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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!

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Emoticons have been introduced in GMail recently. Now you can compose mails with rich set of emoticons collection given in the compose panel.

The emoticons have been categorized under two categories Rounded and Square emoticons.

One more cool feature added in GMail.

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GMail introduced a new feature called GMail Labs.

This has a collection of GMail features for experimental purpose. This means that you can enable/disable any of the features listed in GMail Labs.

At present there 16 features available now and GMail teams says that this list will grow.

To experience GMail Labs, go to your GMail->Settings->Labs tab and enable the feature you want to use/experiment. Once you enable any of the features, you will find a new icon on the top, as shown in the picture, which will then directly take you to GMail Labs.

Start experiencing a GMail Labs feature before it goes on LIVE.

We all know that Google provides shortcuts for most of the actions in GMail and Google Reader.

For example, GMail provide shortcuts like,

• c – Compose
• /- Search
• r – Reply
• f - Forward

These shortcuts can be found here GMail Shortcuts and Google Reader Shortcuts. But while composing some mail, we can’t always visit this link to find a shortcut. I feel that it is difficult.

So what is the easy solution for this? Google gives an easier way to find keyboard shortcuts.

? Key is the solution for this.

Yes, you can get Google Keyboard shortcuts by pressing ? key in your keyboard.

Login to GMail or Google Reader and press ? key in the keyboard. You will get all keyboard shortcuts like below.

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The images given above are taken from GMail and Google Reader.

Simple,  isn’t? So, start using ? key to get familiarised with Google Shortcuts.