Google Gtalk infos worth to know

After searching for infos about Gtalk, here are the things you should know about Gtalk apart from running Multiple Gtalk.

Trivia

1. Buddy – You don’t have to say YES or NO when someone adds you. Simply ignore it and the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this in the options).
2. Conversation – A message can be 32767 characters long.
3. Display Name – You can change your Gtalk chat name in Account Page
4. Active link – Adding a web URL in custom message will result it to be clickable.

Un-trivia

1. Wumpus Game – Wumpus is an easter egg game that came with Google Talk. If you add new contact wumpus.game@gmail.com, you can play the classic text-based game.
2. Bold Text – To write something bold, you can use an asterisk before and after the word, like *this* .
3. Italic Text – To use italics, use an underscore before and after the word, like _this_ .
4. Switch windows – Hitting tab will cycle through open windows. It will select minimized conversations, to expand them just hit enter. If you just want to cycle through IM’s and don’t care about the buddy list, control-tab will do that and will automatically expand a minimized conversation if you settle on one.

Fun Begins

Below is the list of Gtalk emoticons you can use. (From Google)

Special thanks to my lovely Jennifer for this tips!

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