Gmail Labs

Gmail Labs has some of the coolest stuff.  I try to keep it as clean as possible (Inbox Zero!) and I've shown you other small time-savers from Gmail Labs, like "Send & Archive".  This is along those lines.

Recently, Google made it where you could hide labels (if you're not familiar with Gmail, labels are similar to folders) from the sidebar on an individual basis.  I took that opportunity to hide most of mine and keep them out of the way.  Now they've added a tool in Labs to let you hide any that don't have unread items in them.  This keeps them all out of the way for me, unless something drops in to one of them.  Most of the time, those e-mails would go in my inbox too, but I have a few mailing lists and such that I have go straight to a label.  This will alert me when those arrive.

This is certainly not as cool as "Send & Archive" (which I still love), but it's a nice tweak nonetheless.

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Another small Gmail bonus: Hide Read Labels

Gmail labs always test with lot of expremental features with intrested gmail users.According to the reach and importance of the feature, it will be let passed from labs and available for general use. Tasks was proudly announced as the first graduate to pass from labs. Now you can find this new feature under 'Contacts' and above 'Chat' option. If you already enabled this feature or new user need to access no need to go to settings>labs, just find this feature public as shown in image. [ Read More ]

Tasks has been improved a lot better than when it's launched in Gmail labs. Gmail included mobile and gadget views, also supports for more languages. Gmail improves task editing, managing and integrates with google calander. Overall you can create and manage tasks simple and faster.

Gmail launches “drag and drop” for labels and nomore look similar to folders. You can find these labels below the system default labels Inbox, Sent Mail, Drafts, Spam, etc. Hiding the system default labels other than inbox is possible under edit label settings. You can also add or hide new customized label, removing newly created label is also possible. Personally i rarely use to look to spam and drafts label so i hided those two labels. [ Read More ]

The first thing you can see new location for labels found above chat label. The most frequently used labels are shown and rest will be hidden under a drop dowm list. Click on the label to customize such as color, rename, hide and delete label. With simple drag and drop you can move your message to labels.

After the recent inclusion of automatic ' Message Translation ' feature in Gmail labs, it's time to announce yet another intresting feature ' Inbox Preview ' in Gmail labs. You can find this feature under Settings ---> Labs search for inbox preview. once you enabled this feature, when you try to login to your Gmail account with an waky slow internet connection you can able to preview an plain text format of your inbox. [ Read more ]

Initially when you tried to login at slow internet connection you will be frustrated with the loading bar keeps on loading for a long time. Now with this new feature in labs let user to preview inbox with a maximum of ten messages at slow connection. If you use high speed broadband internet service provider with 99% up time, then you never take this serious. On the other hand with dail up and mobile internet user might face more problems with the speen of the internet this feature is more important and useful for those users. The rest of the people can still enable it because we can't expect 100% uptime on internet connection.

Finally if you face weak or restricted connection often then you have to enable this ' Inbox Preview ' in your Gmail Labs

Gmail announces Automatic message translation in Gmail labs. You can find this feature under Setting ---> Labs search for ' Message Translation ' by enabling that feature let users to view message in your native language. Most the Gmail user will experience reciving messages from other languages, previously users will copy the text and translate using ' Google Translate ' to your local native languge. If people having global connections around the world might experience lot of difficulties on translation. Now Gmail with this new feature let user to view any language message in your local native language. [ Read more ]

When you receive an other language Email on your inbox, After enabling the ' Message Translation ' feature you can find a link for translation, by default you can translate in to English. This feature translate between 41 languages with Google translate. Click on change language to translate to your desired local native language.