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Now some new features which got added to the labs over some months are as follows.  Enable them today and enjoy the quick functionality boost in Gmail.  Following features will change your Gmail experience entirely:

1. Offline Gmail and Calendar: Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your email. The cache is synchronized with Gmail’s servers when you connected to internet. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer’s hard drive.
2. You tube, Picasa, Flickr & Yelp previews: For our first set, we picked stuff that often shows up in email: YouTube videos, Picasa and Flickr links, and Yelp reviews. Turn on Picasa, Flickr, Youtube and Yelp previews, and rather than having to click on a album, image or video link to see the photos it contains, you can see photos right in the message itself.  Similarly Youtube videos and Yelp reviews right there in Gmail, no need to click any links.
   
3. Message Translation: Simply enable “Message Translation” and when you receive an email in a language other than your own, Gmail will help you translate it into a language you can understand in just one click.
   
4. Sender Time Zone: Turn it on and you’ll see green and red phone icons next to people showing if they would be awake or sleeping in the sender’s local time zone.  Click “show details” and you can see when a message was sent in the sender’s time zone as well as what time it is for them now.
   
5. Quote Selected Text: Just highlight the text you want to include in your reply, hit the keyboard shortcut “r” to reply, and the compose template will be just what you selected!
6. Multiple Inboxes: This is an advanced feature where you can configure what you want to see, as well as set the number of messages displayed and the positioning of your panels from the Multiple Inboxes section under Settings. If you keep going for the same label again and again, then you will really love Multiple Inboxes.
   
7. Gmail Search: You’ll get suggestions as you type in the search box with this feature.
8. Google Search: you’ll see a new search box on the left side of your inbox after enabling this feature.
9. SMS in chat: You can start by just typing a phone number into the search box in the chat window on the left, then select “Send SMS.” You can also select the contact you want to SMS first and then add their phone number. Works only in US.
   
10. Suggest More Recipients: Gmail will suggest people you might want to include based on the groups of people you email most often. So if you always email your mom, dad, and sister together, and you start composing a message to your mom and dad, Gmail will suggest adding your sister.
    
11. Search Auto Complete: Enable this feature and you’ll get suggestions as you type in the search box.
12. Inserting Images: You now can insert images inline with this lab feature, not as an attachment. The images will flow well inline with the text the way you want.
13. Extra Emoji: Enable this feature and get even more Emoticons while composing the message.

Once you enable these Gmail Labs features, your Gmail experience will be something different.  Gmail labs keep releasing such feature every now and then, so I will suggest keeping an eye on that Green flask button in Gmail.  This Green Flask button represents the Lab.

Hope you like this article with some small explanation about these features.  For complete detail I would suggest following the links to Official Gmail Blog.  Thanks again to the Gmail Team for bringing such cool things to the public in their 20% time.