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Gmail got some nice UI improvements, actually it got little more intelligent. These are the stuff I managed to see as new.

• Chat can now be Turned On/Off (It use to reload page completely in previous version)
• Your view-page is updated in the URL (You can now bookmark a particular mail or view)
• Class name of div containing ads is changed and ID of the div is dynamic (Now, good old greasemonkey script to hide ads doesn’t work) I didn’t try to modify my old script as there is still an option for Older version on the top. I could be wrong completely as I didn’t give much time analyzing it
• New skin detects Firebug and asks you to disable it/or atleast some features of it
• It’s kinda faster than the older version
• A brand new Contact Manager

Despite above features, I’m going to stick to my old version of Gmail as long as they give me an option to use it. Guess, what makes it so special ? It makes me to check for new mails again and again

Click image on left to see the screenshot of the version I use. For the new version, login to your Gmail.

I’ve take some scripts from userscripts.org and edited them for this particular look. Calibri font looks very smooth. Everything’s so perfect for (my) eyes. If you wanna try that, let me know. I will mail those scripts.

Update: As per /. Google is calling it Gmail 2.0 and you can see the screenshots here

[Just an old news I missed. Posting it here so that you won't miss]

I know many guys who complained that Gmail doesn’t give IMAP. They were complaining when Gmail gave POP for free for its GB inbox when its competitors were giving 5 MB box (one gave 2MB box) with loads of ads on it and POP or bigger boxes for an yearly prices.

According to Download Squad, Google started giving IMAP option from 23rd of this month. Well, not bad, I atleast saw that now, when I went to create a Google Apps account for my 2nd domain.

For the information of non-technical folks out there, IMAP has a bunch of advantages over POP3, check Wikipedia IMAP entry for more information.

By the way, one of my Finnish friends complained that there are some issues with character encoding as it messed up some Finnish characters. I’m pretty much fine with my web-access, so this is of no-use-to-me right now, unless I become completely paranoid and think that Google might close Gmail anytime and I wish to download all my mails down to my desktop.

PS: If you want to use IMAP and don’t see it under settings menu of your Gmail, don’t worry, Google is rolling it out to everyone slowly.