June 22nd, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Martin Gruau, Consumer Operations There is a powerful but little known Gmail feature that lives in Labs called “Add any gadget by URL.” Once you turn it on, you can add iGoogle gadgets (or any gadget specified by an .xml file) to the side…
June 19th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Michael Bolognino, Product Marketing Manager Today is Father’s Day in many countries around the world, so whether your dad lives across the street, across the country or across the ocean, it’s a good day to let him know you’re thinking…
June 13th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Daniel Cheng, Software Engineer They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and people certainly like to spice up their emails with images. A while back, Gmail started making this easier by letting you drop images from your desktop right i…
June 7th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Kathleen Chen, Consumer OperationsIn this edition of “Faces of Gmail,” we’ll introduce you to Hareesh Nagarajan who balances managing datacenters with improving his golf game.What’s your role on the Gmail team?I am the tech lead for p…
June 6th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Irene Chung, Software Engineer Google Calendar has become indispensable for organizing my own time and sharing my schedule with friends and coworkers. But what about letting others know about my preferred availability? Likewise, when I look …
June 1st, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Venkat Panchapakesan, Vice President of Engineering (Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog and the Google Docs Blog.) For web applications to spring even farther ahead of traditional software, our teams need to make use of new capabilit…
June 1st, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Grace Kwak, Product ManagerToday we’re adding two features that make it easier to customize Google Calendar. First, you can now change your default event length from the standard 30 minute slot. If you frequently create 15 minute meetings, …
May 31st, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Maciek Nowakowski, Associate Product ManagerToday we’re excited to graduate three more features from the experimental testing ground of Gmail Labs. Superstars, Nested Labels, and Advanced IMAP Controls are now first-class citizens in the Gm…
May 26th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Zohair Hyder, Software Engineer(Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog)Email is just as much about the people you communicate with as it is what you communicate about. We think it can be helpful to view relevant information in context, wh…
May 19th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Matthew Leske, Product Manager From the beginning, we designed Google Talk using open standards so that you could connect to your friends and family using any chat product, making communication as easy as possible. A few years ago, we announc…
May 9th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Michelle Chen, Software Engineer If your calendar ends up full of many different types of events (film nights, lunch dates, and doctor appointments, for example), there’s now an easy way to categorize them using colors. Only you and anyone …
May 4th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Mike Helmick, Software Engineer Gmail used to have a limit of 10,000 contacts. For most of us, this was way more than enough, but we heard from some of you who use Gmail to communicate with more than 10,000 people. We want you to be able to …
May 2nd, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Paul McDonald, Product Manager Gmail offers a ton of customization, and when you get hundreds of emails every day it’s crucial that you have it set up to process mail quickly and efficiently. Working on Gmail, I get asked all the time what…
April 28th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Kathleen Chen, Consumer OperationsLast month we kicked off “Faces of Gmail,” a series where we’ll introduce you to some of the members of the Gmail team. For our first post, we spoke with Manu Cornet, an engineer in Paris who made some …
April 27th, 2011 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Gregory Yakushev, Google Calendar Team Google Calendar sync started supporting the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010 back in August. Outlook sync has continued to be a top feature request, which is why we’ve continued to improve upon it and ar…
