Where are you? Your Gmail knows.

The people over at Google Labs have certainly been busy these days. In addition to Google Latitude, Google Earth (to name just a couple), your Gmail account can now tell everyone where you are emailing them from. Traveling to New York and want to keep everyone updated on your location? It is as easy as enabling the feature (see steps below), and then Google determines your location based on the IP address. It is not completely accurate yet, but seems to work fairly well. To get a more accurate location detection, make sure your browser has a version of Gears installed that supports the location module.

Steps:

• Go to Setting –> Labs tab and locate “Location in Signature”.
• Select “Enable” and then click “Save Changes”.
• Go to Setting –> General tab,  locate ”Signature”.
• Check “Append your location to the signature” and then “Save Changes”.

See…simple! Don’t want someone to know where you are? Just disable the option or delete your location in individual emails.

[Via Official Gmail blog]