The Nine Important Gmail Changes

Filed under Featured, Google News by on November 9, 2011 at 1:15 pm {no comments}

If you are a G-mail user you must have already noticed the design change in Gmail that has been made available from Tuesday. As of now the choice is yours but eventually this is going to become a switchover for everybody.

Let’s take a look at the nine things that are different in the new Gmail:

  1. The new Gmail allows users to change the density of their inbox by configuring the white space according to their preferences. The three options that are available include comfortable, cozy and compact.
  2. The new layout is definitely much more clean compared to the older one and this is going to help you absorb the shock of a heavy unchecked inbox better.
  3. You can now not only filter your inbox according to levels of priority, but also choose the perfect size for chat and labels according to your convenience. This feature is definitely going to make the new Gmail much more user-friendly.
  4. The new Gmail has been designed to automatically adapt to the size of any window and it can fit in accordingly.
  5. The biggest draw for the new Gmail is probably the high-definition themes. These themes definitely look a lot better than the previous versions and irrespective of the screen size they are capable of making a huge difference as far as eye-comfort is concerned.
  6. Email would no more look like “Email”. In this new Gmail, email looks more like conversation. Not only this, the people involved in the conversation can be viewed on the right side of the panel and you can also see their profile pictures and their status on Gmail (busy, available etc.)
  7. Some changes have been brought about in the photo editing applications and now you can upload and edit profile pictures of your preference easily.
  8. The search feature on Gmail is definitely better than the earlier versions. The company seems to have taken a cue from its search engine and would now prompt you with suggestions making your search experience better.
  9. The search feature also comes equipped with a search filter that allows you to search conversations and e-mails from a particular period of time, with particular words in them, without particular words in them and also based on the subject.

The new Gmail application for iPhone and iPad pulled off

Filed under Featured, Google News by on November 8, 2011 at 1:10 pm {no comments}

The launch of the new Gmail application for iPhone and iPad was well anticipated but this one turned out to be riddled with bugs; the application did not seem to function well with push notifications. Many users who had downloaded the Gmail application were very much disappointed and Google had to pull it off from the market only to relaunch it after fixing the bugs.

Most of the application was functioning properly except for the push applications but that was reason enough for Apple users to get disappointed. The application also did not seem to be capable of hosting e-mail on the user’s Apple device and also seemed to have a different interface altogether been compared to Gmail on the Safari browser.

The product manager of Gmail, Matthew Izatt in a recent blog post mentioned that everyone who has installed the application could continue to use it and Google is planning to fix the bugs and relaunch it.
There seems to be something severely wrong with Google. It is struggling with its new baby Google plus, struggling with its applications and also having a hard time convincing the users about its new interface designs. Let’s hope things turn out well for Google in the near future.

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