Gmail offers extra emoticons in Labs

Feeling that entirety of human expression can not be captured in 19 just faces, Google has introduced a new Labs feature: extra emoji, the colorfully animated brainchild of their team in Japan.

Simply go to the Labs tab under Settings, enable "Extra Emoji," and have that glass of you've been dreaming about. Ask your in-laws about the fluffiness factor of their pet . Become a meteorologist and start predicting . Dance like you mean it

There are another couple hundred emoticons to choose from!

Read more at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Extra emoticons

Gmail Adds Suggested Recipients

Gmail Labs has introduced a new feature called "Suggest more recipients."

Once you've enabled it from the Labs tab under Settings, you'll see suggested recipients while composing messages. Gmail will suggest people you might want to include based on the groups of people you email most often. So if you always email your mom, dad, and sister together, and you start composing a message to your mom and dad, Gmail will suggest adding your sister. Enter at least two recipients and any suggestions will show up like this:


Click on a suggested name, and they'll get added to your email.

Another feature of Gmail to help us being lazy!!!

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Suggest more recipients

Inserting inline images in Gmail

If I wanted to insert an inline image in Gmail earlier, there were no straight options for me. There were a few workarounds, but I didn't liked them. Gmail finally listened to us . You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on "Inserting images" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new toolbar icon like this:



Make sure you're in rich formatting mode, or it won't show up. Click the little image icon, and you can insert images in two ways: by uploading image files from your computer or providing image URLs.

If you're sending mail to other Gmail users, they'll still have to click "Display images below" or "Always display images from ..." to see images you embed.

Read the complete post at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Inserting images.

Waiting for your feedback on this new feature.

New in Gmail Labs: Sender time zone

Gmail has introduced a new feature in Gmail Labs called Sender Time Zone. You can turn it on from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see green phone icons next to people who are probably awake and readily reachable (if it's between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm in the sender's local time zone) and red ones next to those who could be sleeping or out of the office:

Click "show details" and you can see when a message was sent in the sender's time zone as well as what time it is for them now:

Message headers always include the time sent and often include time zone info too.

Read the complete post at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Sender time zone

Gmail search made easier (and lazier)

Gmail has introduced a new experimental feature in Gmail Labs: Search Autocomplete, it helps in making search in Gmail easier.

You just need to turn on Search Autocomplete from the Labs tab under Gmail Settings, and you'll get suggestions as you type in the search box. One of the most popular searches in Gmail is for names or email addresses, so the first kind of suggestions you'll see are contacts. Some names are not easy to remember (my last name is an excellent example!) — with this new Labs feature you can just type a couple letters and select the desired contact from the drop down list. Easy and quick as that.



Gmail also offers a bunch of advanced search operators, which provide a powerful way to find that one message you have in mind. You can search in specific places (e.g. in chats or sent items), or search for messages with attachments of a certain type (e.g. docs or photos). With Search Autocomplete, I can just type "photos" or "pictures," select "has photos" from the drop down list (as in the screenshot below), and the search query (filename:(jpg OR png)) gets inserted for me. Similarly, you can type in the word "attachment" and Search Autocomplete will list the most common attachment types for you.



Read more at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Gmail search made easier (and lazier)