COMPUTER WORLD

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All about Gtalk

Shortcuts

    * CTRL + Mousewheel up/down over input textbox: Change the font size of the textbox.

    * F9: Open Gmail to send an email to your friend
    * F11: Start a call with your friend
    * F12: Stop the current call
    * ESC: Close the current window
    * ALT + ESC: Minimize the current window
    * TAB: Switch between multiple chat windows
    * CTRL + I: Same as TAB
    * SHIFT + TAB: Same as TAB but in reverse order
    * CTRL + TAB: Same as SHIFT + TAB
    * Windows + ESC: Open Google Talk (if it’s minimized, or in the tray)

Conversation Text

    * A message can be 32767 characters long.
    * Certain smileys are recognized by Google Talk and will be shown in blue.
      :-| :-O :-x :-P :-D ;-) :-( :| :O :x :P :D :) :( ;-| ;-O ;-x ;-P ;-D ;-) ;-( ;| ;O ;x ;P ;D ;) ;( B-| B-O B-x B-P B-D B-) B-( B’( BO Bx BD B) B( B) And you can put a ‘ between the characters to get another one shown in blue.
    * To write text in bold, put it between *asteriks*
    * To write text in italic, put it between _underscores_
    * You can insert special characters like ??? with ‘Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Character Maps’.


Conversation Window

    * Drag a conversation window on top of another and they will dock together.
    * Drag a file onto the chat history and you’ll send the file to the selected contact.
    * When you see a message notification, you can right click it to close it without focusing the conversation window.


Conference Calls

    * What you need to do to have conference calls: Open up a copy of Google Talk on all computers with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of it add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex. Open 2 instances of the software on every user’s computer. After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone.

Nickname & Status Message

    * You can change your name in the Google Account page.
      or To change the nickname need to go to your Gmail account and change the name there. Choose Settings, Accounts, and then Edit info. Click on the second radio button, and enter your custom name.
      As a result all of your emails will have that nick as well, there is no way to seperate the two.
    * You can add a website in your custom message, it will be clickable when someone opens a conversation window with you.

Contacts

    * You don’t need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this).
    * The Gmail account ‘user@gmail.com’ can’t be invited as your friend.

Sound & Video

    * It’s possible to broadcast music, MP3, etc.. through Google Talk.
      Unplug your microphone. Double click on the speaker icon in the lower right corner. This will open
      up “Volume Control”. Select “Options” and then “Properties”. Then check the button
      next to “Recording” then click OK. You may also have to change your setting under
      Mixer Device. Now the Recording Control screen should be up. On my computer I selected “Wave Out Mix”. Click on the green phone in Google Talk and call your friend.

Secret Startup Parameters

    * /nomutex: allows you to open more than one instance of Google Talk
    * /autostart: when Google Talk is run with this parameter, it will check the registry settings to see if it needs to be started or not. If the “Start automatically with Windows” option is unchecked, it won’t start.
    * /forcestart: same as /autostart, but forces it to start no matter what option was set.
    * /S upgrade: Used when upgrading Google Talk
    * /register: registers Google Talk in the registry, includig the GMail Compose method.
    * /checkupdate: check for newer versions
    * /plaintextauth: uses plain authentication mechanism instead then Google’s GAIA mechanism. Used for testing the plain method on Google’s servers.
    * /nogaiaauth: disables GAIA authentication method. The same as above.
    * /factoryreset: set settings back to default.
    * /gaiaserver servername.com: uses a different GAIA server to connect to Google Talk. Used for debug purposes only, there are no other known GAIA servers.
    * /mailto email@host.com: send an email with Gmail
    * /diag: start Google Talk in diagnostic mode
    * /log: probably has something to do with the diagnostic logging
    * /unregister: ?
    * /embedding: ?

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An exciting new feature has been added to Gmail Labs is “Location in Signature”. Just enable this lab feature and Gmail will automatically append your current location (the city and the country name) to your Gmail signature, like this:
Note that this feature uses public IP  address to identify your current location, so it may be inaccurate sometimes or may slightly vary.

Here is the step by step procedure to turn on this feature-

   1. Log into your Gmail inbox.
   2. Go to Settings -> Labs and scroll down a bit to locate the “Location in Signature” feature.
   3. Check the Enable radio button to enable this feature and click on save changes.
   4.   Now go to Settings -> General and go to the signature settings. Check Append your       location

That’s it. Now your signature will always contain your current location. As this feature uses your IP address, guess you must have understood how exactly this feature works. It tracks the location of your IP and appends the same location as your “location signature” and hence, as said earlier, your location may vary slightly.

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GMail introduced a new feature recently, that is browsing mails offline.

Today we are going to see how to do that.

First you need to install Google Gears, you can download the online installer from here
http://gears.google.com/

Run the online installer and it will install Google Gears on your system.

Now open your GMail and navigate to the settings and then to the Labs tab, there you will find a feature called offline, Enable that.

Thats it you are almost done, just a few clicks away. It will ask your permission to install offline access for GMail, click next.Then you get a Google Gears security warning, allow it.Click ok in the next window and you are done.It will download all your mails to your hard drive for offline browsing. You can see the status in the status window.

Have fun browsing gamil offline.

DART for Advertisers (DoubleClick)
http://www.doubleclick.com/products/dfa/index.aspx

DART for Publishers (DoubleClick)
http://www.google.com/support/dfp/

Dashboard
http://google.com/dashboard

Dashboard Widgets (Mac)
http://www.google.com/macwidgets/index.html

Data Liberation Front
http://www.dataliberation.org/

Data Protocol
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/

Desktop
http://desktop.google.com/

Developer Day (Events)
http://code.google.com/events/developerday/

Developers (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers

Dictionary
http://www.google.com/dictionary

Dictionary (Search)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define+googol&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1

Directory
http://directory.google.com/


Display Ad Builder
http://www.google.com/adwords/displayadbuilder/

Doc Reader
http://code.google.com/docreader/

Docs
http://docs.google.com

Dodgeball
http://www.dodgeball.com/

Domain Registration
http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

DoubleClick Ad Exchange
http://www.doubleclick.com/products/advertisingexchange/index.aspx

Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/

Catalog Search
http://catalogs.google.com/

Chart API
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

Checkout
http://checkout.google.com/


China Music Home
http://www.google.cn/music/homepage

China Pinyin Input
http://www.google.com/ime/pinyin/

China Web Links
http://www.265.com/

Chrome (browser)
http://www.google.com/chrome

Chrome Comicbook
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html

Chrome Experiments (Demos)
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/

Chrome Frame (for IE)
http://www.google.com/chromeframe

Chromium (Browser Source)
http://www.chromium.org/Home

Chromium OS
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os


Citizen Tube
http://www.citizentube.com/

City Tours
http://citytours.googlelabs.com/

Closure Compiler (JavaScript)
http://code.google.com/closure/compiler

Closure Library (JavaScript)
http://code.google.com/closure/library

Code
http://code.google.com/

Code Jam (Contest)
http://code.google.com/codejam/

Code Labs
http://code.google.com/labs/

Code Playground
http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/

Code Review (Reitveld)
http://codereview.appspot.com/

Code Search
http://www.google.com/codesearch

Commerce Search
http://www.google.com/commercesearch/

Contacts
http://www.google.com/contacts

Corporate Information
http://www.google.com/corporate/

Coupons
http://code.google.com/apis/coupons/

Currency Conversion (Search)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1+USD+in+EURO&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g2

Custom Search Engine (“Co-op”)
http://www.google.com/cse/

Base (Product Search)
http://www.google.com/base/

Blog (Official)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com

Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/

Blogger
http://www.blogger.com/

Book Search
http://books.google.com/

Book Settlement
http://www.googlebooksettlement.com/

Bookmarks
http://www.google.com/bookmarks

Books – Library Partners
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/partners.html

Books – Partner Program (Publishers)
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/book_search_tour/

Browser Synch (Firefox)
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/

Building Maker
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwh/buildingmaker.html

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Similar trick I have posted before that how to us the Google as Calculator Follow the steps given below
1.Go to the page www.Google.com
2.Type mathematical operations on the google’s Search box.
3.It gives the result of calculation. Here Google work as calculator you can do any calculation here.
4.Demo in the form of screen shots is given below:

Powerful trick for Google search engine. To use Google as Dictionary follow the steps given below
1. Go to the Google page: www.Google.com
2. Type the word Define: “type term which definition you want”
3. Google gives the lot of results of definition term.
Screen shots of Demo Given below:

Keyword Site:

this query filter the Google search result to the specific Domain.
This trick allows you to use Google search engine as for specific site i.e. the resultant links given by the Google restricted to given domain only. Syntax to use this query is

Site: “site address” the word which you want to search.
Example: I want to search information about the windows 7 operating system only on the Microsoft’s authorized site www.microsoft.com
Query is: Site: Microsoft.com windows 7

Keyword Intitle:

Intitle keyword gives the result of text given in the title of web pages.
If you want to search documents having a keyword “Red Hat Linux” in the title of document the simply type a query intitle: Red hat Linux and fire a query by pushing Google search button.

Keyword Filetype:

Google allow you to search special file types such as .Doc, .xls, .ppt, .rtf, .ps, .pdf etc. I will give you a simple example:
If you want to find the pdf files which having the word “Java programming” follows steps given below:
1.Go to the www.google .com
2.Write the query in the Google search box filetype:pdf Java programming.
3.Google gives the millions of links of files having extension .pdf. containing word Java programming.