GMinder lets you manage your Google calendar even when you are offline by letting you access the desktop client. You can add events, delete events, set pop-up reminders and even browse through events to see more details.

You can also snooze or dismiss the reminders and customize their appearance by tweaking the color and sound. GMinder allows you to manage multiple Google calendars from the same desktop client. All you need to do is sign in with your Google account and your Google calendar will be downloaded for offline access.

Download GMinder here.

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Gmail Notifier Plus is portable software and doesn’t require any installation. The focus during development was clearly on simplicity and utility. Gmail Notifier works entirely from the Windows 7 Superbar (Taskbar). Hovering over the Gmail Notifier button reveals a thumbnail preview of your messages. Right clicking exposes the Jumplist which contains latest messages as well as common tasks like composing a mail and opening the inbox.

Gmail Notifier Plus supports multiple Gmail accounts and does its job brilliantly. It’s designed to remain out of your way. The only Window that you are going to come across while using Gmail Notifier is the Configuration Window. Everything else is done directly from the taskbar.

[ Download Gmail Notifier Plus for Windows 7 ]

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If you are eager to see a summary of your inbox before Gmail loads, you can now do it with a new feature released by Gmail Labs called Inbox Preview.

Once you have enabled Inbox preview from Settings –> Labs, there will be no change initially, however the next time you login to your Gmail account, you will be able to see a preview of the emails in your account, while Gmail is loading.

The Inbox preview will let you take a quick glance of the latest emails in your inbox, so that you don’t have to wait for Gmail to load fully, definitely useful if you are on a slower internet connection and Gmail takes a long time to load.

If you are having problems loading Gmail, do take a look at the different ways in which you can access Gmail using different Gmail Modes.

New In Labs: Inbox Preview [Official Gmail Blog]

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This means that there is no need to download the files to your desktop, no additional software required (a benefit bestowed for those who use public / others PC when on the move), to view the content. You can go through the content of the files, in the same browser and later download if it is necessary (such a saver from all those forwarded PPT’s, which you normally skim through and delete immediately!!).

The old “View as slideshow” technology is integrated into the ‘viewer’ which significantly increases both – the user experience and productivity.

Some of the useful functionality of this new feature are :

• Zoom in and Zoom (with the help of the + / - sign in the right sidebar),
• Use the arrow buttons (in the right side bar), to navigate to the slide/s or alternatively you can use the slide bar and select any particular slide.
• You can copy content directly from the slides and save it on your system ,
• You can search the slides using the ‘Search‘ feature in the right side bar,
• Download the documents or Print them or view them as plain HTML
• You can edit the documents online, and this is integrated with your http://docs.google.com account. After editing, you can select “Share and close” option and the edited document will be saved in your Google docs account. You can download it from your account, whenever you need it.

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Let’s convert this to a real life example, you emailed a client from a different country say United States about a work you were doing for them, now your client emails you back, but when the email arrived while you were sleeping, some of the content in the email confuses you and you need to have a verbal chat with them to clarify your confusions.

But what is the time in your client’s country? Would they probably be awake to answer your call or would you be invading on their sleep? With the Sender Time Zone labs feature, Gmail will show you a green phone icon, if it would be ok to call the other person, translating into working hours for any given time zone.

If you see a red icon, it would probably mean that, it’s pretty late in the client’s country to be making a call, clicking on the message should show you the current time in the sender’s time zone.

This feature will only work if the originating message contains time zone in the header, if you are looking to view the current time from different time zones, take a look at the World Time Zone gadget for Gmail.

To enable this feature, just go to Settings –> Labs and activate Sender Time Zone feature.

New in Labs: Sender Time Zone [Official Gmail Blog]

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Turns out that Google is now promoting most of the labs feature to all users with the help of a link in Gmail which takes users to a page where all the new features are displayed to the users.

If you are new to Gmail Labs and have not yet started using it, check out What’s new in Gmail? or read our extensive coverage of all the features in Gmail Labs.

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However, creating those filters has taken a lot of time and losing them would mean, that I would have to spend hours and hours to create them again, but like all the nice features in Gmail Labs, users will now get a option to import/export their filters and save it to their computers.

To activate the import/export feature for filters, go to Settings –> Google Labs and enable the Filter import/export feature.

Once you have done that, visit the filters page and select the filters you want to export and click on the export button at the bottom of the page. To import the filters again, you can choose the file containing the filters and click on the open file button.

So if you were looking for a way to backup your filters, go ahead and get it done now. Looking for more tips with Gmail? Visit the Gmail Tips section to get more useful Tips and Tricks.

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The gadget is not part of Gmail Labs, you can follow our earlier tutorial of adding custom gadgets to Gmail to add this gadget to your Gmail account.

Here are the manual steps for adding the PolyClock gadget to Gmail.

1. Enable Add any Gadgets by URL in Gmail Labs page.
2. Visit Settings –> Gadgets page.
3. Enter the URL “http://gad.getpla.net/poly/clock.xml” without quotes into the URL textbox and click on Add.
4. Configure the clock to show the timings you want from across the world.

That’s it, with this simple gadget you can now keep a eye on the time from across the world, while you are checking for new emails.

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This feature had been earlier (Yahoo Messenger 9 features) added  to Yahoo Messenger 9, and it definitely made sharing videos and pictures easier. However Yahoo 9 also had a feature where users could preview a image file and we are hoping to see that implemented in Gmail Chat too.

What do you think about the new feature? Do you use Gmail Chat often? Do let us know through your comments.

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The new feature will definitely make it a bit easier to manage emails and do away with processed emails from the Inbox. This feature does not have a undo option yet, so you will have to manually un-archive the email for now, however the undo feature is in the works and you can expect it to be available shortly.

To turn on this feature, go to the Labs tab under settings and activate the “Send & Archive” option.

New in Labs: Send & Archive

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