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Do you have Gmail? Then you have two email ids

Do you use gmail, the google’s mailing system..IF so you will have 2 mail ids to your credit.When you register at gmail you will get a mail id like yourid@gmail.com In addition to this you will have another mail id yourid@googlemail.com .If anyone sends you a mail to the second address you will receive it in the inbox of yourid@gmail.com .So give it a try

Gmail introduces cool new features

Gmail is introducing cool new features.Here is a list of the latest features

1)Gmail chat integrates AIM® network
Now you can chat with your AIM® friends using an integrated chat list within Gmail.
Gmail chat now has the option to sign in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account to chat with your AIM friends from within Gmail. Your AIM buddies will be shown in your Contacts list, and are searchable just like any of your Google Talk contacts.
To use this feature you will need an AIM account . Gmail uses Open AIM to provide this feature.This will allow users to sign in to AIM from within Gmail

2)Colored labels
Gmail now allows you to organize your emails with colored labels.Yeah thats true you can assign colours to labels to make it look well organized and easy to access.

3)New emoticons
Gmail now introduces smilies or emotions within the Gmail chat.This is the first time gmail includes image smilies or emotions.If you send an emoticon to someone who isn’t using chat in Gmail, the emoticon may not display properly.To use smilies you can either type the appropriate key combination or you can use the blue smiley-face button at the right of the text-entry field.

4)Group Chat
Group chat in gmail is similar to a yahoo conference.The group chat feature lets you chat with many friends at once. There’s no limit to the number of people you can chat with.If you are chatting with someone and wish to ad some friend to join that chat Once you’ve started the chat, click Options at the bottom left of your chat window and select Group Chat and in ‘Add a person to this chat’ field ,enter the name of the contacts you want to add to your group chat.

External Links:What’s new on Gmail?

Valentines Day Special

Create a geeky valentines day gift for your lover..Just see the video and make your cute little present..

Gtalk Multi Login

This trick allows you to use two copies of google talk on the same pc and login to two different gmail accounts..

To do this just right click on a google talk shortcut choose properties and there add a /nomutex at the end of the target.. that is it should lokk something like this..

properties

Now open google talk using this shortcut and login to your account..To login to another account just use the shortcut again.you will get another copy of gtalk where you can login with another account.

Install Yahoo Messenger For Vista In Xp

Impressed and taken away by the looks of Yahoo messenger for Vista??Now you can have the Ymessenger for vista running on your XP machine.

yahoo messenger for vista

Download the pack from any of the links below

Link 1

Link 2

Unzip the downloaded file and launch the “dotnetfx3setup.exe” to install Netframework 3.

After installing this run “Yahoo.Messenger.YmApp.exe” and install it.. you now have the yahoo messenger for vista on your XP machine

Geek’s Notepad

Create a great looking Notepad with your damaged Floppy Disks.. Ye the final product will look real cool and geekish.. Just check out this video tutorial..


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Create an Emergency Lamp from your phone Line

This is the first tricky post on Simply Geek.Check out the video tutorial to grab some free electricity which can power up an emergency light.The phone line is a good source of power and it hardly gets cut off.. The video explains how to use it to power up an emergency lantern..


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