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The Indian Government is going to ask many online services and telecom operators to ensure that the data going through their networks be made available to security agencies.

In past, users were allowed to enter any email address to forward their all emails to that address – but now Google has made it compulsory to verify the target email address first.

Gmail has introduced a really awesome feature, which allows users to drag and drop attachment files. Users can drag and drop any file from their computer to the attachment box of the Gmail’s email composing interface to attach it with the email.

Gmail.com has integrated another security feature, which detects suspicious account activities and alerts users about this.

Google wave gadget for note management tool Evernote. Also works with Gmail, iGoogle etc.

Use Google Tasks as a standalone application.

Want to add a random link from your favorite blog or RSS feeds to your outgoing Gmail mails?

Google recently added a new feature to reset your Google account password – now you can reset your password by SMS.

You may know a very interesting fact about your Gmail email address : you can use your regular email address as username@gmail.com and also username@googlemail.com. But, Gmail has many more options for you.

Bookmarklets are easier to use and I prefer them over browser add-ons.  Here are five suggested bookmarklets  you should have.

Gmail has some cool features and Search Mail is just one of them. This tool is another way to use Gmail as a power user. The mail search is blessed with some great operators, which will certainly increase your efficiency in dealing with e-mails.

As Gmail launched its support for Gears, I stopped using Thunderbird. But recently I read the experience of Mala Bhargava – who faced an unusual problem with Gmail log-in and now I have decided to always backup my Gmail account. As like everyone else, I too use Gmail for saving some critical personal details.

I love the Gmail tab of my browser. It has everything essential – emails, gtalk, task manager, Links to favorite tools etc. I love chatting with friends using the browser version of gtalk and that is why I haven’t even installed the stand-alone gtalk client. And now, here is cool Gmail gadget for Twitter – which enables me not just to read updates of friends, but also posting and other usual features of a twapp.

Jon has developed a wonderful Greasemonkey script  which adds the Gravatar of the person, the email was from, to Gmail when reading an individual message.

Gmail has a labs feature Tasks, which adds a to-do list to Gmail Window. gTask sidebar is a firefox add-on which will bring this task list in the  sidebar of Firefox.

Frank Watson has noticed a change in the top search box of Gmail. The Search option is missing “Search Web” button!

Mini Feed Reader is a Gmail gadget, by which you can read any RSS feed right in your Gmail window. You can get updates from your favorite blogs, Twitter etc.
To use this gadget, you need to enable the option “Add any gadget by URL” in the Labs tab of your Gmail settings.

Now, you can find a new tab “gadget” in the setting panel. Add the following URL to get this gadget :
http://gad.getpla.net/feed/reader.xml
After adding this gadget, you can find it on the left navigation panel of your Gmail window.
You can change …