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Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Attachments, Calendar Event Coordination

by Amar Toor on April 16, 2010 at 01:45 PM

From now on, Gmail users won't have to go digging around their hard drives to manually attach files to e-mails, nor will they be forced to twiddle their thumbs while waiting for the attachments to upload. That's because Google has introduced a new "drag and drop" attachment feature for those Gmail users who employ either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6. It means pretty much what it says: all you have to do is drag a photo or document into Gmail, drop it, and that's it. Sounds simple, but, as Lifehacker reports, that's what makes it so great -- especially if your hard drive is as hopelessly disorganized as ours.

In conjunction with its Calendars system, Google has unveiled a slightly more complex but equally useful feature, effectively allowing users to automatically check each others' availabilities without having to compare schedules. As long as you have access to another person's Calendar, you can now click on a special invitation link under the subject line before you send an invite to an event, thereby checking to see when he or she might be available. Once a common space of free time is determined, a preview invitation will pop up within the message. After it's sent off, the event will be automatically added to the Calendars of both sender and recipient. While event coordination may have just gotten easier, making excuses to get out of going to brunch hasn't. [From: GmailBlog, via: Lifehacker]

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