Here’s a good news for all of you who use gmail to store sensitive data, important communications that need not be read by any third party.

Gmail now offers you the option to use Secured HTTP(https) protocol throughout your Gmail session, which won’t allow any third party to read your data over an unencrypted connection.

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Gmail is perhaps, one of the widely used free web based e-mail service. It has been so popular due to its nice and easy to use intuitive interface that caters the needs of all levels of users. On one side, it is easy to use for newbies and on other hand, it has extremely vast set of features that catch the eyes of techies.

Below we list three lesser known but useful features of Gmail.

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If you are the one who accesses Gmail via multiple devices and often forgets to sign out of Gmail, chances are that your account can easily be accessed if the device is a public computer as Gmail remembers your Login information until you explicitly Sign-out. But Don’t worry, now Gmail has a solution for you. Now Gmail shows you your Gmail sessions at bottom of your Gmail page which will let you know on how many locations you are logged on.

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Google is conducting a survey which allows you to suggest features for gmail and orkut. If you want to suggest something for orkut then you can go to the suggestion page where you can suggest some of the pre listed features, or you can go to the discussion page of orkut help group  where you can post your own ideas’. For suggestions regarding gmail you can go to gmail help center page where you can choose 5 features from a given list of features and if the feature you want is not on the list then you can go to the “i have a better idea section” at the bottom of the same page.