Google Trashing, Promoting Gmail Labs Features
Don't worry, the Mail Goggles add-on that stops you from sending drunk emails is staying.
Gmail Labs is great. Started over a year ago, it means the Gmail team can roll out as many add-ons or features as they want without worrying about over-loading people. Any user can activate as many of these add-ons as they like. After a while, Google will promote the more popular labs features and give them a permanent place in Gmail. The less popular will be trashed.
Today Google is doing a nice spot of promoting and trashing. A few of the features that made the cut are the Forgotten Attachment Detector, which detects phrases like "I've attached" or "See attached" and, if there is no attachment, asks you if you meant to add an attachment before you clicked send; Search Auto-complete; and YouTube Previews, which allows you to watch linked YouTube videos right inside your email.
Unfortunately, Google has 'retired' a couple of nifty features too; IP-based Location Signature, which tells the receiver where the mail was sent from and the Random Signature feature, which automatically adds an interesting quote or signature to the bottom of your emails.
To peruse all the features available through Gmail Labs, click the Labs tab in settings.
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I don't think I would have gone for the IP location signature (course the town I live in is so small the IP range we get is shared under the name of the town next to us anyway), but the interesting quotes one sounds, well, interesting. Too bad the let it go..
NO DRUNK EMAIL FOR YOU!
I don't think the add-ons are must have features. I can definitely do without them.
I'm pretty tired but:
"the Mail Goggles add-on "
that can't be grammatically correct can it?
i hope they trash the buzz while they're at it
Hmm, I wonder if they make any add-ons that have real use?
I'm pretty tired but: "the Mail Goggles add-on "that can't be grammatically correct can it?
No, it's fine. The sentence is referring to an add-on and the name of said add-on is Mail Goggles.
If you want to be really picky the name should be wrapped in speech marks to properly indicate it's a name.
Gmail Labs is great.
Enough said!
No, it's fine. The sentence is referring to an add-on and the name of said add-on is Mail Goggles.If you want to be really picky the name should be wrapped in speech marks to properly indicate it's a name.
Well aside the fact that you said "goggles" instead of google. lol
I probably should have read that last statement a little better before I commented on it...
That explains why I can't display my emails using fixed font anymore. Damn you!!! I needed this!