Posts Tagged ‘Gmail’

Access Your Google Docs and Calendar in Gmail

November 4th, 2009

After all the enjoyment and masti last evening, I guess all are back to work. Here’s news for all the extensive  gmail  users. This week Gmail Labs introduced 2 new features  i.e. Google Docs and Google Calendar to its Gmail window. These featuresenables Gmail user to access  google calender and Docs without opening the hosted application.

Like Mail Goggles, these two features are still under testing phase hence to access them you need to enable these features first. According to Google’s engineers with these features Gmail users can see recently accessed Google Docs and also gets event alerts within Gmail.

Google Calendar and Docs are two of the highly requested features. Though opening Google calendar or docs is easy but access within Gmail is a time-saving feature. Moreover you get Calendar notification, which automatically alerts user of its coming event or meeting.

Once enabled, you can see these features in the sidebar below the labels application. Along with these features Google Labs released another feature called as “Add any gadget by URL”. With the help of this feature you can add any gadget by pasting in the URL of its XML spec file.

Truly speaking I have already enabled these two latest features and I feel they are worth enabling. I personally liked the Google Docs feature as it makes my daily work quick and easy. What you have to say about these features, use the comment section and please feel free to share it with me.

Now You can Use Gmail Offline – Gmail Labs

October 23rd, 2009

gmailGmail just announced the launch of Offline-Gmail on Gmail Labs. Once this feature is activated, you can use Gmail as a regular service even when you are offline.You can compose, star, delete, etc.. when offline, all of these actions are stored on your local computer and once you are connected to the internet these actions are synchronized with the Gmail server. So, the mails you have composed or sent while offline will sit in your “outbox” until you connect to the internet.

Here is what you got to do to enable this feature (from Gmail post)

  1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.
  2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
  3. Click Save Changes.
  4. After your browser reloads, you’ll see a new “Offline0.1″ link in the upper right-hand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process anddownload Gears if you don’t already have it.

This feature uses Google Gears technology to make all the Gmail features available offline by maintaining a copy of your Gmail on your PC.

This feature is being made available to Gmail users in US or UK English. So, if you don’t see this feature already, don’t worry you will see it soon.