Pimp Out Your Gmail

Google continually pushes out new and useful features for Gmail. Some of these features are a little gimmicky, but some are very helpful.  I’m going to show you some of my favorite ones and also how to enable them.

To get started, you need to be using a recent internet browser.  The Student Nerds team recommends Firefox, but Internet Explorer 7 should be fine too.  If you are using Internet Explorer 6, you should upgrade, but if you can’t, make sure you have all the updates installed as some of these tips may not work.

First, log in to your Gmail account and look for a green flask in the upper right part of your screen.  If it isn’t there, click Settings and then Labs.  There are plenty of options to choose from, but here are the ones that I use:

Pictures in chat Custom keyboard shortcuts Mouse Gestures Signature Tweaks Muzzle Right-side chat Default ‘Reply to all’ Quote Selected text Navbar drag and drop Forgotten Attachment Detector Mark as Read button Go to label Google Calendar gadget Google Docs gadget

Google also just enabled 30 themes to choose from. You should see the themes option in the Settings page under the Themes tab. I’m currently using Shiny.  Google is constantly updating Gmail to make it better and better. Now they if they could only add HTML signatures.

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