May 24

More and more people are switching over to GTalk from other messengers.

Reason: Its low on memory, and very sweet & simple.

Here are a couple of tips and tricks to make your experience with GTalk more interesting :)

  • To make your text BOLD, place a * before and after the text. Example: *This will be bold*
  • To make your text Italic, place a _ before and after the text. Example: _This will be Italic_
  • For line break, hit Shift+Enter
  • Pressing F9 will open Gmail to send an email to the person you’re talking to
  • Pressing F11 will make a call to the person you’re talking to
  • To switch between multiple chat windows, press Ctrl+Tab
  • You can show your homepage simply by entering it in your away message. It will automatically turn to a link.

Miscellaneous information about your favorite IM, GTalk .

  • A message can be 32767 characters long
  • You can change your Gtalk chat name in your Account Page

Do you know of any other tips and tricks? I’d love to hear from you.

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2 Responses to “Google Talk tips and tracks”

  1. 1. Manan Says:

    Cool, didn’t know about the italic & the keyboard short cuts.

  2. 2. Ritesh Says:

    Even I didnt know about it, before writing this post.

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