Gmail Unveils Preview Pane: Browse Emails While You Reply to Them

Gmail is taking a few cues from its tablet apps with Preview Pane, Google’s newest Gmail Labs feature.

Preview Pane, which is now available in Gmail Labs, allows users to simultaneously preview parts of an email while reading or replying to others. Users of Gmail for iPad or Android will instantly recognize the interface — its design is directly inspired by the email service’s mobile web apps.

Activating Preview Pane opens up a three-window panel for Gmail, with the Preview Pane in between the navigation and email panes. Activating the horizontal split places the preview pane at the top and emails below the preview pane. Users can change pane settings with a button that appears on the top right corner of Gmail.Google‘s Official Gmail Blog suggests that users with higher-resolution screens will get the most out of the feature.

The concept of a Preview Pane sounds intriguing, but my initial tests lead me to conclude it’s a clunky and incomplete product. It breaks up my Gmail Labels in a way that keeps them from lining up with Gmail’s navigation pane, leading to a ugly and cluttered look. The standard two-pane system is cleaner, although you probably can get through more emails with Preview Pane activated.

Will you be switching to Preview Pane? Test it out and let us know what you think of it in the comments.

How to See Gmail, Calendar Notifications on New Google+ Bar

Since the launch of Google+, we have been sharing lot of tips and tricks with users so they can enhance their experience with the new Social networking portal by Google. We have shared articles on how to import your photos or Contacts from Facebook to Google+, At the same time we also posted an article sharing shortcuts and How to get Facebook stream inside Google+
Today we are going to show one very important trick to enhance your Google+ experience. As a Google user we all are using gmail, Google reader, Google calendar, Google Docs etc. but opening each one of site to check is not a good idea.
Ryan Conrad has created an awesome Google Chrome extension which can be used as a notifier bar for all Google applications while you are browing any Google website including Google+ pages. Once you have installed the extensions and the script as explained below, you will see number a number after every Google link shown on the new black bar which will notify you if you have any email unread or unread items in reader etc. See the screenshot below.

Steps to install Google+ Enhancer Mod with TamperMonkey.

1. Install Tampermonkey Chrome extension from Google Chrome webstore – Tampermonkey
2. Once Installed Tampermonkey, Go to the following link and click install on the top right hand corner this will install Google+ Enhancer Mod script – Google+ Enhancer Mod Script from userscripts.org
3. Restart your chrome browser and now you can see the unread items icon on the top Google bar while browsing any Google site.

click here for extension