Nov

Gmail Themes Adds A Lil’ Something

Rai

customize, feature, gmail, igoogle, personalize, teahouse, themes

I am a simple person who requires no less than a simple layout for my mailbox. I would rather shy away from frills and lace and candies that adorn my mailbox or workspace, unless I want to induce a massive headache. A headache that would make me visit the office clinic to get a written note to allow to me to go home and rest. Ah, that would be nice thing to do tomorrow…

Anyway, Gmail has a new feature which allows you to customize the way your mailbox looks. I suppose this is not yet available to all users as of this writing, but I am sure it will be. The themes are available in your Settings Panel in Gmail, under the Themes tab.

I personally prefer the the Teahouse Theme, which dynamically changes based on time of the day. You can actually see the little fox do his chores around the dojo, depending on the time. He is picking sunflowers as I write this. And he is so cute. Kawaii! Some of the themes are also the same themes that can be found in customizing your iGoogle page.

One thing I noticed is that the themes are not yet customizable, like how we customize our Friendster and MySpace profile. Maybe Google has plans of doing it.

No, I do not have a headache – yet. My head is still perfectly fine. And I love my theme. I would probably use this forever.