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[Tip] Use Google Talk Guru To Get Quick Answers In Chat

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If you think you can chat pretty much faster than say doing a web search, Google has some good news for you. Now you can get all your information more quickly while you chat with your friends without switching the windows. Google has recently launched an experimental feature called ‘Google Talk Guru’, a chatbot  that answers most of the information queries that are associated with Google SMS (currently available in the US only). The bot allows you to get information relating to weather, sports scores, simple calculations, definitions, translations, currency and metric conversions etc.

Getting Started:

google talk guru chat invitation

To get started, just send a chat invitation to guru@googlelabs.com and the Google Talk Guru should immediately appear in your chat list, no matter what chat client you are using.

Google talk guru on chat list

Now that you have got the chatBot on your list, all you have to do is to send your query in the form of instant message. In case you are wondering what sort of queries that you can type, take a look at the following examples to get a brief idea about using the service.

Google talk guru examples

If you are familiar with the Google SMS commands, this shouldn’t a big problem as Google Talk Guru supports the majority of the kind of queries that work with Google SMS. For instance, if you want to get weather information of your city, just type ‘weather (your city name)’ and send an IM. You should immediately get the weather information related to your city:

google talk guru weather

You can also ping the Google Talk guru bot with the calculations and get the result instantly.

google talk guru calculator example

Go ahead and try pinging the Google Talk Guru with various queries to get information that you need.

[Tip] Turn Off Sounds In Gmail Chat

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If you frequently chat with your friends using Gmail chat, I’m sure there would have been times you might have definitely thought you would be better off disabling the notification sounds or alerts whenever a new chat message arrives for various reasons. We can draw many cases so as to why someone would want to turn off or mute these sounds in Gmail chat, but then at the end of the day we would just like to be have a choice. Follow the below steps to disable the sound notifications for chat in Gmail.

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1. Login to Gmail and open the chat settings (hit the link, you will be directly take to the page). Alternatively, you can open the same page this way: Click on the dropdown button next to your name (if you are seeing the new Gmail navigation bar) and then choose “Mail settings”.

Gmail settings link at navigation bar

And then go to “Chat” tab under the settings page.

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2. Under the “Chat” tab, locate the settings for “Sounds”. Now, to disable the sounds for chat notifications,

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Choose “Sounds off” radio button to completely disable the sound notification for new chat messages.

That it it! Just revert back to “Sounds on”, to enable the sound alerts again.

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Related reading: Schedule emails in Gmail

[How To] Start Video Chat Inside Gmail

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Google has introduced Gmail voice and video chat long back.But as I still see, some users who rarely use Gmail aren’t really aware of it, as they still stuck to the voice chat through Gtalk desktop version.It may be that they are not really aware of how to setup Gmail voice and video chat inside Gmail.So here I’ve decided to discuss about how to get this video chat feature inside your Gmail that lets you start a video chat directly from your inbox besides reading and sending Email messages through Gmail.

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All you need to get Gmail voice and video chat inside your browser is to install this Gmail voice and video chat plug-in.Just download the plugin and install it.Close all your open browser windows while installing it and then restart your browser.Now you’ll see a small green camera icon right before your name in Gmail chat.That means that the plugin is successfully installed and running.

You can now start a video chat on Gmail, iGoogle or Orkut with anyone who has also installed this plugin (in which case you see the same green camera icon before their names in chat).

Gmail voice and video chat works well with all Firefox 2.0+, Internet Explorer 6.0+, Safari 3.0+ and Google Chrome.

Download Gmail voice and video chat plugin

Read: New File transfer feature launched in Orkut and iGoogle chat (soon to be launched in Gmail).

File Transfer Feature Launched In Orkut and iGoogle Chat; To Be Available In Gmail Soon

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Do you frequently use chat in Orkut and iGoogle rather than using standalone Google Talk desktop client? And feel for the missing “File sharing” option that is available in Google talk ? You may not have to compromise from now on since Google has announced the introduction of file sharing option right inside the Orkut and iGoogle chat.

How To Send A File In Orkut Chat ?

Start chat in Orkut, and click on the “Actions” drop down menu and click “Send a file..”

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Select the file you want to share/send to your friend and click ok.Your chat buddy has to accept the file similar to how do it in Google Talk to receive the file.

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You can virtually share any file like pictures, documents, and other files with your friends while chatting in Orkut and iGoogle.

Google also promises that this file transfer option would soon be introduced in Gmail chat as they are working on it.

Now You Can Chat On Google Translator Toolkit

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Google has added ‘Chat’ feature which allows you to chat with your friends in Gmail, right from the Translator Toolkit.

The chat would be same as that you’d normally see in your Gmail (web-based), with an ability to be ‘invisible’ to your friends(Note that Invisible mode is also available in web based talk gadget based services like Gmail).Just like Wave, this toolkit also is touted for collaborative work but between people whose languages differ.

 

 

Chat Inside Translator Toolkit

[Image: Official Google Blog]

To enable chat inside Translator Toolkit, go to Translator Toolkit settings, and you can toggle chat between ‘on ‘and ‘off’.

Google Translator Toolkit Chat Settings

There are many other improvements in Google Translator Toolkit, which you must check on your own, go visit Translator Toolkit

Via Official Google blog

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