Gmail Labs Make it Again

Gmail is getting better and better. After Multiple Inboxes, here comes the ability to "Undo Send". For people with occasional accidents of sending without thinking/proofreading/..., it works well. What it actually does is to allow you 5 seconds after a message is "sent". Effectively, it is a time buffer between you hit "send" and Gmail actually sending out the mail.

Nice stuff.

Another good thing: You can not preview Youtube, Flickr, Picasa, and Yelps links directly in Gmail. No more link-clicking.

It seems that Gmail is getting an edge over desktop clients, and getting more and more edgy. Actually, my desktop clients are collecting (virtual) dust for months now.

Feedly: Fun to Read and Share Your Feeds

I first know of Feedly a few days ago. After I installed this Firefox extension, I'm immediately in love with it.


As described by Feedly, it is based of Google Reader, Twitter, and Firefox. But, what does it actually do?


Simply put, it makes your RSS viewing a pleasure.


You RSS feeds to Google Reader (yes, you have to use Google Reader to enjoy this experience) will be displayed in a spectacular magazine-like front-end, with nice and responsive AJAX interface for inline reading.


These is also be a list of links below your article title that simplifies your tasks in sharing through twitter, sharing, emailing, etc.

Another nice feature is the "mini bar". When you are browsing a web-page or blog with RSS feeds, the mini bar will appear at above the right-hand bottom of the firefox window. This further simplifies your task of sharing in Friendfeed, Twitter, email, and saving for future reading.

In addition, recent Friendfeed conversation will also be shown and allow you to join the conversation. How convenient!

If you want to try it, simply good to Feedly.com and install the extension.

Gmail Offline Mode

Being a long term Gmail user, having the ability to access it offline is highly desirable, especially when I'm on the road or have no access to the internet and need to access stored mails.


In the past, I use Thunderbird for its extensive list of add-ons. But when I'm moving more and more of my stuffs to the cloud, like calendars, mails, tasks, and documents, offline access becomes a must.

Google just announced the availability of offline access, with some kind of special algorithm to determine which emails to be downloaded to your machine. I'm still trying it out. But it seems that you need to tidy up your inbox and archive to make good use of the offline mode.

Anyway, this is a good start for aligning my stuffs between the cloud and my machine.

If you want to access offline mode, check "Setting", "Labs" and see if "Offline" mode is available to you now.