Google is always come up with new innovative ideas with their products. They wanted to make things simple and easy yet amazing. As you know, Google  has launched an innovative feature collection in Gmail called Gmail Labs, in June 2008 with  13 features.

Gmail team wanted to do experiments with mail and come up with new valuable features to the entire Gmail users, That’s why! These Gmail Labs can be access by clicking the Setting link on the right corner of your Account, and click on the Labs tab item.

Where you can find really nice description about Gmail Labs, which goes like this,

Google Mail Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime. They may change,break or disappear at any time.

If (when) a Labs feature breaks and you’re having trouble loading your inbox, there’s an escape hatch. Use https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0.

There are lots of cool features presently available in the Gmail Labs and since, I am very likely use some of them with my account, which are worth a use. I wanted to share those features with you.

Inserting images

When I wanted to make an email with havin the image embedded in the mail was an difficult task, where I used to run my Thunderbird email client and attach my image to the mail . But, when Gmail Labs introduced “Inserting images” feature was mind blowing for me. That was long waited feature of myself. Boy its very easy now! It Allows me to insert images into a message body. I can upload and insert image files from my computer or even insert images by URIs, awesome!

Title Tweaks

I used to open lots of tabs in my browser when I wanted to search for something, this feature allows me to see my number of emails that I have unread in the inbox on the title bar, even in very tiny tabs’ title. Simply it just changes the orders of the elements in the title bar. So, I can see the tab and find if I have any new mails, even when the Gmail tab minimixed. Sounds cool right?

Undo Send

This is somewhat Life Saver feature. Sometimes I forget to mention the some important links or something in my mail. But this feature allows to get the email back within 5 seconds (I reckon) and add the links or whatever and send to the receiver. This is how this feature described at Gmail Labs page, “Oops, hit “Send” too soon? Stop messages from being sent for a few seconds after hitting the send button.”

Mark as Read button

Sometimes we recieve some mails, that we don’t want to open to see what it is in the mail, because those obviously come from some magazines and site that we have subcribed already. To mark a message as read I have to click on the “More Actions” drop down menu all the time to select “Mark as Read” in Gmail. But, now I have cool button on my inbox where I got it by enabling the Mark as Read button in Gmail Labs. Now it just a button click away!

Custom Label Colours

We always wanted to have diversity in almost everything. It can be anything, so as Labels in Gmail. This feature gives me the freedom to choose the colours for my Label. Where I can create my custom colours by picking combination of colours. Thats lovely and looks fantastic.

Sender Time Zone

I don’t want to explain about this feature, Gmail Labs has description is self-explanatory. “Should I reply to this mail or just call the guy? Oops… it’s 1 am. Sorry, I didn’t mean to disturb…” You got it right?

Random Signature

I used to state “Say you can and you will” – a quote in my every email I sent. With the Gmail Labs’ Random signature I can send variety of quotes in every single email I sent to people I care most, I contact. This is an awesome feature, sometimes it gives me inspiration by the way. Worth a use with your Gmail account. I greatly recommend for some inspiration.

Signature tweaks

This is something I really wait for. Before this feature introduced in Gmail Labs, I used to move my signature to before the quoted text in my reply from bottom of the message. And this just removes the crazy ‘–’ in front of your signature. Sounds cool ha..?

Offline

No matter what email service you use, that you can’t do anything without Internet connectivity. But, for the very first time you can access the emails even when you are in offline, by enabling the amazing feature – Offline Gmail. You can do lots of things while you were in Offiline, this video describes about it very well. Just watch it.

Pictures in chat

Just see the profile image of your friend, when you chat with them on the Gmail intergrated Chat feature. Just add some flavour to user interaction. Nice though.

These features allow me to have my routine task using Gmail as simple and fine. It means adding some boost to productivity. Technology always comes to play a major role in making things work for us in a good and better manner to enhance the efficiency and productivity, so as Gmail Labs. What are the favourite features of yours in Gmail Labs?

Here I am going to list what I like most in terms of new Ubuntu 9.04 version, which is I am currently using in my laptop with Windows Vista.

Tip: You can install the Ubuntu as an application in Windows Vista using handy Wubi application, which is very smart, easy and powerful. It takes only 15 minutes to set up Ubuntu and run on your system as an operating system, while you get no worried about losing any of your file or setting on Windows Vista.

First things first, I was really amazed at the boot time that Ubuntu has consume to start in my computer. Its phenomenal. That was great boost for this new version. If I am not wrong, It just took me around 20 seconds to boot. Amazing boy! Fastest boot time ever, I reckon.

Other nice feature that I felt love with Ubuntu new version was ‘Mac like notifications’ on the top right corner, with a nice chime sound. It gave me feeling that I am using a Macbook Pro. Stunning feature. Since, the notifications haven’t got any different model from each other, thus sometimes it bit confusing, where these notifications come from and which application is related to it.

Always I love the Pidgin IM, which comes with Ubuntu. Pidgin IM was a really great tool to connect to friends and family in one place no matter what IM service they use. This application was good at working and making things better.

A Computer Janitor program has been added to the System menu. This is to help clear-up cruft, such as old packages that are no longer needed. But, I don’t think it’ll going make big difference in terms of organizing the applications in Ubuntu.

To remove old packages, simply type,

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

at the command-line executing the Terminal in Ubuntu.

System Monitor that incorporated with Ubuntu was fantastic as always, and it gives most information at a glance. The graphical visual presentation of graphs and data are simply superb.

Since the new features come with Ubuntu 9.04 was really simple and smart. As a whole, day by day Ubuntu gets in to its aspiration to become a source of human friendly linux agent of all time.

Ubuntu getting better on and on and on. We can wait for some ground making features coming up with upcoming 9.10 version.

Nowadays, no one can imagine a day without technology. From television to laptop everywhere technology makes its way a unique. With technology it’s so easy to hack the life, I hope. Being a fanatic of computer related issues, I can say, there is no reason for not to use computer for day to day activities.

What we can do is, just analyze all the possibilities and make a positive about technology and use them to enhance the way of our lifestyle.

Early days, if you want to carry a data from one place to another, we’ve used the floppy disks. But, we’ve extremely forget about that floppy thing, these days. Then we used to flash drives so called pen drives to carry our data with us. But, we can’t make sure the presence of the flash drive, everywhere we go. We might forget it to bring to every place we go. With internet, luckily we have given the ability to carry the data such as files and archives everywhere we go. To make yourself available for these facilities all you’ll need to ensure is that the computer you’re “borrowing” has a good browser installed and should have the internet connection. My favourite browser is Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome but, I prefer to use Safari very often.

Today, we are going to look up at some important web applications (web apps), that can make you feel better and give you the ability to use and organize all your data, no matter where you are. That said, web apps can make you truly mobile. It will no longer matter if you forget to bring your flash drive with you. Here is the list of the very best apps that you should know about if you want to have a truly mobile and portable office.

Gmail

Google is the prominent website and search engine. If you want to find anything in the internet, you are just a click away. Google has got several web based apps that help us to improve the interactivity with technology. Gmail is the most state-of-art email service from Google. Gmail has powerful and most wanted features with in it, where you can organize your data the way you want. Using Gmail, not only you can communicate but also, organize your data properly.

Google Docs

Google Docs is the web based office apps, which gives you the ability to handle and organize all your documents and spreadsheets. This service also, allows you to save your files in the servers, and later on you can access those files wherever you go. Even you can ask your colleagues to collaborate in edit or review documents simultaneously.

Google Notebook

This is another innovative approach to the web, Google Notebok offers, you to add text, images and links from web pages without leaving your browser window. You can clip whatever you want from any website as you browse the web. This will help you to make your search process to find a site later on; even you’re not with your own computer.

Google Reader

We have to be well informed with facts not about fakes. There are many sources available on the internet, where you can find latest and factual information about anything and everything you want. Staying tuned with sited which updates facts can give a clear about particular subject. Google Reader , keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email. You can even share your favourite sites’ update with the world. RSS is the technology works with behind this reader. Give it a shot, its really useful and efficient way of knowing things as it happens.

Zoho

This is somewhat similar to Google Apps but, it has plenty of advanced features than Google. Zoho offers diverse of apps, it has offerings for invoicing, databases, project management and even a wiki. “Work. Online” is the slogan of Zoho, which states what is Zoho is all about. Having access to this Zoho you can organize the data and make your day pleasant, anywhere in the world.

Remember The Milk

Remember The Milk is a nice task- and time-management web app, which will never make you to forget the milk. Making your to do list online and stick on it and doing things properly makes you feel better than ever. Remember The Milk got all the power you’ll need to make your task management system work in a web-based setting. Next time never forget your milk or anything.

Blinksale

When it comes to business, we all need to make invoice and transaction. Blinksale is a web app to send invoices via net. Managing your invoicing and your money is a painful necessity for not just workers, but practically everyone. Its makes your life easier, “Blinksale rocks” – Paypal has recommended this site too.

WordPress and Blogger

This is a blogging service where you can log your day today activities, it’s an online journal. Make yourself heard to the entire world is very easy with WordPress or Blogger. Keeping a journal yourself is very important for your productivity; WordPress also, allows you to blog whatever you want privately or publicly. Why not! Express yourself. Share your interests with the people you care about and interact with them by having your say. It’s easy and fantastic. I love it a lot.

Twitter

This is how the Twitter site says about it, “Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”. Yes, in deed it’s the best way to get connected with people no matter where you are. Even you can use your mobile phone SMS to update your Twitter status. Its very interesting!

Meebo

This is a web based  instant messenger, which enables you to chat with your buddies across multiple IM services without installing a thing using the Meebo web-based chat client. Great for folks in IT lockdown, Meebo lets you log in and chat with buddies on AIM, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, and Jabber/GTalk. You can have your all buddies at one place. Sounds great, right?

That’s it. But all the above mentioned services are for gratis! Yeah man… Its free. You can use it and access it anywhere in the world. There are more and more web apps are out there but these apps might have the potential of giving you the right thing and boost your life style. You can even find many web apps by googling for “web apps”. Hope this list will give you an idea about how you can make your day with turbo powered web apps. Happy hacking!

This new release included several improvements and really breath taking and most wanted features for the WordPress community. I just download the latest version and while setting the server upload session to my NIRAM.ORG, I am writing this post just to tell that WordPress on the go! Hope the improvements will help to enhance the way of interaction of the people who intend to make web a friendly virtual place.

Matt on WordPress says,

I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

These are the some of improvements and features that new release hold.

• Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits
• Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web
• Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging
• Theme Previews: See it before your audience does

There are more and more features there, you can experience them. Feel happy about the new release and now you can also, experience some great features here in WordPress.com blogs as well. Posting caption under the images and post the gallery in a post are some of the features that you can have here in WordPress.com free blogs. Hope to here from you about what do you think about this new release and new features?

Update: Wordpress 2.7 version has been released on December 2008 and it has more advantage features. However, the WordPress team has started to roll out the 2.8 version and now they prioritizing the features to be added in upcoming version. WordPress Rocks as always.. (23-01-09)