Jul 16, 2008 View Comments
Gmail labs: New features for your mail
Enabled superstars for Gmail and then decided that I should make a post to honour this Gmail labs feature. It is an extension of the existing starred conversation feature available in Gmail. To enable the feature, Go to the labs tab of the setting page and enable Superstars as shown below.
Now, everytime you may star a conversation and clicking repeatedly on the star would change the star indicator. By default, there are 5 options which are circled as you click on the star. However, you may enhance the number of stars available by going to Settings -> superstars as shown below. Just click and drag whatever stars you additionally need.
While, you are at it. I would really recommend that you turn on the signature tweaks feature on the labs page. Whenever you forward mail, your signature now appears before the forwarded mail. Now that makes sense. There are other features through, so play around and have fun! I especially loved the one which allows you to have images when you use google chat inside gmail…
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Google also provides encryption and a secure connection to its mail service. To enable this, go to https://mail.google.com instead of http://mail.google.com. Makes your mail checking activity more secure 