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How to add Twitter client application in gmail?

February 7, 2009 by · Leave a Comment

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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Gmail is Now Offline

February 4, 2009 by · 1 Comment

 

 

                               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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Gmail introduces task / to-do’s

December 12, 2008 by · 1 Comment

Gmail added a lightweight tool to track your pending task, this will spice up your inbox if you are really unhinged to track your to-do’s.

How to enable task?

Go to settings link and navigate Labs tab. You can see an option (radio button) for enable / disable.

Does the application suits you?

If you are a serious user those who are very busy with works and you are not able to track your to-do’s this is the right application. In the busy life, marking our to-do is only method to get things done.

After adding the application in your mailbox you can add / edit / remove tasks. Moreover you can add email as task also.

Here is the snapshot of gmail task.

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Audible Alert For Gmail Chat

October 21, 2008 by · 3 Comments

If you are using gmail browser chat sometime while switching browser tab you might miss some of the IM alert. Sometime the gmail doesn’t produce an alert. The solution for this problem is using Gmail Chat Alert 0.3.0.

By using this plugin you can even add your own audio file for as alert tone.

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How to check someone is invisible in gmail?

September 18, 2008 by · 14 Comments

Lots of people misuse invisible feature inorder to even avoid individuals. I wrote an article about yahoo invisible hack some time back which created lots of response among my readers. This time I am going to explain about gmail invisible bug that can be exploited from “off the record feature“. Below are the steps involved, but there are some limitation.

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Step 1. 

Set the target user as off the record while he/she is online. This can be done by simply clicking on the option in the chat window. 

 

Step 2. 

Try sending an IM when he/she is invisible or offline. 

If he/she is invisible he/she will receive message. If he/she is offline you will receive an error “did not receive your chat”.

This hack will only work if you mark the target user as off record when he/she is online. It is a limitation.

How does it work?

When the chat is off the record, it will no longer stored in the gmail account. 

When you send IM to an invisible / offline user it will be delivered by default. At the receiving end the IM will receive as a pop in form of chat window if the user is invisible. If the user is offline it will receive as an email in the inbox. 

The main problem with this hack is if the target user is using another email client or desktop version.

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Yet another gmail chat bug

September 3, 2008 by · Leave a Comment

Its seems a lot of bugs are happening with gmail these days. Just look at this bug. I restarted the browser and its works fine. Why this kind of bugs happening with gmail? I guess its javascript loading issues. But for a normal user why care about javascript or other problems?

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Gmail bug in chat list

August 27, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
This entry is part 13 of 14 in the series gmail tricks

Today I logged in my gmail, my chat list appeared as blank with green icons showing some of buddies are online.

Recently one of my friend got some gmail error showing undefined gmail. I don’t know why gmail applications are showing these kind of errors. I restarted my browser and logged in. The application works well. May be because of some plugins installed in my browser. Last time when undefined gmail problem occurred it was the grease monkey script created the problem.

I guess gmail team need to do some more browser compatibility test with different plugin installed before releasing their new versions.

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undefined gmail

July 9, 2008 by · 29 Comments
This entry is part 12 of 14 in the series gmail tricks

Today some of friends experienced some stability issues with gmail. All most all function are showing us undefined. All members in the chat list appeared as undefined. When I tried to IM my friend the chat is not received to my friend instead an yellow color displayed there. The main problem experienced was he can’t send email to anyone. An email service without mail sending facility :-( what anomaly?

Gmail chat list.

Gmail mail composing window.

I guess gmail in newer version is not much stable as before. A lot of bugs are there with the newer version of gmail. Team gmail will fix the bugs as soon as they can else it will adversely affect the popularity of gmail. The yahoo mail new version is pretty fast now a days than before. Wake up gmail team fix the problem or revert the solution to some stable version for the time being.

Resolutions.

1) Switching your gmail to older version.

2) Disable greasemonkey script called Gmail Conversation Preview. (Thanks Matt, Kenly, Patric and everyone those who found the a resolution)

3) Use different Browser.

4) Disable Better gmail.

Alternative solution is to use some other mail service for some time :-) , by the time Team gmail will fix it.

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Remote Signout in gmail

July 8, 2008 by · 1 Comment
This entry is part 11 of 14 in the series gmail tricks

Here is a solution to those who divulge there password to someone else and find whether they are checking your gmail mailbox. This feature enable us to even sign out remotely if someone is logged into your gmail right now. If you are signing in your account from different system don’t worry the activity is logged and you can sign out remotely if forget to do so.

At the bottom of your inbox you can see the status of your last activity of your account. It will display an information of the IP address if the account is logged in some other system.

In the figure above it is showing an IP address that means your account is logged in another location. For instance let it be in my office. Click on the details link.

On the top of you can see a concurrent session information which shows the current activity of your account. You can see the Signout all other session button if some other session rather than the current session is opened. By clicking the button your remote session will be closed. Table below shows the recent activity.

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Pictures in gmail chat

June 26, 2008 by · 3 Comments
This entry is part 10 of 14 in the series gmail tricks

Gmail web chat is the coolest chatting application I have ever seen. But I had some bad experience while using google web chat. The google web chat shows that status of the online user by displaying the name. In my messenger list I had more than one person with same name. Since it shows name in the chat list I misunderstood some person and talked about the other person.

But gmail recently released a feature called “Pictures in gmail chat”. This feature solves my problem. If this feature is enabled, along with name picture also get displayed in the conversation.

How to enable picture in gmail chat?

As I mentioned that it is enabled as Lab feature. Click on the Setting link on the top right corner of your mailbox. On the setting window click on the Lab tab. On the Lab tab select the Enable radio button labeled Pictures in chat and save the setting.

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