Autopilot is the latest Gmail Labs product and it’s a doozy. If you are innundated with e-mail, and need some more efficient way to deal with it, including replying, then consider Autopilot.
Simply set some settings like Brevity, and Capitalization and let Autopilot write those e-mails for you. Autopilot looks at your past history to get a feel for your writing style.
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The Gmail Lab team has added another new feature called Undo Send, and it works exactly like it sounds. For 5 seconds after you click Send on an e-mail, you can cancel it.
While I may only need this once in a blue moon, when I need it, I need it! My only feature request is that the undo time be customizable; 5 seconds isn’t long enough for my slow-thinking brain.
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If you want to learn how to get your stickers, check out Google’s Official Gmail Blog or send a self-addressed stamped envelope (along with a note or stickers for trade) to:
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Gmail’s latest Lab feature, Multiple Inboxes, is a doozy. I had to try this the minute I saw it. The name is a tab bit misleading, but Multiple Inboxes (MI) lets you get a glimpse into your other Gmail folders, labels or saved searches by providing additional boxes on your main Gmail screen.
Here’s an example – you want to always see the latest 5 starred items in a separate list without having to click on the Starred link in the left pane. Easy, create a separate pane in MI that shows exactly that. The screenshot shows 3 additional panes to the right of the Inbox.
What’s funny about this is quickly discovering that my 19″ monitor just isn’t wide enough to show enough of the e-mail preview that I want. No worries, I just placed the preview directly under my Inbox. And yes, time to get new monitors!
Gmail 2.0 for mobile phones, particularly Blackberry and phones with Java (J2ME), is here.
What’s new? Better performance, multiple account support, keyboard shortcuts and best of all, offline support. Good intro video. Download from m.google.com/mail in your mobile browser.
There’s a new Gmail feature that Google just rolled out that apparently has taken years of testing. It’s the ability to track and sign out other Gmail sessions that you have open in other browsers/computers.
All you need to do is head down to the bottom of your Gmail screen and click the Details link near your “last account activity”. It will show you other Gmail sessions, including their IP addresses and a button to sign out of those sessions.
I tried this today and signed myself out of my session that I left running on my home computer. I love it. It means I can be a little less afraid of using Gmail on strange computers. Not completely though!
Starting today, Gmail now has some experimental features that you can choose whether to enable or not. Just head over to the Settings page and then click on the Labs tab. New potential features include the ability to bookmark specific e-mails, select custom stars for starring messages, custom keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures. My favorite is the e-mail addict tool which lets you lock yourself out of your account for 15 minutes.
So far, I’m not seeing the new tab showing up, but I’m sure it will eventually.
via CNET.
Have you noticed the dynamically updating counter of space that your Gmail account has on the login page? As I write this, it’s trucking up to 4313MB. I couldn’t help but notice how quickly this counter seemed to be incrementing, so I decided to do a quick ‘back of the napkin’ calculation to see how long it would take at current rates to get to 10GB.
For the engineering/scientific types among you, yes I realize that I’m making lots of assumptions, like: the rate of increase may not be constant, Google may change their mind, my cut and paste method isn’t accurate, 1GB isn’t 1000MB, blah, blah, blah. I get it, but this is make-you-think piece. Onto my calcuation…
I took 3 samples, each a minute long and noted how much the counter had incremented. The #s were surprisingly close and average out to an increase of 0.089214 MB per minute. Wow. With about 5687MB to get to 10000MB, that means it’ll take 63756 minutes to get there. A little division… carry the 1… 44 days!
44 days to get to 10GB?! Is that for real G?
If yes, all I have to say (with a smile) is nice. Just in time for Christmas.
More coolness out of Google – they are rolling out a version of Gmail specifically for mobile phones. Unless you’re a Blackberry user, or perhaps a Palm user, e-mail access on cell phones is currently a pretty slow process, but Google plans to change that soon. Initially, mobile Gmail will be available for use on phones from Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and Cingular in the States with more carriers and countries yet to come. To get Gmail for your phone, just visit http://gmail.com/app using your Java-enabled phone. Visit that URL with a conventional browser to read more about the service.
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Remember when everyone operated a portal and offered a free e-mail account with a web interface? Yahoo, Netscape, Excite, Lycos, etc. The storage wasn’t anything spectacular by today’s standards – typically less than 10MB, but since then storage on these free e-mail accounts really hasn’t grown in step with the drop in prices of storage hardware. The number of freely available webmail services has also dwindled, and while there are still quite a number, most are certainly not backed by the kind of money behind the original set of dot.com companies. Enter Google. First they displaced the leading search engines to the point where their company name has evolved into a verb, and now with Gmail, they just may do the same with webmail.
I’m sure you’ve already seen a few reviews of Google’s Gmail since it first made its appearance in the summer of 2004, however, I’m a believer in different perspectives, and this review also doesn’t look at Gmail in isolation, but compares it to 2 other high-volume free webmail services: Yahoo! Mail and Microsoft’s Hotmail.
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