Gmail’s New Sign-in Page: Preview it

 

Google is redesigning Sign-in page for Gmail and for other products Google Docs and YouTube services, this is part of redesign of Google products with launch of Google+. If you land into Gmail homepage you’ll find a link(like the above image) at the bottom to preview Gmail’s new sign-in page. Once you click it, you’ll be switched to new sign-in page and it will become your default sign-in page across all Google products that currently have new design enabled. 

You can also switch back to old page by clicking “Back to old page” option at the bottom. If you switch the browsers, the old page might come up again. These design changes shouldn’t affect your bookmarks,  they’ll work same as before at the same URL.

Gmail Calling Now Supports Multiple Calls and Call Waiting features

If you are a regular user used to making call via Google Voice in Gmail but craved additional features, today is your lucky day. Gmail calling now supports multiple calls, call waiting, and hold. 

Now when you’re talking to someone you can put them on hold, accept an incoming call, and switch between the two calls just as you can with a real phone line that has call waiting enabled. Even if you don’t intend to pick up a second line you can still place a current caller on hold to effectively mute the conversation temporarily. Hit up the link below to read more about the new features at the official Gmail blog.

Gmail introducing new email sorting feature

Google has added a new feature to Gmail that makes managing email easier.

The new feature, being rolled out today (I’ve got it already) adds a “move to” menu item, allowing users to both add a label to emails, and archive them at the same time.

While Gmail still doesn’t have folders, or drag and drop, the new option moves the service one step closer; you can now move emails into labels like they were folders in one easy step, where as before the process involved labeling and then separately archiving.

The menu itself has had a refresh, with items easier to read, access, and complimented with shiny new buttons.

A welcome step forward, although in Google recognizing the confusion its labeling system can cause, I still can’t help but think that introducing folders and drag and drop would be a whole lot easier, and logical step forward. One day maybe