Tech Stuff

A new feature in Gmail Labs allows you to use your Gmail when you are offline.  Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail and when you are online again will sync.

A new addition to GMail under Labs is the ability to create a Google Doc from an email.

GMail now allows you to view your PDFs quickly in a new window.  The new way is much faster than having to view the PDF open in Acrobat after downloading.

The Gmail team has rolled out version 2.0 of their mobile client for J2ME-supported and BlackBerry phones.

Gmail has rolled out new emoticons to choose from when words just can describe what you are feeling.

Gmail announces a new Lab feature for Advanced IMAP Controls.  These new options will allow you to better control your IMAP experience down to the label level.

Do you have a tendancy of sending emails late at night that you really shouldn’t?  Maybe after a long night out drinking?  Well the Gmail team has just rolled out Mail Goggles which may come to the rescue.  Once activate Gmail will prompt you with a couple simple math problems before an email can be sent.  By default this safeguard is only in place late at night on the weekends when we all know we are most vulnerable to this. However, you can adjust the time frame to meet you needs.  Now if there was only something for that cell phone.  Maybe the new Android OS will have this option.

If you were not aware of it today is Talk Like a Pirate Day.  To help ensure that Pirates can search for the content they are looking for online Google has added support for the pirate langauage to their search engine.

This week Gmail made availible in the Labs one of the more helpful options, the Forgotten attachment detector. Atleast twice a month I seem to forgot to attach a file and it always seems to be one of those more important emails.  Hopefully this will help.

Google released a comic book to help explain Chrome.