New Gmail and Gtalk Features

May 11th, 2006 by bill · 2 Comments

 

You can now (or soon will be able to) add pictures to your Gmail Contacts.

Gmail chat can now play sounds when a chat message arrives, provided you have Flash installed. This is a welcome addition, since I commonly Alt-Tab over to Gmail to discover that someone sent me a message three hours ago. (Via GoogleBlog and Lifehacker)

Tags: Tips

 

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Gmail Chat Fun // May 23, 2007 at 3:39 am

    [...] Previously, we’ve covered bold, italics, and special characters (like ♫). We also noted that Google added an incoming-chat sound and the ability to add a picture to a Gmail [...]

  • 2 smiley lover // Aug 23, 2009 at 11:48 am

    I don’t know how to do the little sun music note or heart in bold but that’s ok gmail team take your time.

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