Gmail adds undo-send-email in labs
How many times have you sent an email message and immediately wished you didn't?
Gmail has added a feature that people have been requesting for ages. If you enable the feature (in labs), it adds a 5 second delay to your emails being sent. During the delay, you have the option to undo the email being sent (Awesomeness).
I have to wonder how long it's going to be before other webmail services copy this feature.
Gmail introduces custom themes (awesome)
Gmail has added the ability to edit your own custom theme-colours. Click on settings -> themes -> "Choose your own colors" which then opens a window where you can edit colours. The changes can be saved and seen immediately.
Example:
Use Google Reader to find out rough estimate of RSS subscribers
RSS has been becoming an increasingly popular part of Web-based applications and services. For example, Flickr provides an RSS for your photo-stream and even a user's favourites.
Many webmasters will know just how useful FeedBurner can be to get an accurate picture of their subscribers. Using FeedBurner means that you'll have to display a specific-to-you FeedBurner address so that it can gather statistics (e.g. http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RaminHossaini) You can't really use FeedBurner though for services like Flickr, because you have no real control of what the RSS-feed-address displayed to users on your Flickr page is (unless of course, you're advertising your RSS feed on a website of your own). The "hack" described below could help:
First, start out by subscribing to the RSS feed:
Next, click on the feed to view it then click on the "show details" link in the top-right corner:
You can then see how many people are using Google Reader to subscribe to the RSS feed:
This would obviously only be part of your subscriber-base. If you're happy with just approximating it, have a look at how much of a market share Google Reader has (I've looked at a couple of statistics and it seems to be roughly 60% at the moment) and use that to calculate the unknown number of subscribers.
Google Notebook to Evernote Import-Tool
If you used Google Notebook before and would like to move your notes over to Evernote (before Google Notebook gets completely shut-down), a tool has finally been released to help you out.
Experiment with Google AJAX APIs
Awesome tool for learning how to code for specific Google APIs. If you log-in using your Google account, you can also save your code changes.
Gmail adds themes
The Gmail team have started rolling out theme-functionality. They haven't rolled it out to all users yet, but everyone should have it in a few days.
Go to 'Settings' -> 'Themes', and you'll be able to select a predefined theme.
If you're happy with the default theme - even that has been improved and tweaked slightly. You can also try out the old-school, terminal-style Gmail theme.
Sweet!