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.

 

Carry Google Chrome on a USB Drive

There are a lot of people who loves to carry  portable softwares in their USB drive. Or else  if you are behind a corporate firewall and can’t install software, this is the solution of the problem. Now Google chrome gives portable avatar Google Chrome 2.0 portable.

Like the other portable softwares, it has all the  features available in the main Google Chrome. It  doesn’t requires a installation, just unzip the files inside a folder and start browsing in Google Chrome.

To download the portable copy of Google browser click the download link.

If any problems occurred during the regular installation of Chrome from the Google pack, download the offline installer from here.

With Google Chrome portable, all user settings including web history and cookies are saved on to the same folder – the program settings are saved in "Chrome" folder while the user settings go in the "Profile" folder.  Portable Chrome was earlier tested on Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1 machines.

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.

 

 

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.