Maintain Notes in gmail - Cool gmail Trick

Some email providers provide a Notes function which let you maintain a list of notes. Notes can be anything from Web site links to random thoughts or some reminder. Gmail doesn't offer this feature, but you can impement this feature by using some of its other features. Here are steps to set up a very nice, easy to maintain group of notes...

1). Create a Contact with a Name of Notes and an Email Address of username+Notes@gmail.com. Here username is your username of Gmail and notes is this contach name.

2). Create a new Label named Notes.

3). Create a Filter to add any email addressed to username+Notes@gmail.com to the Notes Label .

4). Check the Skip the Inbox (Archive it) checkbox.

Its done.

Now whenever you email yourself from an email account other than your own Gmail account, address the email to username+Notes@gmail.com, then the message arrives in your Gmail account, it will automatically be archived into your Notes Label view, bypassing the Inbox.

So You will have all important web links updates etc at one place in easy and organized manner.

Use gmail acccount for Photo Sharing - Cool Trick

Now you can store or share your photos by using your gmail account. You can create, upload and share whole photo albums in moments. For this you need to install a firefox extension named GPhotospace.



GPhotospace is the fast way to share photos online. This free photo album builder works with Firefox and Gmail. Allow you to use existing Gmail account or create a new one for GPhotoSpace and create any number of photo albums, store and share them instantly.

It requires Firefox 3 and leverages the 7GB+ of storage space that you currently get with a Gmail account for an online photo storage repository.

Itrs freely available on net, so download it and then installed it. Once installed, you can launch the application from Firefox's Tools menu or by putting a small camera icon on your toolbar.

After that GPhotoSpace prompted to log into Gmail account. Once inside,it provides several links to choose from for creating albums, sending albums to others, deleting albums, maintaining an album inbox and more. All the images are stored by Google as part of your Gmail account. Its really very easy and handy to use, So go guys n download it fast...
enjoy!!!


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Trick to track Email Id at Orkut -Cool Trick

Orkut has privacy settings, by using them you can hide your email ids from unknown persons.
Here are trick to get email id of a person who are not your friend and his/her email id is not visible on Orkut. Just follow these steps:

1). Go to any members profile whose email id you want to find and who is not your friend.

2). On his/her profile, select ignore user option which is on left side below picture.

3). Now log into chart Messenger (Google Talk or yahoo messenger).

4). Go to Settings and then Blocked.
It will display the list of all blocked or ignored person, so it will also include id of that person.

Its done..

Multiple Gmail Id for 1 account - Cool Computer trick

Wanna have multiple gmail id?? One way to get multiple ids is to create multiple account, But if you dont want to create multiple account as for this you have to login in each account seperately to view all mails.
Here is trick which gives you multiple id but only 1 account.

You can have multiple email address of your existing gmail account just add + symbol after your user name then add anything followed by @gmail.com.

Suppose xyz@gmail.com is a gmail id, now if anyone send mail to xyz+123@gmail.com or to xyz+pqr@gmail.com or any email address having username (in this case username is xyz) followed by + symbol then any word and then gmail.com.

When someone send email at this address it first goes to gmail server where it recognize it as xyz@gmail.com and avoids “+” sign and anything after it. So it sends all mails to xyz.gmail.com

Add images to Gmail Signature

Now you can add image in your gmail signature, So whenever you send any email it automatically add that image at the bottom of your composed mail and send. You can also place links and some text in our signature.



follow given steps:

1). Open your Gmail account.

2). Now click on Settings on top right side.

3). In settings, click on Insert image icon.



4). It will open add an image window, Here enter a Valid image URL. If you entered correct image URL then it will show you preview of image.



5). Click OK.

You can also adjust the size of image by just selecting and resizing through mouse from corners.


6). Now in settings page, scroll down and click on save changes.

Its done.

Searching MAILS in Gmail

Nowadays Gmail is commonly used webservice. Gmail provides a search bar for easy navigation of emails. Here are the gmail search tricks which make your search in gmail and save lots of your time.

To Extract all the mails received from specific email address :

FROM: xyz@gmail.com OR xyz@yahoo.com

extract all mails from xyz@gmail.com or from xyz@yahoo.com

FROM: followed by email address

If you are not concerned about the mail services like yahoo.com or gmail.com, want to extract all mails from xyz then ignore the text after @. i.e

FROM: xyz@ OR abc@

Extract the mails based on your subject :

SUBJECT: meeting or party

extract all mails having subject meeting or party

SUBJECT:followed by subject name

Extract mails which have the word or set of words :

HAS THE WORDS : abc xyz

This search all the mails having words abc and xyz

Extract mails which doesnt have the word or set of words :

DOESN'T HAVE: abc

This search all the mails which doesnt have the word abc

Get all the mails sent between particular dates :

after:2010/01/01 before:2010/01/25

This gives all the mails sent between 2010/01/1 and 2010/01/25 (date format : yyyy/mm/dd )

Get all the chat messages having a particular word :

is:chat abc

This gives all the chat messages having the word abc

Google Hidden Emoticons - Express ur emotions while chating

Here is list of some cool google Emoticons(Smileys), so guys use them to express your emotions while chatting, some of them are really amazing..

Emoticons TYPE

cowbell +/'\

Crab V.v.V

Devil }:-)

Equal sad =(

Equal slant =/

wince >.<

Pig :(:)

Heart <3

Kiss :*

Mustache :{

Monkey :(|)

Rock out \m/

Shocked :-o

Grin :D

Angry x-(

Cool B-)

Wink ;)

Straight face :-|

Nose wink ;-)

Slant :-/

But keeep in mind that these emoticons works only for googl talk gadgets, Gmail integration chat application and in google talk edition.

Gtalk Chat Shortcut - Cool Computer Tricks

If you chat very frequently with one of your friend then now you can make gtalk chat shortcut on your desktop. It willl initiate a chat with only one click. On click it opens a chat window where you can chat with your friend. But unfortunately this trick works only in window xp nt in window vista.

Here are steps to follow:

1) Right click on your desktop and go to New > Shortcut.

2) In create shortcut window, type gtalk:chat?jid=username@gmail.com. Where username is gmail id of your friend.

3) Click ok.

Its done.

You can also make shortcut to call your friend for that you have to write gtalk:call?jid=username@gmail.com.

Find who is invisible in gmail chat (Gtalk)

If you want to know that your particular friend is online and invisible or he/she is offline. Then here is an easy way to find this :

Open your gtalk application and type this email address of your friend in top search textbox

Click his/her profile, it opens in new chatting window.

Click on the down arrow button in the top right corner of the window, here ther is one option Go off the record, click on it.

And then leave any msseage to your friend.

If you get a red text showing the person is offline , can’t receive the message right now that means person is offline and if you dnt recieve such kind of any message then your friend is invisible

Quickly switch between Google accounts

If you have multiple Google accounts—a Gmail with Google Apps account and a regular Gmail account, for example—streamline them with this script for Firefox with Greasemonkey. The script adds a “change user” drop-down bar in place of the “sign out” link.

Gmail keyboard shortcuts

If you haven’t already, master the shortcut keys. Compose, mark as read, archive and much more with the press of a button. Sure, you know c for compose and ! for report spam, but do you know g + t for the sent mail folder?

Keyboard shortcuts help you save time by allowing you to never take your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse. You'll need a Standard 101/102-Key or Natural PS/2 Keyboard to use the shortcuts.

To turn these case-sensitive shortcuts on or off, click Settings, and then pick an option next to Keyboard shortcuts.

Here compete list of shortcuts try them....

Shortcut Key	Definition	Action
c	Compose	Allows you to compose a new message. + c allows you to compose a message in a new window.
/	Search	Puts your cursor in the search box.
k	Move to newer conversation	Opens or moves your cursor to a more recent conversation. You can hit to expand a conversation.
j	Move to older conversation	Opens or moves your cursor to the next oldest conversation. You can hit to expand a conversation.
n	Next message	Moves your cursor to the next message. You can hit to expand or collapse a message. (Only applicable in 'Conversation View.')
p	Previous message	Moves your cursor to the previous message. You can hit to expand or collapse a message. (Only applicable in 'Conversation View.')
o or	Open	Opens your conversation. Also expands or collapses a message if you are in 'Conversation View.'
u	Return to conversation list	Refreshes your page and returns you to the inbox, or list of conversations.
e	Archive	Archive your conversation from any view.
m	Mute	Archives the conversation, and all future messages skip the Inbox unless sent or cc'd directly to you.
x	Select conversation	Automatically checks and selects a conversation so that you can archive, apply a label, or choose an action from the drop-down menu to apply to that conversation.
s	Star a message or conversation	Adds or removes a star to a message or conversation. Stars allow you to give a message or conversation a special status.
!	Report spam	Marks a message as spam and removes it from your conversation list.
r	Reply	Replies to the message sender. + r allows you to reply to a message in a new window. (Only applicable in 'Conversation View.')
a	Reply all	Replies to all message recipients. +a allows you to reply to all message recipients in a new window. (Only applicable in 'Conversation View.')
f	Forward	Forwards a message. + f allows you to forward a message in a new window. (Only applicable in 'Conversation View.')
	Escape from input field	Removes the cursor from your current input field.
+ s	Save draft	Saves the current text as a draft when composing a message. Hold the key while pressing s and make sure your cursor is in one of the text fields -- either the composition pane, or any of the To, CC, BCC, or Subject fields -- when using this shortcut.
#	Delete	Moves the conversation to Trash.
l	Label	Opens the Labels menu to label a conversation.
v	Move to	Moves the conversation from the inbox to a different label, Spam or Trash.
+ i	Mark as read	Marks your message as 'read' and skip to the next message.
+ u	Mark as unread	Marks your message as 'unread' so you can go back to it later.
[	Archive and previous	Archives your conversation and moves to the previous one.
]	Archive and next	Archives your conversation and moves to the next one.
z	Undo	Undoes your previous action, if possible (works for actions with an 'undo' link).
+ n	Update current conversation	Updates your current conversation when there are new messages.
q	Move cursor to chat search	Moves your cursor directly to the chat search box.
y	Remove from Current View*	Automatically removes the message or conversation from your current view. From 'Inbox,' 'y' means Archive From 'Starred,' 'y' means Unstar From 'Trash,' 'y' means Move to inbox From any label, 'y' means Remove the label * 'y' has no effect if you're in 'Spam,' 'Sent,' or 'All Mail.'
.	Show more actions	Displays the 'More Actions' drop-down menu.
?	Show keyboard shortcuts help	Displays the keyboard shortcuts help menu within any page you're on.

Combo-keys - Use the following combinations of keys to navigate through Gmail.

Shortcut Key	Definition	Action
then	Send message	After composing your message, use this combination to send it automatically. (Supported in Internet Explorer and Firefox, on Windows.)
y then o	Archive and next	Archives your conversation and moves to the next one.
g then a	Go to 'All Mail'	Takes you to 'All Mail,' the storage site for all mail you've ever sent or received (and have not deleted).
g then s	Go to 'Starred'	Takes you to all conversations you have starred.
g then c	Go to 'Contacts'	Takes you to your Contacts list.
g then d	Go to 'Drafts'	Takes you to all drafts you have saved.
g then i	Go to 'Inbox'	Returns you to the inbox.
g then t	Go to 'Sent Mail'	Takes you to all mail you've sent.
* then a	Select all	Selects all mail.
* then n	Select none	Deselects all mail.
* then r	Select read	Selects all mail you've read.
* then u	Select unread	Selects all unread mail.
* then s	Select starred	Selects all starred mail.
* then t	Select unstarred	Selects all unstarred mail.