Offline Gmail becomes more powerful with enhanced user settings
Google is now letting Gmail users to set how many emails they would want stored on their machines if they have enabled Offline Gmail option.
Users also get the ability to set which labels are to be downloaded locally and for how long.
This gives you [...]

Google Docs previews in mail is the latest Gmail Labs feature
Google continues to enhance the capabilities of Gmail by adding new features through Gmail Labs.
Google Docs previews in mail is the latest one to arrive and it enables the user to get a quick preview of files attached in an email message.
To [...]

Google Voice users gets ability to invite friends
Google is now enabling some Google Voice users to invite their friends and relatives to use the service.
This is similar to how Google enabled Gmail users to get their friends to use the webmail service.
Google Wave is also using a similar system to expand the [...]

Gmail Labs: Don’t forget Bob and Got the wrong Bob?
Google Gmail Labs has some new enhancements.
These are:
Don’t forget Bob
Got the wrong Bob?

Don’t forget Bob looks like a renamed version of an older feature. It suggests recipients for an email based on previous history.
Got the wrong Bob? is an improvement [...]

Gmail reminds you to use a stronger password
We have already heard reports on the leaked database containing user ids and passwords of thousands of email addresses on the web.
All the popular webmail services have been affected by this leak.
And Google Gmail is one of them.
Gmail developers have a new blog post [...]

Xoopit for Gmail service ending
Xoopit has some bad news for their users on Google owned Gmail service.
The developers have announced that they are closing down Xoopit for Gmail.
The service would stop working from November 13 this year.
They would now focus on the My Photos for Yahoo! Mail feature.
The developers stated in [...]

Hide read labels is a very useful Google Gmail Labs option!
Google has added a new Gmail Labs feature named Hide read labels.
As the name suggest, this feature hides the labels which do not have any unread conversation.
This would come handy for those users who have tons of labels set in their Gmail [...]

Google News suffers a downtime
Google Gmail was down for us here for a couple of hours. We guess it was not a widespread problem.
But Google has confirmed that their Google News web service suffered some glitches.
They have worked on fixing the problems and it seems to be doing fine now.
Google did not reveal how widespread [...]

Google Gmail went down earlier today because of overload problems!
Google has confirmed that their Gmail webmail service became inaccessible for some time.
The company said that they had taken down some of the servers for routine maintenance.
It overloaded the remaining servers causing downtime for the users accessing Gmail through their web browser.
The company [...]

Google Gmail finally gets the contact chooser
Google Gmail is loved for having a bare bone interface which is very powerful.
But the service has been adding features which are common on rival services and are liked by a lot of the web users.
Contact Chooser is one such feature which has just been added [...]