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I know a lot of people must be thinking isn’t wave dead yet still i would suggest all of you to go back and revisit it as it was in a preview mode at that time. May be you find it useful now.

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!

Google has gone the Bing way in adding beautiful background images to the Google Home page.

In the latest feature added to Google now you can add background images to the Google home page i.e. Google.com to make your home page more interesting,personal and lively.

To add the Background image you should be logged in using your Gmail Id and then go to www.google.com. Remember this feature has been added to Google.com only and is not present in Google.co.in. By default you are redirected to you country home page like Google.co.in. In that case click on the “Go to Google.com” as shown in the image.

- Now you will see a link “Change background Image” in the lower left corner of the screen.

- Click on it and a pop up will appear

- Choose Images from Public Gallery, Editors Pick, Your Picasa album or you can upload images from your computer as you like.

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