One of the annoying aspects of web mail accounts is that you cannot navigate away from a page after you have initiated an action. This includes uploading larger attachments or sending emails. If you move away, the operation breaks and you have to start all over again. Background Send is a new Google Mail feature [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Google Announces Changes To Gmail Labs Applications
Gmail Labs has been introduced as an add-on for Gmail that allows developers to test Gmail extensions by providing access to them to all Gmail users. Only a minority is using one or several of the Gmail Labs applications which may or may not be included into Gmail fully eventually. It can therefor happen that [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Play Google Voice Messages In Gmail
Google Voice is a relatively new Google service that can probably be best described as the hub for all phone numbers a user, family or company uses. The main benefit of a single-number approach is that callers will not have to think about which number to call to reach a person. Google Voice users have [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Gmail Translations: Who Needs It?
A new feature was recently introduced in Gmail that is available in the Labs tab in the Gmail settings. The Message Translation add-on makes it possible to translate incoming email messages with a click of the mouse button. A “translate message to” message will be displayed when viewing emails in Gmail that are not in [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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Inline Google Search in Gmail
It seems like I’m the resident Google Labs reporter here at gHacks, but truth be told, they have been rolling out some cool features! Their latest is the ability to search Google inline from Gmail. Enabling the feature ads a Google search bar to the left sidebar in the Gmail interface. If you search from [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Add functionality to Gmail with Gmail Labs
I only glimpsed over the Lifehacker article in the Brief Firefox add-on and only the mail from Dark Kosmos made me change my mind. Google has added a very interesting feature to Gmail called Labs which is accessible in the account options. Labs is basically a testing ground for Gmail add-ons that are not yet [...]