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3 Gmail Labs features that will spice up your inbox 
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Mon, 16 Jun. 2008
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerLast week we launched Gmail Labs, a way for you to test out experimental Gmail features before they're ready for prime time. This week, we want to show you what the most popular Labs features can
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Tip: Edit contacts right from your chat list
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Wed, 30 Apr. 2008
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerWhen I add a new friend to Gmail chat, sometimes my friend's email address is added as their contact name, such as hikingfan@gmail.com. I personally like to have the name of all my chat friends in my chat list so I don't get too confused as to who's who. To change this, I used to go into contacts, select the contact pro
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Calendar Sync updated
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Tue, 22 Apr. 2008
Posted by Shirin Oskooi, Product ManagerThanks for all the feedback you have sent us about Google Calendar Sync. We're rolling out an update that should make it a lot more useful.Previously, your Google Calendar email address needed to be the organizer or an attendee of your Microsoft Outlook events for the Outlook events to sync to your Google Calendar. Now, when you
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9 reasons to archive
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Fri, 18 Apr. 2008
Posted by Kathryn McGarr, Online Operations AssociateWe hear reports that many users don't archive their email. If you don't regularly click on the "archive" button or never even thought about it, here are some reasons you might want to get in the habit.
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We're hiring
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Tue, 08 Apr. 2008
Posted by Keith Coleman, Product ManagerDespite our best efforts, Gmail doesn't yet build itself. So we're looking for good people to keep making it better and better. It's fun and rewarding to work on a product that you, your friends, other people you know (and tens of millions of people someone else knows) use all the time. And if that's something you want to do, now you can
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Giving group chat a go
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Mon, 07 Apr. 2008
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerA friend of mine recently told me that she used group chat in Gmail for the first time the other day. She was talking to two coworkers about a new project and essentially serving as a go-between. Her solution: make it one conversation.When she told me about this, I couldn't believe this was the first time she us
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Tips for importing old email to Gmail
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Fri, 28 Mar. 2008
Posted by Olivier Beyssac, Site Reliability EngineerWhen I switched to Gmail more than a year ago, I still had a significant amount of old email stored with my old address. Because I keep messages for a long time and like to frequently search them, I wanted to move my old email to Gmail so it would all be in one place and I could access it on any device, including my mobile ph
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Newest Gmail features now available for Google Apps users
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Fri, 21 Mar. 2008
Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing ManagerSince Google's applications are "in the cloud," we can act on feedback and release new features very rapidly. Sometimes, though, we like to listen and learn from users before launching updates to businesses, schools and organizations that use
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Calendar Sync now available
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Fri, 07 Mar. 2008
Posted by Harish, Software EngineerYesterday, we launched Google Calendar Sync, a tool that lets users sync Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook calendar. Using it, you can access your Google Calendar information offline, access your Outlook calendar informa
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Arrow indicators reveal who actually sent you email
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Mon, 03 Mar. 2008
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerA few months ago I wrote about how using colored labels with filters can provide an entirely new way to visualize your inbox. I just started using a feature that further helps me quic
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Russian Gmail art
Test via Official Gmail Blog on Wed, 27 Feb. 2008
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerWe've seen people recreate the M from the Gmail logo out of dominoes and even sand, but until our colleagues in Google's Moscow office created this video,
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Invisible mode is here for Gmail chat
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Tue, 26 Feb. 2008
Posted by Jonas Lindberg, Software EngineerSometimes you need to chat with someone about an urgent project, but can't be bothered by anyone else. And going "busy" just isn't enough -- you might still get that unwanted ping. So, as some people have already noticed, we rolled out invisib
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New version of Gmail soon available in 37 languages
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Thu, 14 Feb. 2008
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerTonight, we're starting to roll out the new version of Gmail in 37 languages.* As we first announced when we launch
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Your Gmail stories
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Thu, 24 Jan. 2008
Posted by Miriam Schneider, Associate Product Marketing ManagerA few weeks ago we invited you to share your Gmail stories with the world, and over 1,500 of you responded with emails and video
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New "e" shortcut archives every time
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Tue, 15 Jan. 2008
Posted by Vivek Gupta, Engineering ManagerIntroducing: shortcut "e." It's a new shortcut key that archives email. You might be thinking, "Doesn't shortcut key 'y' archive email too? Why make a new way to archive?" Well, let me explain. I'm a heavy Gmail user, to say t
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New Gmail for the iPhone
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Mon, 14 Jan. 2008
Posted by Alex Kennberg, Google mobile teamWe've just released a new look and feel for the mobile version of Gmail on your iPhone. Our goal: make Gmail fit nicely as part of the latest Google on your iPhone experience. This means that we had to make Gmail
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Create personal mailing lists through contact manager
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Thu, 10 Jan. 2008
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerI have about eight friends from high school I like to keep in touch with frequently. We all email updates or the occasional funny YouTube video to the group, but every once in a while I'd forget to include one of them or I'd accidentally use one friend's obsolete school address. I found a really useful solu
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Colored labels with filters: A new way to read your inbox
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Thu, 20 Dec. 2007
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerColored labels make it easier to keep track of emails, and by using them with filters, I realized they can provide an almost entirely new way of visualizing my inbox based on context rather than order. By setting up filters so emails from certain senders (or on certain topics) automatically appear with colored labels, I
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'?' answers your shortcut questions
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Tue, 18 Dec. 2007
Posted by Anatol Pomazau, Software EngineerGmail shortcuts can save you a lot time, and recently we've added even more. But with so many shortcuts it can be a challenge to remember them all. For example, did you know that "s" applies a star, "!" reports spam, and
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Group chat and rich emoticons now available in Gmail chat
Robby Stein via Official Gmail Blog on Wed, 28 Nov. 2007
Posted by Sergey Solyanik, Software EngineerThe new Gmail Seattle team is happy to announce two
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