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Google Calendar Can Be Displayed in the GMail Sidebar

Do you use GMail and Google Calendar? Are you tired of flipping between tabs to check your appointments when you check your email? You can finally stop grinding your teeth. The long wait for an integrated calendar is over.

When you are in GMail, click on the Settings link in the top right hand corner of the screen. Then click on the Labs tab (which is probably the last one). Scroll down to Google Calendar Gadget and click enable. Your Google Calendar will now be displayed (in a squished format) in the left hand sidebar of GMail, below Labels.

LOTS OF GOOGLE LABS GOODNESS

Google Labs has been adding new features to GMail at a pretty good clip lately. Keep an eye on the Labs tab for new gadgets and improvements. (For instance, have you noticed that you can now add any Google Gadget to GMail?) Do keep in mind that many of these new features are truly beta, and therefore unreliable, and may stop working or may even interfere with your access to GMail at some point.

If a Labs feature breaks your access to GMail, set your browser to

https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0

This will temporarily disable all Google Labs add ons to your account. You’ll then be able to disable the offending app.

If you want to learn more about GMail, you might enjoy the previous post in this series, GMail Reads All Your Mail, which explains how to read and write email from any email account without leaving GMail and GMail Predicts Your Future, which explains how to use GMail’s Canned Responses feature

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Tags: gmail, Google Labs