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Version 2.0. Posted by Matthew Izatt, Product Manager Six months ago, our team set out to completely rebuild the Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to give you you a faster, sleeker, and easier experience on iOS. The result? Version 2.0. With version 2.0 of the app, you'll get a totally new look and feel, plus a bunch of improvements like profile pictures in messages, numerous new animations from swivels to transitions and infinite scrolling in the message lists. The app also adds many new time-saving features. For example, when you search, autocomplete predictions will appear as you type, shaving off precious seconds (and typos). Last, but certainly not least, we've added a feature many of you have been waiting for: multiple account support. You can download the app right now from the App Store.

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Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS. When you have a question, finding the answer should be effortless—wherever you are and whatever device you’re using. The new Google Search app for iPhone and iPad helps you to do just that with enhanced voice search that answers any question with the comprehensive Google search results you know and love. Fast and accurate voice recognition technology enables Google to understand exactly what you’re saying.

Getting an answer is as simple as tapping on the microphone icon and asking a question like, “Is United Airlines flight 318 on time?” Your words appear as you speak, you get your answer immediately and—if it’s short and quick, like the status and departure time of your flight—Google tells you the answer aloud. You can get answers to an increasingly wide variety of questions thanks to Knowledge Graph, which gives our search technology an understanding of people, places and things in the real world. Here are a few of the questions that Google can answer: Introducing the new compose in Gmail. Posted by Phil Sharp, Product Manager We're always trying to make Gmail faster and easier to use, so today we're introducing a completely redesigned compose and reply experience that does just that. Faster How many times have you been writing an email and had to reference something in another message? Saving a draft, opening the old email, and then reopening your draft wastes valuable minutes.

The new compose pops up in a window, just like chats (only larger). This makes it easy to reference any other emails without ever having to close your draft. You can even do a search or keep an eye on new mail as it comes in. And because the compose window works the same way as chats, you can write multiple messages at once and minimize a message to finish it later.

Easier to use The new compose is designed to let you focus on what's important: your message. You’ll also see these same changes when you respond to a message. We're rolling out a preview of the new compose and reply today. Wait, DevTools could do THAT? There is an entire performance talk in the above waterfall.. Fast TTFB for page header, but (very) slow body render Document parser doesn't wait, schedules the CSS The CSS is queued, waiting for first byte for over 1s! PreloadScanner can fetch resources while parser is blocked (early flush example) "You get used to it. I don't even see the waterfall. Editorial Calendar Google Docs Template and Script. I recently had the opportunity to return to Pubcon in Las Vegas and join an incredible panel on creating a content team. Fellow panel members, Christina Zila, Arnie Kuenn and Alison Zarrella, moderated by Dana Lookadoo, shared a tremendous amount of information on how to create consistent, quality content.

You can read a synopsis of my presentation, or view the slide deck. However, the point of this short post is to share the simple script that might help some of you that have grassroots content teams in place. Here is a simple script, created by friend and teammate Martin Bowling, to help you automatically send items from your Google Docs spreadsheet to your content team shared Google Calendar. Simply visit the Google Doc, make a copy of it for yourself, and take a quick look at the short video to get you started. Let us know what you think.