you know when the recipient opens them, no return receipt required.
Every Gmail user has dealt with this annoyance: you’re writing an email, you copy and paste some text from another page, and the text’s formatting comes along for the ride. It’s not the end of the world, but then everything you type after that is formatted the same. Ugh. So now you do what? Keep the formatting? Switch to composing in plain text? Hunt for Gmail’s default font and size?
Chrome: Heavy Google Docs users know it can be a pain when you get an email with an attachment — even if it’s in Gmail — and want to save it in Google Docs for later. You have to view the attachment first, and then click to save it in Google Docs, and even then it only works if it’s one of a few file types. With the Gmail Attachments to Docs extension for Chrome, saving one or all of your attachments is as easy as clicking a single link.
Android: Gmail’s attachment handling on Android is not so great — it can only view certain types of files, and it won’t let you save those attachments wherever you want. Gmail Attachment Download solves the second problem by asking you where you want to save each file you download.
Keeping up with all your contacts can be tough. People move, change their phone numbers and otherwise outdate your address book all the time. Free service WriteThat.Name keeps your Gmail address book always up-to-date by scanning incoming email signatures for contact information.
Google’s newly-released Account Activity Dashboard creates a monthly report that lays out how you’re using Google, covering everything from your Gmail activity to your account sign-in locations.
Chrome: Streak is a new web service and Chrome extension that adds a ton of useful features to your Gmail account, including the ability to compose messages and schedule them to be sent at a later date, text expansion that works by menu or keyboard command, and the ability to manage your personal projects.
At some point last night, it looks like Google changed something on their servers that broke the Gmail app on Android. Here are the details, as well as a workaround so you don’t have to go email-less.
Have you ever peered into your spam folder on Gmail and wondered how and why those 600 messages were marked as spam? Gmail now provides you with an explanation for how those messages ended up there so you can better understand them.
Gmail’s most recent overhaul came with lots of changes, and some people don’t like its new toolbar buttons, which have icons instead of the arguably more descriptive text. If you want the old text buttons back, you now have the option to switch them in Gmail’s settings.
