Gmail color theme is now changable

A great news published by Gmail blog. From now a gmail user can change their gmail theme color very easily.

In this post officials says that:

"Since we launched themes for Gmail, many people have asked, not surprisingly, whether they can customize the look of their inboxes without having to use some advanced scripting magic. And while you can't make custom themes that change with the weather like some of the pre-set options, you can now choose your own Gmail colors."

Changing color theme is very easy. Just login in your google account. Click on the 'Settings' link on the upper right hand corner, select theme tab, change color in 'Choose your own colors' section. You can change everyting in your gmail accout from inbox background color to link color. So why are you waiting. Color your world with gmail theme color.

Four changes to Gmail contacts

A good news from Gmail blog has announced:

They have made 4 major change to Gmail contact. The changes are

1. Contact merge (and an important caveat about auto-complete)
Many of you may have seen Monday's blog post about Google Sync which mentioned contact merge. Nothing had been annoying me more than seeing several copies of "Jeff Jones" on my iPhone — only one of which actually contained his phone number. I now have one "Jeff Jones" which contains all of his contact information. To do this, select the contacts you want to merge and then click "Merge these..." as shown below:



Now that you can sync your contacts to a variety of devices, being able to merge contacts is more important than ever. Please note that as we mentioned on Monday, there's a known issue with merging contacts that affects address auto-complete, making merged addresses sometimes come up in a suboptimal order (e.g. auto-complete may bring up your friend's work address first even though you usually email their Gmail address). We're working on fixing this so the email address you use the most for any given contact will always come up first.

2. All Contacts
Instead of Suggested Contacts, you'll now see a group called All Contacts which, as the name would suggest, is where all of your contacts live and thus a good view for merging duplicate contacts. You can still see suggested contacts by clicking the "View Suggestions" button from My Contacts. From there, you can select frequently emailed contacts to add to My Contacts.



3. Remove people from My Contacts
You can finally move contacts out of the My Contacts group — especially useful if you're planning to sync your contact list to your phone. Prune the contacts you don't want synced to your phone from My Contacts (click "Groups" and then "Remove from My Contacts"), and they won't get synced.

4. Search across all contact fields
We've heard you loud and clear, and contact search now works much better: instead of just searching contact names and email addresses, it now includes phone numbers, notes fields, and mailing addresses as well. So, if you're visiting the Bay Area and looking for friends to catch up with, you could try typing "650" or "415" in the contact manager search box.

News Link: Official Gmail Blog

Gmail in Ofline

Now you can read your Gmail mail on offline. An announce published in Official Gmail Blog and the post said that:

Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you're connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail's servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer's hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you're used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection. And if you're on an unreliable or slow connection (like when you're "borrowing" your neighbor's wireless), you can choose to use "flaky connection mode," which is somewhere in between: it uses the local cache as if you were disconnected, but still synchronizes your mail with the server in the background.....We're making offline Gmail available to everyone who uses Gmail in US or UK English over the next couple of days, so if you don't see it under the Labs tab yet, it should be there soon. Once you see it, just follow these steps to get started:

1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.
2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
3. Click Save Changes.
4. After your browser reloads, you'll see a new "Offline0.1" link in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don't already have it.

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Gift from Gmail team

Announcement comes fro Official Gmail Blog.

Catch up with distant friends and family with Gmail voice and video chat, or send them a text message with SMS chat.

When you're having trouble putting your feelings into words, try an emoticon. (There's nothing quite like a virtual emoticon hug...)

Pick a Gmail theme and spice up your inbox.

Turn on Tasks and keep track of your holiday shopping.

See your calendar, documents, and email all at once with Calendar and Docs gadgets.

Get a new, faster Gmail app on your mobile phone.

Use Mail Goggles to avoid sending out that embarrassing email after the company holiday party.

Send in your self-addressed stamped envelope and get yourself some Gmail stickers.

And there's more in Gmail Labs – forgotten attachment detector, superstars, and advanced IMAP controls – check out all the new stuff in the Labs tab under Settings.

News Source: Official Gmail Blog

Turn emails into a Google doc

A unique news comes from Official Gmail Blog.

Officials says that from now you will be able to convert your Gmail email into a Google document. Yes, this amazing thing is now true by google engineers. they made a cooking that make your email into a google document with only a one click.

Just open the message you wish to convert, click the "Create a document" link on the right side of the page, and voila, you have a brand new document which you can then modify and share!

So, Let the converting begins.
you may check this news at Google docs blog too.