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By George Norman

Added on 25 Sep 2009(794 Views)

The Google developed email client, Gmail, is already a properly good online service, but this is not to say that it couldn’t get better. Suggestions on what would make Gmail better come from the Gmail users out there as well as the numerous software developers who work for Google. Even though some suggestions actually make sense, Google does not implement them in Gmail by default. What the Mountain View-based search engine giant decided to do instead (this was back in the middle of ’08) is launch a feature called Gmail Labs.

This is how Product Manager with Gmail, Keith Coleman, described Gmail Labs when it was launched: “Gmail Labs is a way for us to take lots of the ideas we wouldn't normally pick and let you all (who use Gmail) decide whether they're good or not. The idea behind Labs is that any engineer can go to lunch, come up with a cool idea, code it up, and ship it as a Labs feature. To tens of millions of users. No design reviews, no product analysis, and to be honest, not that much testing. Some of the Labs features will occasionally break. Some of the popular ones will become core parts of the product, and we'll eventually retire the ones that don't get much use.”

The bottom line is that there are some pretty handy and some pretty interesting Gmail Labs offerings that you could turn on. Here is what you have to do:

Step 1. Go to Gmail (click here – a new tab will open), enter your login credentials and click Sign in.

Step 2. Look to the top right corner of the screen. Locate the Settings link and click it.

Step 3. In the Settings window click the Labs tab (the second to last tab to the right; just check the image at the bottom if you don’t see it).

Step 4. Scroll through the rather long list of Gmail Labs offerings. When you find something that interests you, click Enable.

Step 5. Click Save Changes (there’s a Save Changes tab at the top of the list and at the bottom) and you’re done.

Tips and warnings
If you are already logged into Google, you can do away with steps 1 through 3 in the tutorial presented above if you click this link.
If a Labs feature breaks and you are no longer able to log into Gmail, use this link http://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0






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