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GMail Introduces Reply By Chat

Written by Ruhani Rabin on June 2, 2006.

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GMail introduces Reply by Chat. What it is actually? Okay, when you have an e-mail from one of your contact who is online on GTalk or Gmail then you will see the "Reply By Chat to….. " option available near to your contacts message. So what you can do is, just click the button and the chat popup will pop up so that you can reply to your contact instantly.
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Well this makes GMail more integrated with GTalk. Few things you need to know that you must be in the Gmail view: standard with chat and not standard without chat.  Look for the "Standard With Chat" option at the bottom of your Inbox and if it's not selected then just select it to enable this feature. You can read more at Google Help Center

How-To: Build your own network firewall

Written by Ruhani Rabin on June 1, 2006.

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Todays internet ERA you'll need a protection of firewall rathar than depending on your hardwares firewall. Some times you gotta tweak and customize the firewall to your optimum needs. Today i've found on Engadget, they have a nice and hand to hand tutorial on setting up your personal linux firewall system by yourself. Go ahead and read the tutorial here.

How to : Hold a Digital Camera

Written by Ruhani Rabin on June 1, 2006.

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Now a days we have digital gadgets and cameras everywhere. Everyday new technologies come out. Digital cameras becoming more complex, featureful and smaller. Most of the new and old photographers has real trouble with these complex digital cameras. When i bought my own digital camera i had real trouble balancing it while taking a shot. I found this article at Digital PhotoGraphy school which has some interesting tips on digital camera holding techniques.

Read at Digital Photography School 

Enable Encrypted E-mails for Gmail

Written by Ruhani Rabin on May 31, 2006.

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Greasemonkey script Gmail Encrypt adds encryption to the emails you write in Gmail.

Not all people uses encryption. But when your e-mail does all the Business stuff you should encrypt your conversations. This script can only be used from FireFox and you will need the Greasemonkey extention to make it work.

Greasemonkey script Gmail Encrypt  (Installation guide and instructions here, get the Greasemonkey extention first then follow the instructions)

How to : Make Your Own SkyPE Phone

Written by Ruhani Rabin on May 18, 2006.

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Instructables has a step-by-step for turning a regular old landline phone into a VoIP phone.

This hack requires a little bit of electronic hobbist kinda soldering and might not be for the novice hardware tweaker, but the results look quite good. If you've been wanting to try out Skype but haven't wanted to buy a new headset and you've got an phone laying around, this seems like a cool stuff to do.

Portable SkyPE Phone [at Instructables