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Gmail Experts, Submit Your Video to Google

Sutra — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:31:33 +0000

The Official Gmail Blog is inviting videos from Gmail users about how they manage their email. So, if you think you are a Gmail expert and a great email organizer, or not, read this post on the Gmail blog, if you can also make good videos, head to the Gmail channel on Youtube to submit your video.

Gmail Out of Beta But Issues Persist

Sutra — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:43:39 +0000

The Official Gmail Blog tells us that Gmail is no longer in beta. I don’t know if it is just me, but I have had the following two errors occurring multiple times:

- Say, I read an email, or delete an email, or archive an email, or mark it as read — any of these actions should result in the email header not appearing in bold (or shown as unread). It happens momentarily, but on next auto-refresh a couple of emails again show as unread. Anyone else seen this happening? This has happened more often when I am checking my Gmail at work, where there may be security and firewall issues, but what should that cause this error?

- Sometimes I write an email, mostly in reply to someone, and hit “send”. The email does not get sent, and what I see in my sent mails is a blank email, with “(no subject)” and nothing in the to: field. I also lose my edits and have to start all over again. See screenshots below of what I see:

Next item I am talking about is a nice-to-have feature. Let me describe the scenario. I have 15 unread messages in your inbox, and am reading message 5 of 15. I have managed to reach the fifth message by hitting keyboard shortcut j or k, or by clicking newer or older — so I don’t have to select the message from the list. After reading message 5, I hit delete, or archive. Now I am back to the “list” on Gmail home page, and have to figure out where I was. Why can’t the deletion of the last mail take me directly to the next (or previous) mail – that is what Hotmail does!

Before hitting Publish on this post, I did look in the Google Labs, and didn’t find the above feature. If someone at Google is listening, can they look into the above?

Well, until I see a full month of above errors not appearing in my Gmail, my beta tag is going right back up.

Gmail – Wait Wait Don't Send It Yet

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:39:08 +0000

Gmail has added a new welcome feature, that was announced just today — something that can allow you to almost retract an arrow after shooting it, as long as you realize it soon enough. If you are like me, your have more than once hit the “send” button on email and then instantly realized that “Oops, I forgot the attachment, or I shouldn’t have written that, or I should have written that, or I didn’t spell-check”. According to today’s announcement on the official gmail blog, if you activate this feature on gmail labs, you will get 5 seconds after a “send” click to undo the action.

You think five seconds are enough? I don’t, but who has more time to hold a mail?

To activate this feature, click “Labs” on your Gmail settings and scroll down almost to the end.

Now that you are on this page, look over all the cool features Gmail labs provides. I like the “Forgotten Attachment Detector” which looks for words like “attaching” in your email and then reminds you if you havent attached a file. I am also going to try “Multiple Inboxes” and “Custom keyboard shortcuts”.