Google, on its way to experiment with newer technology has yet again goofed up with some of its Gmail users complaining of unable to sign in, just hours after the new look Gmail was released. Earlier, the first thing many people will see after they sign in to their Gmail accounts is a big balloon tip that says, We’ve pruned our pixels and made it easier to get to Contacts and Tasks

What does this mean? Well, for starters,

-       Mail, Contacts and Tasks have now been moved to the top left of Gmail.

-       Compose Mail is now a button instead of a tatty link.

-       Keyboard shortcuts now work in Contacts too

-       Selecting and grouping contacts is much easier

-       You can now Sort contacts by last name. (Look under More actions for this option)

-       Use custom labels for phone numbers and other fields

-       Manual and bulk contact merge. You can now merge contacts from the More actions menu. Just select the contacts you’d like to merge and select Merge contacts from under the More actions menu. Or, to get a list of suggestions for contacts to merge, select Find and merge duplicates.

These are a few of the things that I really liked about the recent changes and about time I d say. This is nothing revolutionary though, just an evolution of the product to better suit the users needs. So, before all the Google smurfs and fanboys start the ‘I Like’ campaign on FaceBook, Twitter or the dead people’s network, Orkut, yeah, let us know what you think about the new look Gmail.

Although, the system need to absorb it in a better way so that the “valuables” stored in the numerous e-mails accounts doesn’t went to a black hole! The server is shown to be unstable for the moment as it is reported that users are unable to access attachments.