Ritesh Sapra Digitalized

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.

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Do you use more than one GMail account for chatting on GTalk? Do you keep switching between accounts, for the core reason that you feel helpless that you cannot login into 2 different GMail account simultaneously?

Here’s a quick tweak, which will allow you to login into two different GTalk accounts simultaneously on the same PC.

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Most of the offices/schools have been blocking social networking websites like facebook, Orkut. I’ve mentioned earlier, about proxy websites to browse blocked sites.

But what if you dont have access to the Internet, or have access only during lunch time, and still want to see what your friend just wrote on your wall.

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This is the second part of the series, MS Word Shortcuts.

Part 1,Part 3

Here is a list of 10 keyboard shortcuts that you could use while using Microsoft Word.(In no particular order)
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MS Office has become a very integrated application in our lives. More often than not, I find myself using either MS Word, MS Excel or MS Power point.

I’ve always been a huge fan of the keyboard, as opposed to using the mouse for every function. It gets my work done faster, and knowing a couple of extra keyboard shortcuts is always a good help.

Here is a list of 10 keyboard shortcuts that you could use while using MS Word.(In no particular order)
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Most corporates have Internet Access restrictions, and mine is no exception. At work, we are not allowed to visit popular social networking sites like orkut, facebook. Initially, I was kinda upset that I wont be allowed to use facebook at work, but with the help of Proxy sites (or whatever you may prefer calling them) I can visit any website from work, even if it is blocked.

These sites allow you to browse the web anonymously and access sites that are blocked.

• Vtunnel
• Hide My Ass
• RedLista
• Browser Jump
• Go Proxer
• Proxy Browsing
• Ninja Proxy
• Proxify
• W3Privacy
• KProxy

I havent tried all the above websites, but my personal fav is Vtunnel

Initially, I didnt like using gmail, but ever since I’ve started using Google Apps to manage my personal emails, I’ve fallen in love with the gmail interface, and wanted to move all my Outlook emails to gmail.

I tried using the GML software but it required the .NET framework, and often hung without uploading all the emails.

Here is a very easy way to upload your Outlook mails to Gmail, without the need of any software.

Step 1: Enable IMAP on your Gmail/Google Apps account. This step by step tutorial tells you how to enable IMAP.

Step 2: After you configure GMail on your Outlook (as part of the above step), you will see the IMAP folder (Gmail) and it will list out all the labels that you use as separate folders.

Step 3A: If you dont not wish to maintain a backup of the emails in Outlook, and just want them in your gmail inbox, drag the mails to your gmail Inbox (Under IMAP folder). If you drag them to your labels folder, they will automatically be labelled.

Step 3B: If you do wish to keep a copy of all emails in Outlook, you can right click on the folder you wish to upload, and hit -> Copy folder. Once the folder is copied, you can move those emails to GMail, so your original emails will still be stored in Outlook.

This could take a while, especially if you have large emails. I tried selecting all the emails, and moved them to gmail, and my Outlook hung, so I did them one batch at a time.

You can comment here, if you face any problems.