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Google Adds Google Docs Previews to Gmail

It seems like just yesterday we were talking about how email was improving. Google has now added a feature to Gmail that lets you preview the contents of Google Docs documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in your inbox.

Gmail Aims to Save Embarrassment Yet Again

Google has launched a new feature in Gmail Labs designed to spare users the embarrassment of sending an email to the wrong person. It's probably happened to you at one time or another.

Gmail Gets a New Label Feature

Today Google introduced a new Gmail Labs feature, which lets users hide labeled messages that have already been read, when browsing through labels. The ones that have been read can be found under the "more" menu. "A lot of people want to see their labels in order to see which ones have unread messages, but they don't want a long list of label names cluttering up the left hand side of their inboxes," says Gmail software engineer David de Kloet.

Play Google Voice Messages Right in Gmail

Google has launched a new feature in Gmail labs that allows you to play Google Voice voicemails right from Gmail. Before, when Google Voice users received email notifications from Google Voice, they had to click a link in the message to open a new page.

Gmail Experience Improves for Netbook Users

Netbooks have their problems. I am not anti-netbook like some people. I just have fairly big hands, and I find them practically impossible to type on. A software engineer at Google noticed that sometimes netbooks have problems displaying email subject lines as well.

Latest Gmail Lab - The Inbox Preview

Google puts out features and labs like Takashi Miike puts out films - very frequently. And like Miike's films, some are good, and some are quite questionable.

Gmail Gets One-Click Translation Lab

Today Google announced the integration of automatic translation technology directly into Gmail. This integration comes in the form of a lab, so it will have to be activated. When you receive an email in a language that is not your native one, Gmail will help you translate it in one click. The feature looks like this:

New Gmail Lab for New Way of Searching From Inbox

Google has released a new Gmail Lab that adds a search box for regular Google Search within Gmail. When you turn on the lab (simply called Google Search) , you'll get a search box on the left side of your inbox that looks like this:

Gmail Bolsters Emoticon Offering

Back in October, Google added a number of new emoticons for Gmail in a Gmail Lab. That round even went so far as to include a pile of feces complete with flies buzzing around it. I wish I was making this up.

New Gmail Lab for Recipient Suggestions

Today Google has launched yet another feature in Gmail Labs. This is the "Suggest more recipients" feature, and caters to instances when you send email to the same group of people regularly. For example I often send pictures of my daughter to my family and friends, and this usually consists of the same email addresses. So now, if I begin by entering two of their addresses, this feature will theoretically suggest the others in that group for easy inclusion.