Make Gmail a productive centre ….

            I have been into Gmail for about 3 years.. But today Gmail is turned into the Ultimate Productive Centre… It’s already pretty clear that Gmail is the best tool for email, and integrations with calendar and chat have made it the go-to place for much of our information. But the Gmail Gadgets brings the pieces of puzzle together. Just have a look to the following gadgets to make the Gmail more productive.

1. Email: Gmail is how email should be done. With great filters, you can keep your inbox fairly clean. There are dozens of smart little innovations, from automatic contacts to a “send and archive” button and much more. If you’re not using Gmail for email yet, you should strongly consider a change.

2. To-do: Gmail only recently added a Tasks feature, something most of us have been wanting for a long time. It’s just about the simplest to-do list there is.  Its just simple as that. You can add tasks, re-order, just check it off the completed tasks. You can set time and date constraints in most simplest way. Cool feature: you can turn an email into a task, which means the task is linked to the email, and you can easily open the email by clicking on the task. Enable Gmail Tasks by going to Labs (in the upper right corner of Gmail)

3. Calendar. Google’s Calendar (Gcal) is hands down the fastest, easiest and best calendar I’ve used. And now it’s in Gmail’s sidebar, so you can see your events at a glance while in Gmail, and even add tasks quickly without having to go to the calendar. And the most interesting feature is that you can use Gcal offline just like our Google Documents and even the Gmail. Enable the GCal gadget in Gmail by going to Labs.

4. Docs. Are you still using a desktop word processing or spreadsheet app? Consider switching to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which I use exclusively now. It’s online (with offline access now), it’s simple, it opens the usual formats, and it’s so much better for collaboration.no need to sync docs between computers or carry them around on a USB flash drive. And now, with the Docs gadget in Gmail, you can open your docs from within Gmail, making it even more of a one-stop center for all your productivity and information needs. Enable the Google Docs gadget in Gmail by going to Labs.

5. Twitter. A lot of people are finding Twitter to be an incredible place to connect with others, to find great things to read, to keep in touch with what’s happening now. But keeping your Twitter app open all the time can be unproductive. Enter Twitter Gadget, which takes seconds to install into Gmail and lets you have the most important functions of Twitter right within your all-in-one productivity center.

6. Bookmarks. Want to look up a site you bookmarked earlier? I’ve been using the delicious gadget for Gmail, and it works pretty much as you’d expect — you can see a list of your most recent bookmarks in the Gmail sidebar.This will change your online experience more productive.

8. Social media. What about other social media you might use… Put them right in Gmail with the Facebook, MySpace and Friendfeed gadgets. There are even gadgets for Digg and Flickr.

10. Offline Gmail. One of the problems people use to have with Gmail is that it’s online — meaning that if you can’t connect to the Internet ,you can’t use Gmail. Well, that’s now changed with Gmail’s offline mode — you can read, compose and organize messages while offline, which is nice.

 

Some Crazy people – Building the entire Gmail Interface

These guys in the video sure made designers and developers who build any interfaces not too proud because they re-paint the entire Gmail interface up from scratch, bit by bit with the use of Styrofoam. The entire interface looks as good as a real one, except that you cannot check nor compose email. But seriously, hats off for the amount of work they’ve put in. Watch the video yourself.

Multiple Login in Gtalk

                              Almost all the Gmail users are having multiple accounts, and also they are wished to have multiple login to chat through the same gtalk client.  To attain this feature do some following steps:

Note: If you installed the gtalk client in the default folder, then its more easier to make this feature enabled.

• Right Click on the Desktop
• Select New
• Select Shortcut

Paste this into the text box “c:\programfiles\google\googletalk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

• Click Next, and name it whatever: Gtalk Multiple Login, etc.
• Click OK until you are done.

Note: Don’t forget to Remove the .exe in the name (if your display file extension mode is off)

So enjoy chat with different Gmail accounts.

Add Your Location to your Signature in Gmail

                           

                                 When we sent mail from Gmail, the mail is enclosed with subjects, mail ids, time stamp of the mail and so on. But there is no option to know where the mails comes from (the location), or from which place the mail sent.ut now Gmail activated an option in the Signature to say “Where am I” to the mail recipient. Here the Gmail appends the feature that it detects the your location and appends the city region and country names to your signature, like this:

 To try and to turn on this feature in your Gmail Inbox,

• Goto the Settings and in the Labs Tab
• At the bottom of the page you can see

• Enable the feature by clicking on the Enable button.
•  After enabling goto to the Signature preferences in the Settings Tab.
• Check the box next to “Append your location to the Signature”.

 

 It’ll use your public IP address to determine your location, so it may not always be that accurate. If you want more accurate location detection, make sure your browser has a version of Gears that supports the location module.

You’ll always be able to disable the option or just delete your location from specific emails whenever you want.

 

 

Add Twitter in your Gmail Inbox

 

                  

                                     Now we can able to see the Twitter updates in Gmail Inbox. Don’t waste the time to check these two services separately, its available both in one umbrella.

To add the Twitter in the Gmail Inbox there is a trick here its follows:

1. Login in your Gmail account.
2. Click on the Labs Icon.

         3.  Down the bottom of that page  we can find Add any Gadget by URL and Enable it

        4. Now in the Tabs section a new tab is enabled ie, Gadget Click that.

    5. Enter the URL http://www.twittergadget.com/gadget_gmail.xml

       6. Click Add

         7. Enjoy the Twitter in the Gmail Inbox.

         

New in Google Labs: “ Multiple Tabs “

 

                                        A day before i blogged about the Tabs and the Labels, i noticed in the Gmail that there is an option for Multiple Tabs option.

After we turn on the option in the Lab tab in the Setting option, we can configure what we want to see, as well as set the number of messages displayed and the positioning of your panels .

To Enable this option :

• Go to the Lab Tab under Settings Tab
• Below that  Multiple Inboxes Enable option near to it.
• Configure the Multiple Tabs as you desire to see, like Starred mails, Specific labeled mails.                                      

New Buttons and Menu in Gmail

Starting today, the buttons and menus at the top of our inbox will look a bit different:

If we wants to add or remove the label, use the labels button. Auto-completion is the another superb feature add in the Gmail. We can select the one you want just by typing the first couple characters.

And also it introduces the keyboard shortcuts: 

“v” for Move to and “l” (Lowercase L) for Label. If your keyboard shortcuts is not ON try to enable in the Settings Page.  But between the shortcuts and auto-complete, you’ll soon be able to add and remove labels without touching your mouse.

Gmail is Now Offline

                                                 Web-based emails are great because we can check the mails from any where irrepective of the place. But it is limited to the internet connection.But there are lots of times, we can’t access the webmail because of the unavailabilty of internet connection. Now that problem is cured by Gmail by introducing their Gmail Offline. So if we are offline, just open the browser and go to the gmail.com and , get the mails are we usually do.

This is done by the help of Google Gears. Gmail uses Gears to download the local cache of our mails. When we lose the internet connection Gmail automatically switches to Offline mode and use the local hard drive to store the information instead of sending across the network. We can read mails, star, label and whatever we want to do when we are doing it in online.  

To enable this service:  

• Click the Settings and Labs Tab
• Select Enable next to the Offline Gmail
• Click Save Changes
• After our browser reloads there is a new tab Offline near to the username. Click to activate the Offline mode. If you dont install the gears previously try to install along the process.