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Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Forgotten attachment detector
Monday, September 15, 2008 5:19 PM Posted by Jon Kotker, Gmail engineering intern, Summer 2008 I 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 while ...
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: 3 experiments with labels
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: 3 experiments with labels
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:25 PM Posted by Keith Coleman, Gmail Product Manager Since 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 ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: 3 experiments with labels
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Reply add-ons
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:11 PM Posted by Darick Tong, Gmail engineer We Gmail developers are arguably... among the most demanding of Gmail's users. So in addition to the feedback we get from all of you, a lot of the ideas for new features come ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Reply add-ons
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Right-side Labels and Chat
gmailblog.blogspot.com — Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:04 PM Posted by Emily Chang, Gmail engineer As 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 ... (more) Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Right-side Labels and Chat
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Gmail add “Mark as Read and Forgotten attachment detector”
D' Technology Weblog — ... Gmail Labs added two new experimental features: “a Forgotten Attachment Detector — once turn on, you’ll get an alert if you mention attaching a file but forget to do so. The attachment detector couldn’t recognize patterns like “I attached a file”, “Check the attached file”, but it worked when using: “I’ve attached…” and “I have attached”. ...

Se você costuma esquecer de anexar arquivos em emails, o Gmail Labs pode te ajudar
MacMagazine — Eu mal posso imaginar a quantidade de recursos e pedidos de funcionalidades que o Google já conseguiu listar para o Gmail. Não deve ser fácil, a tarefa de pinçar uma delas e mandar bala na produção, mesmo que o recurso ainda tenha que passar por uma fase de testes no Gmail Labs. Um que acaba de ser lançado — continuando as liberações constantes de novidades no Labs, nesses últimos dias — é o chamado Forgotten Attachment Detector, ou Detector de Anexos Esquecidos. A idéia é descobrir se o usuário falou sobre ...

What Gmail Labs Features Do You Have Enabled? [Reader Poll]
Lifehacker — [image] The Gmail developers are wrapping up a busy week of launching several new experimental Labs features in your inbox, from labels enhancements to reply add-ons to a forgotten attachment detector to right-side labels and chat . Now that the total number of Gmail Labs features is at 23, we want to know: which ones are you actually using? Remember: To enable any of these, in your Gmail account's Settings area, click on the Labs tab. What Gmail Labs features do you have enabled? ( polls ) If you could have any new Gmail feature in ...

Oops when email sent, Gmail can undo it!
SolSie.com — ... . Other times I send a message and then immediately notice a mistake. I forget to attach a file or email the birthday girl that I can’t make her surprise party. I can rush to close my browser or unplug the Internet — but Gmail almost always wins that race. An email to the wrong Larry pushed me over the edge. I could undo just about any other action in Gmail — why couldn’t I undo send? Many people agreed, including Yuzo Fujishima, an engineer in the Tokyo office. My theory (which ...

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Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers
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