gmail archives
Gmail is now skinnable. It hasn’t been rolled out to GAFMD accounts yet, but looks like it’s available to all standard users. Most of the themes are actually pretty nice; although I won’t see them much as I rarely use a web-client for email. For when I do though, these are some nice new options. The best change is simply how they tightened up the interface. They don’t provide the option of creating your own yet. I wish the themes persisted across the other apps (calendar, docs, etc).
The reason web applications should never break the back button in the browser. For the first month of using Gmail, this was my number one gripe. I eventually got over it, but it took a concerted effort.