Yet another addition to the GMail Labs. Google today introduced Inbox Preview feature in GMail Labs. The point to be noted here is though, in a world of high-speed internet, and GMail anyway offering high speed mail service-is this feature going to be useful at all? If you can’t long enough to let your Inbox load, or you are still stuck in the days of not-so-fast Internet connection, this feature might be of some help.
Similar to other features from GMail Labs, you will need to enable this feature from Settings, search for this particular Lab feature, and Enable. Once enabled, this feature will let users preview the 10 most recent messages. This is just a simple, static preview, and hence, saves time for people who might not have time to sit down to check whether they have got any new mails or not.
I certainly don’t understand the argument quite completely. But reading GMail’s verdict on it, here is what Peter Balsiger had to say:
… imagine that you access Gmail on a super slow connection from a remote place in Ethopia where it might take minutes to completely load your inbox. The disappointment is larger when you find out that there is nothing new to read and you could have saved all that time.
Fair enough. For the whole post, visit this link [New in Labs: Inbox Preview].
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--> Author: Sujoy
Another cool feature from Google team.. I think they should now plan to come out of beta phase
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I understand you are trying to air your views about technology but I still do not understand why you mostly copy-paste (not literally) info from google official blogs (especially googleblog, gmail blog) to cover up space.
As a user, I can get all this info (minus your viewpoint, of course) by reading these blogs.
What would be more interesting is to find your insights into new,emerging technologies. I don’t think you need to write about every freaking gmail labs feature getting released.
Just my $0.02
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Sujoy Reply:
July 20th, 2009 at 5:36 am
@ Kaushik.
Ok ok.Calm Down.
First things first..Main chahe ye karuu…main chahe wo karu…Meri Marzee…
Secondly..If I am way too interested in every friggin GMail Lab, and if I am exploring all of them and sharing them on my space…which is MY BLOG…I think it causes no harm to anyone…if one is interested in just viewing the press release from GMail, one may rightly do so by visiting the GMail blog, of which no one is restricted…
if one may want to know my view on it, however small or irritatingly large it may be…one may do so by visiting my blog..
‘Nuff said.
gracias
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