GTalk is an extremely simple instant messaging client. But simplicity is something you don’t need always, especially when it comes to your privacy. GoogleTalk doesn’t even has a privacy option to hide your status or maybe idle it, thats just plain disgusting I myself end up fighting with my friends, as they think I’m chatting with fellows and not working.

Beside that Gtalk will show you “idle” only if you do not use the computer for at least 10 minutes. Funny part is if a single click or button press and your status is green.

Gmail has a really cool feature, Gmail’s custom ‘From:’ feature lets you send messages that display another address. As i also have to deal with day to day emails coming to my website email, its really cumbersome to email from my hosting email application(buggy as hell).

1. Log in to your Gmail account at mail.google.com.
2. Now head over to the settings and open the Accounts tab.
3. Under Send mail as, click Add another email address.

As you would know, due to security reasons Gmail prevents users from sending and receiving executable files (files with the extension “.exe”, “.dll”, “.ocx” or “.bat”). If you try to uploading these files, Gmail will send you an error message: “This is an executable file”. However you may try compressing the files into other formats such as “.zip”, “.tar”, “.tgz”, “.taz”, “.z” or “.gz”. But Gmail is smart enough to know there is an executable inside that compress file.

Now the question is how to send executable files with your Gmail account if you really need to do so? Here’s how its done.

You would have already came across Remember the Milk, an online task management software. Guess what ever since I have started using Remember the Milk…. in one word its “priceless”.

I’m pretty sure you are loving this, Remember the Milk directly integrates into Gmail, so you can manage your tasks right besides your emails. It full integrates with your contacts , and calendar contacts, and Google Calendar events).

Once installed, you’ll see a new pane over to the right also know as the Tasks pane, which lets you customize to show tasks, sort tasks or to group the tasks.

No chit chat i go straight to the details.

For MegaUpload, put the following in Google:

Video files:
avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:megaupload.com

Music files:

mp3|ogg|wma site:megaupload.com

Programs/Applications files:

zip|rar|exe site:megaupload.com

eBooks files:

pdf|rar|zip|doc|lit site:megaupload.com

For Rapidshare, put the following in Google:

Video files:

avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:rapidshare.de

Music files:

mp3|ogg|wma site:rapidshare.de

Programs/Applications files:

zip|rar|exe site:rapidshare.de

eBooks files:

pdf|rar|zip|doc|lit site:rapidshare.de

You can narrow down you search for what you looking for in the first part of your code. Say if you searching for Linux Tutorials in Rapidshare use the query:

Nowadays most people have more the one email account, usually just about enough to handle. As i write I have around 6+ email accounts ranging from service providers like Yahoo, Gmail( i got two of those), Hotmail also known as Windows Live mail, besides my website email…etc,etc. An easy way is to use Outlook or an email client like Thunderbird to manage all your accounts from one place as it makes archiving and managing much easier then opening windows after windows to check each email account.

I’m assuming that many of Google Chat users don’t know that Google Talk features emoticons. Even if they know it supports most of the emoticons aren’t used or people don’t know about it. Thou not as flashy as Yahoo Messenger emoticons, Google chat emoticons are simple, yet cute and interesting. Monkeys, hearts, guy with the sunglasses and many more.

Also, another thing is that if you are using GMail Chat with Firefox and have the AdBlock extension installed then you might experience crashes. If you encounter this problem disable Adblock, clean the cache and restart Firefox.