New Enhancements in Gmail

Google launches new enhancements in Gmail by introducing drag 'n' drop functionality for your messages and labels. This feature lets you drag your messages in right window pane to left pane with labels that you have already defined.

Pretty good functionality when it comes to organizing your labels and avoid the extra steps of selecting your mail and then selecting the respective label action from top bar and move the mails accordingly in the label header.

So log on to your Gmail a/c's and see the feature in action.

Google News Timeline

Google today announced 'Google News Timeline' - a new feature on Google Labs that organizes many different types of search results on a zoomable, graphical timeline.

Google News Timeline presents search results from a wide variety of sources. You can search and browse results from Google News, including headlines, quotes, photos from their Hosted News partners, and YouTube partner videos. You can also search for thousands of archival newspapers and magazines from Google News Archive Search and Google Book Search.

To browse through time, you can specify a date in your search, drag the timeline of results, or set the time scale to days, weeks, months, years, or even decades.

Adobe Max 2008 Announcements

With the grand Adobe MAX 2008 San Francisco coming to an end for this year, I would like to draw your attention to some of the announcements made during the conference relating to Flash Lite and User Groups in general.

1. Announcement of Adobe Groups
This is a great tool made available by Adobe for maintaining User Groups activities.
This will also allow you to join more User Groups in your city/country relating to various Adobe technologies. Link: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/80baac7d50


2. Adobe 3.1 Distributable Player
This is a great tool because it means, an end user will no longer need to check for the presence of Flash Lite on their handsets. The content itself (when installed as a .SIS or .CAB file) will check for the player version, download and install it using network connectivity. You can read the details here -http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/index.html?navID=sell

3. Flash Player 10 for Symbian Phones, Android and Windows Mobile
The Flash Player 10 (not the Flash Lite subset) was demoed at MAX on the above mentioned 3 platforms. Their date for launch is still not announced, but the very fact that single player runs across screens, will mean a lot to developers.

4. Adobe Packager
They announced Adobe Packager as well. It will help to package swf and non-swf content into a sis / cab file for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 phones. More details are available on http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/?navID=sell#packager

Publish Post

Finally Gmail comes with Themes!!!

Have you been installing unofficial themes to spice up your Gmail inbox?

Theses have never been an integral functionality of Gmail and folks always wanted this to be there as a part of their daily tool, they use to send mails and do more stuff.

You would see around 30 new themes that includes 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.

Hey most important of all is the activation of these themes from the 'Settings' feature on your top right gmail window and access 'Themes' tab to choose from your favourite ones!!!

Enjoy Theming!!! :)