What Gmail Labs has to add to the experience depends on the individual user. From add-ons as simple as moving the Chat box to features such that let you ‘Un-send’ a mail, to an add-on that lets you play a game of Snake, there’s a lot on offer, even for the infrequent user. Some of the more popular features have even been made a regular part of Gmail, as we mentioned in our earlier post.

Getting to the Labs listing is simple. Once you log in, click the Settings link on the top right of the screen and choose Labs from the tabs that follow. This should show you the entire list of Labs features available at that point in time.

Keep in mind that most of these features are experimental and are liable to be closed without any real warning. As advised for any other Labs product, keep any sensitive information out of the Beta Testing area.

Now, on to our picks for the best features from Gmail Labs. In no particular order, we present you with what we find the most useful and intuitive of the add-ons on offer.

• Add any gadget by URL
  This feature is the definitive mod tool available with Gmail Labs. This tool allows you to add any gadget that is publicly available. Some example gadgets would be the Twitter gadget and the YouTube gadget.
• Superstars
  This feature lets you group all your mails up with additional star icons. If you have a large, active contact base, this is the ideal tool to segregate your emails and avoid having to sift through every single mail.
• Undo Send
  This has got to be one of the best ideas the engineers at Google came up with. Ever felt a wave of panic swell up after hitting send button by mistake? Well, here is your solution!

This feature, being a child of Google Labs, might be familiar to users that have tried it earlier with the basic addition installed. Essentially a combination of the previous drag-and-drop addition and the Labs image uploader, it has the support of the Labs team and testers apart from the Beta testers of the verification program.

Here’s what we can look forward to the next time we open our Gmail inboxes:

Courtesy: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com

Google appears to be focusing all its energies on improving its existing line of services after the apparent failure of its networking app to create any buzz (pun intended). What remains to be seen now is whether these changes to Gmail will be ported to other services – rumors of Orkut gaining these benefits are doing their rounds; as are those of maturing Labs projects being included in all of Gmail’s services.

For now, the facility to add images directly is only supported by Chrome, Google’s native web browser. Promises have been made to develop ports to other browsers soon.

Links:

• Our earlier post on the April update
• The Google Blog post on the May update

You can add your comments while sharing the content with others and your post will have a link to the original post. Don’t worry this feature is only available for public posts and no one can share your private Buzz’s. Google is constantly introducing new features in Google Buzz. Check out the other features introduced in Google Buzz.

Disable comments in Google buzz

These are some of the features in Google Buzz.

Disable Comments: Now you can disable any more commenting on the post in Google buzz if you feel the topic is getting over heated or has run out of its desired course. Just use the Close comments feature in the drop down box  in the top right corner of the Buzz.

I personally liked this because If this would have come 3 days back then i could have saved a public web war between 2 of my friends on my post just by disabling comments feature.

Email interesting posts to Inbox: If you like a post in Google Buzz and the comments followed on that then you can email the post and the comments to your inbox as Compose mail and then share it with any one you want. But this way others can also mail comments going in your buzz to anyone.

Visual summary of the link also called as Favicon: Now when you share a link in the post then a visual summary just like in facebook associated with the link appears. Along with the summary if the link has some images associated to it, then all those images also appear and you get to chose which one to display. Like here below when i posted my article drag and drop attachments in Gmail features then automatically 2 images in the post and the summary came.