Google Talk – Message length allowed on google chat software

Google Talk – Message length allowed on google chat software

Do you know you can type as long as 32,767 characters long message in your Google Talk’s chat window? That is approximately 7 pages at 12 font size and exactly 32 kilobytes of data. That’s a lot of text for an instant message. Gtalk is Google’s popular chat software that allows you to chat on different platforms including PC, Blackberry, Android, iphone and other mobile platforms. Google chat has kept their interface simple through all times without sacrificing any features.

Google Talk has a large chat window but its not the largest. Skype actually has a virtually unlimited chat window and as long as your system can handle data in that window, you can keep growing it. Try it out yourself.

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Gmail and fellows are no more Beta now!

Gmail and fellows are no more Beta now!

We all have been used to this fact but have always been wondering as well, when will Gmail come out of beta?

Finally the day has come. Google announces that following services are no more in beta state:

Actually these services combine to comprise google apps.

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Two new add-ons to Google Latitude

Two more simple but useful add-ons to google maps + latitude are available now. Google latitude allows its users to share their current location from their mobile devices with his/her friends. So far, it was only possible to share your location with other latitude users. Latitude has gone beyond that point now.


Recently, Google has launched two add-ons to latitude service that allow users to:

1. Share their current location on their google talk (Google Talk Location Status (beta))
2. Share their current location with the whole world in form of an embeddable tag that users can use on blogs, discussion groups or put on their websites etc.(Google Public Location Badge)



The simple tool changes your Google talk status to your current location. For that you have to: 
1. Install and run Google Maps and Latitude on your mobile.
2. Login using your google account on latitude on your mobile
3. Go to the add-in’s site.
4. Enable sharing

That’s it, you are done.

Following video shows you exactly how to do that…




If you are already using latitude to share your location with friends, you can simply go to this Public Location Badge site and enable sharing. This will give you the embed code that you can put in your site/forum/blog and display your location to the world. Following videos shows how:


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