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When I loaded the mobile version of Gmail on my iPhone this morning (this is the brilliant solution I came up with to solve the problem of crappy Gmail integration…), I noticed it had been restyled to look and work better on the iphone. The inbox is much cleaner, and allows for easier use with the touch screen. The additional commands at the bottom of the page are also easier to get at without mis-clicking, and the message text is now separated from the header block by a slightly different background color.

These are small changes and probably involved only minor style sheet updates, but it makes the app so much more friendly. Good job, Goog!

Updated: Goog also released a nice style update to the mobile calendar. Details here.

I would love it if someone would create a drag and drop interface to Google Docs for the Mac akin to the Flickr Uploadr. I get Word and Excel documents from a wide variety of sources, and they usually end up on my desktop. I’d love to be able to just drop them on an icon in my dock and have them magically sent to Google, with the option of adding a few tags on the way out. Can someone make that for me? OK, thanks, bye!