Imagine you are on a slow internet connection and Gmail is loading at snail’s speed and once it is loaded, you find that you have no unread message. All the time you spent loading Gmail account got wasted? But now with this new Gmail Labs feature Inbox Preview, you can view a preview of your Gmail Inbox to decide whether it is worth loading Gmail or not.

Once you enable Inbox Preview in Gmail’s Labs settings, you can know whether it is worth to load Gmail inbox while it is loading.

Now language won’t become a barrier if your email buddy uses a different language or lives on the other end of the world. With new Gmail Labs feature, Automatic Message Translation, you can directly translate the message with a single click.

Once you enable this feature in Gmail Labs settings, you’ll find a link on top of every message asking you to Translate message.

So next time you receive a message in other language, you can directly translate the message within gmail. This feature uses Google translate, so all languages that are supported by Google Translate will work.

You might already be getting suggestions for keywords as you type into Google search box. And now, this feature of Google search has been updated and it has become more intelligent than before.

If you are searching for ‘”msn, yahoo mail, new york time”, Google classifies them as navigational queries as you intend to go to the target site. The updated intelligent auto suggest will now provide you with a direct link suggestion for navigational queries saving you lots of clicks.

Also, the Google Search and I’m Feeling Lucky buttons are now within suggestions box so that you don’t feel they are lost.

Another addition is that if you are logged in to your Google account with Web History enabled, the auto suggest will take hints from your past search history.

The auto suggest feature now extends to search result pages too.

This new feature of Google Search might not be available to your account yet, but you can use this hack as explained by Google Operating System blog.

1. Go to google.com

2. In address bar paste this JavaScript code and hit Enter

javascript:document.cookie= "PREF=ID=175eb54605c0202d:U=a14f58424228a2a5:LD=en:NR=10:CR=2:TM=1240146048:LM=1242596928:DV=AA:GM=1:IG=1:S=zW53HscJwnEL89bQ;path=/;domain=.google.com";void(0);

3. Reload the page and you’ll be able to use new features of auto suggest.

Pixer.Us is a nice online image editing tool that can be handy if you are away from your favorite desktop image editor. It offers a lot of features that you expect from a decent desktop based image editor.

Just upload the image and then you can crop, resize, rotate, flip your image easily and quickly.

It also lets you adjust saturation, brightness contrast and you can make images more sharp or blur easily as it shows you the preview while you adjust these values.

The SpecialFx section includes some nice one click effects that let you convert your image into an oil painting or make your photograph look like as it was taken in 1850s.

And if you applied something by mistake or just want to revert changes, there’s an Undo option to undo any changes you made to your image. Once you’re done, hit save and choose output format and save your image.

Though no online photo editor can match the powerful desktop photo editors like Adobe Photoshop, but this is a great tool if you are away from your computer and quickly need to edit an image.

While Google can help you find out exact answers to your queries, Twitter can be a great resource to learn about what people are talking related to your search query. For example, while buying a product, you can use Google to get reviews for a product and use Twitter search to find out what people say about that product in real time.

Twoogle is web based tool that lets you search Twitter and Google simultaneously. Type in your query and hit Enter and Twoogle will bring you results from twitter and google and show them in two panes within same window.

You can toggle the display of Twitter or Google panes using the buttons next to Twoogle search box. Also, you can tweet the search results on twitter to let others know of what you are searching. [via]

Few days ago, rumors spread out that Windows 7 will be released on October 23 as confirmed by two Acer executives. While Microsoft has always maintained that Windows 7 will be released in 2010, but this time Microsoft executives at Tech Ed North America 2009 announced that Windows 7 will be available from this year’s holiday season.

Bill Veghte, senior vice president of the Windows Business Unit at Microsoft said that due to early RC testing and huge amount of feedback from partners, Windows 7 will be ready for release by this holiday season.

The release of Windows 7 in holiday season might become a good reason to buy a new PC for many people.[source]

If you are looking to get your hands on Microsoft’s upcoming Office 2010 suite, then here’s a chance to try out the technical preview of MS Office 2010, which is set to be released to testers and developers in July.

Unlike Windows 7, this preview will not be available to everyone but only to those who get special invitation from Microsoft.

And to send the invitations, Microsoft is accepting registrations which though do not guarantee an invitation but you might be one of the lucky few to get an invitation to try out MS Office 2010 technical preview.

You can sign up for an invitation here.

If you would like to view a trailer of Microsoft Office 2010, check out this video trailer from Microsoft.

Internet Explorer 8 has a nifty feature that hasn’t been known to many. It has an option called New Session under File menu that lets you log into multiple accounts on a single website simultaneously. For example, if you have multiple Gmail accounts and want to operate them simultaneously, then this feature of IE8 will be quite useful.

To start a New Session window, press Alt key in IE 8 window and File menu will be visible.

And if you like the command way then hit Win+R(to open Run dialog) and type in iexplore.exe -nomerge and press Enter to start a new session window.

Looking for some great professional quality fonts for free, then look no further because FontSquirrel is a great resource to download free fonts. It has a collection of over 300+ high quality professional fonts that you can use even in a commercial application.

The fonts are well organized into categories. And you can even add to their list if you know of some other great free fonts resource. Also, you can submit your own fonts if you have designed some. [via]

If you know of some great Free fonts resources, then do share them in comments below.

If you haven’t tried out Windows 7 RC or Beta yet and are wondering whether your hardware will be able to run Windows 7 with its eye-candy features, then use the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor  tool from Microsoft.

It’ll scan your computer hardware and will give you a report to let you know whether your computer will be able to handle Windows 7 or not. If not, then it can recommend hardware upgrades you can make to support Windows 7.

Before using this tool, make sure the hardware you use regularly like USB mouse, web cam etc. is connected so that their compatibility can be checked.

Check Support for Virtual XP Mode

Since Windows 7’s virtual Windows XP Mode requires hardware virtualization support, there was a bit confusion on what type of systems support hardware level virtualization. Here’s a little tool called Securable, that can find out support for hardware level virtualization. I tested one of my older systems and here’s the result.