| If you are a Gmail user, soon you will find a tab on | | | | - Random Signature: It will append a random famous |
| your gmail page to access a new part of the service | | | | quote to the end of your email. |
| called “Gmail Labs”. | | | | - Mouse Gestures: You can navigate your mouse with |
| Gmail Labs, a product from Google Labs, will initially | | | | gestures. Hold right click and move the mouse left to |
| provide 13 features to the Gmail users to add to their | | | | go to a previous conversation, move right to go to the |
| service. It is a part of the nifty development model | | | | next conversation, and move up to go back to the |
| followed by google. Any engineer having a new idea | | | | inbox view. |
| for a Gmail feature can publish it on the Gmail Labs | | | | |
| site, and users can test it out and provide feedback | | | | |
| directly to the engineer who wrote it. | | | | Other features in gmail labs: |
| | | | | - Pictures in Gmail chat |
| Let's take a tour to the new features of Gmail Labs. | | | | - Custom keyboard shortcuts |
| Here are the features that looks most beneficial to me: | | | | - Hide unread count |
| - Superstars: It provides additional star icons as in | | | | - Fixed width font |
| standard Gmail. You will be able to mark your | | | | - Custom date format |
| messages with different colored stars and other icons | | | | - Muzzle (hide the status of your contacts in Gmail |
| like a check mark or exclamation point. | | | | chat) |
| - Quick Links: It is a way of bookmarking any page | | | | - Play Snake inside Gmail |
| within Gmail. You can do a search and bookmark that | | | | |
| search. Go back to it again and the link will display any | | | | What if you face probs ? |
| new messages that fit the search criteria. | | | | All the gmail users would have to just click on a button |
| - Signature Tweaks: This feature enables you to put | | | | to enable these features. In case if any user don’t |
| your automated signature above the quoted text while | | | | like them or they don’t work well, another button is |
| responding to a message, inspite of displaying at the | | | | provided to disable them. They’ll be available |
| bottom of what somebody else wrote. | | | | through the settings tab at the top of the page. While |
| - Email Addict: It is like a break time that will lock you | | | | using the new features, if one of the labs feature |
| out of gmail for 15 minutes. You can get back in to | | | | breaks and you are facing trouble getting into your |
| your account anytime you want, just by clicking a | | | | account, then there’s an escape hatch. Simply go |
| button. | | | | to and Labs with be temporarily disabled. |