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If you have used an email client like Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook, then you know what a message preview pane is. A message preview pane shows the preview of an email message as you click on the message in the list. This feature is very handy and you do not have to open the email messages in separate windows. Now Gmail has also added this feature to their web based interface. This feature, called Preview Pane, is presently available from Gmail Labs.

Gmail has become the most popular free email service from Google. Millions of people use it everyday through the web interface (mail.google.com), POP3 and IMAP access on various devices. When you open the Gmail web site in a browser, it displays fifty conversations (email messages) per page by default. The fifty email messages displayed per page may not be enough for everyone. If you want to increase the number of email messages displayed, you can increase them to hundred.

It would be so much better if someone would send you an email reminding you of various things you have to do in time. Just imagine, you get an email on your marriage anniversary telling you to buy flowers for your wife; or you get an email on Monday that you have to see your dentist in the afternoon. Well, nobody is going to send you email reminders but you can use the free Nudgemail service to set email reminders for yourself.

You can bookmark the sites you visit very often and open them later from the bookmarks list without having to type in the URL. But Google Chrome offers an even faster and easily accessible way to open sites – Application Shortcuts. You can create application shortcuts to web sites that you regularly visit. These shortcuts can be placed on your computer desktop, pinned to the taskbar and the Start Menu for quick and easy access.

Cloud computing is becoming norm very fast. You do not really need any office software like Open Office, Libre Office or Microsoft Office installed on your PC. Instead you can use free Google Docs to create, edit, save and print all kinds of documents. But sometimes you need to work on a document using an offline computer using the traditional office software. For situations like this, you can download your documents from Google Docs and save them to your hard disk.

Everything is cool about Google+ except possibly for one thing, they notify you each and every time someone mentions you in their stream post. If you have lots of people in your circles, then it can become a serious problem, your email account would be bombarded with Google+ notifications. If you do not like so many emails or SMS coming from Google+ when someone mentions you in their post, you can disable Google+ notifications.

If you are a busy person and cannot handle all your emails by yourself, then you can seek the help of others like your spouse or secretary so that they can read, send and delete emails on your behalf. You do not have to tell them your Gmail password for doing so, just delegate access to your Gmail account to their Gmail account. This way they can read, send and delete messages but cannot alter password or any other Gmail settings for your account.

If you have become addicted to Google+ by now, it is high time that you connect your other accounts like facebook, twitter, Yahoo! etc., to your Google+ account. By connecting them to your Google+ account, you can see in your Google+ profile relevant content that your friends share on the web on facebook or twitter. For example, if you like Lady Gaga on facebook, then after connecting facebook to your Google+, you would be shown suggested Lady Gaga profile to add to your circles in Google+ page.