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For those of you that didn't see it, Google made some changes to Gmail last night. Most of the changes are largely cosmetic. For example, there are now little icons for the reply and forward buttons. Some different shading has been applied to some of the boxes as well.

The little tweak that I like is the replacement of the long list of links in the "more options" part of a mail message. It has been replaced with a little drop-down list in the upper right corner of the message. The "more options" was replaced with "show details," which shows you just the relevant to, from, date and subject, the only things anyone was really looking for in the first place.

This is the only really significant UI tweak they've made in a very long time. I think there might be a little heat from Yahoo and Microsoft on this, both of which have been refining their systems for some time. Of course, all three call it "beta" still, as if there's such a thing as shipping final software on the Web anyway.

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# Traverse | 1/30/2007 7:04 PM

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