Gmail

Google Mail, Gmail has opened its eyes in the world of Internet in the year 2004. It was just started as internal mail server for Google employees and later developed into big giant. Wide number of features appended to Google interface in the later years made it a popular web based Email in the world of internet.

Few of the services that were appended to Google form 2004 to till date include Google CalendarGoogle Talk, and Google Buzz and Google Apps. Every mobile user can accesses Gmail.com on his mobile with the help of Goggle apps. The popular domain name of Google mail, Gmail.com was acquired from Garfield.com.

The project of Gmail.com was initiated by software engineer Paul Buchheit earlier to 2004. It was kept under maintenance and testing before it was made public in April 2004. Testing process was initiated on March 21st 2004 and the mail was public on 1st April 2004. 1000 opinion leaders participated in the usage of Gmail during the test period.

The introduction of Google Apps was curtain raiser for new Phase in Gmail. The mobile apps was launched in the year 2006. Every mobile Phone that could run java apps was able to use the Google apps on phone. On 28th January new features like Google Docs and spread sheets were appended to Gmail.com. Since then the user was able to open the Ms-Doc from the Gmail.com directly.

Using Gmail Chat Emoticons

If you are a www.Gmail.com user, you can use emoticons when you chat with other Gmail users. To use emoticons while chatting in Google Properties like Gmail, Orkut Chat or Google+, you just have to choose one of these options:

  • Type a combination of keys like : D, = D, : -| and press Enter.
  • Click the blue smiley-face button at the right of the text-entry field. A pop-up menu appears, where you can choose from different emoticon sets, including circular, rectangular, or standard.

When you select a particular emoticon set in Gmail Chat, it becomes your default set. All incoming and outgoing emoticons will appear in your default style until you change sets.