Pros and Cons of Gmail's New Compose

Pros:-
1. Multiple Drafts at Once
Multiple Drafts can sit right next to each other on on your Gmail screen, or you can choose to pop them out for easier resizing.

2. Minimize Drafts
Users can now minimize drafts to the bottom or their Gmail windows

3. Background Activities Can Continue Uninterrupted
Compose won't interrupt the draft you're working on. You can also check and respond to more pressing emails while keeping your original draft intact.

4. More Streamlined email interface.

5. Switching Between the Two Interfaces Is Easy
you can easily return to the old interface by clicking on the small arrow in the right corner of the emails and select "switch back to old compose.

Cons:-
1. CC and BCC fields are much harder to access.

2. Smaller Tool Suite
You'll find that it takes a little longer to access the tools you need.

3. New Compose mails cover the entire right-hand chat column.

4. Less room to write
New compose provide small window to write mails

Opening Gmail in basic HTML view

have been stuck on a low bandwidth internet connection and your Gmail won't just open. It just loads and shows you a blank page. This happens when you are accessing gmail from a low bandwidth connection and/or a crappy PC. Gmail just shows loading for second time and man it is stuck. The remedy at that moment is to switch to the basic HTML view and check your mail. But what if it doesn't show you "Switch to basic HTML view" option after loading!!!

So here's the remedy. Sign into gmail and let it load. If it fully loads well and good but if it takes time or gets stuck just paste the following code into the address bar

    http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=d

and the Gmail opens in basic html view. Some features like chat may be disabled but You'll have to suffice with that.

Secret options in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera

Today I m going to tell you Secret options in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera Browsers.
All these 3 browsers come with a secret page which allows you to enable or disable many advanced settings which are not generally available to configure from browser Options window.

1) Google Chrome :-
If you are a Google Chrome user, you can access a secret configuration page using following steps:

1. Type about:flags or chrome://flags in Chrome's addressbar and press Enter. It'll open the advanced configuration page.
2. This page contains many experimental features and other advanced tweaks which can be enabled or disabled by clicking on Enable or Disable link given below the option description.
3. As soon as you enable or disable an option, a new "Relaunch Now" button automatically appears at bottom which can be used to restart Google Chrome to take effect.

If you want the complete list of pages available on Chrome,
Use about:about or chrome://about
It gives ALL settings pages available for Chrome.

2) Mozilla Firefox :-
If you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you can access a similar secret configuration page using following steps:

1. To access this page simply type about:config in Firefox's addressbar and press Enter. It'll ask for confirmation, click on I'll be careful, I promise! button.
2. The page contains 3 types of preferences:
*  String
*  Boolean
*  Integer
3. You can double-click on the desired preference and change its value.

"About:config" page allows you to tweak lots of hidden settings of Mozilla Firefox. You can enable or disable many features and options on the fly.

3) Opera :-
If you are a Opera user, you can access a similar secret configuration page using following steps:

1. Type opera:config in Opera's addressbar and press Enter. It'll open Opera Preferences Editor page.
2. Here you can tweak various settings and features in Opera.

Note:- There are many more similar secret pages in Opera. Just type opera: in Opera's addressbar and a drop-down list will automatically appear showing all secret pages such as opera:cache, opera:debug, etc

So now you can Configure your browser using these built-in hidden configuration settings.

Gmail Motion Biggest April Fools Joke

 
With April Fool’s day in full swing, one of technology’s greatest contributors has cooked up a joke that almost seems real.

When users of Google’s Gmail logged in this morning, Google notified them of a new extension of Gmal called “Gmail Motion.” The proposed idea would turn your laptop into an Xbox Kinect of sorts, as you would use your body motions to determine what Gmail would do.

For example:
"To open a message make a movement as if you were opening an envelope. To reply, simply point backward with your thumb," the company says in a video demonstration of the product, which seems to be a riff on Microsoft's Kinect gaming system. "To reply all, use both hands. To send a message, lick a stamp and place it down."

 According to the Gmail Motion webpage, “Gmail Motion uses your computer’s built-in webcam and Google’s patented spatial tracking technology to detect your movements and translate them into meaningful characters and commands. Movements are designed to be simple and intuitive for people of all skill levels.”
As a company known for their April Fool’s day pranks, this one might have caused the most confusion. Google released a drawing of all the responses Gmail would recognize, and provided pictures of “beta testers” making ridiculous signs with their hands.

While the idea might not be a bad one for the future, this iteration of user control will have to remain an April Fool’s joke for this year.

Tsunami alerts on google

Unlike funny doodles that Google does for important events, it has broken its own rule of an absolute pristine homepage to issue a Tsunami warning.. Google put a tsunami alert on its famously spartan homepage following the massive earthquake in Japan.

The Google homepage now carries a one line warning, alerting the geographies that may face Tsunami waves soon. It says, Tsunami Alert for New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and others. Waves expected over the next few hours, caused by 8.9 earthquake in Japan.

A great initiative to provide information to users about the natural calamity. Also, like the New Zealand earthquake, Google has launched its person finder for Japan too. This helps people trace their missing loved ones by listing them on the Google website.


Google frequently makes mapping, communications and other online tools available after natural disasters but a news alert message on the Internet giant's home page is unusual. 

Google launched a crisis response page following the earthquake at google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html. 

It includes a "person finder" in English and Japanese which allows users to ask for information or provide information about individuals. It was tracking around 5,300 records at 1400 GMT. 

The page also included emergency phone numbers and links to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and online disaster message boards in Japan. 

It also featured videos of the quake submitted to Google-owned YouTube and a real-time feed of Twitter updates about the disaster.

Google in exploring human body

Google has come out with another innovative approach which is an educational tool called as Google Body Browser which uses HTML5 technology to let you examine the human body in fully layered, three-dimensional detail.

Google Body Browser does not load in any general browser as the app uses WebGL, a plug-in-free programming interface, to power its 3D graphics. WebGL is a relatively new standard, and most major browsers are still testing its implementation. Very soon the stable versions of Chrome and Firefox (and most others) will also offer integrated WebGL support other than just the beta versions.

Google showed off the app at the WebGL Camp. WebGL is a cross-platform low-level 3D graphics API that is designed to bring plugin-free 3D to the web. It uses the HTML5 Canvas element and does not require Flash, Java or other graphical plugins to run.

When you open Google Body Browser in a WebGL-enabled program, you're greeted with a three-dimensional layered model of the human anatomy that you can zoom in on, rotate and search. While you start using the Google Body Browser layering tool, located below the zoom controls is the layering tool that allows peeling back layers of the body to see detailed views of the human anatomy. With the help of a compatible browser, the Body Browser home page can be visited that shows off the human body. The various layers of skin, muscles, tissues and the skeletal system can be adjusted very easily. The most interesting fact drawn is that if organ or bone or ventricle system is typed down, it directly takes the viewer to that area in the anatomy, zoomed in. The labels can turn labels on or off and the app supports multitouch so users of trackpads multi-touch mice can zoom in with ease.

Another fact that is worth being mentioned is that the body browser adjusts its URL so as to save a particular where all what is required to be done is to copy the current web address. It has been presumed that the browser has been designed for healthcare industry but it is also capable of educating students and lecturers as well. 

Indians at number three in Google searches

Indians stood at number three position after Chinese and Americans in terms of Google users, a top official of the popular search engine said today.

"India is a big market for Google and is behind China and US," Vinay Goel, country head (products) of Google India told a press conference here.

He, however, did not specify any period in this regard.

India is a bigger market than the UK, Japan and Germany, he said, adding Google users had been steadily rising in the country.

"Three years ago, Google had 20 million users. Now it is at 100 million."

He said that revenues were directly related with the number of users.

Speaking about Google's latest offering, Google Instant, he said that it was a new search interface which was very fast and predictive.

"It saves between two and five seconds on typical searches," he said.