GMail Adds contact chooser:outlook style

If you are using Microsoft Outlook then I'm sure you are familiar with this feature.Outlook has a feature where you can find and select the EMail address by clicking on To,Cc or Bcc while composing a new message.


GMail has added a similar feature called the contact chooser to help you choose contacts quickly by clicking on To,Cc or Bcc link while composing an EMail.When you compose a mail the moment you start typing on the To field you see some names because of Auto-complete and this is usually fast and does the trick most of the time. According to Google sometimes seeing your list of contacts can help you remember all the people you want to include on your email. So, we've added a contact chooser to Gmail.

You can search and add the names from the contact chooser.If you are using groups ,then you can select a particular group from the drop-down and select the contact from the particular group.

According to Google if you happen to use Gmail in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, being able to pick from your list of contacts should be particularly useful since auto-complete doesn't offer the same search as you type experience that it does in other languages.

You can find the details from this blog post.This certainly is a very good addition to GMail.

Super-trustworthy anti-fishing key:new in GMail Labs

GMail introduced a new interesting labs feature to protect the inboxes from spam and phising.It ensures that the email is actually from the intended person (for eBay and PayPal Now).
It does that by checking the "From" header and ensuring that it actually came from ebay.com . All other mails won't even appear in the spam folder and will be rejected by Gmail.

This is what GMail says in its blog post:
It's a bit of work for senders to make their email super-trustworthy, which is why this feature is limited to just eBay and PayPal right now. We hope to add more senders in the future, and when we do, you'll know because you'll see the super-trustworthy key icon magically appear by those senders too.
You can enable it by going to Labs tab under settings .

Now drag and drop in your GMail Labels

Today GMail has introduced some new features in Labels.The most important being you can now drag messages into labels just like you do with folder in Microsoft outlook .It does exactly the same thing as "Move to" ,meaning it labels and archives in one step.You can do the vice versa also meaning labels can be dragged onto messages.At the same time it has ended Right-side Labels which was an experimental Gmail Labs feature.
Other changes include New location for Labels which means labels are now placed above the chat list ,grouped together with inbox ,Drafts ,Chats and other system labels.You can now also have control over the visibility of your label .You can hide or show labels based on our requirement if you feel you have more labels and some of the labels are used rarely .

GMail Ninja : Which Category You Belong To?

The official post from Gmail on 23rd June wanted me to become a Gmail Ninja .I didn't really know what Ninja meant till I found this post.
It wants you too to become a Martial Arts specialist based on your usage of Gmail .It simply provides tips and tricks to effectively use Gmail for each category namely White belt ( If you receive few messages every day) ,Green belt (If you receive a dozen or so messages every day) ,Black belt (If you get a lot of messages everyday) ,Gmail master (If you get a massive number of messages everyday) .

It even provides a printable guide for you so that you will be able to pin it to your wall or keep on your desk.However If you think You are a Ninja already then you can share your own tips here .The best ones will be updated to online guide by Gmail team.

Check below to know If you are a Gmail Ninja already and let the world know which category you belong to.

White belt: You get a few messages a day

• Use stars to indicate a note is special.
• Reply by chat.
• Organize your email with labels.
• Clean up your inbox using "Move to" -- it works just like folders.
• Search your mail instead of sorting.
• Archive messages to tidy up your inbox without deleting anything.
• Import your email and contacts from your old address.
• Spice up your inbox with a theme.
• Join forces to rid the world of spam.

Green belt: You get a dozen or so messages a day

• Talk face-to-face with video chat.
• Use Tasks as a handy to-do list.
• Use filters to control the flow of incoming mail.
• Highlight important emails using filters and colored labels.
• Send email from your phone.
• Preview attachments without downloading them.
• Avoid email gaffes with Undo Send.
• Tell your friends what you're up to with a status message.
• Never forget an attachment again.
• Tell everyone when you'll be back with vacation responder.
• Nothing says "I'm excited" like a bouncing happy face emoticon.

Black belt: You get a lot of messages a day

• Get through your mail faster with keyboard shortcuts.
• Use search operators to find the exact message you're looking for.
• Filter your email with personalized email addresses.
• See which messages were sent right to you.
• Make Gmail go where the internet doesn't.
• Quickly add multiple attachments to an email.
• Add "(EOM)" to the subject of one-liner messages.
• Set up canned responses instead of typing the same reply over and over again.
• Click less and watch more using YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and Yelp previews.
• Use quick links to get anywhere in Gmail with one click.
• Send and archive in one step.

Gmail master: You get a massive number of messages a day

• Bring Google Calendar and Docs to Gmail.
• Send SMS text messages right from Gmail.
• Forget to sign out of a public computer? Sign out remotely.
• Personalize your RSS feeds in web clips.
• Access your mail via https.
• Search for superstars by name.
• Use Gmail on your own domain.

Work With Gmail Without Internet Connection

Ever wanted to work with gmail without internet connection ? You can do so by using gmail offline from google labs.Login to gmail->settings->Labs and then enable the offline and Save Changes.Now gmail will start downloading the mails to your local system.

You can also specify the maximum attachment size to download to your local system using gmail offline using settings->offline.Once you enable gmail offline you see a symbol on the top right corner of gmail before settings.

When you internet connection goes down you can work with the gmail and can compose mails.Your composed mails recide inside Outbox and will be sent automatically once you are connected to the internet.