Google, clearly feeling a little jumpy having not announced any new products for a few weeks, have pulled out the stops and announced two quite interesting ones in a single day.
Firstly, the gmail team are about to add themes to the web-interface of their wildly popular and economically brilliant email service. Whilst various hacks and lab extensions have been available to improve / augment / complicate the user-experience for some time, this is the first time that Google themselves have rolled up their sleeves and done something with the surface of the app. Now you can enjoy ‘retro notepads’, weather themes that ‘rain on your inbox’ and most worryingly ‘fun characters’ whilst you wait for it to come out of beta.
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