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How to Add Emoticons in a Gmail message.

While I was searching for a easy way to insert Gmail Emoticons in my emails, I came across UserScripts. They have a small script which is available for download/install by which you can add an “Emoticons” link next to “Check Spelling” in the Gmail Compose Window, which opens up a new/small window with lots of emoticons to choose from.The current pack they have is like this

How to Add the script?

The easiest way to just drag from the emoticon window into your compose-box. Be careful with this method, because if you drop the emoticon OUTSIDE the compose box, your PAGE WILL CHANGE. Hopefully Gmail’s autosave will save you if that happens. So drop with care.

Second way of doing this is, open up the emoticon window, select the icon you want, Press CTRL+C or right click, select copy and paste it in your gmail message by either pressing CTRL+V or right clicking and selecting paste.

Source: UserScripts

Google’s another experiment

Google is always experimenting with new features aimed at improving the search experience. Take one for a spin and let us know what you think. This time they came up with “Alternate views for search results”You can see results on a timeline, map, or in context of other information types. With these views, Google’s technology extracts key dates, locations, measurements, and more from select search results so you can view the information in a different dimension.

Timeline and map views work best for searches related to people, companies, events and places. Info view shows all the data found for each result, to help you select the best choice.

Check out Google’s Experimental Labs for more info on this.

Zoomable, Satelite map of Antartica.

Check this out, it’s amazing!!

 Landsat Image Mosaic Of Antarctica (LIMA). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), created LIMA from more than 1,000 Landsat ETM+ scenes.Pan to view the continent and zoom in to see the stunning detail of this Natural-Color, Pan-Sharpened LIMA (bands 3, 2, 1).

LIMA covers the entire continent except from the South Pole at 90 degrees south to 82.5 degrees south latitude, where Landsat has no coverage because of its near-polar orbit. To provide a continental view, the image above has LIMA 3, 2, 1 overlaying the MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA).

The opening view includes McMurdo Station, the largest research base in Antarctica. Located at the tip of Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island, McMurdo has been continually operated by the United States of America since 1956. Ross Island is roughly 72 km (45 mi) across. The flat, white areas are the Ross Ice Shelf and other sea ice off the coast of Antarctica. Also visible are the Erebus Glacier Tongue, Koettlitz and Ferrar Glaciers, and the Royal Society Range.