Posts Tagged ‘GMail Labs’

Google GMail Now With Themes

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Over the past several months GMail users have seen new, experimental features rolled out to GMail via the GMail Labs. While some of these are nice, for the most part they are “meh” features, and with Google’srecord, they’ll probably stay beta for years to come. Heck, GMail is still labeled beta.

This week, GMail users were given a new, honest to goodness, true feature. Themes. Granted, it’s not really anything that will help you with your email, but it does give you something different to look at. The 32 available themes range from a basic color redesign to iGoogle-like location and time changing themes.

I’m currently using the planets theme, which happens to be the same theme I use on iGoogle. What are you using as your GMail and iGoogle themes?

GMail Labs

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Google has introduced GMail Labs, a new set of beta features that you can selectively enable for your GMail account. There isn’t anything that I’ve found to be extremely useful so far. But it is nice to see some new features added to the service.