GTalk Smileys
Smiley: a colloquial term for a small symbol, made out of ordinary characters but often representing a smiling face, inserted into an e-mail or news article to indicate that a message or comment is humorous, ironic, or not meant to be taken seriously!!!
We use Smileys almost on a daily basis - be it over IM convos, Bulletin boards or discussion boards or even in plain email communications. Now whilst Yahoo! and MSN have a niche set of smileys, Google Talk does not have any dedicated ones i.e. there is no emoticon or smiley toolbar from wherein smileys can be added onto the IM’s. But it does have some in-built smileys that can be typed in via the keyboard as common key-combos and which automatically get transformed into animated smiley icons. Now everyone might be knowing about the commonly used smileys like the smile [:-)] or the frown [:-(] but GTalk has a few more smileys that can be used via the keystroke combos. Here is a pic showing the GTalk Smileys and the key-strokes to be used for getting them:
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Aravind replied:
They are not on Gtalk, they are only on the chat application sitting inside gmail. There is a difference.
July 26, 2007 at 6:47 pm. Permalink.
Chittaranjan replied:
Eh?? Won’t it be the same across both??
July 26, 2007 at 7:32 pm. Permalink.
Aravind replied:
It doesn’t work on Gtalk, the application. Try it.
July 27, 2007 at 6:39 am. Permalink.
lazybug replied:
thanks thanks…
July 27, 2007 at 9:46 am. Permalink.
Chittaranjan replied:
@Gyani: Shall try it out soon (Don’t have it at aapis!)
@Bug: Bhelcum
July 27, 2007 at 1:02 pm. Permalink.
lazybug replied:
BTW, to type text in bold on gtalk…u need to put the text in between two asterixs. *text*
July 27, 2007 at 5:38 pm. Permalink.
Chittaranjan replied:
cha! Humlogaan kya ajerbaijan se abhich aaye kyaa?
* for bold and _ for italics humein bhi patha hae
July 27, 2007 at 7:23 pm. Permalink.
Swati Goel replied:
Is there any new version of gtalk to use emotions..
If it is then please tell me because i want to use emotions on gtalk
Thank You
February 12, 2008 at 10:50 am. Permalink.
Chittaranjan replied:
The Chat applet within Gmail supports these new Emoticons. Dunno whether GTalk (Installable Application) does the same!
February 12, 2008 at 12:57 pm. Permalink.
Floop replied:
u also forgot to add this one }:-)
it makes a devil
March 5, 2008 at 7:30 am. Permalink.
Ankur replied:
its not working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 9, 2008 at 10:19 am. Permalink.
Chittaranjan replied:
It works for me! And for most people I Know!
Maybe you’re using an older version!
April 9, 2008 at 10:23 am. Permalink.
Sam replied:
try this V.v.V a crab
August 22, 2008 at 4:26 pm. Permalink.
Chittaranjan replied:
Ah! Thats a nice one. Thanks Sam.
August 23, 2008 at 3:06 am. Permalink.