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GMail recently introduced Extra Emoticons through GMail Lab. You can use all the following emoticons now. Have fun!

Are you the one who often use emoticons in your mails? Then you have a great news today from GMail Labs.

Google introduced emoticons on October 2008 through Gmail Labs.

A new release in GMail labs, Extra Emoji, showered with a lots of emoticons.

Below is the list of emoticons released by Extra Emoji.

Using emoticons in mails are always fun and makes the mail better in terms of look and feel.

Enable Extra Emoji from GMail Labs and Have fun!

GMail 5th Anniversary

1 April 2004, the day, GMail was launched to public with 1GB mail box quota. Today, GMail celebrates it’s 5Th anniversary.

GMail BETA was released on 01 Apr 2004 and currently being used by a huge number of people. GMail BETA will be celebrating it’s 5th anniversary on coming 01 April 2009.

If this continues for few more years, no wonder if, GMail would be called as GMail BETA.

Video Chat is one of the important facility which was missing in Google. So far we would have used Skype or Yahoo for Video chatting.

Google now introduced Video Chat in GMail. Yes, this facility has been integrated with GMail and not with GTalk application.

You can install the video chat plugin to avail this feature. This plugin works in all major browsers. I have tested this in Firefox.

This will definitely be a threat to Skype. But still most of us will continue in Skype as it has more options than in Google Video Chat.

The following video demonstrates the GMail Video Chat usage.

Do you concern about unauthorised access to your Google Mail account?

GMail has an in-built solution for this issue.

At the bottom of your GMail page, you will find “Last account activity” followed by “Details”.

Click on “Details” link which will show your recent GMail account access.

From this, you will be able to find out if and when unauthorised agents accessed your mail.

As shown in the above image, you can find “AccessType”, “Date and Time” including the “IP Address”.

If your Google Mail account is currently being accessed from another location, this table will list the other session(s) in the “Concurrent session information” table.

If you find a suspicious or simultaneous access, then you can sign-out all other sessions, except yours from this session window. Then you can make necessary steps by changing the password/security question to avoid unauthorised access.

This is an excellent service provided by GMail. This will help you to protect your GMail account from unauthorised use.

To know more about this service, please visit GMail Help

Google never stopped experimenting new things. GMail Labs is an example for this. As part of this Labs feature, recently GMail introduced two new Labs features.

Google Calendar and Google Docs now can be added into the left side bar in GMail.

If you are using Google Calendar for events/anniversary remainders, then it would be definitely useful for you.

Happy experimenting!