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New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret 
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
Posted by Jon Perlow, Gmail engineerSometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can't always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we're launching a new Labs feature I wrote cal
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Tip: Read your mail without touching your mouse
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Gmail Product Marketing ManagerFirst, if you don't have Gmail keyboard shortcuts enabled, turn them on in Settings. You'll be glad you did. If you spend a lot of time in Gmail, you'll start shaving milliseconds of every action, which adds up. Get through a hundred or s
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New in Labs: Right-side Labels and Chat
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Wed, 17 Sep. 2008
Posted by Emily Chang, Gmail engineerAs a Google engineer, I get a 24-inch widescreen monitor and a huge amount of email. I built a Labs feature to use the former to mitigate the latter.In my work email, I have painfully long lists in both Labels and Chat, so I used to scroll constantly in order to see my Labels. Now, with Right-side Labels enabled, I can see both my L
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New in Labs: Forgotten attachment detector
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Tue, 16 Sep. 2008
Posted by Jon Kotker, Gmail engineering intern, Summer 2008I spent this last summer as many of the Gmail engineers do, armed with a cup of coffee or a can of soda, poring through lines of code, winding my way through the code base, and every once in a while taking a glance at the big
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New in Labs: 3 experiments with labels
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Wed, 10 Sep. 2008
Posted by Keith Coleman, Gmail Product ManagerSince launching our first batch of 13 Gmail Labs features, we've received a lot of suggestions for more experimental features you'd like to see -- plus, we've had some of our
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New Gmail code base now for IE6 too
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Fri, 05 Sep. 2008
Posted by Jon Perlow, Gmail engineerLast October, we launched a rewritten code base for the Gmail user interface to Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 users. Since then, we've added support for Safari 3 and Firefox 3 and improved performance in other browsers. This new code base included
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Try Gmail in Google Chrome
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Wed, 03 Sep. 2008
Posted by Brian Rakowski, Google Chrome Product ManagerYesterday, we launched Google Chrome, a new approach to the web browser that comes with a few features that can give you a better Gmail experience:A browser built for speed: Google Chrome featu
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News from the Picasa team
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Posted by Miriam Schneider, Associate Product Marketing ManagerAside from email, one of the most frequent things I do on my computer is manage my ever-growing digital photo collection. I'm no Annie Leibowitz, but I still enjoy taking and sharing my pictures with others. And this process just got a lot better, especially for people who already use Gmail.Today,
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Little things that matter
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
Posted by Prakash Chandran, User Experience DesignerSeemingly small improvements can make a surprisingly big difference to people who use our products every day. Take Google Calendar, where over the past few months we've made a bunch of little improvements in direct response to feedback from our most active users.Emailing guests
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Get your Google Calendar in 38 languages
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Thu, 14 Aug. 2008
Posted by Ken Norton, Product ManagerOne of our goals at Google is to give everyone the information they want in the language they speak. We've been hard at work making Google products available in as many languages as possible. Recently we launched Google Calendar in eight more languages, bringing our total number of supported lang
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Official Gmail Blog: We feel your pain, and we're sorry
Gmail Blog via RSSmeme on Tue, 12 Aug. 2008
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Oh noes! Human designed systems will never have 100% uptime. This is news?
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Tip: Customize your web clips
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Tue, 05 Aug. 2008
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerGmail web clips display feeds (news headlines, blog posts, or pretty much anything in RSS/Atom format), ads and other information at the top of your inbox. They look like this:
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Updates to Gmail contact manager
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Wed, 16 Jul. 2008
Posted by Benjamin Grol, Product Manager Engineer, Google Contacts TeamWe've heard from some of you that Gmail's auto-added contacts can lead to too much address book clutter. One of the advantages of automatically creating contacts is that all of the addresses you email subsequently show up in auto-complete. We wanted to preserve this benefit while giving you the ability to h
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Chat with your Gmail contacts on the iPhone
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Thu, 10 Jul. 2008
Posted by Marc Wilson, Software Engineer, Google mobile teamLast week, we launched a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone. It works right in your Safari browser, so there's no need to download or install anything -- just go to talk.google.com and si
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Fighting phishing with eBay and PayPal
Gmail Blog via Gmail Blog on Tue, 08 Jul. 2008
Posted by Brad Taylor, Software Engineer and Gmail Spam CzarPhishing messages are a form of spam that attempt to deceive recipients to gain access to their personal information. A classic one is a message that appears to come from PayPal and attempts to get someone's PayPal password in order
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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
Gmail Blog via RSSmeme | Stories Published 24 on Thu, 15 May. 2008
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The thinking behind the reasons on why gmail is faster for me than either mail.app on Mac OS X or Outlook on Windows.
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Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's s
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How to find any email with Gmail search
Gmail Blog via RSSmeme | Stories Published 96 on Tue, 06 May. 2008
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I'm still learning about Gmail's depths. This is a good article to take you deeper.
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerThe sight of someone scrolling through hundreds of email messages trying to find a specific one is like
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