Gmail Labs team today released two new Labs features for Gmail that let you add Google Calendar and Google Docs Gadgets to Gmail.

Google Calendar Gadget lets you view the agendas and gives you an alert when you have a meeting. Google Docs gadget lets you see your recently accessed documents and provides a search box to search within your documents stored at Google Docs.

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Here’s a new feature in Gmail you might not have otherwise noticed. Gmail now allows adding emoticons and smileys to your messages. Earlier, Gmail supported smileys only for Gmail chat, but today, Gmail team released this feature for Gmail messages.

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The Gmail team is always trying to enhance user experience with its Labs Features. this time they have released a new Labs feature Advanced IMAP Controls that gives you much more control over how your mailbox is accessed via IMAP.

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Gmail team today added a new experiment to Gmail Labs called Forgotten Attachment Detector. With this new experiment, Gmail would keep an eye on what you type in e-mail message. And if you mention of attaching file in the e-mail text and forget to attach file and click on Send, it’ll give you an alert giving you another chance to add an attachment before sending e-mail. Since the functioning of this experiment depends on content of e-mail message, it might not work sometimes e.g. if you type in "file attached", it doesn’t work but works for "file is attached".

Gmail has now become ubiquitous. Every other person out there is using Gmail as his preferred e-mail service. Since there are hundreds of tips and tricks to customize how Gmail works, and most of them are not much useful to everyone.

So, I thought of compiling a list of 10 Gmail tips, tricks and hacks that are incredibly useful to anyone using Gmail.

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Looks like it’s Google’s day today. Here’s another one from Google’s Basket. The experimental Gmail Labs feature now includes three new experiments  with Gmail labels making you more productive while working with labels.

Here are the three new experiments which you can easily enable from Settings panel in Gmail.

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The month of July has been great for spammers. According to Google Apps Security and compliance Team, July 08 saw the maximum number of spam attacks on Google’s e-mail services with July 24 getting a highest of 10 million spam emails in a day.

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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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After the release of redesigned skin ( version 2.0 ) for GMail by Globex Designs, it’ll now be very easy to provide GMail with cool new look. I had never tried this before on my Gmail account. But when I experienced Gmail’s exciting interface( after trying this new skin  ), I’ll suggest you to jump into the new avatar ( as its really cool !!). (more…)

Gmail has updated contacts management so that you can exercise more control over your e-mail Contacts. Now Gmail keeps those e-mail addresses to whom you send an e-mail in Suggested Contacts which are not in your contacts list. Earlier it directly added them to your Contacts List which lead to cluttered Contacts List.

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