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Yet more Gmail Labs features arrive in your email account today: the ability to relocate your labels list and Gmail chat box to the right of your inbox instead of the left. If you’ve got a widescreen monitor and a long buddy list and/or label list like the developer, this relocation could cut down on scrolling time to get to your labels or chat. Hit the Labs tab in your Gmail account’s Settings area to enable these and any of the other 22 experimental features now available.

The developers on the Gmail team add a new feature to Gmail Labs: a forgotten attachment detector. With the experimental feature enabled, if you mention an attachment in your email and hit send without actually attaching a file, you’ll get a pop-up message asking if you meant to send without the file. This new feature supplants the Attachment Reminder script in Better Gmail, though the words the reminder used as triggers were configurable, and these are not. (In fact, I haven’t tested the Gmail Labs version in languages other than English.)

My initial test show that it works sometimes—an attachment-free message that read “File’s attached!” didn’t trigger a confirmation dialog, but the words “See attached file” did. The Gmail Labs developers are busy these days, with this following on the heels of a half dozen others in the past week.