Introducing Gmail Labs
June 8th, 2008 | by hantu |In case you did not see the red-colored highlighted text on top of your Gmail screen, Gmail has released Gmail Labs. According to Google, Gmail Labs is:
A testing ground for experimental new features.
They offer quite a few new features to be tested:
- Quick Links - where you can add Quick Links box on your left navigation area.
- Superstars - extra star icons.
- Pictures in chat - add display pictures in chat.
- Fixed width font - option to view message in fixed width font.
- Custom keyboard shortcuts - customise your keyboard shortcuts, by yourself.
- Mouse gestures - adds mouse gestures to Gmail.
- Signature tweaks - places signature before replied text.
- Random signature - rotates random signatures.
- Custom date formats - change date/time formats.
- Muzzle - removes status messages of your friends in chat.
- Old snakey - SNAKE!
- Email addict - blocks screen for 15 minutes, makes you invisible in chat.
- Hide unread count - hides unread email count.
In order to enable any of those experimental features, you have to go into Settings, and click on the Labs tab.
Have fun exploring, I’ll try out some of those features soon.
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