If you’re an Outlook veteran recently exiled to Gmail, the service has recently added a feature that should warm your little heart. It’s called Preview Pane, and it gives Gmail a three-column view ...

Google announced a Labs effort to enable an email preview pane on Thursday, adding a capability that has been in Microsoft Outlook and other Webmail programs for some time. Users can go into the Gmail ...

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In Gmail, clicking on a message opens and expands it so it takes up your entire inbox screen. You then have to close the email to go back to your inbox. This turns checking email into a time-consuming ...

Do you have the preview pane enabled in your inbox? Many of your email recipients use this setting and some even read most of their emails this way. The preview pane is important email real estate, ...

Apple is not the only one taking design inspiration from its hugely popular iPad user interface to create better web-based products. Google is giving tablet user interface design a nod, too, with a ...

The Windows Explorer file management application in Windows 7 includes a preview pane that you can use to view the contents image files and other files on your hard drive. By default, the preview pane ...

Q: I use Outlook Express and take advantage of the preview pane feature so I can quickly view e-mail messages without opening them up in a separate window. Recently I heard that viruses can sneak into ...

Click to zoom: Gmail’s new Preview Pane option shows the contents of an email without leaving your inbox. Just a day after unveiling a variety of upgrades to its mobile Gmail interface, Google took ...