Google Apps Hacks

118 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

interference with your normal writing, these shortcuts work only when your cursor is outside of

a new email composition box, the search box, or any other input area. However, you can leave an

input eld at any time by hitting the Escape key.

For a complete list of Gmail shortcuts, see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6594. If

you’ve enabled shortcuts in your settings, you can also press the ? key anytime to open a cheat sheet of

available shortcuts, and you can close that sheet with the Escape key.

And in case you’re not satised with all the existing shortcuts, you can also add your own via the

unofcial Gmail Macros Greasemonkey script offered by Google’s Mihai Parparita. The script can be

found at http://blog.persistent.info/2007/11/macros-for-new-version-of-gmail.html. Note as the

Macros hack relies on Greasemonkey , it works only in Firefox.

HaCK 47:

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This hack is for the brave of heart Firefox users who don’t mind

completely overhauling their Gmail interface and functionality—

through the use of a single add-on.

Better Gmail 2 is a Firefox extension that collects an abundance of individual Greasemonkey add-

ons  all under one hood. Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/refox/addon/6076

to download the extension, and restart Firefox. It was developed by Gina Trapani, editor of the

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