Gmail Chat emoticons are the most popular search terms here at techrageo.us. And now there’s a new robot smiley.
In the past we’ve covered Gmail Chat—and its emoticons in particular. Of course everyone who uses Gmail knows it now supports smileys in email, but there have been a couple minor changes for the chat smileys too.

First, [...]

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Google Adds New Smilies to Gmail Chat
Update: For a complete list of Gmail chat emoticons, including the new category four smileys and the new robot and poo smileys see Gmail Chat Smileys.
With the recent update to Gmail chat, Google has added (both round and squared) graphic smilies. What’s more, some new hidden smilies are showing [...]

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Customize Gmail
Gmail Super Clean is a Greasemonkey script that renders a cleaner Gmail experience. Aside from the snazzy white interface, it removes the Gmail bookmark links, AdSense ads, tweaks the fonts, and slaps a groovy icon up top.
Gmail Super Clean Options
What’s more, under Tools->Greasemonkey->UserScript Commands, there are options to enable and disable the custom logo, [...]

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Update: Gmail chat has been updated with a tabbed smiley interface and new emoticons.

In addition to the standard Gmail Chat emoticons listed in a previous article here, some hidden smilies have turned up.
Whatchamuhcallit
They’ve added a cool equal, slantmouthy face =/.
Yeeesh, That Had To Hurt
If you wince, you need this one. >.<
Is Google Evil?
The Devil made [...]

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If you use WordPress be careful. An example Google Code Search search going around is “username file:wp-config.php” which happily displays username and passwords in WordPress config files… if they’re in compressed archives or a publicly accessible directory.
Same goes for other configuration or settings files. For instance, connection strings in web.config files (connection string file:web.config), Movable [...]

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Google Labs has released a Code Search tool (google.com/codesearch).
You can limit the results to languages (lang:), particular licenses (license:), files (file:), and packages (package:). Regular expressions are supported as well.
Language support appears to be limited to the following: Ada, ASP, Assembly, Basic, C, C++, C#, Eiffel, Erlang, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Lex, Limbo, Lisp, Lua, [...]

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Update: For the full list of Gmail chat emoticons, including the new category-four smileys and the new robot smiley, see Gmail Chat Smileys.
Currently Gmail Chat does not support formatting like Yahoo or others do. But there are some things you can do to spice up the experience, such as it is. Some of this applies [...]

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