Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Gmail Product Marketing ManagerFirst, if you don’t have Gmail keyboard shortcuts enabled, turn them on in Settings. You’ll be glad you did. If you spend a lot of time in Gmail, you’ll start shaving milliseconds of every act…
Posted by Emily Chang, Gmail engineerAs a Google engineer, I get a 24-inch widescreen monitor and a huge amount of email. I built a Labs feature to use the former to mitigate the latter.In my work email, I have painfully long lists in both Labels and C…
Posted by Jon Kotker, Gmail engineering intern, Summer 2008I spent this last summer as many of the Gmail engineers do, armed with a cup of coffee or a can of soda, poring through lines of code, winding my way through the code base, and every once in a …
Posted by Keith Coleman, Gmail Product ManagerSince launching our first batch of 13 Gmail Labs features, we’ve received a lot of suggestions for more experimental features you’d like to see — plus, we’ve had some of our own ideas. Today, there’s a new…
Posted by Jon Perlow, Gmail engineerLast October, we launched a rewritten code base for the Gmail user interface to Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 users. Since then, we’ve added support for Safari 3 and Firefox 3 and improved performance in other br…
Posted by Brian Rakowski, Google Chrome Product ManagerYesterday, we launched Google Chrome, a new approach to the web browser that comes with a few features that can give you a better Gmail experience:A browser built for speed: Google Chrome features …
Posted by Miriam Schneider, Associate Product Marketing ManagerAside from email, one of the most frequent things I do on my computer is manage my ever-growing digital photo collection. I’m no Annie Leibowitz, but I still enjoy taking and sharing my pic…
Posted by Prakash Chandran, User Experience DesignerSeemingly small improvements can make a surprisingly big difference to people who use our products every day. Take Google Calendar, where over the past few months we’ve made a bunch of little improvem…
Posted by Ken Norton, Product ManagerOne of our goals at Google is to give everyone the information they want in the language they speak. We’ve been hard at work making Google products available in as many languages as possible. Recently we launched Go…
Posted by Todd Jackson, Gmail Product ManagerMany of you had trouble accessing Gmail for a couple of hours this afternoon, and we’re really sorry. The issue was caused by a temporary outage in our contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading …
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerGmail web clips display feeds (news headlines, blog posts, or pretty much anything in RSS/Atom format), ads and other information at the top of your inbox. They look like this:There are some feeds i…
Posted by Ariel Rideout, Gmail engineerFrom the day we launched, Gmail has supported something called https. Https keeps your mail encrypted as it travels between your web browser and our servers, so someone sharing your favorite coffee shop’s public w…
Posted by Benjamin Grol, Product Manager Engineer, Google Contacts TeamWe’ve heard from some of you that Gmail’s auto-added contacts can lead to too much address book clutter. One of the advantages of automatically creating contacts is that all of the …
Posted by Marc Wilson, Software Engineer, Google mobile teamLast week, we launched a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone. It works right in your Safari browser, so there’s no need to download or install anything — just go t…
Posted by Brad Taylor, Software Engineer and Gmail Spam CzarPhishing messages are a form of spam that attempt to deceive recipients to gain access to their personal information. A classic one is a message that appears to come from PayPal and attempts t…