Gmail Labs has added three more apps

by zfreet on 2008-09-10 19:45:19

Today, when I checked out Labs, there were three new applications: Navbar drag and drop, Custom Label Colors, and Go to label.

I immediately went to Mars to try them out. They are all "practical" applications; unlike Old Snakey and Email Addict, which are neither splendid nor practical.

1. Navigation bar drag and drop - Navbar drag and drop - by Anatol P

It allows you to reorder the items in your navigation bar using drag and drop.

This is very useful! However, I only have four navigation bars: Labels (carefully counted, a total of 60, -_-!), Quick Links (basically didn't play a quick role), Chat (due to GTalk, long-term Offline), and Invite a friend (always 50 left). No matter how I adjust them, it doesn't make much difference.

2. Custom label colors - Custom Label Colors - by Mark K

It allows you to create your own combination of colors for labels. Instead of choosing one of the standard colors from the label dropdown menu, click on Add custom colors. Pick your combination of colors, hit Apply, and enjoy.

Now Gmail is colorful; I expect some artistic people to use these colors to create some abnormal works...

3. Quick label positioning - Go to label - by Bruce D

Enable keyboard shortcuts and hit 'g' then 'l' to display a popup for selecting a label to go to.

Quick keyboard: first G then L, then input the label name, only supports English quick search (currently! temporarily?).

PS: I found a strange phenomenon. When I installed IE 8 but didn't restart, I continued to use IE 7. All plugins are still there, but the speed is very fast... The hybrid version IE 7.5 is indeed advanced!