Uploading and exporting: Play your video files in Google Docs

Once you've uploaded your video to Google Docs, you can watch it with the Google Docs video player. Simply click the file from your Documents List, and the player opens in a new page.
Files that you can play
Uploaded video files can be up to 1 GB. These are the most common video formats that you can upload and play:

• WebM files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec)
• .MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec)
• .AVI (many cameras use this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM)
• .MPEGPS (MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio)
• .WMV
• .FLV (Adobe - FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)

Tips and notes

• Upload your video in the original format and in the highest quality possible. The maximum resolution for playback is 1920x1080.
• Audio and video lengths should be the same, audio and video should start and end at the same time.

How to play a video and find information about the file
Just click a video file you've uploaded to your Documents List, and the video opens in a new page that includes a video player. You will need to have Flash installed for the video player to work.
On the page that opens, you can also find additional information about the file, including the owner, whether the file is shared or not, and when the file was uploaded. You can also download previous versions of the file, but you can’t view these versions in the player. If you'd like to play one of the older versions, you need to delete the more recent versions and wait for it to be processed.
Error messages
Below are some error messages you might see while trying to watch an uploaded video, and some possible solutions.

The video is not yet processed.	Please try opening the file again later.
Unable to process this video.	The video file might be corrupted, or the video has been uploaded in a format that doesn't work with the player. Please either choose a different format or try uploading the video again.

Top 10 Gmail Labs You Must Enable

As if Gmail wasn’t powerful enough, you can find all sorts of goodies and extra features in Gmail Labs. The list is pretty massive, so we’ve narrowed down our 10 favourite labs to help increase your email productivity.

We’ve actually gone through our 10 favourite labs before, back when Labs was a bit younger. Now, many of those features are part of Gmail itself, so we’ve decided to revisit the labs and see what else Gmail has cooked up. To access these features in Gmail, just hit the green flask icon next to “Settings” in the Gmail web interface.

10. Undo Send

We’ve all been there: you spend half an hour writing a strongly worded letter, hit send, and realise you probably shouldn’t have done that. Thankfully, Gmail Labs’ Undo Send feature is thereto save you from yourself. After sending an email, Gmail will wait a predefined number of seconds (5, 10, 20, or 30, configurable in Gmail’s settings) before sending—at any point during which you can hit the “undo” button to take back your mistake. Even if you don’t foresee needing it, it’s a heck of a lot better than yanking out your Ethernet cable, so you might as well keep it around just in case.

9. Advanced IMAP Controls

If you like Gmail but use a separate mail client like Thunderbird or Mail.app to access it, you’ve probably had a bit of confusion with Gmail’s IMAP implementation. Labels are now folders, some folders you didn’t even know existed, and there are multiple copies of messages everywhere. If you access Gmail via IMAP, you’ll definitely want to enable Advanced IMAP controls, which let you select which labels actually show up in your mail client. Once enabled, you can access its settings from the Labels tab of Gmail’s settings. Even if you don’t regularly use a mail client to get your mail, it’s pretty useful to have it ready when Gmail goes down for awhile.