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Google Calendar & Google Docs Lab extension
Friday, 21 November, 2008, 10:29 am
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You may of been asking how can I view my google calandar or google docs or even BOTH. Well Now you can Google have released a labs extension which lets you view your calandar add events, view other dates on your calandar.

You can also see other calandars that people have given you premission to view. Or you can even take them off the view.

Now the google docs part is a separt lab extension. You can see recent docoments, open them in a sepeart window and even create new ones.

You can post your comments to the Gmail team via the Labs forum, You can send them your idears.

You can Try out Anatol’s Navbar drag and drop Labs feature so you can easily re-order all the boxes on Gmail’s left hand side. (VERRY USEFULL)

To turn on these gadgets, click Settings, then visit the Labs tab. Scroll to the bottom, select “Enable” next to the features you want to turn on, and then click “Save Changes.”
NOTE Not all gadgets are fully compatible with https, so if you’re connecting to Gmail via https, you may see mixed content warnings caused by parts of the gadgets being served over http. The gmail team said that they are working on the problem with the https

But the google docs and google calandar seemed to work OK on HTTPS. I tested it on a vista pc and also a mac and it worked fine.



New Gmail Themes
Thursday, 20 November, 2008, 6:24 pm
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Hello As you may know that Gmail have just released 18 themes (if I am correct). They are avaible to all the GMAIL USERS.

Here is a bit of what they said about the new gamil things from the Gmail blog

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There’s even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers — it’s not exactly practical, but it’s great for testing out your geek cred. We’ve also done a minor facelift to Gmail’s default look to make it crisper and cleaner — you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.

Here is a prview of all the new themes

If you would like to sign up for gmail visit mail.google.com