One of the good feature in gmail chat that you may miss will be SMS chat. Frankly speaking I had read an article sometime back in google blog but I have noticed the feature yesterday only. The feature can be enabled from google Lab tab in settings window of gmail. This feature is currently live in US only. After enabling it in the Lab tab follow the steps below.

1. Enter your contact’s name in the ‘Search or invite friends’ box in Chat, and select Send SMS from the box of options that appears to the right of your contact’s name. Or, if you already have a Chat window open for this contact, just click Video & more, and select Send SMS.
2. In the dialog box, enter a phone number in the ‘Send SMS messages to this number’ field. For now, this feature works only on United States phone numbers. If you’re outside the US, you can still use it, but you won’t see the SMS option in Chat until you enable it manually in the Chat settings page.
3. Click Save.
4. A Chat window appears. Just type your message as you would normally. When you hit Enter, the message will be sent to the phone number you entered.

If the recipient respond to that chat message it will be displayed like normal chat. Moreover it will be logged in chat history but the offrecord will not work with this as it is using SMS as the mechanism for chatting.

Another important feature is that every user will get a virtual phone number for sending the reply back.

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Today when I was attaching some of the documents in gmail, I saw a progress bar on selecting the file. Suddenly I tried to check the file upload again. I came to see that multiselect option also enabled for gmail. This is one of the cool feature for me as I attach more than single files in most of my emails. I think most of the business people need this feature. Gmail is a feature rich web application, this app is now one of the addicted application for me. Gmail is using flash uploading mechanism to attain this.

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OpenOBEX is an open source implementation of Object Exchange (OBEX) protocol. This implementation is supported list below.

INFRARED DATA ASSOCIATION ® (IrDA) http://www.irda.org

USB-IF, Inc. http://www.usb.org

Bluetooth(TM) http://www.bluetooth.com

Support for TCP/IP links, file descriptors and custom transports is also provided. This project can be downloaded from OpenObex. Lots of supporting projects are happening based on OpenOBEX. Moreover this is supported with win32 also which increase the scope of the project along with Linux.

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This a true story of mine which depicts the pitfall buying Lenovo Laptop. I brought a Lenovo 3000N200 series Laptop one year back, exactly 21’st Feb 2008 from Dubai Shopping festival for Rs 35, 000. I was very satisfied with their product initially, as it is cost effective with good performance. But after 3 months of working my laptop charger burnt out. I called up the customer care (18004252666) asking for the replacement and they said because it is burnt, they can’t replace it. For me, living without laptop and internet is worst thing in my life. So I decided to purchase new charger and asked their price. It was surprising that the cost is around INR 6000. They said as the charger is burnt out it is my power problem not their fault. I am working at Technopark, around 160 companies are working inside Technopark umbrella. I am sure technopark authorities don’t give any compromise with their power circuitry. Okay let it be my power problem, then the first thing to be burnt should be the fuse of the charger. And the surprising thing is that the fuse was intact. They even forgetting the usefulness of fuse in the charger. For proof check this images.

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Today I am going to explain about Microsoft initiative to experience 360 degree view of your favorite destinations and monuments, The PhotoSynth. This research project enable us to share or relive a vacation destination or explore a distant museum or landmark. With PhotoSynth you can transform your regular digital cam photos to 360 degree view. This is a joint initiative between Microsoft and University of Washington based on the groundbreaking research of Noah Snavely (UW), Steve Seitz (UW),and Richard Szeliski (Microsoft Research).

Photosynth analyzes each photo for similarities to the others, and uses that data to build a model of where the photos were taken. It then re-creates the environment and uses that as a canvas on which to display the photos.

Check out this TED video>> This is amazing.

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When we send a mail from gmail, the mail is enclosed with subjects, mail ids, time stamp of the mail and so on. But there is no option to know where the mails comes from (the location), or from which place the mail sent. But now Gmail activated an option in the Signature to say “Where am I” to the mail recipient. Now Gmail appends the feature to detect your location and appends the city region and country names to your signature, Read the more about entry here.

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Gmail provide functionality to add gadgets to spice up your mailbox. I am going to explain how can you integrate a twitter client in gmail.

Before going to the steps to add twitter client, let me explain a AJAX based twitter client called TwitterGadget. The TwitterGadget is an twitter client which works from a browser with a user defined refreshing interval.

Step 1

Click on the labs icon on the top right of your gmail inbox.

Step 2

Enable gmail add gadget in option.

Check the radio button that shows label “Enable”, and click “Save Changes” button the bottom of the window.

Step 3

Select the gadget tab in the setting page.

Step 4

Enter the URL for twitter gadget and then click button “Add”.

URL: http://www.twittergadget.com/gadget_gmail.xml

Yes you are done adding TwitterGadget into your gmail. The client will be enabled in your email box soon after login into the twitter client.

Your TwitterGadget in your mail box.

If you are a fan of both application, don’t be baulked to try out this application.

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Again a cool service from Google, now it is location tracking. Google is not violating any privacy law implementing this service only trusted friends can see friends. The idea is simple the application tracks your friend’s location and displayed in your google map. This is a good news for all freight management companies. I am not sure this can be used for commercial purpose, but the application is one of the coolest one google ever had.

Very thanks to the team behind the application. The application is currently works with Android platforms, Blackberry devices and Windows Mobile devices. Applications for iPhone and J2Me mobile devices will be available soon.

This application is very useful for parents as it can be used to track their children.

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                               Web-based emails are great because we can check the mails from any where irrepective of the place. But it is limited to the internet connection.But there are lots of times, we can’t access the webmail because of the unavailabilty of internet connection. Now that problem is cured by Gmail by introducing their Gmail Offline. So if we are offline, just open the browser and go to the gmail.com and , get the mails are we usually do.

This is done by the help of Google Gears. Gmail uses Gears to download the local cache of our mails. When we lose the internet connection Gmail automatically switches to Offline mode and use the local hard drive to store the information instead of sending across the network. We can read mails, star, label and whatever we want to do when we are doing it in online. 

To enable this service: 

• Click the Settings and Labs Tab
• Select Enable next to the Offline Gmail
• Click Save Changes
• After our browser reloads there is a new tab Offline near to the username. Click to activate the Offline mode. If you dont install the gears previously try to install along the process.

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