Netbooks are great for quick access to the Net and particularly if you want to check your emails when out and about.
One of the major problems with Netbooks though has got to be their size. Not only can the keyboards be too small for anything but the tiniest of fingers to operate but their screens can be less than generous, typically around 10 inches or less.
This of course can make it pretty uncomfortable to view certain pages. Apart from the fact you have to scroll endlessly to see what’s there, at the same time you may find that you have to squint in order to focus on the text, well on the particularly dinky screens you do anyway.
Now a software engineer from Google has made life a bit easier for Netbook users who happen to use Google’s gmail.
Christopher Semturs noticed that on these low cost ultra portable devices there was often a difficulty displaying the email subject lines in Gmail.
“Some time ago I bought a netbook. It’s perfect in terms of portability, weight and space usage, but the natural drawback is the size of the screen,” he says on the Gmail Blog.
Yes we can all agree with that I’m sure.
“It’s so small that sometimes I find it hard to read the subjects of emails in my inbox.”
Again, that’s a problem that people are likely to come across when using Netbooks so we’re paying attention.
Semturs goes on to explain that there are ways to work around this. For example, you can use Google Chrome’s full screen mode.
However, it has to be said that not every Google mail user is likely to use Chrome. No, Semturs wanted a way to do more than this and he found it.
What he did was create a new Gmail lab feature called “Remove Labels from Subjects” which as the name very appropriately describes, automatically removes the labels from the messages in the inbox leaving more room.
Now all Gmail users have to do to read their email subject lines more easily is to make use of this feature.
To do this you have to go the settings in Gmail, then go to the Labs tab and then find “Remove Labels from Subjects” and simply activate it.
Now that the labels are hidden you have plenty more real estate for viewing the messages’ subjects.
Problem solved.
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