Stylish Gmail Chat Status
Posted on 22. Apr, 2008 by Sajith M.R in php
You are absolutely a gmail user, because you visited my technical blog. If you like gmail chat also, here is some small tips you can play with.
Always set some attracting status message which suit to your character.
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If you wan to make bold , just add Astrix (*) before and after a particular word.
Eg: if you want status like below:
“The score never interested me, only the game.”
Set your status as:
“The *score* never interested me, only the game.”
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If you want to make it in italics, like below
“The score never interested me, only the game.”
do this:
“The score _never interested_ me, only the game.”
(dont remember the white space after _ and before _)
Also you can add Unicode character in your status. What to do is select some Unicode character from some website or here and paste on your status message . (not the Unicode number, but the character)
You can use gmail chat imoticons also as your status message
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Key Combination |
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<3 |
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\m/ |
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: – o |
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: D |
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: ( |
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x – ( |
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B – ) |
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: ‘ ( |
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= D |
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; ) |
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: – | |
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= ) |
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: – D |
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; ^ ) |
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; – ) |
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: – ) |
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: – / |
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: P |
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I got some more from another reader Jackie’s comment. They are:
~ @ ~ poop
[:|] robot
: ( | ) monkey
: ( : ) cow
V . v . V crab
(remove space between letters, i put space to escape from wordpress editor )
Binny V A
Apr 22nd, 2008
Many of the key combinations in your post was translated by wordpress.
Sajith M.R
Apr 23rd, 2008
Thanks Binny, now i changed (added some space)
Anonymous
May 15th, 2008
Sythoos, u missed out one major emoticon :* a kiss heheee….
Sajith M.R
May 15th, 2008
Thank you for the kiss
Twix
Jun 6th, 2008
THIS IS AWESOME!!! THANKS SOOO MUCH :*:*
jassi
Nov 7th, 2008
need to add functionality for chatting on my site from the beginning but its not helpful to me
eskimo
Mar 18th, 2009
haha
awesome monkey
bobbae
May 6th, 2009
can u rite out the letters 4 monkey cuz it wont wurk plz lol
maria
Jun 10th, 2009
good
Abhishek
Jun 27th, 2009
Can we have newline characters…. i want something like this
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Sajith M.R
Jun 29th, 2009
Press shift and enter key for a new line in chat
Rex Sunny
Jul 13th, 2009
Type * before and after the word to make it bold in Gmail chat
Venkatesan M
Jul 23rd, 2009
for devil look use this }:)
for heart break use this </3
Marie
Nov 25th, 2009
this stuff is pretty cool, especially the monkey one. i love monkeys.
Kenny
Dec 2nd, 2009
Shift+Enter doesn’t work in the status message to make new lines… I keep wanting to post some song lyrics in my status, but it just looks like crap… Any possibilities?
Jackie
Dec 2nd, 2009
hey here some more!!!!
~ @ ~ poop
[:|] robot
: ( | ) monkey
: ( : ) cow
V . v . V crab
Sajith M.R
Dec 4th, 2009
No, it is not possible Kenny. Because that is text field. Text field cannot accept a new line character
anonymous
Dec 20th, 2009
shift-enter and you can make a space between and putting “-”s on the sides is stikethru
“Hello”
“-Hello-”