Setting themes in Gmail

Following the footsteps of Google's personalized homepage, Gmail added themes. Once the new option is enabled in your account, you'll find a tab named "Themes" in the settings page (Gmail -- Settings -- Themes) and you'll be able to choose from 30 themes.

Unlike other webmail services, Gmail has provided some customization options and users can customize the predefined themes using the Customize theme option...

Gmail's help center provides an interesting facts about the new themes like in some cases, you can also customize by location. Some themes change during the day, and we use the location information you provide to correctly time these changes with your local sunrise, sunset, and/or weather.

If you select one of these themes, you'll see a Country/Region drop-down menu appear. Recently Gmail has added some 3 to 5 new themes...

Gmail:Typing In Indian Languages

Usually we used to type mail in English only. We will be using the mail services for all our friends,family and other proposes. However, there was one limitation that family members and friends who prefer to communicate in their mother tongue (language) did not have an easy way to type and send email in their language of choice. Now Gmail has announced a new feature that makes us easy to type email in Indian languages.

When you compose a new mail in Gmail, you should now see an icon with an Indian character(Hindi), as the image displayed below. This feature is enabled by default for Gmail users in India. If you do not see this function enabled by default, you will need to go the "Settings" Tab and then enable this option in the "Language" section.

Images:Official Gmail Blog..

When you click the Indian languages icon, you can type words the way they sound in English and Gmail will automatically convert the word to its Indian local language equivalent. For example, if a Hindi speaker types "namaste" then gmail will transliterate to Hindi automatically after you give a space. Gmail currently support five Indian languages --

Hindi,

Tamil,

Telugu,

Kannada and

Malayalam..

You can select the language of your choice from the drop-down list next to the icon.

Images:Official Gmail Blog

This feature was built using Google's transliteration technology, which is also available on Google India Labs, Orkut, Blogger and iGoogle. I hope you users find this feature useful to communicate with those of your friends and family who prefer to write in their native language, and in the near future it will be made available soon to businesses and schools using Google Apps.

Now start replying emails to all in native languages..

Gmail Gets Panic Button

After making sure you don't send off emails after a night of getting wasted, or those you had regret later.

By making you answer a simple mathematical question, Google's gone a step ahead and engaged the "5 second rule".

The Undo Send feature in Gmail Labs will enable an “Undo” link on every sent mail confirmation. Clicking on “Undo” - in case you realize that you've sent the mail to the wrong person - will stop the mail from being sent and take you right back to compose.

This feature can't pull back an email that's already gone; it just holds your message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the panic button.

So that the panic button stops sending the email to wrong person in any case..