Gmail update, tabs, a cool feature!

Good news!

Gmail has introduced a new tab system to categorize emails. Before all the emails containing conversations, notifications, updates etc. were filling our inbox. Decluttering and making folders for categorizing them, required a lot of time. I experienced this problem when I joined G+. All the G+ notifications were pouring into inbox making it difficult to find other important messages.

Thanks, Google, we now have the tabs in place. They have introduced this feature very recently.

The tabs are   PRIMARY          SOCIAL            PROMOTIONS           UPDATES      FORUMS      
By default, the first three are present when we open the Gmail inbox. There is a + sign after the PROMOTIONS tab, clicking it will open a window through which we can add the last two tabs if needed. Easy...!

PRIMARY - Person to person conversations.

SOCIAL - Messages from social networks, media-sharing sites, online dating sites etc. G+ notifications will go here.

PROMOTIONS - Deals, offers, and other marketing emails.

UPDATES - Personal, auto-generated updates like confirmations, receipts, bills etc.

FORUMS -  Messages from online groups, discussion groups, mailing lists.

Cool feature! One of the best!

Thanks ...Google! 

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Google plus comments, make them bold or in italics!

You all might have noticed me writing comments on Google plus making text fonts bold, in italics, combined or strikethrough.  

How did I do it?

• To make the text bold, I typed Asterix first and then the text I wanted and at the end, again I typed one more Asterix in the comment box. Then I clicked Post comment.  

For eg :   *This picture is awesome.*

You will see the comment saved like this with text in bold - This picture is awesome.

• To write the text in italics I typed _ (underscore, pressed shift and then pressed - ) first and then typed the text I wanted and finally at the end, again the same _ was typed in the comment box. Then I clicked Post comment.

For eg: _This picture is awesome._

The comment will be saved like this with text in italics.    This picture is awesome.

• Now, I will show you how I combined both ie bold and italics together. 

                *_This picture is awesome._*

After clicking Post comment, the comment will look like this.  This picture is awesome. 

• Next, how to strike through? 

Easy, first I typed a minus - then typed the text and then again a minus  - and clicked Post comment. the text will be seen strikethrough.

  -This picture is awesome.-      This picture is awesome.

One important thing to note - do not add a space after the Asterix, underscore and minus. 

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