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 ...

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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 ...

Google just added a long-desired lab feature to Gmail: a preview window. Now Gmail can operate in a paned, widesceen-style view similar to Microsoft Outlook and the new Apple Mail. If you like having ...

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 ...

Windows 7: The preview pane in Windows Explorer for Windows 7 is much better than the version in Vista (with built-in support for more file types), and it has a handy keyboard shortcut: ALT+P. You can ...