Saturday, October 25, 2008

Emoticons (Smileys) in Gmail

Today, as I was reading a friend's email, I noticed he had used smileys in his email. It was surprising as I had seen people attaching images with the email, but emoticons? And that not attached but embedded in the text itself.

Curious to know more about it, I clicked on the "Compose Mail" button and saw the "Insert Emoticon" button lying there in the formatting toolbar.

Clicked on it and saw a sea of smileys lying underneath, lively in motion, waiting to be clicked. And what more, they were available as "square" and "circular" smileys.

Now, this is one nice option I had wanted since a long-long time. :)

Friday, October 10, 2008

Forum post number in Google results

Today, while Googling casually, I found out an all new feature in the normal Google search results.

If there is a link to a forum topic in a search result, Google will also print the number of posts contained under that topic, updated according to the date mentioned. Other information printed in addition to that is the number of distinct authors involved in that particular forum topic.

Try this search to see it live:
http://www.google.com/search?q=install+shockwave+linux

(See the screenshot for a clear view)

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Most Visited Webpage

Thanks to my faulty and irritating (BSNL broadband) Internet connection, my most visited webpage is one of those frustrating default pages of Firefox (yup, you guess it; I am a Firefox user).




Back here, I guess?

My last post here was back in October 2005, exactly 3 years from now. Quite a long period since then? It sure is.

Though I maintain my primary blog at anurag.granularproject.org, I would be posting here every now and then to put forth my views about latest computer stuff that I can't on my main blog.

So, stay tuned. I am back. I am game. :)