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Gmail had a rough week with its downtime. We talked about that already and here at Marketing Pilgrim, at least, have decided to forgive them – just this once! Maybe as a make good to all of you still steamed about the failure of Google to be perfect you can take comfort in the new themes that have been released for Gmail!
As we ease into a much needed three-day weekend (speaking strictly for myself here but I suspect others can relate) let’s take a look at the pretty new scenes you can look at if your Gmail happens to be working. Just go to settings in your Gmail account to use these and other themes and if you get bored easily set it to Random and Google will make more decisions for you! Thanks to Mashable for the heads up!
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