Tag: GMAILLABS

The other night, an unnamed Switched staffer blasted her their coworkers with yet another e-mail video of sloths. Unfortunately, right after the "send" button was hit, the anonymous sloth-lover realized that they had been inundating the poor Switched team with Bradypodidae info. (That's what they're called, you know.) If he or she had enabled the 'Undo Send' function in Gmail's Labs, which ...

If you ask any Gmail power user what feature they think is most desperately needed to make their favorite Web-mail service even better, we guarantee nine out of ten will either say rich text or HTML signatures. See, Google decided some time ago that we'd only need plain text for our electronic sign-offs. Those of us who wanted to insert links, images or even just use a different font were forced ...

We love the various features that the Google Apps labs add to our favorite Web tools. The latest one, which can be found in the labs settings in Gmail, automatically embeds a map in your e-mails and Buzz messages, if they contain a recognizable real-world address. Until now, checking an address in Google Maps required copying the address, opening maps, pasting it in the search box and hitting ...

Users of Google's Gmail service can now check their e-mail without an Internet connection, Gmail engineer Andy Palay announced yesterday afternoon via the Offical Gmail Blog. The feature, which doesn't seem to be showing up in our Gmail Labs yet for some reason, depends upon a program called Gears that downloads and regularly updates a cache of your Gmail messages. So, while your computer is ...